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Check out the Montréal studio's making-of for its invisible effects for Antoine Fuqua's santized, but box office record-breaking, music biopic.

Games animator Sebastian Jaksan's handy free add-on also comes with KeyFlow Studio, a lightweight, standalone shot review tool.

Learn all you need to know to model an X-wing, starting from just the default cube. Chris Bailey covers everything from the ground up and he goes slow to keep things clear and help you follow along.

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Check out the Taiwanese studio's varied, visceral VFX breakdown for the live-action adaptation of Junji Ito's cult horror manga.

Major update to the free image editing and vector design software adds scores of new features, new AI models, and a new scripting system.

Interior is a project-based course about making beautiful interior renders in Blender, one focused scene at a time. Across six sessions, instructor Sascha Feider builds six complete vignettes from a default scene to a polished final image or animation: a sunlit staircase, a coffee corner, a flowing curtain, a marble colonnade, a cabin with a […]

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In this video Blender Secrets looks at 11 methods for keeping corners of 3d models sharp in Blender, and we briefly go over how Normals work.

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Well-regarded VFX and animation industry resource shuts down on 28 September. Redirect your URL and retrieve your assets before then.

Watch tech breakdowns of award-winning projects from students at the leading CG school, like this Alien: Romulus-inspired Houdini simulation.

Immineal shares a rendering experiment. Cycles (like most RGB path tracers) approximates chromatic dispersion, the way glass bends different wavelengths by different amounts, by nudging the IOR per RGB channel. That’s a shortcut: real dispersion is a continuous function of wavelength, not three samples of it, and it’s most visible exactly where you’d want it, […]

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In this Blender tutorial Ryan King creates a game ready low poly stylized hand painted shield 3d model.

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Check out the week's other updates to CG tools, like HDR Light Studio, free Maya rigging toolset mGear, and SwitchX, Beeble's VFX AI model.

Someone Ate Her Pizza… That was a mistake. Agu Rex UD writes: This is an animation I made in Blender. It’s in an anime style. I rendered the animated characters and car in blender and then drew the background in Krita and added the lighting effects in Tahoma2D

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