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Ichno is a new free add-on, available on extensions.blender.org, that generates technical drawings from a Blender scene in one click. Ely writes: It produces orthographic and isometric views with overall and chain dimensions, a full title block (logo, revisions, custom fields) and a bill of materials, exported as multi-page vector PDF and SVG. Drawings can […]

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Every week, hundreds of artists share their work on the Blender Artists forum. I’m putting some of the best work in the spotlight in a weekly post here on BlenderNation.

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5 Tips from Blender Secrets: Square to Round shapes, Inverted Hull, Reduce polycount, find double geometry, better bevel.

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Effects plugin suite for compositing and editing apps gets new 3D noise generator, new 2D titling tool, and updates to masks and particles.

Chris Bailey creates materials for the Master Sword from the Legend of Zelda. In the bonus content section, we’ll take our finished sword and create a cool environment for a finished render. We’ll do everything without unwrapping UVs or using texture files! Nothing but procedural materials from the ground up. Let’s go!

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Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: VFX Artist Art Lead Senior 3D Character Artist (Stylized Games | Unity3D) Europe Senior Technical Animator (Unreal Engine | Remote) Europe Senior Storyboard Concept Artist (Games | Visual Storytelling) Europe Lead Concept Artist (Stylized Games | Art Direction) Europe Senior […]

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Check out the changes to the architectural modeling software, including new procedural tools and support for USDZ files.

Cookie Cutter Maker is a new Blender add-on for anyone who 3D prints cookie, clay or fondant cutters, for their own kitchen or to sell. Hanru Croucamp writes: Draw a shape, type a name or bring in a logo outline, set the size in millimetres and click Make cutter. You get a cutter with a […]

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Get a glimpse of the smoke, steam and lava simulation for the fiery demon Te Kā from the live-action remake of the classic animated film.

Standalone UV packing app now handles sequences of similarly shaped UV islands faster. Comes with a free Blender plugin.

Live procedural motion tools for objects, cameras and bones without rebuilding the same constraints, drivers and looping keyframes. vfxblender writes: Select. Click. Animate. I build this add-on to help with environmental animation you encounter in any scenario over and over again… Ceiling fans. Cars moving down the road in the background. Orbiting moon in the […]

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Character artist Elvis Morelli's neat Blender tool suite turns existing sculpts, 3D scans or AI characters into Unreal Engine MetaHumans.

Polyweft reviews a common ancestor and two native Blender files, keeps independent edits inside one prepared mesh, and asks for explicit choices where both branches change the same value. Nazeeh Abdul-Hadi writes: The downloadable Tide example starts with a 256-vertex, 224-quad ribbon mesh shared by two objects. Its two branches contain 18 left-only edits, 19 […]

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Sizeable update to the renderer adds a new Imager shader for building post effects, plus the option to pause and resume renders.

Watch a breakdown of the animated sequence that opens the popular scientist's live shows, combining Lidar data with Houdini sims.

Gleb Alexandrov just released a two-part tutorial on lighting 3D environments in Eevee, using a photoscanned monastery dungeon to show why lighting a space is a different game than lighting an object. Gleb writes: In this lighting tutorial dedicated to lighting the Monastery Dungeon environment in EEVEE – you’ll learn: A step-by-step workflow for building […]

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