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Every smartphone, laptop, car, and AI server relies on microchips built with tens of billions of transistors—each just a few dozen atoms wide. But how do we actually manufacture something so small at scale? Meet the EUV Photolithography System, a $200M “microchip printer” that: Use lasers more powerful than steel-cutting lasers to blast tin droplets [...]

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This tutorial by DemNikoArt covers the entire rigging process, including setting up bones, adding constraints, and creating a clean, animator-friendly rig. Perfect for anyone looking to add complex mechanical animations to their projects.

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Wacom has become a top-tier supporter for Blender with a new partnership focusing on the improving the Blender experience across all pen/touch based devices. Blender Foundation is delighted to announce that Wacom, the pioneer of digital pen and tablet technology, announced an expanded its strategic partnership with Blender, the world’s leading open-source 3D creation suite. [...]

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Duncan and Vanessa Rudd run the British 3DR Studio (check out their work!). They shared this lovely short video where the Earth shares its story. An animated film showing how Earth was formed, its mis-spent youth, its adventures in parenting and its feelings towards us.

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In this tutorial by Blender Made Easy, Stephen Pearson demonstrates how to create a satisfying rigid body popping effect in Blender. You’ll learn to manipulate rigid body physics, animate object visibility, and use force fields to control movement.

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Master efficient workflows for creating professional visual effects with The Gnomon Workshop's intermediate-level Houdini tutorial.

New collaboration between Khronos Group and the Open Geospatial Consortium paves the way towards support for 3DGS data in glTF files.

Turn any MetaHuman exported from Unreal Engine into a ready-to-animate character with the updated Metahuman for Houdini add-on.

Check out the new features in the animation software, including support for Character Creator 5, and new export presets for UE5.

Check out the new features in this major update to the 3D character creation app, from the new HD base characters to the new Maya plugin.

Read our pick of the changes in Houdini 21, from Copernicus and KineFX to new AI workflows - then see a list of all 300+ new features.

First big update to the new edition of V-Ray for Blender users adds support for Geometry Nodes and a Cycles-to-V-Ray material converter.

Wacom ups its funding for Blender by €210,000/year in partnership to develop 'next-gen" Blender experience on Android tablets.

Check out the price and key specs for the 'industry first' pen display with Calman Ready built in for color calibration for high-end CG work.

Dive into creating Manga-style NPR rendering with this super extensive and free tutorial series by Harry Helps. Hello Everyone! In this comprehensive tutorial, we'll create a subtle looping animation of a manga style environment in Blender! We'll be using a panel from the manga "BLAME!" as our reference! We'll start with a ready-made starter file [...]

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Behavioural Palaeontologist Tony's plan to take down the hunters begins. He has lured the buck tyrannosaur to their base camp, and now he must find a way to release all the captive dinosaurs, as well as find out what happened to the doe rex.

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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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Master professional workflows for creating games environments with The Gnomon Workshop's intermediate-level tutorial.

Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: B3AR Creative | Contract Unity 3D Artist - Remote Aviary Productions | Prop Artist Maya to Blender Look Dev Conversion - On-going Engagement Advanced Game Artist Creston Games | Lead 3D Artist 3D Redner & Animations Join Bespoke Pixel – [...]

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