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Funded by an Epic MegaGrant, the plugin will stream animation data from the AI-assisted animation app to the game engine in real time.

The 2024 Blender Foundation report is now publicly available.

This is a collection of 24 PBR textures for Blender, with the focus on hard surfaces. Textures are 4k (4096 X 4096 pixels) and seamless. They are provided as assets, so it's drag and drop easy to add them to your objects. They have been tested in Blender 3.6 and 4.x, although they should be [...]

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Check out the new features in the UV unwrapping and packing app, including a new Scene Outliner, and support for GPU packing.

3D texture painting software gets long-awaited Multi-Paint system for projection-painting multiple texture maps simultaneously.

Samuel created this short particle animation using 'curl fields' - a way to calculate the rotation of vectors around a point, a way to simulate particles sliding off a virtual 3D landscape. If that sounds very mathematical - it is! He provides an in-depth overview of the process on Blender Artists. https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/8/5/6/8564d94fa554a19416f6615291f7225800d93ab3.mp4

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In this tutorial by PIXXO 3D, learn how to create a destructive cloth tearing effect in Blender using a non-procedural method. This approach permanently modifies the mesh topology, offering a unique way to simulate cloth destruction. Key Steps: Setup: Start with a subdivided plane, assign a vertex group for the border, and apply a cloth [...]

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Polyfjord shares a collection of tools to quickly convert video footage into a tracked pointcloud. In this tutorial we're exploring a fully automated workflow for 3D camera tracking using only free and open-source software! This technique uses the power of photogrammetry with COLMAP to create incredibly precise 3D tracks and point clouds from any video [...]

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You may not be able to tell visually, but joining meshes gives a very different topology from Booleans. See the difference and why it matters.

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Water Caustic allows you, with a simple drag & drop, to quickly create animated and above all realistic swimming pools. It includes presets for: Easily customizable materials. Geometries with different loop animations depending on your needs. Both the lightweight geometries made of planes and the procedural materials allow for extremely fast rendering. A ready-to-use demo [...]

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Discover how to create, animate, and control curves in Blender using Geometry Nodes with PIXXO 3D. What You’ll Learn: Creating Curves: Start with a basic curve line and resample it to add resolution. Animating Curves: Use noise textures and scene time to animate curves smoothly. Adding Thickness: Convert curves to meshes and control their radius [...]

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Bolt Graphics, the developer of an upcoming graphics processor joining the Blender Development Fund.

Mark Kingsnorth just released a Bend Modifier for Blender: a lightweight tool right inside Blender’s modifier stack. An alternative to Blender's Simple Deform which can sometimes be tricky to use. It’s a simple tool, but sometimes simple is what is needed... Built-in gizmo for intuitive placement and orientation (no Empyt objects required). Real-unit limits with [...]

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Free update to the 3D compositor adds multilayer support for the 3D renderer, extends the USD tools, and speeds up the Surface Tracker.

Check out the changes to the character animation and mocap-editing software, including updates to Relations constraints.

Check out the new features in the suites of tools for motion graphics and VFX artists, including new options for DaVinci Resolve users.

Small update to the 3D animation and motion graphics software makes two 'general enhancements' but adds no new major features.

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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As a follow-up to Richard Yot's previous video on Tonemapping in Blender, this video shows you how to apply your Blender OpenColorOI profiles in Photoshop and Davinci Resolve so that your Linear EXR files match your Blender viewport and render. For anyone wishing to work on high-dynamic range renders in post, this is essential viewing. [...]

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Dutch artist Theo Jansen has been building and evolving hist Strandbeests on the Dutch beaches for years. They're intricate machines built of the simplest materials like pvc pipes and cloth that self-propel along the beach. Today, you can learn how to rig and animate one in Blender! This one is a bit unusual, but I [...]

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