Chipp Walters writes: Hey everyone, just want to mention we've finally released DESIGN MAGIC. It's all about a new non-destructive Boolean workflow that works with KIT OPS 2 PRO and the results are impressive. And our new METASHAPE addon, included with DESIGN MAGIC, allows you to instantly create organic shapes from simple objects. And for [...]

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Here's this weeks overview of the best Blender work on Sketchfab this week. And remember: add the #Blender tag if you want me to find your work!

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luis roach writes: Is it possible to reproduce Maya/ 3D studio Max target weld operator inside of Blender? Let`s see how!

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Ryan King Art writes: In this Blender Tutorial, I will show you how you can speed up your Cycles renders.

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The FreeMoCap project, an open-source motion capture system built on low-cost equipment has just been announced by Jon Matthis. Introducing the @freemocap system! A free, open-source framework for easy-to-use, low-cost markerless motion capture!???https://t.co/i2PSSt4PuP The current iteration relies on #anipose, #openpose and @DeepLabCut. Animation via @matplotlib #opensource #OpenScience pic.twitter.com/kukQ7EtjFU — Jon Matthis (@JonMatthis) July 21, 2021 [...]

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bloecher writes: Umbrella Movement is my latest project I worked on for a couple of month, starting in December 2020. This short is inspired by recent and past events in Hong Kong, referencing the critical political situation and the resistance of the brave people fighting for democracy. Since the beginning of the Hong Kong pro-democracy [...]

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André Bales writes: This Shader simulates the effect of Caustics with chromatic aberration, scale, masking, contrast, animation, rotation and emission. You can download here for free.  

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Some nice abstract/sci-fi work by Nth:

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Buried in last week's awesome news of Adobe joining the Blender development fund as well as releasing the long-awaited official Substance add-on for Blender, was the release of another little gem: the Mixamo add-on for Blender. https://substance3d.adobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/03_CreatingControlRig.mp4Mixamo is Adobe's popular motion capture animation library, featuring thousands of freely available motion clips and a powerful auto-rigger [...]

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3D Tudor writes: Have you ever wanted to learn how to master god rays? Well, here is the second part of the gothic stained glass window tutorial. This one will teach you how to create basic god rays that will really bring your scenes to life through lighting. Thanks all for watching, please like and [...]

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Along with their new RenderMan 24, Pixar also updated their Blender support so we can now use Renderman's Lama material system, its Stylized Looks NPR shading system, XPU, Interactive rendering, and everything else Renderman has to offer - for details, see our earlier announcement here. They have now also shared a great introduction video showing [...]

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alex paul writes: Hello, Blender Users, Happy to announce the new plugin for blender To-Do Tasks Pro, an advanced version of To-Do Task Manager. Early Access To-Do Tasks Pro BETA - Landing for Blender 2.92 ! WARNING! If you are using the lite version of To-Do task Manager we recommend using any one of the [...]

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Today's collection is a celebration of Blender users' modelling prowess, whether it hardsurface metallic beasts, fine-tuned Italian sports cars, or mesmerizing stylized characters and more! Blender artists' talent is scattered all over the internet for everyone to behold, with one amazing artwork after the other being posted on all sorts of forums and mediums. In [...]

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Markom3D writes: Adobe has now created a addon for its materials to be imported directly into Blender. There are 319 materials to pick from to bring into Blender.

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9b0 writes: Budapest-based producer, 9b0 is back with his latest music video, Overcomplicated. The abstract video makes use of Botaniq's tree assets and was originally designed to be rendered with Cycles-X, but the lack of temporal denoising required a switch to Eevee, so some artifacts due to screen-space calculations could not be avoided, and compromises [...]

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I love the atmosphere and 'almost stop motion' style in this short but sweet video by Vedprakash Sarkar:

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zak vis writes: Bevelling is one way of making objects make realistic look and it also easy to make you can use bevel to level up your 3d model designs and in this video I will show you how you can make bevels in different ways.

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Jan van den Hemel writes: Previously we looked at using the Knife tool to cut shapes out of an image plane, in order to extrude and transform those parts to create a 3D model. Alternatively, you can also create a cutter object beforehand, and then use Knife Project to cut that out of the image [...]

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zak vis writes: Hi guys! I've watched and come up with this Loki morphing effect. It is the effect that was used in the Loki series film; it's very cool looking effect and i've translated the effect into simple objects. In this video we will create the effect from scratch.

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Peetie writes: Rendering animations in EEVEE is tricky for sure. However, the tools in the EEVEE production suite do the hard work for you. For example, it sets the best render-, light- and probe -settings known. Another limitation of EEVEE is that environment light doesn't cast shadows. That is a huge problem. And the existing [...]

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