Hi! I hope everyone is doing well. My name is Min Jae Jeong, a 3D artist and also a music video artist from South Korea. I was originally working in the Korean music industry. After years of work, I started studying 3D tools to become an animated filmmaker. I've been studying 3D for about 10 [...]

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Tangent Animation technical director Ben Skinner has posted fascinating preview images of Blender’s Cycles renderer running as a Hydra render delegate within the Houdini viewport. The work looks set to improve interoperability between the two applications, helping studios to create assets within Blender, then use Houdini’s Solaris look dev toolset to assemble them into production scenes. The integration work, which [...]

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pavla writes: Regardless of where you sit on the pronunciation of “decals”, it is hard to argue against their resourcefulness within 3D. Knowing how to develop decals is a robust skillset with endless use-cases. With Blender 2.8, creating quick and easy decals has never been quicker, nor easier! In this Blender video tutorial, we will [...]

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Kris Hill writes: Over at iMeshh.com we have been building our library of assets for over 2 years now and we want to push it be as affordable as we can possibly. We are hoping this will give everyone the opportunity to work with professional Blender arch-vis assets in their own creations and ideally get [...]

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Jan van den Hemel writes: How to set up high-quality Eevee viewport settings by default. Mechanism modeled by Blendswap user shontoloyo. Do you have specific viewport settings that you like to work with?  

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Koumis writes: Using Blender I will show you how to model a cartoon ear within minutes. It Quick and simple.

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3D Tudor writes: YouTube video link: In this tutorial, you will learn how to take a mesh with millions of polygons and transfer all the detail onto a low-poly mesh with a couple of thousand polygons. You will then learn how to add a texture and mix a normal and texture map together. We will [...]

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Ludwig Heijden writes: Learn how, start now. After a successful course for previous Blender 3D versions, here is the new course for Blender 2.80 and up. While the previous course was awesome, this one is even better! How awesome would it be to create your own game art or VR scene? Maybe you have tried [...]

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Jamie writes: After completing the 'Sculpting Scorbunny' tutorial series I felt I wasn't quite done with this character. So I gave him another modelling pass to bring him more in line with the original design and he's now rigged and ready for all you animators out there. Clearly the superior choice for a beginning Pokemon [...]

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Jamesy writes: Well I'll be! Blender has an LTS release. And we've at Crowdrender made an update to our early access builds by releasing V0.2.7, a patch update for the current render farm software system we built (a bit of a disclaimer though, early access builds are available only to supporters of our development fund). [...]

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Peetie writes: Blocker is a simple to use addon for quick blocking out a shape and stylize. There are loads of tools out there, but I was looking for a way to design a shape very quickly. It's like placing blocks (cubes) first, joining them and then modify or stylize it. The Blocker addon is [...]

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Julio Sillet writes: Hello everyone, I'm experimenting with photo based textures, this are some of the results materials. You can get them for FREE on my gumroad or with the addon Blenderkit. And if you want to support me you can do it on Patreon.

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OnlineRender writes: Today we take a look at setting up a dynamic paint system but rather than using a mesh to generate or act like a brush we will enable Blenders particle system and paint using an emitter. I will cover the basic setup, highlight the difference between formats such as Vertex or Bake Image [...]

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Fatkhur Rozi writes: Hello everyone !! This is the next part of my previous video of modeling a character in Blender 3d. Hope you guys enjoy!

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CBaileyFilm writes: In this exciting episode we cover a lot of ground! First, we go over how to append a separate blender file into our main scene. Then we animate our scanner droid and map out the next two shots following him into the asteroid field. We'll add in some volumetrics to create an atmosphere [...]

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About me Hello everyone! My name is Jamie and I work as a Blender artist based in the UK. I’ve been using Blender for about three years now. My progression with the software hasn’t been linear as it’s been an interwoven part of my life throughout my mid- to late teenage years. Over the last [...]

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Rabit writes: The new BlendNet v0.2 was released and could be quite useful for everyone who wants to save money on the render farm building or want to control the distributed rendering process. The project is open source and has a simple structure for adjustments if you want some. You can download BlendNet from Github.

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3D Tudor writes: Hello everyone here is a link the series that is completely free over on YouTube. It is a 9 part series teaching you how to create this stylized western saloon. Im hoping to create more courses over on YouTube if this one goes well. So far its going very well, so expect [...]

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nebmotion writes: Welcome to Blender Quick Tips! In this quick Blender tutorial you will learn how to orbit a camera around an object by using an empty parent. This is an essential technique which will be a great addition to any 3D artists arsenal.

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jsabbott writes: In this tutorial, we will be learning how to track arcs for animation in Blender 2.83

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