Steve Lund writes: Learn how to Motion Capture animation easy with just a phone, and then import that data into Blender 2.8 to animate your characters! This tutorial is a fun one. :)

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Markom3D writes: This is a Free Blender 2.8 addon that comes with Blender called Cell Fracture. Here you can break apart models and do some cool physics stuff to them.

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With the recent Epic MegaGrant and Ubisoft joining the Blender Development Fund as a Corporate Gold sponsor, the fund is now at almost € 70,000 per month, or around 14 full-time paid developers. Ton gives a detailed overview of how this money is being spent and alleviates concerns about increased corporate control over the Blender [...]

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Jan van den Hemel writes: Here's a quick overview of how to find terrain data of any area in the world, then download and use it in Blender. If you've ever wanted to re-create your favorite mountain in 3D, or just use some real-world terrain data as a basis for a 3D scene, check out [...]

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Chris Lee writes: If you are in Sydney or greater NSW and you are interested in Blender, this event is for you. We have the latest 2.8 release to discuss, a walkthrough of some grease pencil techniques and some may bring a demonstration of their work. Wednesday 24th July, JMC Academy (15 min walk from [...]

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Davide Prestino writes: Timelapse Medieval props with Blender and Substance Painter

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TheGiven writes: #Blender52 is still booming along, are community continues to grow while our core group of artists continue to raise the bar in their renders. We are 30 weeks in and the project has become more and more rewarding. This weeks theme is sure to be a fan favorite as we tackle the much [...]

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Who am I? Hi! I am Lino Thomas (“Linolafett” online), 28 years old and living in Germany. Blender has been an addictive part of my life for over 10 years now and this will probably not get better in the coming years ;) I learned to use Blender via the official documentation, discussions in now [...]

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While we wait for the official 2.80 release, let's see what's coming up in the future of sculpting in Blender! Ask your questions here.

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Quentin Le Duff writes: Hi, I would like to share my last timelapse. It is showing my workflow to model a car with Blender. Final result :

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Today Ubisoft announced that they will join the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund as a corporate Gold member. Not only will Ubisoft help funding online support for Blender developers, Ubisoft Animation Studio – a department of Ubisoft Film and Television – will also use Blender for their productions and assign developers to contribute to Blender’s open source projects. Some [...]

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Gustav Nilsson writes: Hello everyone! I am probably best known for making the "Mastering Drivers in Blender" Training DVD a few years ago. Now I am back with a brand new video course, and this time it is free for everyone! It is called "How to Make an Animated Film" and my goal with this [...]

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Here's my latest overview of the best Blender work on Sketchfab this week. And remember: add the #Blender tag if you want me to find your work! Magnum Opus of the Storm King by TooManyDemons on Sketchfab Hopper & 11 by Julien Kaspar on Sketchfab Luna by RoseRedTiger on Sketchfab Fat Plane by berkgedik on [...]

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Pierre Schiller writes: Memes are extremely popular, kids love them. In this video we are going to show you how to use #blender to create a simple meme. I don´t claim any copyright over the "Dog bit meme". Rights go to their respective creator. I´m using it as basis of "repurposed" material for "education".

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Pierre Schiller writes: This is a sample video for a complete specialized series I did for a cg artist who wanted to use #blender to print black and white #comics (18 video lessons). In this video you will learn how to use the basics of grease pencil and how to configure a page for #printing [...]

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Jan van den Hemel writes: Continuing from yesterday's tip about camera calibration, it's easy to go to the next step which is projection mapping! Find out how in this quick tip.

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String Fairy writes: In fifteen minutes, you will learn how to model, and procedurally texture peppermint candy in Blender EEVEE. We even jump into the compositer to touch up the final render.

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chocofur writes: Chocofur Model Manager for Blender 2.8 is a free addon allowing you to import external 3D assets to your Blender scenes! In today's video, I want to guide through the installation and setup process so you can run it smoothly! You can download the Addon and +200 free models from the Chocofur Website.

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After the popular ManuelBastioniLAB, the free and open source character editor for Blender, unexpectedly shut down the project late last year, a community fork took over. A bit new release now sees the light, adding some solid updates. animate1978 writes: MB-Lab 1.7.5 is released! This is supposed to be the "stable" build of MB-Lab and [...]

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Arun Bharathi writes: In this video, I show you guys the entire process of game asset creation. From base mesh modeling to setting up the asset in unreal engine. I hope you guys enjoy this video and learn things along the way. Let me know if you would like to see me create a specific [...]

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