SouthernShotty writes: Hi! I'm really thankful for Blender and it's amazing community. So I would like to thank you with a free texture pack. It contains around 30 materials with patterns to mix and match. They're pbr so they work with most modern render engines. Mograph Mentor is hosting them for me and may require [...]

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Markom3D writes: If you make Blender animated short films, you need this application. Renderpilot will auto kick off Blender Render for you and it is just amazing. No longer will you have to wake up in the middle of the night to kick off the next render

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Madquake writes: In this video, I explain how to animate a texture directly on your mesh. This process uses a mix of maps and procedural textures and the advantage compared to video used as textures on your model is that you have full control over them. No need to re-render your video-texture in an external [...]

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onelittlegoat writes: Comedy short film about making your first animation in Blender with the help of a bunch of Youtube tutorials. LANGUAGE WARNING!

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Marcin Zieliński writes: I would like to present to you the Styriam Toolty add-on - a collection of tools easing mundane tasks. Most significant of those are compositor Quick Cache and File Output converter, Picker for animating dynamic parents. Quick Cache allows for inserting a cache node into the compositor tree. The Cache can be [...]

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Jennifer Abbott writes: In this Blender tutorial for beginners you will learn how to animate a Bezier curve and export the animation - all within Blender 2.9 Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 0:46 Adding a Bezier curve 1:36 Taper object 2:33 Refining the Bezier curve 3:42 Adding keyframes 4:28 Lighting 6:08 Camera view 8:04 Rendering PNG image [...]

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Rudy Michau writes: Dear citizens of the BlenderNation hello! On November 5, Fluent version 1.5 was released. A real tsunami swept over Twitter following the demonstration of the new tools. More than 20 new features but it was of course the creation of fabric panels that stood out. Thank you all for your support, hoping [...]

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Soft8Soft writes: The long-awaited version 3.5 is here! This is a huge release with a myriad of new features, most important of which are: Verge3D plugins soft-body simulation physical constraints specular workflow support Blender meta balls advanced mouse controls We also included a new gamedev example in this release - you can it here.

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Hi, my name is Igor Keki (Kekeljevic) and I'm an assistant professor at the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad, where I'm teaching future engineers of computer graphics. I love to make 3D characters, You can see my works on my Instagram page. This is my second article for BlenderNation, the previous one was [...]

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Afdx3 spotted a glimpse of Blender during this year's Thanksgiving Day Parade by Macy. He writes: Caught a glimpse of Blender today during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. A portion of a behind the scenes video for the Yayoi Kusama balloon played during the balloon's debut and showed a model of the balloon in Blender. [...]

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alex paul writes: i have developed an add-on for windows user to easily access windows console. this is mainly useful for add-on developers.  It is completely free to download. please support for more add-ons. Features: -Console button added to header with settings. What's new in this release: added preference for the addon and settings button [...]

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KeyRiee writes: Hi, this is my first time posting on BlenderNation. Making this City because Cyberpunk 2077 got delayed (again). I took reference from Final Trailer, pause every frame to see if there's something that i could use. At first, it turns great... really and after i did a 'little' bit improvised.. it turns out [...]

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Joseph writes: Hey Blendernation! In this video I breakdown the fourth shot in the in the new CityBuilder 3d add-on trailer for Blender 3d. All of these scenes use super simple concepts you can implement quickly to get nice looking city shots! Let us know what you want to see next! CityBuilder3D Ultimate Blender add-on [...]

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This is it. We have made it. The final week of Nodevember has just wrapped up, and the nodemasters can now rest, leaving their eroded keyboards to recover before next November. The rest of us can take a break too, having been exposed to an unforgiving dose of awesomeness that will leave us inspired (and [...]

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jayanam writes: This is a Blender tutorial for beginners and which I show how to get started with Array and Curve modifiers by a simple example:

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p2design writes: Hi everyone, I know a lot of blender users, especially beginners, are afraid to use custom properties or driver because they don't understand them. But creating these custom properties is not that complicated. In this tutorial, I will explain everything you know to build your custom properties the right way. I've also added [...]

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Curtis Holt writes: Hi everyone, In this video, I show you a new free addon that I have released called 'Holt Tools', containing operations I find useful in my day-to-day work with Blender. This includes: Cleaning up the outliner. Converting suffixes in object names. Selecting objects that include specific strings in their names. Selecting by [...]

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Bespoke Cube writes: This slightly more advanced level tutorial demonstrates a step-by-step workflow of creating a retro-looking laser gun. The tutorial covers modeling, materials, lighting as well as scene and render setup.  

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Karim Joseph writes: In this tutorial, we have a look at the material drop-down that we see all the time when we create materials in Blender. The one right next to the material’s name; material linked to Data or to Object. What can we do with it? Let’s find out by first looking at an [...]

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End the year on a high note! Join our annual 3December Challenge to test your skills, making one model a day for 21 days. Artists who complete all 21 entries by January 4th will be entered into a raffle to receive one of 3 $50 Amazon vouchers, a framed print of their favorite entry, and [...]

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