Yeho Studios shows how to set up landscapes in Blender. Have you ever found trouble creating nature art in Blender? Or are you struggling to create a realistic nature scene as a beginner? I understand you because I have been there before. In this tutorial, I will guide you step-by-step on how to create this […]

Source

Rigging Ormie is a two-part deep dive into how Level Pixel Level rigged this character for Blender. Ormie was originally built in a Maya-base pipeline. In these videos, I review the techniques and workflows I used to recreate this rig in Blender. Part 1 focuses on the body rig: Part 2 focuses on the face […]

Source

A new Blender 5.2 to Unreal Engine 5.8 course connects stylized hard-surface modelling, baked masks and Blueprint controls in one playable project. Hi everyone, Neil here from 3D Tudor. A sci-fi turret is one of those assets that can look completely finished in Blender and still be nowhere near ready for a game. The model […]

Source

Wixie Man shares the full version of his Sci-fi short. A few months ago, I posted an article on Blendernation about a science fiction short film made with the help of Blender. The film has wrapped up its festival run and is now available on YouTube. I hope you enjoy it, and I’d love to […]

Source

Light It Up is a free and open source lighting add-on. It’s on the Blender Extensions platform, so it installs by drag and drop. Rasheed Shaikh writes: It builds studio lighting rigs from presets – 17 of them, each with a rendered thumbnail, so you pick a look rather than read a name. What it […]

Source

Vallen Koscheev is an Animation Supervisor who has animated on Oscar-nominated and Oscar-winning features. In this course, Vallen teaches the complete workflow he developed and has been using consistently across all the movies he’s worked on. Vallen writes: Hello BlenderNation! Over a decade ago, I started my animation journey right here in Blender, creating short […]

Source

In his latest video, Thomas Kral reflects on the impact of AI on artists. Thomas writes: In the year 2026, a major turning point occurred for many creative people. People who had devoted their entire lives to developing their artistic, aesthetic, and creative skills were suddenly confronted with a new technology that automated a large […]

Source

Tabs bring web-browser / game-engine-like tabs to Blender. Several editors sharing one area, each keeping its own state. Add, rename, reorder and close them, drag a tab to another area or tear it off into its own window, and lock the ones a layout depends on.

Source

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.

Source

Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: [LONG-TERM] Technical Blender Artist for Mobile Game Advertising Technical Art Graduate Program – Vancouver [PAID] Blender Environment Artist Wanted — Exalted Sandbox / Babylon.js Technical Art Graduate Program – Novato Technical Art Graduate Program – Dublin Junior 3D Artist – […]

Source

Let’s dive deep into shader nodes and create a procedural glowing mushroom in Blender.

Source

Learn all you need to know to model an X-wing, starting from just the default cube. Chris Bailey covers everything from the ground up and he goes slow to keep things clear and help you follow along.

Source

Interior is a project-based course about making beautiful interior renders in Blender, one focused scene at a time. Across six sessions, instructor Sascha Feider builds six complete vignettes from a default scene to a polished final image or animation: a sunlit staircase, a coffee corner, a flowing curtain, a marble colonnade, a cabin with a […]

Source

In this video Blender Secrets looks at 11 methods for keeping corners of 3d models sharp in Blender, and we briefly go over how Normals work.

Source

Immineal shares a rendering experiment. Cycles (like most RGB path tracers) approximates chromatic dispersion, the way glass bends different wavelengths by different amounts, by nudging the IOR per RGB channel. That’s a shortcut: real dispersion is a continuous function of wavelength, not three samples of it, and it’s most visible exactly where you’d want it, […]

Source

In this Blender tutorial Ryan King creates a game ready low poly stylized hand painted shield 3d model.

Source

Someone Ate Her Pizza… That was a mistake. Agu Rex UD writes: This is an animation I made in Blender. It’s in an anime style. I rendered the animated characters and car in blender and then drew the background in Krita and added the lighting effects in Tahoma2D

Source

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.

Source

Let’s have some fun with the power of the curve profiles in Blender and create a vintage explorer’s lantern.

Source

This extension helps you optimize your Blender render times. Dustin Hanke writes: I recently released SceneTrace, a free and open-source Blender extension for tracking scene performance over time and helping answer a simple question: Why did my Blender scene get slower? As a scene grows, performance can gradually degrade because of geometry, modifiers, materials, collections, […]

Source