The campaign worked! Agent 327 has won the prestigous Webby 2018 People's Voice award for the Film & Video / Animation category. Congrats to the entire team!! From the Blender Cloud blog: We are so proud to announce that Agent 327: Operation Barbershop just won the People's Voice WEBBY AWARDS 2018! This is incredibly exciting [...]

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Hang on to your seats - here's some more important news: after the Blender Internal renderer, the BGE has now also been permanently removed. Apparently the team is working on a post-2.8 alternative, but it won't be the BGE as you know it anymore. Pablo writes: In the last episode of Blender Today Live we [...]

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ueka writes: Hey blenderheads out there! In my (rare) spare time i was working on a reconstruction of the castle Wildenstein, in a region in Austria called "Salzkammergut". My reconstruction attempt was based on historical corect drawings and plans. See here for an animation : I am now working on a free BGE medieval serious [...]

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Jonas Eschenburg writes: I'm very happy to announce the release of BitWrk 0.6.4. What's new in this release? This maintenance release contains the following changes: GPU rendering selectable in BitWrk settings panel Tile complexity is now an advanced option Bugfix: Selection caused error on render Bugfix: Workers kept using up all available space Bugfix: Memory [...]

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Erik Selin writes: Physically based rendering in Blender has been a guesswork for some time. With 2.79 however comes the principled shader. It will help you to create accurate blender materials for cycles. However, there still seems to be some confusion on how it works. Let’s get a closer look at it and nail Physically [...]

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Azad writes: 3D breakdown of a 8 min animation film for a graduation ceremony opening. It seems that the denoiser feature completely revolutionize the animations in Blender, allowing me to render frames below 1000 samples without noise. Thanks to RenderStreet it’s possible to handle ambitious projects with a complete set of tools & features that [...]

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Sean writes: Over at OpenVisualFX I've just posted a tutorial about the awesome ClothFX add-on and how I used it on the TV show "Star". It's really easy to get amazing ripping and tearing effects with it, and I'm hoping my post inspires some other artists to create some cool tutorials with it, as well, [...]

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Oded Erell writes: I developed an advanced emission shader for Cycles that produces IES style lighting for architectural interiors/exteriors. The shader has a built-in library of 20 real-world spotlight beam designs, that can be easily switched between without loading external files, And also allows tweaking features like the light beam focus and chromatic dispersion effect, [...]

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Metin Seven takes a deep dive into 3D Coat and Zbrush retopology tools, comparing their results in detail. He works on his Blender Dyntopo model and shows how it's improved at the end. I love the technique of freeform digital sculpting, as an alternative to polygon subdivision modeling. The workflow of digital sculpting feels very [...]

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YanSculpts writes: Texturing is an important skill to learn to bring your characters (or scenes) to life. That said, there is a lot to learn before you can get it right, especially when it comes to complex materials such as skin. This course was created for this reason. This texturing course in Blender, titled for [...]

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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! On a mission by Gregory Khodyrev on Sketchfab Lowpoly Neighbourhood by pawchaw on Sketchfab Bonnibel - Don’t Come Any Close Sir by H3SYR on Sketchfab Leather Book by [...]

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PorpitaStudios writes: If you are like me when I started using Blender it was daunting! I wanted results fairly quickly and wanted to know how - but, it didn't have a lot of time due to life obligations and commitments. So here after using Blender for a couple years I have decided to make a [...]

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Luis Roach writes: Hello everyone! I am Luis Roach from Medicci, a game outsourcing studio and we thought to share with the community a video tutorial on how we made an experimental project. How to combine Blender, Zbrush and 3D Coat and get the best of each one? How to sculpt and texturize an organic [...]

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Paul Golter shares a project he did for the Film Academy in Germany. The visuals are fantastic! "There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time." (Christian Morgenstern) "Spirals" shows the form of the spiral in all kinds of dimensions in nature. Starting with the [...]

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acvarium writes: I have read the day before, that blender internal was deleted from blender 2.8 branch. It served me faithfully. I hope that what will come to replace it as well be as good and even better. In the meantime, there is no stable release of 2.8 yet, I will use what I am [...]

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Pierre Schiller writes: On the last part of these tutorial series (see also part one and part two), we will cover the GreasePencil tool on Blender 2.79b. The panels, properties, settings and special commands to pilot a new animation from zero to hero. If you´re using a digital screen tablet, we will also cover what [...]

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Dalai and Pablo held a live Blender 2.8 session yesterday. Two weeks have past of the greatest meeting of Blender developers! The Code Quest has brought and taken many Blender features so far, get all your questions answered by the developers themselves.

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Zacharias Reinhardt writes: Hi everyone! In my new video you will learn how to create a Hydra in Blender. The whole process is included: From sculpting, over texturing and shading, to rendering and post processing in Photoshop. We also take a look how this Hydra sculpting looks inside Blender 2.8 EEVEE. This is an experimental [...]

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gabbitt writes: I am sure Instant Mesh has been on here before but i was surprised by how many people had not heard of it when i posted the video. So here is a quick rundown of this really useful tool which might be new to some of you. Whilst not a complete solution to [...]

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Here's a cool Eevee project by Marcos Barrios Muñoz. Another Blender EEVEE test, now pushing the limits with real time volumetrics.

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