Matelume is a Windows app that turns flat images (scans, catalogue swatches and digital designs) into seamless, true-scale PBR materials: fabric, wall art and marble. On the left of the picture above is the only image we started from: five plain colours. On the right is a Cycles render of the fabric Matelume made from […]

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Chris Bailey teaches us how to use a brand new feature in geometry nodes to create a Death Star trench. This method is really exciting and fantastic for creating greebled services quickly and easily. In the members version he will take things further by adding laser towers to our geometry nodes set up. https://youtu.be/fUP80bpMS_U

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Meshes from AI generators, 3D scans, CAD imports and heavy booleans all share the same problem: triangles everywhere, no edge flow, and topology that falls apart the moment you deform, UV or sculpt it. I built Quadify, a family of Blender add-ons that turns those meshes into clean, animation-ready quad topology, without hours of manual […]

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Do you have trouble creating nature scenes in Blender? In this video, Yeho Studios shows how you can create this realistic lake landscape in Blender from absolute scratch. Whether you are a beginner in Blender or a seasoned 3D artist, this video has something for everyone.

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Ever wondered how to switch between multiple shaders in Blender without changing the assigned material? In this quick Blender tutorial, Kenan Proffitt shows you how to combine multiple shader node groups into a single material and use the Menu Switch node to switch between different them directly in the Material Properties window.

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Join Daniel Orji as he talks about his process for creating this character from modelling to rendering. This is the first part of a series.

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CG Cookie’s October community challenge is live, and the theme is Scary Soft: something terrifying, wrapped in something you want to hug. Wes Burke writes: Think cursed plushies, a deadly spider nestled in pastel fur, marshmallow monstrosities, velvet phantoms, or squishy body horror. If it makes you want to hug it and run away screaming, […]

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Let’s practice modeling and procedural displacement to create a vintage wax sealed letter in Blender.

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Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: [PAID] animator and/or generalist opportunity Paid job in surrealist world building Looking for 3D Rigger For more jobs, look here.

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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.

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Reha Yağcıoğlu successfully compiled Blender 5.3 Alpha natively on the NVIDIA DGX Spark with DLSS Denoiser enabled, specifically optimized for the Grace Blackwell architecture. To document the entire build process and performance results, I created a dedicated English tutorial video (and launched a new channel for technical ARM/Linux builds): Highlights: Step-by-step guide for native DGX […]

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Blendkit celebrates reaching their new milestone with a 20% discount. We are extremely proud to announce that we have reached 150,000 assets on Blendkit! This achievement was made possible by our wonderful 2,485 creators, who pour their hearts, souls, and countless hours of work into their models, materials, brushes, scenes, HDRIs, node groups, printables, and add-ons. We would […]

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This add-on for Blender automatically breaks down large models into separate parts for 3D printing – complete with connections between them. Hanru Croucamp writes: Bed Fit Splitter is a new Blender add-on for 3D printing. You enter your printer’s bed size (or pick a preset) and it plans the cuts automatically: it splits the model […]

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Learn face rigging with Kenan Proffitt. In this Blender tutorial, I’ll show you how to create an expressive face rig in Blender using a simple, beginner-friendly setup. I’ll walk through the tips and tricks I use to get a character ready for facial animation without building an overly complicated rig.

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In this Blender tutorial Ryan King  shows you how to create this Cute Garden Gnome character sculpt.

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In this video, Mumu Mundo explores the highly anticipated new feature in development for Blender Grease Pencil: Shape Keys. Testing an experimental build with a 2D Peppa Pig character rig, this walkthrough demonstrates how Grease Pencil strokes and Bézier curves interact with shape keys to create flexible 2D facial expressions (smiles, frowns, mouth phonemes) and […]

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Three astronauts uncover a mysterious symbol hidden beneath the lunar surface during a routine mission. What begins as a simple exploration quickly spirals into a cosmic mystery that could change everything.

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Chris continues his X-Wing tutorial series. In this video I’ll teach you how to add color and detail to the surface of our x-wing. We’ll use the x-wing model we made in last week’s tutorial and cover how to use procedural textures and cool shading tricks to create a realistic surface without having to uv […]

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Let’s practice quick prototyping and boolean modeling and create a cyberpunk inspired sword in Blender with Polygon Runway.

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Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: [PAID] Blender Generalists and Specialists to Create Original Work For more jobs, look here.

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