Jan van den Hemel writes: This must be the fastest way to create tubes in Blender.

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Blender Developers are currently at the Blender Institute working towards the release of Blender 2.8, and a tentative release date (well, month) for Blender 2.80 has been announced! Brecht writes: The following release schedule was agreed on at the Homestretch workshop: Mid May: finish remaining features and polish user interface (list of tasks on developer.blender.org). [...]

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Chris Tempel writes: Over on the Blender Artists forum, someone asked about using a virtual news room set. I have a little experience with that so I put together this tutorial showing how it might be done in Blender 2.8 . Enjoy!

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jayanam writes: Hey guys, If you wonder how Plumbuses are made, here is how to do it with Blender 2.8.

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Chipp Walters writes: Hey everyone, Chipp here. If you've been following me on Twitter, you may know I've been working for a few weeks on this chipped paint workflow for EEVEE. It's quite a challenge as EEVEE doesn't support the same nodes that Cycles does. Finally, it's done and I've spent time streamlining the workflow [...]

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Jan van den Hemel writes: It's easy to copy animation data, but what if you then want to edit one of the objects you've copied animation to indepentenly? This quick tip shows you how.

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Blender Pirate writes: I've had a blast creating this 2 minute 3D animated short movie about a tiny Peacock Spider. Completely created by me (at the exception of the audio) in Blender 2.8 and rendered using Eevee. It ain't perfect but I am super happy with it! I hope everyone enjoys! I love Blender!

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Gottfried Hofmann writes: Math does not have to be daunting when using Blender 2.8 and Animation Nodes. Frederik Steinmetz shows how to procedurally generate the famous trefoil knot by converting a mathematical formula into an Animation Nodes Tree.

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New Media Supply writes: EV Express is an add-on that speeds up tremendously the workflow setting up a scene in EEVEE to showcase your model. No more hassle adjust all the render settings, shadows, contact shadows, probes, etc. You ever were in the situation that you quickly wanted to setup a scene but at the [...]

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Steve Lund writes: Learn how to model a Low Poly Character from start to finish in this beginner Blender 2.8 Tutorial! This Character can then be used for any Low Poly scenes, Game engines, or as a base mesh for Sculpting!

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Jan van den Hemel writes: Today we finish our growing plant animation by adding some leafs and an extra twig.

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BlenderBrit writes: Hey guys, I recorded this tutorial for Poliigon.com and thought I'd share it on here. In this tutorial will make use of a custom mixing node group to blend two different Poliigon materials together. We will also use the same node group to look at how to remove the obvious tiling effects that [...]

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Personal Origins Ever since I can remember I loved to draw and create. I was fascinated by the world of animation, comics, video games and iconic feature films. I was always trying to recreate these moments in my art. Growing up I acquired many skills along the way, majoring in art and art history, and [...]

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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. Iguana - Blender Eevee Pink Bedroom  Realistic Rat Goober  Alien Bunny Girl - Character Creation Timelapse Early Experiments in Generative Modeling (EEVEE)  Lamborghini Aventador  Guilty [...]

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jayanam writes: Here is a new video tutorial for the free texturing tool Materialize and how to use the generated PBR textures with Blender 2.8 for texturing a model after UV unwrapping it.

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Zacharias Reinhardt writes: Hi everyone! Last month we've started our first CG Boost Challenge for 3D artists, which we now continue each month with new topics and prizes currently worth of $3.900! The first challenge was a big success. We received 127 entries, most of them made with the use of Blender. Since the main [...]

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Jan van den Hemel writes: Here's a quick video about how to make plant-growing animation in Blender 2.8. The next part (extra branches and leafs) will drop tomorrow!

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A glaring problem for the larger Blender artists community was the lack of a proper port of the Dr. Epilepsy add-on to Blender 2.8. This highly focus-enhancing add-on is now available again thanks to Nathan Craddock - install, and reach your place of inner peace while working in Blender. I just updated the silly addon [...]

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The Open-Source Godot game engine has received a whopping $50,000 from Mozilla, enabling them to move ahead with features like publish to web and better network connectivity. They also want to commission artists for high quality demos. We are delighted to announce that Godot Engine has been awarded USD 50,000 by Mozilla as part of [...]

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machin3 writes: DECALmachine is a Blender addon, which through mesh Decals, allows for surface detailing in a very non-committal, non-destructive, UV-less way. And as such, it represents an alternative approach to hard surface texturing.

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