Jan van den Hemel writes: This quick tip shows you a couple of ways to scale the interface of Blender 2.79 and 2.8.

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Spring is late this year. Covered by a sea of clouds, a valley stands still in the icy grip of winter. A shepherd girl and her loyal dog have to face ancient spirits in order to continue the cycle of life. Spring is the latest short film produced by Blender Animation Studio. Made in Blender [...]

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mathieu writes: E-Cycles is an optimized version of Cycles for CUDA GPUs. It renders up to 2.7x faster than latest official version out of the box and up to 14x faster using new options and presets. It's available on Windows, Linux and Mac based on latest 2.8x or latest 2.79x. Today you can get all [...]

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garagefarm.net writes: Hi there blenderheads ! Spring is starting to burst with colors, so it's time to blast some color in blender too. In this 2 part tutorial I will show you my process of creating a powder blast simulation using blender's explode modifier and smokesim. You'll also find a short explanation of baking simulations [...]

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Pierre Schiller writes: This was an incredible challenge. There are many things in which working with Blender 2.79 delivered results as expected. I created this animation using the NLA editor and I also developed different shaders to render as passes in Blender. I worked the compositing stage with After Effects for this 360º anime video.

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Jan van den Hemel writes: Today's tip is nothing fancy, but it is essential knowledge for everyday Blender use!

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gabbitt writes: In this video I break down the basics of sculpting in blender 2.8 and explain each brushes function in detail.

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pavla writes: Goodbye, expensive rendering! Barista is a desktop app for Blender that makes your renders as affordable as a cup of coffee. Using the power of Amazon servers, it cuts out the middleman (aka render farms) and lets you become you *own* render farm, with full control over the process and costs. Check out [...]

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About Hello, Blender users and geeks! My name is Martin Klekner and for the past few years I have been working as a CG Artist and Cinematic Artist based in Prague, Czech Republic. Ever since I can remember, I have loved history. It was my favorite subject at school and above all, I loved watching [...]

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jayanam writes: In this new Blender 2.8 modeling tips video I show how to use the simple deform modifier to convert a plane into a sphere and I am also animating this.

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Chipp Walters writes: Hey guys! Just launched this new product called Definitely EEVEE Materials System. It's all about creating great renders with over 100 customized materials, all based on a simple system-- so you can quickly and easily customize them ad infinitum! Plus there's this really amazing DIRT GROUP NODE that allows you to add [...]

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Curtis Holt writes: Hi everyone! In this video, I'm going to be showing you my method for creating beautiful and stylised environments with Blender 2.8 and Unity. Thanks for watching!

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Saplacan Alex writes: Next session of our monthly meet-up is going to be 8th April, at the Loading Bar, Shepherds Bush. All invited to have a chat, ask for blender related help and networking. Best, Alex Relax and talk about Blender Monday, Apr 8, 2019, 7:00 PM Loading Shepherds Bush174 Goldhawk Rd London, GB 11 [...]

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Jan van den Hemel writes: Most people are quickly used to navigating the viewport, but not so much the camera in Blender. Fortunately you can switch a viewport view to a camera view with this handy tip.

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MartinKlekner writes: Hello friends, this is a another one of my Behind the Scenes videos aimed at breaking down the shots I created for my Heroes of Bronze "Before the Storm" teaser that I've posted here some time ago. I will show you how I used Eevee to assemble and render the shots in realtime, [...]

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Justin writes: ANIMATE your 2D Motion Graphic in Blender's Video Sequence Editor (VSE)!

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3D Artist Iván Batalla shares how he used his Medieval City asset pack (available in the Sketchfab Store) to create a demo scene for his product. Hi everyone! My name is Iván Batalla, I’m a 3D modeler from Spain who began his journey in the 3D field around 3 years ago. Currently, I’m a Concept [...]

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Darkfall writes: In this video we will be revisiting a former Tutorial, "How to remove people / objects from video", only this time in 2.8. There are some differences between version 2.79 and 2.8, along with some improvements to our workflow. In this example video we have a few more things we need to remove [...]

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Brecht writes: News Next week developers gather in Amsterdam for the Homestretch Workshop. There will be no IRC meeting then, but many face-to-face meetings. The Spring open movie will be released on April 4. This project has been very important in testing 2.80 in production, and will come with tutorials on how 2.80 was used [...]

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Gottfried Hofmann writes: The viewport widgets in Blender 2.8 are really handy - even the camera has got some now. But one of them is kinda hidden...

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