Abhay Sharma writes: Create easy text animations in blender 2.8 with animation nodes 2.1 in real time with Eevee renderer!!! Just a word of caution, I am using Blender 2.8 beta version and Animation Nodes 2.1 experimental version, which makes it very unstable at the moment, so keep saving your work.

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jayanam writes: Here is a new update for the Blender 2.8 addon BL UI Widgets. A new widget - a label - is added and the creation of the widgets can now be done in a coordinate system that has it's origin in the upper left hand corner - the intuitive way for 2d widget [...]

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Lluc3D writes: In this video time-lapse I'm showing the complete process to create a game asset in Blender, texturing in Quixel suite, also I'm using toolbag 3 for baking maps. Then I use EEVEE for rendering. The asset is a crossbow for the "Project DV" a new game project that I'm working on. I want [...]

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About Hi! I am Amaury Lefoulon aka Leamon, 35 years old, self-taught in 3D, and living in France. Since Santa Claus brought me my first Master Systems II video game console in 1989, I always knew that I would like to do a job related to multimedia entertainment. It was only six years ago, after [...]

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Here's a nice initiative to stay active during 2019 - a weekly topic for some design work. Abe Viljoen writes: Some of us are just starting out and some of us are pro's but we all have a common love for Blender and we could all spend more time in the app to help us [...]

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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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pavla writes: The massive update to Blender's Grease Pencil (GP) tool in the upcoming 2.8 release continues to awe the community. As a fully featured 2D animation toolset, it's a great time to test the waters with the 2.8 beta. In this tutorial, Wayne Dixon demonstrates fundamental 2D character animation using something everyone can draw: [...]

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Stefano SottoZen writes: Happy New Year Blendernation! Was intended to be ready a few days ago but, render time had the last word :) I hope you will enjoy it! Have fun and Best wishes to all of you for a great new year with Blender!!! Stefano

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Porter Nielsen writes: A simple tutorial showing how to use textures from Unity 3d inside Blender 2.8 in order to get similar results.

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ChrisP writes: Looking for realistic materials for Blender 2.8 EEVEE and Cycles? Here are some metals I have spent many hours on. They are created in and for 2.8 so they can easily be linked into any scene and they can all be used both in EEVEE and Cycles. Check out the "Promo" videos to [...]

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Manikandan CG/VFX Artist writes: Blender based VFX studio R-ART WORKS presents "EERA" - South India's first animated cinematic trailer that made from open source pipeline

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chrislowe writes: We'd like to introduce a new software to you that revolutionizes character and facial-based VFX: Character Face Gen (CFG). This software is based on a powerful Artificial Intelligence engine. The CFG software will enable your to carry out difficult facial VFX tasks easily and at a fraction of the time it takes currently. [...]

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Johnny Uday writes: A pet named Angelito in Costa Rica was about to be euthanized because of the damage caused to his jaw after being hit by a car. The Veterinarian in charge Miguel Araya decided to contact Johnny Uday in Ecuador who is conducting research with 3D bio-modeling and bio-compatible materials. A new jaw [...]

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esmilesvfx writes: Hello, Blender friends! I like using blender to express my artistic vision but its also a great tool for making some side income lets talk about it for a second

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Dagamedia writes: Hello! this is a good christmas mesage, a short film about the love and hapiness, made in Blender 3D by Dagamedia studio.

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25 years ago, the very first version of Blender started working, and Ton looks back on that time. What are your earliest memories of Blender? Ton writes: Today is the 25th birthday of Blender! During the xmas holidays of 1993, Ton Roosendaal started working on the Blender software, based on original designs he made in [...]

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pavla writes: Mark believes in process automation and making his life easier - and in helping others, too. His plugins consistently get rated 5* and have been downloaded 1000s of times. What is his story and his secret to Blender success? Q: Mark, how did you get started with Blender? Mark: Even though I’m a [...]

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25games writes: Seamless textures are very important for creating levels. But how is it possible to create a transition between two different textures? Kordex don't uses a terrain in Unity and works with own created mesh structure. We come up with this solution to overcome texture borders! Watch the video now:

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Chipp Walters writes: Great news! KIT OPS PRO is now available for Blender 2.8! And it's a FREE update. Not to worry, the KIT OPS FREE version will be coming out shortly as well. Join the thousands of kitbashing users currently using KIT OPS and check out our new video at: Head on over to [...]

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jayanam writes: In this tutorial I show how to export PBR textures and the emission map from Substance Painter and use it in the Blender 2.8.

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