Many videos have demonstrated how to use shadows projected from gobos to quickly add depth to a scene. However, have you ever experimented with 360 gobos? This video by Daniel Oakfield explains various techniques for creating intricate shadows in your scene using 360 gobos that work both in Cycles and EEVEE.

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BlenderKit just hit a monumental 100,000 assets in its 3D library, made possible by 2,266 Blender artists! Vilem Duha writes: We are super proud to announce that there are 100,000 assets in the BlenderKit 3D asset library! This is a huge milestone, and we are thrilled to celebrate it together. BlenderKit was founded in 2017 [...]

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After having worked on Blender for 32 years and leading the Blender Foundation for 24 years, Ton has announced that he will be stepping down as chairman and CEO on January 1, 2026. As Ton commented, it's time to step back now and focus more on himself. What the future will bring? He doesn't know [...]

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Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Modules & Projects 2025-09-09 Animation & Rigging module meeting 2025-09-11 Core Module Meeting 2025-09-11 Pipeline & I/O Module Meeting 2025-09-11 Compositor Meeting Notes 2025-09-11 Design Meeting 2025-09-12 Projects Updates meeting New Features and Changes This is a selection of changes that happened over the last week. [...]

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It's hard to miss Silksong this week! Earlier, we shared a tutorial by Farrukh on creating a stylized rendering of the character. Today, Vertex Arcade creates a version that's a little closer to the original. Here's the final result on Sketchfab:

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In this Blender tutorial Ryan King shows how to make an Animated Procedural Black Hole.

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Here comes a tutorial video of how you can create a simple city generator by using geometry nodes in Blender. We are about to make the generator and then a shader that will make a mist effect for it. This effect works nicely for stylized animation backgrounds.

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The Czech  Parametr Studio specializes in generative designs. George writes about their prize-winning futuristic architecture challenge entry. Introduction In May 2024, ParametricArchitecture.com launched an international design challenge with the theme “Temple for a Desert Festival in 2030”. Out of hundreds of entries, my project was recognized with an Honorable Mention, which I’m excited to share [...]

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Let’s give some tribute to the latest Borderlands release and create its iconic robot companion from scratch, including textures and Grease Pencil line art. https://youtu.be/xq2ML7HAGic

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Ducky 3D shows how to achieve an interesting particle effect. In this Blender tutorial we will be using geometry nodes to make thousands of particles (points) in geometry nodes form around any logo we want to. This is a very useful trick you can use in your motion graphics. Enjoy!  

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You can now download the annual report of the Blender Foundation that provides a thorough outline of the Foundation's goals, organization, finances, projects and people. Ton Roosendaal writes: The year of 2024 was another great year for Blender. The user base keeps growing more professionally, and support from the industry and especially from the community [...]

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Blendereverything shares another compilation of awesome geometry nodes projects.  

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This is a collection of 24 PBR textures for Blender, with the focus on hard surfaces. Textures are 4k (4096 X 4096 pixels) and seamless. They are provided as assets, so it's drag and drop easy to add them to your objects. They have been tested in Blender 3.6 and 4.x, although they should be [...]

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Farrukh creates a stylized version of Hornet as a low-poly character. Follow along!

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Use this free light tent by Richard Yot to instantly get a nice highkey, low contrast studio lighting for your scenes.

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Samuel created this short particle animation using 'curl fields' - a way to calculate the rotation of vectors around a point, a way to simulate particles sliding off a virtual 3D landscape. If that sounds very mathematical - it is! He provides an in-depth overview of the process on Blender Artists. https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/8/5/6/8564d94fa554a19416f6615291f7225800d93ab3.mp4

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In this tutorial by PIXXO 3D, learn how to create a destructive cloth tearing effect in Blender using a non-procedural method. This approach permanently modifies the mesh topology, offering a unique way to simulate cloth destruction. Key Steps: Setup: Start with a subdivided plane, assign a vertex group for the border, and apply a cloth [...]

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Polyfjord shares a collection of tools to quickly convert video footage into a tracked pointcloud. In this tutorial we're exploring a fully automated workflow for 3D camera tracking using only free and open-source software! This technique uses the power of photogrammetry with COLMAP to create incredibly precise 3D tracks and point clouds from any video [...]

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You may not be able to tell visually, but joining meshes gives a very different topology from Booleans. See the difference and why it matters.

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Water Caustic allows you, with a simple drag & drop, to quickly create animated and above all realistic swimming pools. It includes presets for: Easily customizable materials. Geometries with different loop animations depending on your needs. Both the lightweight geometries made of planes and the procedural materials allow for extremely fast rendering. A ready-to-use demo [...]

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