I recently picked up playing chess again and I really loved Marty's new looping chess video! This is a render I made of a wind-up mechanical box that cycles a game of chess across its top. I had been wanting to model a full chess set in Blender for a while, but couldn’t think of [...]

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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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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: PIXEL GAMES STUDIO | Video Game Charity Project (3D Modeler & Animator) Looking for a Steampunk themed backgorund Voodoo | Senior 3D Artist - Portfolio Games Bode Software | 3D prop and environment artist[REV SHARE] Character Designer for Vinyl Collectible [...]

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mv.artz shows how to create a dynamic and efficient face rig in Blender that's perfect for stylized character animations, allowing you to spend less time rigging and more time animating. You want to get through the rigging stage as quickly as possible so you can dive into animating expressive faces, right? However, rigging—especially facial rigging—takes [...]

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Tomek Napierała shares a quick breakdown video of his NPR style 'Old Windmill scene. This scene is a continuation of my efforts to emulate a 2D look with 3D graphics. Despite a few flaws, I’m really happy with how this whole thing turned out. I learned a lot of new things and improved my skills [...]

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Ali Awada writes: 270 million years ago, the Earth was a different place and the dominant predator of the Permian Period will surprise you.

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Conform Object wraps objects onto another object surface in one action in Blender. The Conform Object add-on just received an experimental update in version 1.6 — introducing a modifier powered by Geometry Nodes for Blender 4.5 and above. This new modifier version of the tool brings key benefits: Faster performance on dense meshes Improved non-destructive [...]

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If your checkerboard pattern ripples like jelly or your seams jump out louder than bloom lighting, the culprit is usually the UV map. 3D Tudor's new class helps you navigate these issues. I spent years chasing those issues myself, so I built a new class that tackles them head-on: UV Mapping Bootcamp – Master Unwrapping [...]

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2 monsters have a fight over some food that quickly goes off the rails. Joey Carlino writes: I made this with Blender in 57 hours for HellavisionTelevision and LooseFrames "Hell Fable" animation open call. The original cut that was submitted to Hellavision was done in 45 hours over the course of a week. It is [...]

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Yeho Studios shows how to create a realistic forest scene in Blender using free assets and tools. Whether you are a beginner 3D artist or someone struggling with nature scenes in Blender, this video is for you. Please note that the original process took about 6 hours to create, this tutorial compresses that process to [...]

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John R. Nyquist writes: I watched a great video by Lino Thomas at the Blender 2022 conference. Afterwards I felt like I had to explore further mirroring and bisecting (and flipping) to create complexity using the mirror modifier. Here’s my Bit: One hour of greeble - Live workshop at the Blender Conference 2022:

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PieterVermeersch shows you how to build your own custom traffic intersection using the 'The Roads Must Roll' add-on for Blender. And yes — traffic is included! The Roads Must Roll is the most customizable street tool for Blender, offering the most photo-realistic results with the least amount of effort. From roundabouts to Y-shaped junctions or [...]

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Blenderheads in Los Angeles are meeting this weekend! Stirling Goetz writes: Hey Y'all! Blender 4.5.x is out and the LA.Blend organizers are a little less organized than usual. We are scheduling a user group meeting but do not have any formal speaker sessions lined up like we usually do. That means this meeting will have [...]

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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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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Scopely | 3D Art Lead - Monopoly GO! Deca Defense | Internship 3D Cinematics, 3D Generalist, Visual VX, |Unreal Engine (UE), Blender, Houdini) Deca Defense | Internship 3D Cinematics, 3D Generalist, Visual VX, (Unreal Engine (UE), Blender, Houdini) Script (Macro) [...]

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The Escapini Brothers are back and a job awaits them in a creepy castle! Check out this Grease Pencil production by Benjamin Aubone (and see episode one here). Benjamin writes: Hello, dear family of Artists! I'm very happy to share with you the new animated short film, The Escapini Brothers 2, made entirely in Grease [...]

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Polyfjord uses his free Simple Audio Analyzer add-on to create a brilliant animated audio effect. Enjoy!

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Ryan King shows how to use Light Gobos in Blender to create the illusion of a complex environment with lighting.

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Baeac shares a very straightforward method for rendering your Blender scenes as ASCII art. By calculating the brightness of squares and matching them with a predefined set of bitmaps, you get the nice eighties look. Enjoy!

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Gleb Alexandrov writes: You know how important composition is, right? Well, here’s a neat Blender trick to think about it in terms of light and shadow.

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