Derek Elliott writes: WHAT IS UP BLENDERNATION!!! Ever wondered what the heck a Normal Map or Gloss Map is good for? Well they're essential to creating realistic textures, and in this tutorial I'll teach you how to use them! We cover those two maps and how to plug them in to the Principled Shader. Textures [...]

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Cycles is getting some love! Plus UI and workflow improvements, the Code Quest might be getting to an end but there's still a lot going on. Grab a drink and tune in Blender Today Live!

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While there's no word from YouTube about the problems on the Blender Foundation's (and others!) channels yet, the team is now uploading all their content to the Blender Cloud. Francesco writes: Since a few days all Blender videos on the OFFICIAL BLENDER CHANNEL have been blocked worldwide without explanation. We are working with YouTube to [...]

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Armory is getting more and more attention. This series of tutorials by Serapth will help you get started! Armory is a newly free for all open source game engine built to run inside of Blender (2.7 and 2.8), while being programmed using either logic nodes or the Haxe programming language. This tutorial series covers all [...]

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Gottfried Hofmann writes: If you ever wondered what the corrective smooth modifier in Blender is all about, here is a tutorial explaining all settings in detail and by example:

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Aum Animation Studio writes: Hi friends, As promised here is the making for the Andy Pirki 'Painting' promo.

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Jesse Davis writes: From blenderer.com: Making landscapes in Blender is time-consuming. First, you come up with an idea, then you make the different objects to transfer that idea to your screen, having to model, texture, sculpt and maybe even bake all of them. After all that hard work you want something good, no, great looking [...]

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Here's my latest overview of the best Blender work on Sketchfab this week. And remember: add the #Blender tag if you want me to find your work! Saiga Antelope (Saiga tatarica) by TShahan on Sketchfab Codex of Death by Athikar on Sketchfab Handpainted Chicken Coop Diorama by allen_roldan on Sketchfab Monster by rudolfs on Sketchfab [...]

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Darkfall writes: In this video, we will be composing a Digital Matte Painting called Skyfort. We will be using some Images (Links to the Originals below, or you can use your own) and some Video assets (also links below) in order to make this Digital Matte Painting. I wanted to go for a fantasy / [...]

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p2design writes: Hi guys, New livestream starts soon showing how I will animate this monster walk cycle in blender for NOARA video game. Hope to see you there. Pierrick

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Linkun writes: Hey all! BPUP is a new free Blender add-on that allows you to pause and unpause Blender at ANY time, Including during a render. When you pause Blender, a icon in the taskbar will appear. To resume the Blender application, simply left-click on the in and hit 'Resume'. BPUP can even hold a [...]

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yogyog writes: Getting a good matte from a bad greenscreen. Having found a solution to using bad greenscreen footage in Blender, I feel I should share it with the rest of you. Plus, after the success of my Tesla Coil Lightning tutorial, I found myself looking back at other Blender tricks I've found that could [...]

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The highly anticipated Graswald pack is now available! Julius Harling writes: After almost two years of work, Graswald is finally released to the public! Graswald is a professional high-quality asset pack containing different species of weeds, grass, and moss as well as various kinds of debris, packed in a powerful add-on that allows incredible customization. [...]

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Earlier today, the videos on the Blender Foundation's YouTube channel became unavailable. Some users report being able to see some videos, but for most people everything is gone. Ton is looking into it. Current speculations are that this is caused by an algorithm issue - some other channels like the MIT Open Sourseware channel are [...]

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Rudy Michau writes: Hi everyone ! Today a very fast video. No stupid question : how to unwrap sphere for texture presentation ? Unwrap a sphere to show your own textures, it's not obvious. Discover a (eccentric ?) way to unwrap a sphere for a good texture presentation in Blender. After that, you will be [...]

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Christoph Werner writes: CW Eye is a procedural material shader tree for Blender. You can create countless eye variations just by changing some values in the shader. Starting at „simple“ human eyes you can create eyes for aliens, zombies or whatever you imagine. A lot of options are supported, like veins intensity, iris size or [...]

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Cenda writes: Cenda Tools is collection of addons for easy workflow. It contains: Auto Frame F-Curves Change current frame from viewport One click export to game engine Keying tools for animation Offset animation Unbake Rigidbody (delete keys and get RB settings back) Fast preview for animation (Playblast) Change settings for linked physics Create BAT for [...]

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jayanam writes: In this video about Armory3d and Substance Painter I show how to render PBR textures with the Armory Game Engine.

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Bogdan from RenderStreet writes: In Sweden's Upper Secondary School, there is a three year higher education preparatory Arts Program held by S:t Eriks Gymnasium. It features an animation topic that aims to develop students' abilities to communicate using digital tools. We've recently had a talk with the program leader, arts and design teacher Jonas Melin, to [...]

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Robert Straub writes: Rendering in blender can seem hard at first, but with some basic knowledge, you can create beautiful renders using the Cycles render engine. This tutorial will walk a new user of blender through the basics of setting up a mesh for rendering using Cycles using only free assets available online. The tutorial [...]

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