nuxttux writes: It's #Monday not mundane. Time-lapse from start to finish, see how this animation was made. This #animation was made today for today, and any other Monday. This was executed using Blender, but not inside the 3D space. Everything was animated using the #VSE. The graphic assets were created in Inkscape. Add-Ons used: VST [...]

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Justin writes: Learn how to put text into your video by using Blender's 3D Editor to create cool text effects. You can then save your images to import them into Blender's Video Sequence Editor (VSE). NOTE: This video is NOT a comprehensive guide to 3D Text! It focuses mainly on using Blender's 3D Editor instead [...]

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Ferrre Poorkazem created Jerry Seinfeld's kitchen in Blender. In this Art Spotlight she tells us how she did it. Hello! My name is Fereshte Poorkazem (Ferre is my nickname). I’m a game artist and freelancer currently living in Tehran, Iran. I started my career as a 2D artist in indie game companies in my country [...]

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p2design writes: Hi everyone, As you may know I've been working for an independent game company as a Lead 3D artist on the game called Noara. We are preparing the alpha now and our game will be opened to the public very very soon. You can subscribe here if you want to test the game. [...]

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simonthommes writes: I finally got around to release my newest procedural texturing tool for Blender 2.8 along with a 3-part tutorial series making use of it. It's all free, even though a tip is, of course, much appreciated. I'm completely new to tutorials and still in the process of finding a comfortable workflow.. I hope [...]

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Andreas Klostermann is working on a concept for a new type of scripting language for Blender. From what I've seen so far it has the potential to make scripting more easily accessible for artists. What do you think? Blender Vraag is a Python library for more elegant or easy scripting in Blender. It contains a [...]

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Chris Plush writes: Lee Salvemini is back with the next installment in his Unity game series. In this chapter you’ll be exporting a character from Blender and importing it into Unity. Then you’ll be setting up a scene for the first game level and setting up physics for the player character. This is chapter 5 [...]

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jayanam writes: I started the development of new Python lib for painting widgets into the 3D View in Blender 2.8. In this version I added buttons with mouse hover effects and you can add custom functions to them. The addon can be downloaded here for free.

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Izac Peterson writes: Hello! This is a tutorial on how to Terraform the planet Mars in Blender! The Full tutorial, including screenshots of node setups and the textures used can be found on BlenderArtists at https://blenderartists.org/t/how-to-terrafrom-mars-in-blender/1135455 Thanks for your support!

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Zacharias Reinhardt writes: Hi everyone! In my new video you will learn how to create a dragon in Blender 2.79 for 3d printing (or for what ever you want). Additionally, we will take a quick look on how to create a procedural material for the EEVEE realtime render engine in Blender 2.8. This video is [...]

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Enjoy the work of Alex Vorador from Riga, Latvia!

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Some incredible rigging by Sobschack! Hello, I use for the first time the Eevee viewport to show my modeling, shadding and rigging work on a R/C Buggy car. What's a so cool tool is Eevee to show all animated works ! Love it ! It's promise to a bright future ! Bye Vincent

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MartinKlekner writes: Painting is hard. I mean... I create concepts, matte painting and stuff like this for a living - and I still think its hard. Sometimes, when I have enough time, I start my paintings from scratch, based on a hand drawing or just painting directly in Photoshop. When time is short, however, I [...]

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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. Unseen Westeros: Golden Tooth Beach loft. Blender 2.8 Remnant of a mascot Last Job Romeu&Julieta Studios to FAO C y b e r d e [...]

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At this years Blender Conference Thomas Beck released his much anticipated Blender Handbook. Read this review to learn what it's all about! Description Blenders has a huge amount of features and tools and editors, big enough for most books to not try and cover everything it has to offer. Not the Comprehensive Blender 2.7 Handbook [...]

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Cogumelo Softworks writes: We would like to Announce that Toonkit for Cycles 1.2 is now available! Other than many improvements this package contains also the first Blender 2.8 version. While this is yet experimental is also feature complete compared with 2.7 version. To celebrate this Toonkit for Cycles is included on the Blender Market's Black [...]

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jayanam writes: In this Blender 2.8 video I show how I implemented a draggable UI widget (panel) using the GPU module Python API. The addon can be found here. it is a prototype, please tell me your opinions, ideas and suggestions for improvement.

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chocofur writes: Hey everyone! This year you can get 30% discount on ANY Chocofur purchase made between 23th Nov (Black Friday) and 26th Nov (Cyber Monday)! That includes our Interior Visualization Course for Blender 2.80 (which is still extra discounted as pre-order) or the Lifetime Bundle including the entire collection of our Blender assets + [...]

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Over 570 products are now 25% off on the Blender Market. Offer ends on Monday!

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Several artists have shared their Grease Pencil projects on the Blender Cloud. You'll find both static and animated examples here. Enjoy, and thanks everyone for sharing!

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