ndee writes: Hello everyone, I am happy to announce that Asset Sketcher v1.2 is released on the Blender Market.. Asset Sketcher is a powerful addon for popolating your 3d environment with assets. Be it for a rendered scene, game or animation film. With an intuitive workflow you can add lots of objects to your scene [...]

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Matthew writes: Time-lapse of a low poly garbage truck created in Blender for use in the game Radical Relocation.

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Hi! I'm Pablo. I'm a 3D artist and computer engineer from Santiago de Compostela, Spain. I started with 3D two years ago when I was studying for my degree. During an internship, I was told to make a custom installation of Blender in a data center. It didn't work at all, so I spent most [...]

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Reynante Martinez writes: So glad and honored to have had the chance to be interviewed by the awesome guys at CGLounge. We talk about inspiration, art, and lots of stuff! :) Check out the interview here.

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Damien writes: Hello everyone, I have recently created a YouTube account called "Final Result". I'm planning on releasing a bunch of tutorials, some long like this one, and some shorter ones. Most importantly, the final result of the tutorial, is the video thumbnail. When I was learning blender I would see some awesome thumbnail, get [...]

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Reynante Martinez writes: If you're a Blender artist looking to level up your skills, earn huge prizes, and promote your work, then join my Christmas Competition 2018. Some of the prizes include Cycles Material Vault, Hard-Surface Modeling, FriendlyShade textures, and many more. All valued at $1,500! Join now

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dj writes: Hi Blenderheads ! In this recently published tutorial I am showing some cool uses of blender for interior visualisation. This time it's making a bed. For modeling the pillows and bedcover I used an awesome free addon called 'modeling cloth' by Rich Colburn. While it's still in development and a bit experimental, it's [...]

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In many cases, you need a floor to properly 'ground' your models and prevent them from becoming a floating thing. Sketchfab now makes this easy by automatically generating 'ground shadows'. The new feature supports two options: dynamic lights or baked ambient occlusion. From the Sketchfab Blog: We’re very excited to share a fantastic new rendering [...]

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I stumbled upon PureRef, a neat tool that makes it easy to create collages of reference images. Just drag your images into it and arrange them any way you like. Give it a try and let me know what you think! PureRef is freeware and available for Windows, OSX and Linux.

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Background Hi, my name is Daniel Ruiz-Lucero, I’m from the Sonoran desert in México and just moved to sunny California! (not US); Ensenada, Baja California, México. I like to draw and create stuff, which sounds vague but it means that I’m curious and like to learn about—and make—different things. I had formal education as a [...]

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Emiliano Colantoni writes: This is a mini project that i did for a workshop focused on Eevee. Hope you like it! :) Sound - freesound.org Additional modelling - blendswap.com SSR wheel model by BlackSilver (blendswap.com)

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jayanam writes: In this video I show how to use the GPU module in Blender 2.8 to draw into the 3D View for my screencast keys addon VUr to visualize the mouse button states. I also moved the panel of the addon to the sidebar. The addon can be download here for free.

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dj writes: Hi there Blenderheads ! We have released the next part of our interior tutorial series. The series is addressed to blender users who want to dig into interior archviz. Throughout the course we create a whole industrial styled loft bedroom, step by step. In this part we add some cruicial details to the [...]

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Gottfried Hofmann writes: Blender 2.8 gets some pretty useful new selection methods you might be familiar with from other packages: Add, Subtract, Difference, Intersect

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pragma37 writes: THEME EDITOR is an addon that makes theme customization fast and easy. In summary, it lets you: Edit your UI theme colors by groups (every matching color) instead of one by one. Highlight the currently selected UI elements, for easier searching and discovery. Filter by color, so you can simply click on the [...]

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ChrisP writes: In this video I create a logo animation with volumetrics and a Hollywood-style anamorphic lens flare in Blender 2.8 EEVEE.

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Fabienne writes: Since 2006, RANCH Computing has been rendering over 350,000 projects for 3D artists, visualizers and graphic designers from the whole world. The team and servers are based in Paris, France. Using RANCH Computing, you can benefit from the power of 20,000 CPU cores, 1 million GPU cores and the help of dedicated technical [...]

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Here are the notes from today's developer meeting. Next meeting is Monday, 26 November 18:00 CET (17:00 UTC). Brecht Van Lommel writes: 1) New features and changes Left click select was modified to be more compatible with the tool system. This will continue to be improved to address various usability issues. New popover for collection [...]

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nuxttux writes: LaVoum - A Haitian song which dives into social-political and moral challenges that we, as individuals, face on a daily basis. Now with subtitles, both in English and Creole. A NUXTTUXent production. Software Used : Blender 2.79b [3D rig; Compositing; Editing (VSE)] Gimp 10.x Inkscape 9.x All of the assets were designed and [...]

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Am 09.11. und 10.11.2018 fand in Nürnberg der JoomlaDay Deutschland statt. Ziel dieser deutschen Joomla! Konferenz war neben der Vermittlung von Wissen, Tipps, Tricks und Know-how durch Fachvorträge, vor allem auch das Netzwerken, der persönliche Kontakt untereinander und miteinander. Mit 184 Teilnehmer/innen, davon ein Drittel Frauen, fand die Veranstaltung wieder regen Zuspruch.