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Blender Secrets - Wireframe Effect

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 13:50:43 GMT

Jan van den Hemel writes: Here's a cool effect - using booleans, you can show different materials and models in slices. This video explains how to set it up. You can download the Blend file here.

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Blender 2.90 Multires Sculpting Feature

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:45:44 GMT

jayanam writes: In this Blender 2.90 tutorial I show the multires sculpting workflow by adding a multiresolution modifier for sculpt mode. As an example I create the bandages for the stylized axe and explain the non-destructive way of sculpting when using this modifier.

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Video: Up and Down

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 09:40:23 GMT

Stefano SottoZen writes: Hi everyone, just made this short animated video. I hope you may enjoy this. Thanks for watching :) Stefano

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Sculpt Mode: New Line Project Gesture Tool

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 08:00:08 GMT

Pablo Dobarro, the Blender Dev machine that never sleeps, adding a new “Line Project Gesture” tool to the sculpting toolset. Sculpt Mode now has line gestures to create flat surfaces and masks. Line gestures for bisecting, face sets, colors and gradients are also planned. #b3d #devfund https://t.co/Rm0JMOFPb3 pic.twitter.com/8XIdGA6r83 — Pablo Dobarro (@pablodp606) September 26, 2020 [...]

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Upcoming Performance Improvements for Sculpting!

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 07:35:07 GMT

Curtis Holt writes: Hi everyone, In this video, we talk about some exciting news shared by Pablo Dobarro on Twitter. They're planning on doing a full redesign of how the sculpt mode works in Blender in an attempt to improve the overall performance with high poly sculpting. Included in this announcement was a visual demonstration [...]

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How to Create a Satisfying Mograph Animation in Blender

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 05:30:05 GMT

Tom L writes: In this tutorial, I go over how to use a few simple modifiers with a particle system to create a satisfying mograph animation. I also cover creating the materials and lighting.

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Free download: Rocket Girl Character for Blender 2.9

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 20:05:07 GMT

Luciano writes: In this video we'll do a quick overview of the features of the RocketGirl rig for blender 2.9 originally created by Vladimir Mokhov for Maya. If you have any questions ask them in the comments as I'm constantly checking that no question gets unanswered! In this video you'll get an over the shoulder [...]

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Beginner's Guide to Creating Concept Art in Blender 2.9

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 18:00:34 GMT

stylizedstation writes: In this breakdown/tutorial, Leo Li, a Concept Artist at Ubisoft shares how he uses Blender as a concepting tool to create his wonderful Video Game Retail Scene, all from scratch. This in-depth tutorial will cover most of the steps you need to take as a concept artist using Blender to improve your skills [...]

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Behind the Scenes: My Fan-Made Interpretation of Spaceman Spiff from Calvin and Hobbes

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:29:11 GMT

I’m Joseph Conover, an artist in Los Angeles, and I have been doing design work professionally since 2016 at many different studios on movies ranging from Avengers: Endgame to Guardians of the Galaxy, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Wonder Woman, and more. I’ve been using Blender since 2006, though, and it was one of the first 3D [...]

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Create A Borg Cube In Blender With Procedural Materials & Particles!

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 13:50:08 GMT

CBaileyFilm writes: In this fun episode I take on the challenge from chat to create a Borg cube! We use a lot of cool techniques to pull this one together, including procedural materials and particles to create the greeble-surface of the cube. We even go so far as to add volumetric lighting to the scene [...]

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The Best Blender Art on Sketchfab: 2020, week 40

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:40:52 GMT

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!

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Grease Pencil Update: Holdout Material

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 07:35:30 GMT

Antonio Vasquez, Grease Pencil developer extraordinaire, just committed a new Grease Pencil holdout material option. Just committed the new #greasepencil material Holdout option. Now you can open holes in filled areas. Thanks @hypersomniac_ for his help. #b3d #b2d pic.twitter.com/AlgUciJfaU — antonioya (@antonioya_blend) September 18, 2020 The holdout materials in GP give great flexibility to create [...]

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Quick Tip: Make it faster with 'Repeat Last'

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 05:30:29 GMT

Luis Roach writes: Do it faster with Repeat last. Blender quick tip.

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Ultimate 3d Resources Guide in under 5 minutes

Sun, 27 Sep 2020 20:05:03 GMT

CGLife writes: Hello Everyone, In this video I show you a ton of my favorite resources for creating 3d related work, this is especially great for Blender users but any 3d artist should be able to benefit from this video. I have provided the best free sources to find Reference Images/Blueprints, Textures, Models and a [...]

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Blender Mix 2 Normal Maps together.

Sun, 27 Sep 2020 18:00:00 GMT

Koumis writes: A very straight forward way to mix 2 normal maps together using Blender.

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How to Transform Pivot Point | Blender 2.9 | Tutorial

Sun, 27 Sep 2020 13:50:53 GMT

25games writes: The Pivot Point is a point of reference which could be custom set or calculate by selection. Origin of object(s) or the 3D cursor are involved too. There are five different Pivot Point modes which let you transform your object(s) more precisely. I really like it for scaling or rotating. I will show [...]

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How to Create and Composite a Fireball in Blender 2.90

Sun, 27 Sep 2020 11:45:43 GMT

Jacob Swing writes: Fire is awesome! So in this two part tutorial series, we go over how to use blender to generate a fireball that can be tracked to any footage. Part 1 of this tutorial goes over how to create the fireball inside of Blender. Part 2 covers tracking the fireball to the footage [...]

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Car Modeling for Beginners in Blender 2.8x

Sun, 27 Sep 2020 09:40:51 GMT

Sayan Mondal writes: Hey BlenderNation, Today I want to present this 2.5 hrs+ in-depth video course which covers everything needed to make a car in Blender from scratch. Although it is tagged beginner, I promise intermediate artists will benefit from it too (specially modelling). It is divided into 4 parts, and you can download the [...]

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Sci-fi Hologram in Blender 2.9 - EEVEE tutorial

Sun, 27 Sep 2020 07:35:25 GMT

The Drifter writes: In this Blender tutorial you'll learn how to create a Star Wars like 3D Hologram from Image (but you can apply this method to 3d objects too).

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Blender hardsurface sculpting tutorial : Basemesh

Sun, 27 Sep 2020 05:30:45 GMT

jayanam writes: This is the next part of the Blender hard surface sculpting tutorial in which I create the base mesh from the Axe reference image that we sketched in the previous part.

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