Skyler Studios writes: Hey guys i'm Shehan From skyler studios i created a simple animation loop in eevee using curves and a few modifiers this is more like an intermediate level tutorial i'm sure you guys can handle it i go through each step i'm not showing how i'm setting up the materials in this [...]

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Michelle Lehman writes: This collection of wiggling heads and tails might at first strike you as some type of extraterrestrial life-form, softly landing on a body of water. In reality, this is a microscopic group of charged, amphiphilic oligomers composed of “water-loving” heads and “fat-loving” tails which are used to mimic lipid bilayers. I created [...]

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DECODED writes: Hello BlenderNation! Procedural materials are great, but they often have an adverse effect on render times. In this video, I'll show how to bake materials in Blender, and the difference it can make to render times, even on a simple scene.

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cg-physics writes: In this short tutorial series, we focus on making objects with as little vertices as possible. It saves rendertime and still looks good!

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Stefano SottoZen writes: Hi everyone, I hope you may enjoy this short animation I have done. Stay healthy and safe :) Stefano

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Jamie writes: Hi Blenderheads, Over the past few months countries have slowly closed their borders and everyone's lives have become a lot more restrictive. Thanks heaps COVID-19. This is most certainly a sucky situation, but in times likes these we need to search for the silver linings. So I'm proposing a "Stay home and learn [...]

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nebmotion writes: In this beginner animation tutorial you will learn how to recreate this abstract space creature animation in Blender 2.82. I call it the Cosmic Porcupine and it loops seamlessly. Most of the work is done using modifiers and you will learn some interesting techniques along the way such as displacement animation and node [...]

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Lino Thomas writes: Sometimes volumetrics are too slow for the result you are going for, in this tutorial i show you how to create fake volumetric light cones for a much quicker rendering. Important: In the "light paths" tab you can find the "max bounces" settings. Do increase the "max bounces" number if any black [...]

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Jan van den Hemel writes: Creating rigid body simulation hitboxes and settings them up with constraints for an armature normally takes a lot of work. Great news - this free add-on does it with literally one click. Here we show how to install and use it.

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Samm writes: INTRODUCTION Background of the case in this course: Cain and Aven was the first murder in human history. According to Genesis, Cain and Aven were the two sons of Adam and Eve. Cain, the first-born, was a farmer, and his brother Aven was a shepherd. Cain was the first human born and Aven [...]

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Gottfried Hofmann writes: Diplay.Land has been featured here before. It is an app for iOS and Android with ARCore that turns your smartphone into a mobile 3D scanner. The BlenderDiplom team shows what to pay attention to when cleaning up a Display.Land scan in Blender:

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markkingsnorth writes: In the next tutorial on the Shape Generator's use with Animation Nodes, we combine symmetrical 3D shapes to make something more interesting and configurable, in this case working towards something that could have a variety of visual applications, like a Sci-Fi looking structure or a 3D Rorschach test. Previous tutorials: Creating multiple objects: [...]

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Blender Cloud is one of the ways to support the Blender Development Fund. Blender Cloud offers an online platform for video workshops, footage from the Blender animation studio, 3D models, textures, HDRI environments and more. A Blender Cloud subscription is very affordable and helps your favorite 3D editor to become even better. But Blender Cloud [...]

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rncbc.org has announced the release of Qtractor version 0.9.13 Spring'20 for Linux.

Changes:
All meters background color are now customize-able (cf. View/Options.../Display/Meters,...

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alimayo writes: In this tutorial you will learn how to use a Rigify Bird Armature To Rig A Dinosaur in Blender 2.82 In this video you will learn how to do the following: Place the Rigify Bird Armature in your Dinosaur mesh. Modify the Rigify bird armature to work with a dinosaur mesh. Connect the [...]

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Elliotgascoigne writes: Hi all, Another update for my game project 'We Forest Nation' which is made using blender and unreal engine. Another update coming up soon!

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Strike_Digital writes: RockIt is an addon containing a set of 15 high-quality photoscanned rocks. Most scanned rocks have a hole on one side of the model where the rock meets the ground, limiting how you can use them, but all of the models in RockIt have full 360-degree scan data, vastly increasing their versatility. And [...]

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mv.artz writes: Hey there! I'm new here, so let me quickly introduce myself. I'm Menno van Roon, born and raised in Rotterdam (NL). Most of the time I do work as a motion designer. I started a channel where I share stuff I learned and that have been helpful to me during professional projects I [...]

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luwizart writes: In this blender tutorial, i will be showing you guys how to reverse time on objects in blender. I will be sharing with you Technics to get the best out of it

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Jan van den Hemel writes: When you create a big environment scene, navigating can become tricky. Luckily there's some very useful methods of navigation that you may not know about.

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