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Creating a music visualiser for an official Marshmello video

Bart — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 08:35:02 +0000

Florin Hammer created an animation for DJ and producer Marshmello, and shares the creation process. You can see the official video where this was used here:

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Video: Journey to Joy

Bart — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 19:00:00 +0000

Enjoy this super cute animation by Felipe Del Rio, originally shared on Blender Artists. Hello everyone! I hope you’re having a wonderful Christmas! This project has been sitting in my hard drive for months, and I finally managed to bring it to completion. The project was rendered in Cycles, I also used Substance Painter for [...]

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How to Make Stylized Rocks in Blender!

Bart — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 08:35:57 +0000

Here's a nice trick: Kenan Profitt uses ambient occlusion nodes to accentuate edges on shapes. He uses this to create realistic rocks in Blender, but I can see how you can apply this to all kinds of objects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsskhkwtvAsVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: How to Make Stylized Rocks in Blender! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsskhkwtvAs)

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Make a Rotating Object Belt Animation in Blender 4.0

Bart — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 10:40:59 +0000

Novocaine uses a particle system to instantiate objects, then turns them into real objects so they can be individually adjusted. He then shows a neat way to bulk-edit their animations to produce a cool product animation. Easy to follow, and it contains one or two neat tricks that you might not know yet! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz0WQesC6-0Video can't [...]

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Easy Grass Generator v1.6 adds Painting Controls and more [$]

wcarige — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 14:50:20 +0000

Easy Grass Generator is a geometry nodes based grass generator for Blender. It's memory efficient and you can easily change the look of the grass just using a texture node. As I started to port all Easy Generators to Blender 4.0 +, Easy Grass Generator is the first one, with addition of new tools that [...]

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Self Portrait - Cinematic Blender Animation

Bart — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:55:13 +0000

17-year old digital artist "Approximated" created this visually impressive short movie using a variety of tools, including Blender. A 100% CGI animated short made by me using tools such as Blender, Marvelous Designer, Iclone 8, Axis Studio, Davinci Resolve and more. The concept might have been a little too ambitious as its quite long and [...]

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Sketchfab Add-on: Importing Fixed for Blender 4.0

Bart — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 09:57:14 +0000

With the Sketchfab Add-on for Blender, you can directly import and export models from and to Sketchfab in Blender. At this moment, Sketchfab doesn't support Blender 4.0 files yet - uploading them (either through the add-on or directly through the website) will result in an error message. But as a first step, the add-on has [...]

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Best of 2023: CG Cookie Student Reel is Out

pavla — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 13:41:58 +0000

Kent Trammell hand-picked his favorite renders and animations created by CG Cookie members in 2023. Check out if your work made the cut and back in the glory of these inspiring works of art! Check out the reel and information of the featured clips on CG Cookie.

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Animate Growing Leaves in Blender Geometry Nodes

Bart — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:15:05 +0000

Cheuqs shows how to create unfolding leaves using geometry nodes. Even if the effect isn't scientifically accurate, it's convincing enough for most purposes.

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Creating Galvanized Steel using Shader Nodes in Blender

Bart — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 08:23:42 +0000

Nathan Duck sets up a galvanized steel shader in Blender, basically using three components: voronoi and noise shaders, and color ramps. What I liked about this video is how Nathan uses a reference image to explain the different steps in his process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc4MzLErRhkVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Are You Scared Of 3D [...]

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