Eric Gentry writes: Blender 2.80 compatibility, a new face-alignment option (and default behavior!) for "Align Planes" and a NEW INSTALL PROCESS are the big headlines with this version of Mesh Align Plus (free and open source as always!). The addon has now moved to the 3D View > N panel as well. For the unfamiliar: [...]

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String Fairy is back with another materials tutorial. You can download the .blend here.

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Beniamino Della Torre writes: Hi, here is a short video dedicated to ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst. I've been inspired by his fantastic timelapse sequence of the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft being launched into space on 3 December 2018. I don't have any competence in space travel and physics, so there's no scientific purpose in this video. [...]

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Lluc3D writes: In this video time-lapse I'm showing the complete process to create a game asset in Blender, texturing in Quixel suite, also I'm using toolbag 3 for baking maps. Then I use EEVEE for rendering. The asset is a shield for the "Project DV" a new game project that I'm working on. I working [...]

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Jan van den Hemel writes: Splinters are a great way to make certain materials like wood fracture in a more believable and interesting way. Setting it up is easy, as is shown in this quick video.

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Background My name is Alex Kane, I am a 3D Artist with a passion for creating cartoon characters and photorealistic scenes! I am currently freelancing in Cincinnati, Ohio while also developing tools and plugins for other artists. The majority of my artistic knowledge came from self-study and experimentation. In my elementary school years, while other [...]

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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. Winter morning in an unknown city Sheldon An autumn house ArtWar 3: Kira “Strider” - PBR Game Character Model Twr Mawr Lighthouse Pirate Boy Classical [...]

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Tibor Nyers writes: With the release of Turing NVIDIA created a new class of GPU devices specifically tailored to target ray tracing workloads. Unfortunately, Blender Cycles does not support HW accelerated rendering just yet, nevertheless, the new RTX GPUs provide a significant leap in GPU performance. In this article we compare the performance speedup with [...]

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String Fairy shows how to create an EEVEEE shader for a slightly translucent and bumpy soap material.

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Alberto Gonzalez writes: The DynRemesh 2.0 update brings quad-based remeshing & auto-retopology in Blender 2.8 DynRemesh is a quad-based remesher, assisting in retopology for your dyntopo sculpts & 3dscans containing too many tris(triangles). It now includes support for QuadriFlow & many new features: Weight Paint Operator(Define density with weights) Symmetry Support(Experimental) Relax + Smooth options [...]

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Jan van den Hemel writes: On my continued exploration of the Fracture Modifier branch of Blender, I found that the Helper Add-on is an essential and very useful tool. It helps you set up the scene faster, from setting up the rigid bodies and fractured objects to fine tuning exactly where and how the fracture [...]

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Darkfall writes: In this Video we will be doing another "Suzanne Print". This time we will be turning our Mascot Suzanne into an Angel and Demon. Once we are happy with how they look we can Export as an STL and then Print them. With a little clean up and some paint (though my bad [...]

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Pablo Vazquez writes: BlenderToday Live is back! Oh boy we are. Season 2 starts with plenty of updates all across the board. Tune in for BlenderToday Live #45! And Blender Hoy in Spanish:

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About My name is Jesús A. Olmos and I was born in Valladolid, Spain. I have dedicated a great part of my life to design, focusing on 3D modeling and animation. I have received numerous national and international awards in my professional career in the fields of Drawing, Painting, Sculpture and Digital Illustration, both in [...]

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Chipp Walters writes: Hey everyone, Chipp Walters here with BIG NEWS! My new course, Definitely EEVEE: Definitive Interiors is now available– and for a limited time it’s even on sale for you early adopters! This course has been battled tested with over 18 beta testers from all parts, including EEVEE masters and Lighting Experts from [...]

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Stefano SottoZen writes: Hi, I am happy to invite you to watch the first episode of "Robot", a 3D animated web series I just started working on. I hope you will enjoy it.

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Jan van den Hemel has been posting daily Blender tips for almost half a year. They're well produced, quick videos focusing on one very specific feature in Blender. We're going to try and post them here daily for a while to see if our readers appreciate this content (AND if I can keep up, ha!). [...]

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AndyBay writes: The new glTF export capabilities of Blender 2.8 offer significant improvements to the workflow between Blender and Unity. This video shows you how you can export a PBR textured 3d-model from EEVEE render engine to Unity 3D and have all the texture maps automatically assigned.

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Enjoy the work of Michael Greenwood from London, United Kingdom!

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Steve Lund writes: Learn how to create a Low Poly Island Landscape in this beginner Blender tutorial.

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