Many videos have demonstrated how to use shadows projected from gobos to quickly add depth to a scene. However, have you ever experimented with 360 gobos? This video by Daniel Oakfield explains various techniques for creating intricate shadows in your scene using 360 gobos that work both in Cycles and EEVEE.

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BlenderKit just hit a monumental 100,000 assets in its 3D library, made possible by 2,266 Blender artists! Vilem Duha writes: We are super proud to announce that there are 100,000 assets in the BlenderKit 3D asset library! This is a huge milestone, and we are thrilled to celebrate it together. BlenderKit was founded in 2017 [...]

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After having worked on Blender for 32 years and leading the Blender Foundation for 24 years, Ton has announced that he will be stepping down as chairman and CEO on January 1, 2026. As Ton commented, it's time to step back now and focus more on himself. What the future will bring? He doesn't know [...]

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Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Modules & Projects 2025-09-09 Animation & Rigging module meeting 2025-09-11 Core Module Meeting 2025-09-11 Pipeline & I/O Module Meeting 2025-09-11 Compositor Meeting Notes 2025-09-11 Design Meeting 2025-09-12 Projects Updates meeting New Features and Changes This is a selection of changes that happened over the last week. [...]

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It's hard to miss Silksong this week! Earlier, we shared a tutorial by Farrukh on creating a stylized rendering of the character. Today, Vertex Arcade creates a version that's a little closer to the original. Here's the final result on Sketchfab:

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In this Blender tutorial Ryan King shows how to make an Animated Procedural Black Hole.

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Here comes a tutorial video of how you can create a simple city generator by using geometry nodes in Blender. We are about to make the generator and then a shader that will make a mist effect for it. This effect works nicely for stylized animation backgrounds.

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