Tawan Sunflower creates fantastic Anime videos and tutorials for Blender. Here's a preview of their upcoming tutorial on creating an anime rain splashing effect!

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Jorza shows how to set up a clay material using shader nodes. As a bonus, you'll learn how to model this abstract looking scene :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQlCJ-gJGi0Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Procedural Clay Material In Blender 4.0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQlCJ-gJGi0)

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UVPackmaster 3 for Blender has been released (version 3.2.1). Most important improvements: Significant performance boost when packing a huge number of islands into many tiles thanks to the new option Tile Filling Method. Improvements for the Normalize Scale functionality. The user now has a possibility to specify scale multiplier to be applied after normalization is [...]

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Lighting Artist - Job Opening at Ink & Light - Paid Work Digital Nomad Entertainment | 3D Environment Artist For more jobs, look here.

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AndyBay writes: Getting feathered masks to work can a be a bit tricky at first in Blender. In this tutorial we take a look at how to use the mask feather feature in order to get soft edged masks when compositing in Blender. https://youtu.be/hlXVljwqO1UVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Feathered Masks in the [...]

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