Like all 3d software, Blender is pretty complex and has thousands of features. No matter how long you’ve been using it, from time to time you’ll always find a new tool, shortcut or little trick that you didn’t know existed. Nik Kottmann has been collecting that kind of tips for the last two years and posting them on his Instagram account Blender Daily. Here is a collection with 10 of Nik favourites. Read more…
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Wanderson interfacing with Blender
Will Anderson, a Scottish animator & filmmaker. Will has been making character-driven animated films. BAFTA-winning, in this article he talks about Blender, his recent fascination with it, and some things he is finding exciting about interfacing Blender with his work as an animator.
Art Direction for Hollywood movies using Blender
Jonathan Opgenhaffen is an experienced Art Director at Framestore, in London, with experience in design supervision (pre and post production), concept art, and visual effects. Skilled as both a creative…
Choosing Blender 3D for study projects
INTERVIEWS: Saiyam Marwah, an animation student at the National Institute of Design, in India: Saiyam: Hello! My name is Saiyam Marwah. I have always had an inclination to art and…
Sebastian Murrer Berlin 3D artist
Sebastian Murrer, a Berlin based motion & 3D-designer, created a personal project using the blender osm-addon. In his freetime he experiments with Blender 3D and its endless opportunities to express…
Assistant professor addicted to digital characters and Blender 3D
My name is Igor Kekeljevic Keki and I’m an assistant professor at the Engineering Animation Studies, at the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Serbia, where I’m teaching future engineers of…
Biomedical Visualisation with Blender 3D
University of Glasgow course on Coursera on “Biomedical Visualisation” with Blender 3D The University of Glasgow has recently created a free course of Biomedical Visualisation. The course uses and gives an introduction of Blender…
Digitization of cultural heritage in Blender
My name is Maria Grazia Di Giovannantonio. I studied architecture at the Federico II University of Naples, in Italy, and then I attended the “MI-HERITAGE” (Multimedia Interactive Heritage) master at…
Blender Grease Pencil for Animation
“Ghiatto” – A Fat Cat Story Croco Pie Studio is a collective of animators and filmmakers born in July 2020 in Naples. Our goal is to create entertainment contents and…
3D-animated adventure TV series in Blender
The SkyFarm Company is a small team of creators developing original, cross-platform entertainment properties for children between the ages of 3 and 7. They are currently developing Duncan’s Flying Tugboat, a toyetic…
The Blender Visual Storytelling
Alex Treviño AENDOM is a personal project focused on making storytelling artwork and share the process for educational purposes. This project has created compelling images such as the Junk Shop,…
Sculpting using real clay and Blender for 3D
According to his biography, Carles Mondrià (Xamberga Art Studi) is a freelance 2D-3D concept artist, large format sculptor, scenographer, designer of stage machinery for theatres, and painter. Carles has designed…
Cuban 3D artists use Blender
We “met” three Cuban 3D artists on Instagram. Chatting with them about their new coming movie made in Blender, we were taken by their story; and now we want to…
Switching to Blender for Sculpting
Short interview to Kevin and the reasons why switching to Blender for Sculpting his move. Hello! My name is Kevin Christian Muljadi, and I live in Indonesia. I work as…
How to create Isometric scenes in Blender
Aditya Pathak is a 20 years old professional 3D artist and a computer science engineering student. Aditya has been into 3D designing for two and a half years completing around…
Character Workflow with Blender 2.8
We interview Giulia, a 3D artist from Chile. We discovered Giulia from her 3D characters made and the for her Blender tutorial.
Our interested was in particular for her skills on sculpting in Blender (coming from ZBrush) and for
Giulia’s Character Workflow with Blender. Giulia studied illustration and graphic designer. Then with her partner, a 3D animator, they set up a studio of motion graphics called MONKI
Blender freelance and lecturer in a College
This is another of our interviews. This time we are with Von Kagaoan from New Zealand. A Blender freelance and lecturer in a College. Von has been using both Blender…
Introduction to Blender – For Absolute Beginners, a great Blender Tutorial
Recently we discover an interesting Blender tutorial on Youtube by Crossmind, an Animation and Motion design studio, based out of New Delhi, India.
Apart from the commercial part, a year ago, they have started a series of free courses for Blender on Youtube. We found them very well made and clear.
Blender 2.83 LTS – Long Term Support
Blender 2.83 LTS ( Long Term Support) is out and you can download it right now.
With this release of the 3D software many bugs have been already fixed, and further fixes are already planned and will happen in next years. This LTS version will big project a greater stability and performance.
On top of this the latest version fo Blender comes with very great advanced features.
A new era of young 3D artists on the horizon
As written on his Instagram profile, William Landgren is 13 years old from Stockholm. This fact wouldn’t be so exceptional, but William has realised a fantastic animation in Blender that many of us are still dreaming of doing. But he didn’t stop just there. He created a tutorial on Youtube, where William teaches all of us how to do it. So, amazed and curious, we ask some…
From Pre-press & Graphic Design to 3D with Blender
Many Blender artists come from different backgrounds, and some of them have different type of jobs simultaneously. Rob Heath is a Senior Brand Designer with AWeber. He lives in Perkasie, PA, US. He is specialized in UI/UX design, prototyping, motion design and… (obviously) 3D graphics.
Mixing Blender and Maya in the animation studio workflow
Tracks, the new short by Armchair productions will be released in the next few weeks so follow along. A story of love and Tunes, music can bring us together.
This project started when and our TD wrote a plug in for doing 3D smears in Maya, and we wanted to test our new Blender and Maya pipeline.
When Geology met Blender 3D
Today we interview Lina Jakaité. A geologist from Gargzdai in Lithuania, who loves also 3D geological modelling and all that is associated with it, maps, cross-sections, interpretations…!
During her geology studies she was more of a carbonate rocks person, then she spent a few years working in quaternary geology (whatever this means).
Short Movie using Blender 3D Grease Pencil
Great Short Movie using Grease Pencil of Blender 3d.
“Watchmaker At Time’s End” by the Indian 3d Artist Shaheen Sheriff is made entirely with opensource software like Blender, Kitra, Gimp, etc. Grease Pencil has been recently enhanced with the release 2.8 of Blender.
Interview with the young CG Artist Pietro Chiovaro
Pietro Chiovaro a young 3D Artist from Palermo, Italy. He has always been a movie lover and videogames enthusiast. In the past years, he has been focusing his studies on the development and creation of assets, characters and environments. To offer a complete set of skills, he has also developed his competences.
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