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Learn all you need to know to model an X-wing, starting from just the default cube. Chris Bailey covers everything from the ground up and he goes slow to keep things clear and help you follow along. Source
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. Source
Your render looks flat because it is lit too evenly. Light It Up fixes that in one click, and then lets you take the result apart. It builds a real lighting rig around your object: 37 studio and portrait presets, including the six classic portrait patterns – Rembrandt, split, loop, butterfly, short and broad – […] Sour
This tutorial walks through a complete Headshot 3 stylized image to 3D pipeline, turning a single piece of front-facing bodybuilder caricature art into a fully rigged, sculpt-ready CC5 character. You will generate a side-profile reference with AI, reshape the fitting splines to capture exaggerated proportions, sculpt t
In this new tutorial from C Bailey Film, get started modelling in Blender by learning the five basic tools you can use to make anything. The tutorial will cover the basics of modelling and the key concepts you need to succeed. Source
Interior is a project-based course about making beautiful interior renders in Blender, one focused scene at a time. Across six sessions, instructor Sascha Feider builds six complete vignettes from a default scene to a polished final image or animation: a sunlit staircase, a coffee corner, a flowing curtain, a marble co
In this Blender tutorial Ryan King creates a game ready low poly stylized hand painted shield 3d model. Source
In this video Blender Secrets looks at 11 methods for keeping corners of 3d models sharp in Blender, and we briefly go over how Normals work. Source
Immineal shares a rendering experiment. Cycles (like most RGB path tracers) approximates chromatic dispersion, the way glass bends different wavelengths by different amounts, by nudging the IOR per RGB channel. That’s a shortcut: real dispersion is a continuous function of wavelength, not three samples of it, and it’s
Someone Ate Her Pizza… That was a mistake. Agu Rex UD writes: This is an animation I made in Blender. It’s in an anime style. I rendered the animated characters and car in blender and then drew the background in Krita and added the lighting effects in Tahoma2D Source
Let’s have some fun with the power of the curve profiles in Blender and create a vintage explorer’s lantern. Source
This extension helps you optimize your Blender render times. Dustin Hanke writes: I recently released SceneTrace, a free and open-source Blender extension for tracking scene performance over time and helping answer a simple question: Why did my Blender scene get slower? As a scene grows, performance can gradually degra
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