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Model Hornet from Silksong in Blender

Farrukh creates a stylized version of Hornet as a low-poly character. Follow along!
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Free Download: Light Tent Rig

Use this free light tent by Richard Yot to instantly get a nice highkey, low contrast studio lighting for your scenes.
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Dance of the Wisps – Using Curl Fields for 3D Particle Simulations

Samuel created this short particle animation using ‘curl fields’ – a way to calculate the rotation of vectors around a point, a way to simulate particles sliding off a virtual 3D landscape. If that sounds very mathematical – it is! He provides an in-de…

Learn How to Rip Cloth in Blender

In this tutorial by PIXXO 3D, learn how to create a destructive cloth tearing effect in Blender using a non-procedural method. This approach permanently modifies the mesh topology, offering a unique way to simulate cloth destruction. Key Steps: Setup: …

A Light and Free Photogrammetry Workflow for Blender with COLMAP

Polyfjord shares a collection of tools to quickly convert video footage into a tracked pointcloud. In this tutorial we’re exploring a fully automated workflow for 3D camera tracking using only free and open-source software! This technique uses the powe…

Unions Booleans & Joins in Blender (Which is Better?)

You may not be able to tell visually, but joining meshes gives a very different topology from Booleans. See the difference and why it matters.
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Beginner Tutorial: Your Guide To Curves in GeoNodes

Discover how to create, animate, and control curves in Blender using Geometry Nodes with PIXXO 3D. What You’ll Learn: Creating Curves: Start with a basic curve line and resample it to add resolution. Animating Curves: Use noise textures and scene time …

Best of Blender Artists: 2025-37

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.
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Rigging a Strandbeest in Blender – With Free Downloadable Model

Dutch artist Theo Jansen has been building and evolving hist Strandbeests on the Dutch beaches for years. They’re intricate machines built of the simplest materials like pvc pipes and cloth that self-propel along the beach. Today, you can learn how to …

Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Topology in Blender +10 Easy Tips

Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Topology in Blender, made simple with 10 easy tips! If you’ve ever struggled with messy geometry, weird shading, or rigging nightmares, this tutorial breaks down everything you need to know about clean topology in Blender. …