Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Welcomes Tariq Sulley receives a development grant to help with bugfixes and improvements in the Modeling module. Announcements Aras Pranckevičius has accepted responsibility of the Sequen…
Discover what it could be like to work inside Blender’s 3D viewport using a VR headset and 6DOF input.
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Getting hair to move naturally in Blender can be tricky, but in this video Vlad shows you how to achieve realistic, cinematic hair motion using cloth simulation (no complex rigs needed). We’ll cover: How to use cloth simulation to automate your hair an…
Learn how to create anisotropic shaders to achieve a brushed metal effect in Blender. You’ll be able to adjust the rotation and tint to match your design needs.
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Blender JAM is back at BCON! This fast-paced, collaborative event challenges you to create a 1-second animation in Blender. You’ll get a pre-rigged character and a unique creative constraint based on a shared theme, all under a tight time limit.
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Eline Brontsema won the Relief Award in Jackson’s Art Prize this year with her work Stadtbad Spandau Nord. In this interview, she discusses the physical demands of woodcutting, allowing for spontaneity within her process, and the beauty of working slowly. Above image: Eline in the studio Josephine: Could you tell us about your artistic background? Eline: I’ve been drawing my whole life, and from a young age, I wanted to go to art school. After high school, I enrolled in the preparatory program at the Minerva Art Academy in Groningen. I was looking for an art program where I could learn technical skills. I was always drawing, but I also wanted to learn to paint well. Ultimately, I didn’t find what I was looking for. So I started studying Philosophy at the University of Groningen. That was fun, but after I finished, I still wanted to be an artist. After working for a while, I finally enrolled in the art academy, the Klassieke Academie in Groningen, the Netherlands, in 2014. Including the preparatory program, the study took six years. I graduated in 2020. This was what I’d always wanted! Josephine: What does a typical working day …
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With all the time, expense for materials, and knitting effort, we want our knitted socks to last as long as possible. I asked Allison Van Zandt, the owner of Simply Socks Yarn Company (an online store devoted to sock yarn, patterns, needles, and anythi…
Marius Janusonis talked about the Triarch Terminal project, guiding us through the creation process of a brutalist terminal building concept art in 3D and giving advice on designing more efficiently. Marius Janusonis, a freelance Concept Artist and Art…
In this detailed tutorial, learn how to create and animate electric field visualizations with Geometry Nodes in Blender 4.5. You’ll explore concepts like field direction, line tracing, parallel loop, and particle flow – all built procedurally. A perfec…
The moon doesn’t just move our seas, and mark time through its phases, but is an ever-evolving symbol in the visual arts that has collected a broad net of meanings. From rebirth to madness, and introspection to immortality, our fascination with the moon is imbued with the reassurance that it’ll be in our sky as long as we are. The Art Through Symbols series explores the interpretation of symbols throughout art history – be they cultural, religious, folkloric, or personal. Each article analyses a series of artworks, before detailing an art-making tutorial inspired by the symbol for you to try. Art Through Symbols: The Moon Interpreting the Moon The moon has hung bright on our collective visual consciousness throughout history. Perhaps we are so enchanted by it because it’s our closest planetary neighbour in an endless universe, or that its cycles plainly mark the passage of time. The moon has always been associated most broadly with eternity, appearing to every living being for as long as our planet has existed and will remain. Our tides roll because of its constant tugging, and folklore and mythology both suggest the full moon pulls people into madness or beastly …
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