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Blender 5.3 is UNFAIR - Blender Today LIVE #288 Hola Community! Pablo here. Let's see what's new in Blender. @Blender_Course

3D VFX Artist Sherzod Kadirov created a free Blender tool that procedurally turns hair groom curves into feathers. Get it here: https://80.lv/articles/this-free-blender-tool-procedurally-converts-hair-grooms-into-feathers 

Stay in touch with your Blender 🫆 Here's a little sneak peek of the ongoing Android support project, for those who want to stay in touch with Blender development @Blender_Course

Blender 5.2 LTS - Showcase Reel Enjoy this showcase of amazing work done by the Blender Community. @Blender_Course

🟠 New video from Blender Stay in touch with your Blender 🫆 A new video has been published on Blender's official YouTube channel. ▶️ Watch on YouTube

3D Artist Vossadova shared a new fantastic stylized Blender animation featuring cute animals. Check out the unexpected ending of the scene: https://80.lv/articles/check-out-this-hilarious-3d-animation-with-cat-s-nighttime-antics

Digital Artist and Motion Designer Kay Hilman shared a breakdown of his animated film NOXIOUS, created in Blender. Watch: https://80.lv/articles/check-out-how-this-stylized-animated-short-film-was-created-in-blender

Enjoy Cartesian Caramel's mesmerizing muscle layout unrolling test in Blender 5.2 LTS. Get his synthetic muscle printing setup for free: https://80.lv/articles/unrolling-digital-muscle-layout-in-blender

We are getting absurdly close to the point where “learning Blender” means learning how to direct an AI. A shot like this looks soft and playful on the surface, but under it is the usual 3D pain: modeling, layout, materials, lighting, atmosphere, animation, and endless tiny fixes until the frame stops looking dead. That is why Kimi K3 matters. With Blender MCP, you can describe a scene like a robotic goat walking through a dreamy field and let the model help build the environment, place the camera, shape the materials, script the motion, and iterate inside the real Blender project. The real shift is not text-to-image. It is text-to-workflow. Kimi K3 does not just give you a pretty output and disappear. It can help move the actual scene from rough setup to something that looks art-directed. Soon the hardest part of 3D will not be the software. It will be whether your imagination is good enough to deserve tools like this. View article

Opus 5 creating medieval carriage in blender using MCP

Learn the basics of Geometry Nodes and create three simple setups with Ryan King Art's beginner-friendly Blender tutorial. Watch: https://80.lv/articles/tutorial-blender-s-geometry-nodes-for-beginners

I'm blown away. This AI filmmaking workflow for precise camera control, multiple characters, and dialogue is insane: 1. Generate a start frame in Midjourney 2. Match the poses in Blender, animate the camera 3. Feed both to Seedance I didn't think this would work. Two consistent characters, solid performances, the move tracked perfectly through the entire beat. @Blender_Course

Take a look at this cute Blender animation of a smoking "catnip dealer" by Shiva Omidvar. The painterly cat means serious business: https://80.lv/articles/adorable-painterly-smoking-cat-animation-made-in-3d

Take a look at Delta's fantastic recreation of Destiny 2's distortion VFX in Blender. Approved by the effect's original creator from Bungie, Artem Sorokin: https://80.lv/articles/destiny-2-s-distortion-vfx-recreated-in-blender

🍿 Blender 5.2 is AWESOME! 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPqM9xLXKO0 📺 1080p 🇬🇧 ​​💜 @MegaSaverBot

Blender 5.2 LTS has officially entered beta. Introducing Geometry Nodes-based physics for hair and cloth, a Thin Wall mode for rendering translucent surfaces, and much more: https://80.lv/articles/blender-5-2-lts-is-now-in-beta Video by Chritstopher 3D

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