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Beginner Blender Tutorial – Color An X-Wing

Community Reporter — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 07:00:51 +0000

Chris continues his X-Wing tutorial series. In this video I’ll teach you how to add color and detail to the surface of our x-wing. We’ll use the x-wing model we made in last week’s tutorial and cover how to use procedural textures and cool shading tricks to create a realistic surface without having to uv […]

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Cyberpunk Katana Tutorial

Community Reporter — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:55:00 +0000

Let’s practice quick prototyping and boolean modeling and create a cyberpunk inspired sword in Blender with Polygon Runway.

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Blender Jobs for September 25, 2026

Bart — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:15:00 +0000

Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: [PAID] Blender Generalists and Specialists to Create Original Work For more jobs, look here.

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Best of Blender Artists: 2026-39

Bart — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:30:47 +0000

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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Create This Simple Realistic Landscape in Blender

Community Reporter — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:00:49 +0000

Yeho Studios shows how to set up landscapes in Blender. Have you ever found trouble creating nature art in Blender? Or are you struggling to create a realistic nature scene as a beginner? I understand you because I have been there before. In this tutorial, I will guide you step-by-step on how to create this […]

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Rigging Ormie: A Blender Character Rig Overview

Community Reporter — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:55:51 +0000

Rigging Ormie is a two-part deep dive into how Level Pixel Level rigged this character for Blender. Ormie was originally built in a Maya-base pipeline. In these videos, I review the techniques and workflows I used to recreate this rig in Blender. Part 1 focuses on the body rig: Part 2 focuses on the face […]

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Your Sci-Fi Turret Looks Great. Until It Rotates from Under the Floor

Community Reporter — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:56:28 +0000

A new Blender 5.2 to Unreal Engine 5.8 course connects stylized hard-surface modelling, baked masks and Blueprint controls in one playable project. Hi everyone, Neil here from 3D Tudor. A sci-fi turret is one of those assets that can look completely finished in Blender and still be nowhere near ready for a game. The model […]

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Exode (short film made with Blender)

Community Reporter — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:55:52 +0000

Wixie Man shares the full version of his Sci-fi short. A few months ago, I posted an article on Blendernation about a science fiction short film made with the help of Blender. The film has wrapped up its festival run and is now available on YouTube. I hope you enjoy it, and I’d love to […]

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Light It Up 4.0.0: a free add-on for studio lighting presets

Community Reporter — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:00:55 +0000

Light It Up is a free and open source lighting add-on. It’s on the Blender Extensions platform, so it installs by drag and drop. Rasheed Shaikh writes: It builds studio lighting rigs from presets – 17 of them, each with a rendered thumbnail, so you pick a look rather than read a name. What it […]

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Animation Workflow Course

Vallen Koscheev — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:55:51 +0000

Vallen Koscheev is an Animation Supervisor who has animated on Oscar-nominated and Oscar-winning features. In this course, Vallen teaches the complete workflow he developed and has been using consistently across all the movies he’s worked on. Vallen writes: Hello BlenderNation! Over a decade ago, I started my animation journey right here in Blender, creating short […]

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