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Learn To Model Link’s Shield Step By Step
Chris Baily shows how to model the Hylian shield from the Legend of Zelda. It may look like a complex surface with curvature and lots of fine detail, but once we break down the steps you’ll see that it isn’t as hard to create as it first appears. In the bonus material we’ll go…
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Ichno: free one-click technical drawings from Blender scenes
Ichno is a new free add-on, available on extensions.blender.org, that generates technical drawings from a Blender scene in one click. Ely writes: It produces orthographic and isometric views with overall and chain dimensions, a full title block (logo, revisions, custom fields)…
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Best of Blender Artists: 2026-44
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
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5 Tips: Square to Round shapes, Inverted Hull, Reduce polycount, find double geometry, better bevels
5 Tips from Blender Secrets: Square to Round shapes, Inverted Hull, Reduce polycount, find double geometry, better bevel. Source
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Easy Materials For Link’s Sword
Chris Bailey creates materials for the Master Sword from the Legend of Zelda. In the bonus content section, we’ll take our finished sword and create a cool environment for a finished render. We’ll do everything without unwrapping UVs or using texture files! Nothing but…
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Blender Jobs for October 30, 2026
Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: VFX Artist Art Lead Senior 3D Character Artist (Stylized Games | Unity3D) Europe Senior Technical Animator (Unreal Engine | Remote) Europe Senior Storyboard Concept Artist (Games |…
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Cookie Cutter Maker: turn any curve, text or logo outline in Blender into a printable cookie cutter
Cookie Cutter Maker is a new Blender add-on for anyone who 3D prints cookie, clay or fondant cutters, for their own kitchen or to sell. Hanru Croucamp writes: Draw a shape, type a name or bring in a logo outline, set the size in millimetres and click Make cutter. You get a…
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Dead Simple Motion
Live procedural motion tools for objects, cameras and bones without rebuilding the same constraints, drivers and looping keyframes. vfxblender writes: Select. Click. Animate. I build this add-on to help with environmental animation you encounter in any scenario over and over…
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Polyweft: keep independent edits in one prepared Blender mesh
Polyweft reviews a common ancestor and two native Blender files, keeps independent edits inside one prepared mesh, and asks for explicit choices where both branches change the same value. Nazeeh Abdul-Hadi writes: The downloadable Tide example starts with a 256-vertex, 224-quad…
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Cinematic Lighting for 3D Environments: The Monastery Dungeon
Gleb Alexandrov just released a two-part tutorial on lighting 3D environments in Eevee, using a photoscanned monastery dungeon to show why lighting a space is a different game than lighting an object. Gleb writes: In this lighting tutorial dedicated to lighting the Monastery…
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Tintline 2.2 adds one-click auto shade for low poly colour atlases
Tintline is a Blender add-on for texturing low poly models with one small colour atlas. You click a swatch and the selected faces get its colour; the whole model ends up on one texture and one material. Vojtech Daubner writes: Version 2.2 adds auto shade: select the model, click…
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Grease Pencil in Blender 5.3: No More Mode-Switching & Finally Canvas Flip/Roll!
One of the biggest friction points for 2D artists in Blender has been jumping between Draw Mode and Edit Mode just to tweak a line, along with the lack of intuitive canvas controls. Mumu Mundo writes: Blender 5.3 tackles this head-on: Canvas Flip & View Roll: Viewers are calling…