Spiral Roll Geometry Node Presets - Motion Presets Update [$]
The March 2025 update for “Motion Presets for Blender” has been released, here are the new features.
Spiral Roll Geometry Node Presets - Motion Presets Update [$]
The March 2025 update for “Motion Presets for Blender” has been released, here are the new features.
The Ultimate Blender Tutorial (in 1998)
And the winner is... @Blender makes it to the big screen in Oscar-winning animated film "Flow"
https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Blender-App-Makes-it-to-the-Big-Screen
#Blender #OpenSource #3D #software #FOSS #EEVEE
Wadi -
More than any of the other occupying paracologies, The Chosen were colonizers - they travelled with their families, and with children, and planned to live in the paracologies they conquered.
Perfect 'Stroopwafel' Factory Loop Animation in Blender – New Geometry Nodes!
Menno van Roon is creating Dutch Stroopwafels in Blender!
Creating a Biplane in Blender
In this 15 part tutorial series Ryan King shows you how to create this Boeing-Stearman Model 75 Biplane in Blender.
Truchet Tiles
done in #Blender with geometry nodes and two tiles set up on a collection.
Chosen Herald Archon -
To the Chosen, archons were the pinnacle of the moral, social and physical purity that came from exemplifying each of the seven castes.
Working on the final character model! Excited to get it rigged and into the game world soon. Stay tuned!
Procedural Crystal Generator
Crystals are tedious to create by hand, especially if you want to create lots of them. In this tutorial Manuel looks into how to create a procedural crystal generator from start to finish using Blender 4.3 Geometry Nodes.
FOSS NEWS
FreeBSD 13.5 released with updated packages, support for Purism keyboards with Coreboot and other improvements:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/3/freebsd-13-5-released-as-the-final-update-to-the-freebsd-13-series/
A Latvian film titled "Flow", made with Blender, won Oscar, beating Disney:
https://proton.me/blog/open-source-flow-oscar
(Now we have something to show for the elitist normies, who laugh at FOSS, think that only proprietary software can be good ️)
Bluesky adds support for uploading videos up to 3 minutes long, option to accept/reject chat requests from unknown users, support for muting account directly from a post etc.:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/3/bluesky-now-lets-users-upload-videos-up-to-3-minutes-long-and-enhances-dm-spam-filtering/
Audacity 3.7.2 released with improvements for AppImage bundle for 22.04 LTS, option to turn off automatic tempo detection, new “get effects” button next to the ‘Upload Audio’ button, UUID instance support, bug fixes:
https://9to5linux.com/audacity-3-7-2-improves-the-linux-appimage-bundle-for-ubuntu-22-04-lts
Framework Mono 6.14 released as the first release under WineHQ, with native ARM64 support for macOS, System.Windows.Forms improvements, improved Clipboard and Drag and Drop features etc.:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/3/framework-mono-6-14-released-with-native-arm64-support-and-stability-boosts-under-winehq/
Spotube 4.0 released with redesigned UI, support for yt-dlp and NewPipe, home screen widget support for Android, custom editable Piped and Invidious instance support, bug fixes:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/3/spotube-4-0-brings-a-redesigned-ui-and-other-improvements-to-this-free-spotify-client/
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I made a little sky / background gradient generator thing in #blender #geometrynodes today. It draws a sphere for the sky and a disc for the ground which are both aligned to the camera. The colors are pulled from two gradients which are separate meshes so I can use vertex painting to fiddle with the colors.
Picked up the MakeHuman add-on for Blender (MPFB) - It's not as powerful as Human Generator, but it *does* let you make children.
2D/ 3D Storyboard Masterclass in Blender Grease Pencil - Preview [$]
Paul Coulthard presents his Masterclass course in 2D/3D Storyboards and Animatics, featuring Blender and its Grease Pencil tool.m
Marco Pavanello / Wolf Studio makes really cool CGI videos and animations with Blender:
There are already 23 videos uploaded, you can browse them all at https://makertube.net/a/marco/videos
You might particularly want to check out the short films "The Spark" (https://makertube.net/w/qPzyWiJPBhej8WfgYFPz2j) and "Pebble" (https://makertube.net/w/tihdkkgvmKHsxkr9QgJHYe).
You can also follow Pavanello's general social media account at @nacioss
Aujourd'hui, dans le cadre du #festival #LesYeuxDansLEau, découvrez ou redécouvrez le long-métrage d'animation #Flow :
http://www.loriol.com/film/flow
Ce film sans dialogue et réalisé à l'aide du #LogicielLibre #Blender a reçu de nombreuses récompenses !
La projection sera suivie d’un temps de médiation animé par la Maison de l'Europe #Drôme #Ardèche.