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Designed for animation, Blender is being used for award-winning shorts and feature films.

What's New Blender 5.0 is good news across the board. For many, the biggest change is probably the full support for ACES pipelines, improved color management, and HDR …

Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion …

Each topic will be presented as a walkthrough of a fully animated shot, where the animator will break down the key steps of the animation process. The source files for each step will be …

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The splash of the last release for the 2.7x series features the main character from the latest open movie project by the Blender Animation Studio. Posed by Hjalti Hjalmarsson and lit by Andy …

Blender is a community project coordinated by the Blender Foundation, primarily funded by donations. At its core is the Blender software, to which thousands of people have contributed, …

The content of this chapter is simply a reference to how rigging is accomplished in Blender. It should be paired with additional resources such as Nathan Vegdahl’s excellent introduction to …