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Creating a highly stylized 3D Character Rig in Blender: Filibert the Fish

Guest post by Julien Bazin Introduction and Motivation This project was a long time coming, but it was a very fun and educational experience. I learned a great deal about balancing creative ambition with technical challenges. It all started with a 2D character concept by Nelnal (@nelnalium on Twitter). Their style, featuring flat colors and […]

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Complete Maya to Unreal 5 Character Skinning and Setup

In this series, our friend and mentor, Jeremy Ernst goes through cleaning up a model purchased from a marketplace and shows the complete skinning game character for Unreal Engine.

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Blender in Norway Spillkonventet 2024

Film, Games and Blender 2024! Brad was invited to give a short talk on Blender improvements and he shared some of the important features that generalists and animators should know, spotlighting all the new work over the years put into improving Blender. He also lead a workshop on general rigging tips and tricks and covered […]

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Updated FACS Cheat Sheet

Our friend Melinda Ozel, Expression Scientist and creator of the best resource to understand facial movement, her Face the FACS site, just got some new updates so go check it out!! ‘Face the FACS’ has some new treats for you. Just rolled out a few updates with additional facial action descriptions and a fresh batch […]

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Animator questions we always answer in Blender

While we have a full free course on getting up to speed on Blender from Maya here are a few extra tips to help you animate easier. Question 1: Is there a way to auto-frame a channel f-curve in Blender in the Graph Editor? Answer: Yes, https://cenda.gumroad.com/l/autoframe-fcurve But in 3.6 there are some new updates […]