#blendernation

Jan van den Hemel writes: Normal maps, that sounds scary! Well fear not, for there is really nothing to it. Once you've baked normal maps a couple of times, you'll discover just how awesome and easy to use they are. Tomorrow we'll look at how to use the normal map we've created.

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Blender Ninja writes: Blender Ninja brings you a Grease pencil tutorial 1 of 2 - Blender 2.8 beginners

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John Mervin writes: The look of Joy's hair in the Pixar film "Inside Out" is phenomenal. no doubt about that. But can it be recreated in blender using the power of nodes? Let's give it a try! This is Part 2 of a tutoralapse (a tutorial/time-lapse hybrid) series. The first part demonstrated how to recreate [...]

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jayanam writes: In this tutorial I show how to paint transparent parts to your texture with Blender 2.8. I create and explain the node setup and which shaders you have to use and combine.

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Simon Thommes writes: Hey again, it's holiday season and I made a 100% Procedural knitwear shader that can be combined with usual image textures highly flexible extreme detail with micro-displacement looks great with cloth simulation 3 Example-Patterns included Get it here for free.

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Jan van den Hemel writes: Ever wondered how to set up microdisplacements in Blender? There's actually not much to it, and in this quick video I show you how. For this quick tip I'm using the Node Wrangler add-on (to be able to see the noise texture settings by previewing that node only) and the [...]

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MartinKlekner writes: Hello friends! It's time to continue the Architectural Asset tutorial series, this time it's all about the sculpting process. This tutorial is again aimed at Beginner Blender (2.8) users and you can get more info in the video description or here on the website of the project.

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pavla writes: Ryan Guy and Dennis Fassbaender took the Blender world by storm with their only Blender Market plugin: FLIP Fluids, a liquid simulator for Blender. Nearly 2,000 copies later, they open up about the process of creating this game-changing addon, and what its success meant to them.

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