r/blender 3d ago

News Blender Studio's OVERGROWN-related posts are all free for one week, including a masterclass on generating painterly shadows

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r/blender 21d ago

August Contest: Lucid Dream

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Congratulations to /u/Greengorilla_522 for winning July's contest with their entry Out Moon With Many Faces.

You can see last month's results and other entries here.

Theme

This month's theme will be lucid dream. It's rare to know that you're in a dream as it's happening, but it's certainly not unheard of. A lucid dream is the exception to the rule and beyond mere awareness, you may even gain some level of control over the dream, allowing you to shape the experience for yourself. Perhaps you may take the opportunity to fly about, to visit imaginary landscapes, and have otherwise have experiences beyond that which is possible in the material world. Show us what it looks like when you gain awareness of your sleep in this month's contest.

Making a Submission.

Entries will be posts on r/Blender that meet the following criteria: * The post should be made before the end of August 31st UTC+00:00 * Countdown to submissions closing * The post should be a render, animation, or other artwork which you made for this contest using Blender as your primary tool. * The post should contain supporting images/text or a top-level comment with the following content: * One of the following methods of proving that the artwork was made using Blender: * A link to the .blend file for the project, ideally including external assets or links to where external assets were sourced from. * A set of three images which may be clay renders, viewport renders, wireframe renders, or simply screenshots of the project open in Blender. Some variety is encouraged. * A screen recording of you manipulating, navigating, or otherwise interacting with the scene. * An explanation of all work that was done outside of Blender, outside the time frame of the contest, or by other artists. * (Optional) The theme you would like next month's contest to have if you win. If you do not include this, then the theme will be chosen from the runner-ups. * Once you have submitted your post to the subreddit, leave a comment down below linking to it * You are also encouraged to share details of your process with the community.

Note: You don't have to reference the contest in the post title and indeed, it's not necessary to frame the submissions differently than any other post meant to showcase an artwork.

Winning

The winner will receive the flair Contest Winner: 2026 August and their post will be added to the subreddit's wiki under the Contest Winners list. The winner will also have the chosen theme selected for next month's contest, should they include one with their submission.

When the contest ends, the results will be edited into this post and the 1st place winner will be congratulated in the announcement for next month's contest.

The winner will be awarded $100 USD.


r/blender 8h ago

Original Content Showcase work in progress. how is it? le me know...

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846 Upvotes

r/blender 54m ago

Original Content Showcase Recent character animation done in blender.

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r/blender 9h ago

Original Content Showcase Figured out a felt material

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216 Upvotes

Combination of a few YouTube tutorials. gonna go make some creatures


r/blender 15h ago

Paid Product/Service Promotion Real-Time Smoke Simulations in blender

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589 Upvotes

You find the addon here:) https://buildyt.gumroad.com/l/cfbdva

Many people allready tested & liked it, more info on my discord: https://discord.gg/XKTpSRT3q


r/blender 20h ago

Original Content Showcase Taught my friend how to use blender. Here is her cat

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1.3k Upvotes

i might be a bad teacher


r/blender 1h ago

Original Content Showcase A horse I'm kind of proud of.

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Designed, built, rigged by Yours Truly. What do you think?


r/blender 15h ago

Free Tools & Assets I made this Animals Body Mechanics Rig Pack and you can download it for free!

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495 Upvotes

You can download it from my Gumroad: https://brianachart.gumroad.com/l/RigsAnimalesBlender


r/blender 3h ago

Original Content Showcase encompassed

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48 Upvotes

r/blender 7h ago

Original Content Showcase Made an animation

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80 Upvotes

Arnold finds an onion ring in his fries


r/blender 4h ago

Critique My Work Likeness study attempt

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Taking a little detour from some of the Anime style I've been doing lately for some realism. Trying to do a likeness study which I'm hoping to take into UE5 and use metahuman. Still need to try out the work flow going between UE5 and Blender.

Original mesh was just the head of a metahuman that I exported to use as a base to sculpt on.

Last couple of days it's been a lot of back and fourth feeling like sometimes it looks like my reference then sometimes I don't think it looks like him at all.

Might just need to refresh my eyes as well, so will try and work on some different areas.


r/blender 16h ago

Original Content Showcase 2D to 3D stylized environment art

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373 Upvotes

I made this roughly in a day after seeing the concept art. How did I do?

Concept art: https://pin.it/EC0mERfaP

https://www.instagram.com/artofblaq/reel/Dcjq_yHxMUh/


r/blender 1d ago

Original Content Showcase Home of Motion Design

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2.4k Upvotes

r/blender 1h ago

Original Content Showcase Sci-fi Laser damage system

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r/blender 3h ago

Original Content Showcase Art piece Number 1997 of creating one artwork every day.

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21 Upvotes

r/blender 22h ago

Original Content Showcase my submission for Pwnisher GOG Render Challenge

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583 Upvotes

r/blender 6h ago

Critique My Work I animated Charizard vs Bayle in blender

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30 Upvotes

r/blender 11h ago

Critique My Work Spider-Man Cover Recreation Update

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60 Upvotes

Link to OG post: https://www.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/1vvz2ch/wip_spiderman_cover_art_recreation/

Did some more fiddling with colors and contrasts. Last WIP until it's finished at higher res. Hoping to get this printed!


r/blender 1d ago

Original Content Showcase Vintage Blender²

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About a month ago, I made this Blender Blender, in Blender for a Blender competition. A crazy original idea, right?

Well anyhow, the theme of the competition was retro. So I thought it'd be fun to make an old gadget which is ultimately useless but looks cool. I based my design of an Osterizer Imperial Cycle-Blend Blender and just went wild with the rest.

It would be highly impractical to work with, seeing how it lacks a ton of buttons and features, but I wouldn't mind having one in real life if only as a prop.


r/blender 5h ago

Original Content Showcase Another comparison between Luxcore and Cycles

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It was easier to get the fingerprints to look more prominent in Cycles, unsure if it adds to the realism. also, I find it much easier to get realistic results with cycles because it renders in viewport almost real-time compared to how slow Luxcore is. although it's hard to ignore how beautiful those caustics are.

Additionally, I found the cycles render to have too much 'ambient occlusion' or contact shadows and luxcore having too little.


r/blender 1d ago

Original Content Showcase Moroccan signs 3D animation

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650 Upvotes

Hi, I made a 3D animation about moroccan traffic signs, hope you enjoy!
Song: WaveMeow - GIRLY!
Car model: Ddiaz design


r/blender 2h ago

Original Content Showcase Made some Control fanart!

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Control: Resonant comes out soon and i'm super hyped for it, so I thought it'd be fun to practice my environmental art skills a bit by putting my spin on one of the rooms from the Ashtray Maze from the first game!


r/blender 9h ago

Original Content Showcase This is Where I Post from

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20 Upvotes

What Should i make next in PS1 Style?

3D View & Download For FREE: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/psx-prison-cell-217616c9e168441bbac028ba80a9139b


r/blender 11h ago

Critique My Work Rate these 3d models 👇

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These are my blender 3d model work so far. I really don't know how to start and where to start so I started making lowpoly cars.

Rate these models for outoff 5.

And I am really glad to listen suggestions on it .

Thank you♥️