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LINKS¶
This is a very large area with LOTS of links to tutorials, articles, threads… and varied stuff. I recently sort ordered this alphabetically and with better groups. Take a look to the TABLE OF CONTENTS, and also: use the SEARCH field — it’s very fast!
GENERAL - MISC¶
20 Essential Tools │ Creating an Animated Film in Blender - Viewport Framing - Isolating Objects - Viewer Node - Viewport Focal Length - 3D Cursor - Select by Shortest Path - Correct Face Attributes - Ray Visibility - Lighting Nodes - Online Manual - Linking - Camera Shakify - Noise Modifiers - Select Similar - Randomising - Delta Transform - IK Constraints - FaceIt - Node Wrangler - First Person
Application Templates - Blender Manual
Best way/workflow to link between scenes - Support / Technical Support - Blender Artists Community
Blender Secrets e-Book - MINE! - "Just updated my E-book, it's finally 2000+ pages.
Blender crashes at startup? Delete the default startup.blend file! - YouTube
Demo Files — blender.org - Lots of Assets ready to download and test - FABULOUS
Groups in Blender and confusion with Collections
HBitproject - Making of modeling classic architecture. Example: How to use instances the right way - YouTube
Host your Blender Assets on Github Pages - By Jan-Hendrik Müller - Here's the link to the template on GitHub
How Blender Keymap Presets Works - Discord link, by Xen Wildman - Saved on disk
How To Install or Reset Blender (The Right Way)
Link & Append - Blender Manual - These functions help you reuse objects, materials and other data-blocks from another blend-file. You can build libraries of common content and share them across multiple referencing files.
Link, Append, Pack & Library Overrides Explained
Macro Photorealism in Blender - Learn how I created this realistic macro animation in 5 minutes - I cover photogrammetry techniques, optimizing geometry, setting up adaptive displacement in Blender, adding extra detail, lighting tips, procedural animation for the ant, and general beginner friendly tips for more realistic renders. In the end I cover the final step to really push these macro renders to the next level.
Make And Change Hotkeys In Blender
Q2 2024 - Tutorial repository - “I watched 3000h of tutorials and sorted them for you (WIP)
Ryan King Art - YouTube - Many tutorials. Making simple renders, but to the point (discovered by tuto about transparency and glass with EEVEE in 4.2).
Theres More to Blender's Custom Startup Saves Than You Realize
Understanding Blend1 Files: Do You Really Need Them? - CG Cookie
When to link external blend files - Support / Modeling - Blender Artists Community
World Building in Blender - Ian Hubert - The master, the Wizard, the Legend!
You can still move the old Preferences to your new Version by hand
Zenplates - New File Templates Made Easy
Christopher 3D¶
Playlist - Fantastic tutorials. Probably the best for general Blender. A great guy with really in depth analysis.
A simple scene for total Blender beginners
Connect two objects using the Data Transfer modifier
Exciting Render Updates in Blender 4.0!
Geometry nodes! Create product variations easily, Part 2
Parenting doesn't have to be tough! Duplicating groups of objects in Blender
Rotate Rotation node, a second way to align your scatter to a surface and randomize it!
Sculpt & Scatter: Nature Scene with Geometry Nodes (Part 1) - YouTube
Using Blender's Curve Pen Tool
And much, much more great tutorials from this guy!
Piotr Kryński¶
ArtStation - Piotr Krynski - A great master from Poland for Concept Art using Blender & Photoshop.
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Concept Art for Games & Movies in Blender + BLEND FILES - $80 - 10h of narrated content + another bonus 3h of narrated content + BLEND SCENES
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Efficient Environment Design for Blender - $60 - Everything about creating environments in Blender - 10 hours of narrated content, going through the whole process, from sketching out comps and ideas, to creating assets/texturing, mixing in scans, to building (and optimizing!) huge and detailed scenes in Blender, and wrapping it up at the end with Blender Real-Time Compositor (for post processing)
Ian Mcglasham¶
Great techniques, tips and tricks from a veteran profesional. A great “courses” with lots of videos with fantastic modeling and topology techniques, tips and tricks. Even if you are an experienced modeler. And not only for texts!!!
And also, great free resources in his site:
Subdivision Surface Modelling | Blender
MODELING¶
100+ Tips to Boost Modeling in Blender - Really great tips here!!!
3 ways to Slice Objects : r/BlenderSecrets
5 minutes of N-Gons to Quads tips
Advanced Text Retopology - A great “course” with 8 videos with FANTASTIC modeling and topology techniques, tips and tricks. Even if you are an experienced modeler. And NOT ONLY FOR TEXTS!!!
All 54 Modifiers in Blender Explained in 10 Minutes - YouTube
Blend normals between different surface meshes
Bool Tool just got even better with Box Carve functionality in Blender 5.2
Boolean modeling and SDS without ngons - Useful for non extremely complex shapes
Booleans to Subdivision Topology - How to use Quad Remesher and Curve Face Color add-ons for hard surface
Connect two objects using the Data Transfer modifier - by Christopher 3D
Draw in 3D with Grease Pencil (part 1) and (part 2) - Fantastic tips to create handmade trees or any organic branch structure
Fix crappy surface shading with Data Transfer - by Christopher 3D - Fantastic!!! - Use the Data Transfer modifier to fix surface shading irregularities that can arise from difficult modeling scenarios
Fixing shading artifacts around holes using Data Transfer - By Jan van den Hemel (quick minitutorial, ¿summarized from to the one by Christopher 3D?)
Flower Modeling Hack – Cloth Simulation + Sphere Method - A quick Blender cloth physics tutorial
How to Morph Shapes in Blender
How to make your own preset in Blender with custom brushes, materials and layouts - Saved and ready to go for your next project
How to use Ngons - I made this guide with the goal of de-mystifying and de-stigmatizing the usage of Ngons within the 3d industry
How to use instances the right way (downloaded)
How you can use physics to easily populate your scene with objects
Is there a way to Increase the "Thickness" of an Empty? (answer is NO) - Alternatives
Loop tools Curve Tool : Panel Beating - Really great tips here!!!
My Sacred Vector Displacement Tip
Quick Topology Hack - N-gon fix for those giant N-gons, like the entire silhouette of a map or an animal
Render Equations and Code Blocks in Blender - Tutorial, including link to download free add-on to import Typst files
Symmetrize (in QuickMenu) vs Mirror (Ctrl-M)
The Easy Way to Fix Ugly Shading in Blender - Specially with high dense n-gons
The Jewelry and Watch Bench - Interesting channel for really small models design (jewelry, swatches, etc)
Topology Quick Tip: A surprising fact about 3-point poles - A quick tip on reflowing topology with 3-point poles
Working in Millimeters for modeling small items - YouTube - Setting up Blender to work in millimeters for jewelry design
NODES¶
Geometry Nodes from Scratch - Blender Studio - DONE
Ducky 3D¶
YouTube - Recomended by Víctor Feliz - Not really such advanced…
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Abstract Sci-Fi Animation in Blender 3D - YouTube - Downloaded - DONE - Meh… see if I can extract something, more procedural
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Build a Simple Network in Geometry Nodes (Blender Abstract tutorial) - YouTube Downloaded - DONE)
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Sci-Fi Environment Animation in Blender & Eevee - YouTube - Downloaded - DONE
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The BEST Way To Learn Blender in 2023!! - YouTube - Interesting tips on how to learn, for free and paying
Erindale¶
This is really a great master on Geometry Nodes!
Control anything with Geometry Nodes! - You can use vertex parenting to control an empty and then use drivers from the empty's location to drive literally anything in Blender
erindale.xyz | creating quality Blender content and tutorials | Patreon - Downloaded all free scenes
Meta Balls with Geometry Nodes - The Joy of Proceduralism - Process of building our own custom metaballs inside Geometry Nodes
Procedural Modelling Masterclasses for Blender 4 - MINE! - Erindale recommends Medina > Chhat > Pancho > Solar Trees
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Medina Airport Columns - Done
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Pancho Arena Canopy - TO DO
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Solar Trees Marketplace - TO DO
Select What You Want in Geometry Nodes - Blender Tutorial - YouTube - VERY GOOD - Downloaded
Harry Blends¶
Another master on GN, with the most beautiful videos, by far.
harry blends - YouTube - VERY GOOD - SEE ALL - About Blender in general, and especially Geometry Nodes. Analysis of the new nodes in recent versions
Ilir Beqiri¶
A great and generous master - Already knew this guy from the C4D times…
Ilir Beqiri Tutorials - Mainly on Geometry Nodes - YouTube List
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Creative Coding - Motion Design With Geometry Nodes - Scene - $3 - MINE
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Creative Coding - Motion Graphics With Geometry Nodes - YouTube
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Creative Coding - Torus Knot + Text Animation With Geometry Nodes - YouTube
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How To Render Curves And Edges As Grease Pencil Strokes - Geometry Nodes - Downloaded
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How To Trim Cyclic Splines In Blender Geometry Nodes - Downloaded, gratis - Wonderful: Animating closed splines
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Numeric Attribute Visualizer in Geometry Nodes - Scene - $5 - MINE
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Torus Knot + Text Animation - Scene - $3 - MINE
Seanterelle¶
Seanterelle - Blender animations - Finished scenes, ready to download and their respective tutorials on YT - GREAT
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Bubble Simulation - Fee Tutorial - Finished scene - $10
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Delaunay Triangulation - Free Tutorial - Finished scene - $10
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Inflated Text - Free Tutorial - Finished scene - $10
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Loop Knit - Free Tutorial on weaving to create wool fabric - WONDERFUL, complex and powerful, based on a Houdini tutorial - Finished scene - $10
Entagma¶
GeometryNodes – Entagma - Good, but complex
Procedural Crystal Generator - With detailed geometry with internal crystal structures and then use a dispersion shader in Cycles. Interesting also for the Better Crystal Shader creation
Polyfjord¶
Making a Procedural Trail Simulation in Blender 4.4 - Procedural trail effect using Geometry Nodes in Blender 4.4! We'll be animating an object using our mouse cursor and capturing the movement in real-time using auto-keying!
3D tracking will never be the same for me again… - How to use the tools to create a perfectly tracked 3D environment using your smartphone camera, but also shares links to the (free) tools he used, including a script he wrote, which you can download and use 100% free
CGMatter¶
CGMatter - CGMatter teaches you blender, computer graphics, and stuff
And much more interesting topics…
Cheuqs¶
Create Houdini Like Flowers in Blender Tutorial (cloth sim)
Houdini Like Plant Growth in Blender Tutorial (Geo Nodes)
Make Blooming Roses in Blender Geo Nodes
Viscous Realm¶
YouTube Channel (has a lot of short videos, quite famous, check them out further)
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Isometric room animation - Tutorial and link to download scene (interesting to recreate it in the course)
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Satisfying animation in blender - we will take advantage of the face normals (interesting to recreate it in the course)
Cartesian Caramel¶
Cartesian Caramel - YouTube - About Geometry Nodes and also about Shader Nodes - Lego Set Assembly (Blender 3.5 Effect) - DOWNLOADED tutorial & scene - TO DO
Yesway¶
Yesway Channel - Great and nice tutorial videos, not extremely complex, more “simple things”, but very well presented.
- Make index node useful - How to make the Index Node actually useful in Blender Geometry Nodes! I’ll show you how to control scaling, create smooth animations, and reorder instances easily
How to create, save and reuse our Custom Nodes¶
Blender Secrets - Using Node Groups with the Asset Browser
How To Use Asset Library & Custom Group in Blender Tutorial
How to Make a Geometry Node Asset Library - Blender 3.6
Make your own custom modifiers and tools in Blender 4.0!
You CAN put Geometry Nodes into the Asset Browser
Weak… Meh…¶
CURSO de GEOMETRY NODES en Blender - Introducción a Geometry Nodes - YouTube (español, hecho… flojito)
EVERY Node in Geometry Nodes pt.3 | Blender 3.6 - YouTube (DOWNLOADED - Somewhat incomplete, scattered)
Every Node in Blender Geometry Nodes | Geometry pt.1 - YouTube (DOWNLOADED - Somewhat incomplete, scattered)
Every Node in Geometry Nodes pt.2 | Blender 3.5 - YouTube (DOWNLOADED - Somewhat incomplete, scattered)
I wish I knew this before using Geometry Nodes (Blender) - YouTube (DOWNLOADED - Poor)
Specifically about Math Node¶
Math Node - Blender 4.1 Manual - All Math nodes explained
Visualization for each mode of math node with set position node (Geometrh nodes, Blender) - YouTube - TO DO - (check comments, they may explain other procedures)
Misc links on Nodes¶
ALL 300+ Geometry Nodes in Blender (4.3) - Outdated, but can be useful for a lot of nodes, as a QUICK and FAST review.
All about SOCKETS - ALL THE NODES | Blender Geometry Nodes - YouTube
All models can be 1 face - YouTube
Alternative to Instancing in Blender - By Redjam9 - Use the For Each Element Zone in geometry nodes to get a unique object for each copy
Animating a Wave Front with Simulation Zone - How to use the Simulation Zone in order to animate a wave front in Blender 4.4 and up
Attributes - Blender 4.3 Manual - Important to understand Attribute Domains and Boolean Domain Interpolation
Attributes - Blender Manual - All about Attributes, including the names for the default ones
Brute force approach to fine jewelry design — Blender Conference 2024
Camera Control with Geometry Nodes - how to use the new Geometry Attribute constraint in Blender 5.0 to control the camera
Can't find the node! Which node is available in which Blender version? - Blender Stack Exchange Cloth simulation with Geometry Nodes - Tutorial and link to scene ($10), by Seanterelle
Check Out a "Disgustingly Satisfying" Blender-Made Jiggle Deformer - Interesting procedural setups, with screenshots of the nodes
Control ANYTHING with Geometry Nodes - By Erindale
Cosmology with Geometry Nodes - And also: How-to use Blender's geometry nodes for visualizing CMB | MH Jamshidi
Create Wires With Blender Geometry Nodes - 3 methods, each with its own advantages and disadvantages: Proximity / Transfer position / Raycast
Create a Handy Circular Array Node with Blender Geometry Nodes - Interesting to recreate it in the course. Maybe it can be updated
Creating Procedural Hexagons with Blender's Shader Nodes - Why the nodes are set up the way they are - Linear algebra and trigonometry
Cumulative Trim Curve by Quackers - Instead of trimming curves simultaneously, it trims them one after another. Useful for "drawing" text or svgs.
Curve to Mesh in Reverse - Create central curves from elongated meshes
Curve to Mesh with UVs in Blender - Interesting topic with lots of tips and info
Delaunay Triangulation using GN - Tutorial and link to scene, by Seanterelle
Distance to edge circle packing circle packing. Show setup of nodes. I think it is already implemented in the latest versions.
Easy Edge Mask in Eevee - Give your Eevee renders that extra pop with a non-destructive edge mask
Edge Loops / Face Loops in Geometry Nodes - (Discord link) - An interesting threat started by Shmuel The Noder in erindale.xyz Discord
Even (or constant) radius tip on curves in Geometry nodes - Blender tutorial ENG - There is a custom node by Higgsas for this, but a tutorial with the maths behind is also welcome
Fix UVmap on profile curve in Geometry nodes - Not the typical trim along sweep method
Flip indices in curves - Goes to 11:32 in this video tutorial by Erindale - NOTE: is not about “reversing” indices, but FLIPPING them (X/Y) for a loft curves operation
Fluid Simulation via Vertex Animation Textures - two experimental techniques for encoding fluid simulation into Vertex Animation Textures using OpenVAT
Geometry Nodes Overview Documentation - A complete list of all Geometry Nodes that have been added to Blender over time. This is maintained by Stephan Kellermayr. A great resource!
Geometry Nodes for profesional Jewelry design - 22m 32s Tutorial
Geonodes: which is faster, Set Position or Transform node?
Get edge seams from UV islands in Geometry Nodes (method recommended by Kimmo)
Gizmos // Blender 4.3 Tutorial - How to create our own “better primitives” with the new gizmos and GN-Tools in Blender 4.3
Hexagonal Sci Fi Shield with Hit Effects | Blender Geometry Nodes Tutorial - Recommended for this work by Ryan Lykos
How make the noodles see-through the nodes
How to Actually Use Align Euler to Vector in Blender's Geometry Nodes - 'Align Euler to Vector' node is one that we end up needing a lot, but it's not very intuitive.
How to Easily Import Node Groups in Blender
How to Fracture Anything with Blender 3.0 and Geometrynodes! - Great tutorial by Cartesian Caramel
How to Use Texture Paint as Selection in Blender Geometry Nodes
How to create proper UV Maps with Geometry Nodes in Blender
How to fill mesh polys in Geometry Nodes - Answer with screen-captured nodes also includes the .blend file
How to make an Organic Vein / Neurons system - Write tutorial by Etherlorde, with .BLEND file.
How to read geonodes - Interesting explanation by Etherlorde (Markus von Broady)
How to subdivide triangles into four triangles with Geometry Nodes? - Blender Stack Exchange
Implementing shape keys in Geometry Nodes - Shape Keys = Morph States
Inflated Text - Tutorial and link to scene ($10), by Seanterelle
Introducing multi-line text into Geometry Nodes - Tip by Ilir Beqiri, and also an alternative by Kimmo.
Loft Curves Properly - Geometry Nodes in Blender 3.6 - By Erindale - Link goes directly to Flipping Indices (if running right to left, to reorder them to run bottom to top... 0,1,2,3, then 4,5,6,7 etc)
Looping 3D Noise Textures - Geometry Nodes - An easy and simple method to loop the animation of 3D Noise Textures by Ilir Beqiri
MFGD - Intro to Matrices - Math for Game Developers
Make a Simple Sticky Objects Simulation - To download go to Make a Simple Sticky Objects Simulation NodeGroups
Make tracks around objects in seconds - With the use of the convex hull feature its easy to make tracks follow a wheel set
Making Trail effect is easier now in Blender
Making UV Maps in Geometry Nodes
Master Procedural Grass Creation - Blender 4.2 Tutorial - YouTube - Could be nice as an exercise for my course. Much more realistic grass
Matrix Nodes in Blender 4.2 - The basics behind matrices and how they are used to make transformations in Blender
Modifying and Saving Asset in Library file turn Packets assets to Linked Assets in files that use those Assets - Caution with this BUG REPORT BY KIMMO on Blender 5.x
More on the same topic, unbending leaves, using nodes by Higgas and Bradley (see screencaptures)
Neuron or coral fractal structures using the shortest edge path node - learn to create procedural growing fractal tree-like shapes - Custom node available here ($2)
New FOR EACH in Blender 4.3 Explanied
New Socket Shapes — Blender Developers Blog
Node Parts - Blender Manual - Sockets Colors - Valid Conversions
Obj node caching - (for 4.5) - Great tips for OBJ animation sequences - Read response by Quackers: “You can even squeeze out a lot more performance out of this by not importing an OBJ for every point. Instead, you can use as many points as the sequence length, load all OBJs, and use Instance on Points. Pretty much an 80x speedup for 39k”
Open Class - YouTube - About Blender in general, and especially Geometry Nodes, with 218 videos - Metaballs Facts
Particle Flow Animation Loop - Set up the particles, animate the particles in looping animation using a noise pattern, use textures to color the particles
Particle flow on Curve - Procedural modifier that will allow you to have any object/particle flow along a curve in a simple geo nodes setup
Photoreal Ocean Simulation in Blender - Tips and tricks to create photoreal ocean simulations using Flip Fluids addon. Enhance simulation with GN, create realistic ocean and foam shaders, and choose the right lighting
Pixels dissolve effect with Geometry Nodes in Blender - Tutorial - Recommended for this work by Ryan Lykos
Plexus Effect Done Right (using Fields) - Great tutorial by the master Ilir Beqiri - File downloaded and to be converter to Node Group ASAP
Procedural Adaptive Subdivision with curves in Geometry nodes - Free Tutorial - But also nodes available in Gumroad ($2)
Procedural Growing Neuron Fractal for Blender (tutorial) - Free - Node - 2 EUR
Procedural Straight Skeleton in Geometry nodes - Useful for roof generator or similar needs - Nodes in Gumroad $2
Procedural scales with flow control - How to procedurally create scales on an object with geometry nodes and use a hair system to help controlling their orientation
Procedural shrinkwrap modifier for curves - Also: Discussion on Discord Erindale.XYZ on how I can control the tilt of the curve based on the normal of the mesh
Progress on a new Bevel Geometry Node - Work has begun on a remake of Bevel as a Geometry Node. As well as rewriting in C++ for better future maintainability…
Quickly select any corner in a rectangle to round and keep it procedural - See the answers, which simplify the process. DO IT - And recreate in the course
Recursive Subdivision Tutorial - By Bradley - Custom Nodes available free at description
Rig with Geometry Nodes? Using a node tree to drive an armature in Blender
Road generator with GN and SDS solving T intersections - To study and check if this can be useful for non-ribbon modeling (something like tree branches)
Rock Waterfall in Blender – No Rigid Bodies, Just Geo Nodes - all done with curves, randomness, ping pong math, and instancing.
Sanctus - Blender Procedural - Tutoriales en español
Selectively join points using geometry nodes - Find the nearest point (BTW, there's a special node coming to find nearest element not counting self), but also multiple nearest points
Self-Wrapping Ribbons with Geometry Nodes | Blender 3.1 Tutorial - YouTube
Set Material Index Tutorial - A curious (and different) way to apply Materials in Geometry Nodes using Set Material Index
Simple setup to grow Face selection by Khellstr - See response by Quackers explaining WHY this occurs.
Snow Crystal Growth Simulation - Video + Screen captures for setup
Sorting Vertices Tips and Tricks - How to sort elements to control how the geometry is processed, how to reorder with your own logic, and how to specify multiple sort criteria
Stray Creations - Tutorials, tools & Projects -10 Geometry Nodes HACKS in Blender (+ free download) - DOWNLOADED - Projects: 10 Geometry Node HACKS - Project File
Supercharge Your Geometry Nodes Workflow - Great technique by Erindale to control inputs/values in different objects/GN with a common “external” setting.
Texture Coordinates in Geometry Nodes - Interesting discussion on this topic in BlenderArtists.org
The "Evil" Domain Node (continued) | Curious Blends
The "Evil" Domain Node | Curious Blends - Evaluate on Domain - Some other interesting topics on Geometry Nodes here…
The perfect IK rig in Blender?
Tips, design-patterns and strategies for clean and performant geometry-nodes setups, drawing inspiration from programming best practices - Twitter thread
Transfer an image texture from Geometry Nodes into Materials
Transferring normals from one mesh to another allows smooth transitions between objects, very useful for environment creation - Small video and screen-capture with nodes
Trick for stable points on deformed meshes
Using empties as controllers is a powerful feature in blender 5.2 - See second tweet for a screen capture with nodes
Using matrix Nodes x Blender 4.2 - To create a blooming flower
Vector math is EASY when you SEE it with Blender and Geometry Nodes - What vectors are, why they’re so crucial, and how to use the most important vector math operations in a visual and intuitive way
Volume Cube - Interesting tips using Smooth Minimum combined with Volume Cube to create blend transitions between objects
Voronoi Fracture with Dual Mesh Node - Interesting tutorial by Bradley
Workflow for interesting generative graphics in a processing or cavalry style - Doing 2d mograph using the new 4.3 Grease Pencil and Geometry Nodes - Node graph in reply
UVS¶
Christopher 3D¶
Blender Packaging Tutorial: 2 Label UV Mapping
Blender's "Follow Active Quads" UV Mapping Feature
Create metallic toothpaste packaging, Part 1: Modeling and UV mapping
Dieline to 3D, part 2. UV unwrapping and initial folding tutorial
PART 4. UV map the seat cushion of a mid-century modern chair
Shampoo Bottle Part 3, UV mapping, texturing, lighting, & rendering
Misc links on UVS:¶
Per object Uv projection in camera view. Blender Geometry nodes
Zen UV for Blender - 10 Tips to Transform UVs like a Pro - YouTube — Very good
CURVES¶
Bezier Curves in Blender 3.x - YouTube - Fantastic video about drawing with beziers!!!
Curves & Curve Modifier in Blender - Beginner Tutorial - YouTube
NURBS CURVES! Why the heck should I use them?. - YouTube - Downloaded
Part 1, Sardines Can Packaging, tab modeling - YouTube - Downloaded
The BEST bezier curve tutorial for new Blender users. - YouTube - Updated version - Downloaded
SCULPTING¶
Gabor Texture In Blender 4.3 - Gabor noise in Blender 4.3 looks really promising for quickly creating some sick stylized shapes
Improve Sculpting Performance Instantly | Blender Secrets - YouTube
Perfect displacement with Low Poly meshes
Sculpt a Realistic Head in Blender
Sculpting sharp corners perfectly can be tricky, but the Curve Stroke Method is the solution
The Complete Guide to Cloth Simulations in Blender
FUR¶
Hair - Blender 4.5 LTS Manual (this is the OLD system)
Hair Nodes - Blender 4.5 LTS Manual (this is the NEW system, based on Geometry Nodes. USE THIS)
Hair Rendering Secret: Make Your Hair Softer!
Hair Simulation: From Cosmos Laundromat to Geometry Nodes — Blender Conference 2025 - YouTube
GREASE PENCIL¶
Blender 2D Animation Basics for Beginners - Grease pencil guide
Create Procedural Animation using Grease Pencil Nodes - Use geometry nodes and Grease Pencil to create a procedural looping arcs animation
ANIMATION¶
Animate Algebra formulas and equations with multiple steps - Using the Typst importer extension https://extensions.blender.org/add-on, here's how to animate algebra in Blender.
Driver Expressions for Animations in Blender - by Passivestar - How driver expressions can be used for quickly animating stuff
Every Rigid Body Constraint Exampled in 10 Minutes
Film emulation in the viewport compositor
Find Lost Keyframes In Blender - YouTube
How to sync animation to music in blender
Rigging switchable parents and equipment slots in Blender - YouTube
The 'Child Of' Constraint Demystified
Using the new PORTAL node (in 4.2) - Not just duplicate the scene, ray portal can also make it fractal
WHY ARE CONSTRAINTS SO HARD? - Child Of Constraint Explained!
You can use 1 camera per viewport - This is how
RIGGING¶
Amazingly EASY Way To Rig Characters in Blender 4.1 - YouTube (a “complete course” on rigging in just a few minutes) - Downloaded
Animate Wings The Easy Way - how to create a simple wing rig which is easily controlled with just ONE master controller. Related (and answer with tip to fix rotation problem): The reason why the bone rotates when you map it to the scale is radians, so 1 = 57°, pi = 180° etc.
Beginners Guide to Rigging - 6 part tutorial series by Dikko
CG Tiger Breakdown | Blender Zbrush - A CG tiger made using Zbrush and Blender. The goal was to create a photorealistic CG animal that could blend seamlessly into real world footage
Completely Rigging A Character (5 MINUTES!) - Downloaded
DemNikoArt - YouTube - Tutorials on mechanical rigging. EXAMPLE: Mechanical Rigging - A Blender Tutorial - YouTube - How to set up a rather complex rig for a robot hand
Hardsurface rigging - Several very interesting tutorials on hard-surface rigs. Some with links to UNRIGGED scenes to download and practice.
How can you use bones to animate buttons on 3D models - Short video on Instagram, can be very useful
How to Quickly Rig IK FK in Blender (For Beginners) - Downloaded
I animated the PIXAR Lamp - A Blender rigging tutorial - How to rig the Pixar Lamp with a few IK rigs in Blender - An exercise for understanding mechanical rigging
Kryonic Art - Scenes with rigging examples, ready to use and above all to learn (DOWNLOADED)
Let's Learn Blender!: Character Rigging 101 (Armatures, Bones, & IK) - Downloaded
Level Pixel Level - YouTube - Fantastic tutorials on mechanical riggings. EXAMPLE: Level Pixel Level - Files with free examples
Pose Library - Blender 4.5 LTS Manual
Rich Stubbs Animation - Lots of GREAT tutorials on rigging here. Visit also the shop with free assets: Buy Rich a Coffee
Rigging isn't Scary - This is a good walkthrough of rigging in Blender from easier to more advanced and its free - FULL LIST
Rigify - Blender 4.4 Manual - For the moment I prefer to have it disabled and do all manually. Rigify helps automate the creation of character rigs. It is based around a building-block approach, where you build complete rigs out of smaller rig parts (e.g. arms, legs, spines, fingers…)
Simple IK Solver - Tutorial for Articulating Single Plane Mechanics with Geometry Nodes
Spline IK Constraint - Blender 4.4 Manual
The Easiest Way To Rig Creatures In Blender (For Beginners) - YouTube - Using Rigify
The Secret to Preserve Volume in Blender
richstubbsanimation - YouTube - Lots of GREAT tutorials on rigging here. Visit also the shop with free assets: Buy Rich a Coffee
SHADING, LIGHTS & RENDER¶
3 Point Lighting, Inverse Square Falloff, Gamma Correction, Filmic and More!
3 Tips for better renderings in Blender 3.4
32 procedural textures that use the Wave node in Blender by Sam Bowman - I usually do all this kind of stuff with Substance Designer - Interesting to have a Blender perspective
8+ Blender Lighting Tips to Improve Your Renders
A way to use logic operators in Blender Shader nodes?
About Blender's Specular Channel
Alex Pearce - YouTube - Good tutorials, ie: How to create and access custom Node Groups in all your Blender Projects!
An energy conserving technology preview
And did you use cycles experimental adaptive subdiv for better displacement here? >>> YES
Animated “paint on” effect - Small 1min tutorial
Anisotropy in Blender 4.3 - YouTube by Christopher 3D
Array Lights in Blender - Simple Trick
BLENDER BEGINNINGS Episodio 3: Diseño - Pestañas de propiedades - HERE explains what to use the TEXTURES tab for (it is currently very little used, as mentioned HERE)
Better Fur, Hair, and Anime shaders
Better light sampling, the Light Tree!
Blender 3.2 Shadow Caustics & how to get raytraced caustics
Blender Insight - To learn about materials, patterns and shaders - By Joakim Tornhill, creator of PatternMaker - Kind of mini Substance Designer
Blender: How to Rotate HDRI / Environment Texture
Bumps are determined by distance, not by strength
Cartesian Caramel - About Geometry Nodes and also about Shader Nodes
Caustics & Filter Glossy in Blender 3.1
Cleaning the table leaves wipe streaks
Color Management - Blender Developer Documentation - The AgX view transform has been added, and replaces Filmic as the default in new files. This view transform provides better color handling in over-exposed areas compared to Filmic.
Complete Guide of Hand Painting Game Assets in Blender with Ucupaint
Control a Color Ramp Gradient Outside of a Node Group - Another similar tutorial: FULLY Control a color ramp outside a node group in Blender - YouTube
Control the Material of Instances in Blender Geometry Nodes - Tutorial by Kimmo
Creating a sparking constellations with shader nodes - 20 min video tutorial by Celestial Maze
Cycles is better than you think... by Turpal Alex Saytiev — Blender Conference 2024 - Watch it ASAP
Demystifying Blender's Specular Channel! How Specular relates to the Roughness channel
Displacement in real time (for Blender 4.5) - Test by Ilyasse - See node tree on same thread
Doing Surface Imperfections Right | Vray, Cycles, Arnold…
EEVEE refraction trick - By The CGCY combining shader and compositing nodes, including Cryptomatte (screen-capture saved in my Setups_Tips_Tricks folder)
Fix for some ugly normal map issues in Blender
Forgotten Metal Knowledge - Tutorial on how to create better and more complex and realistic metals
Frame Shifting in Blender for better architectural renderings Blender 5.0 has ACES support, kind of... How to determine specific anodized metallic colors in Blender 5.0. - YouTube
Free Mini-course on Color Grading With Render Raw - Course Free - Render Raw - Color Correction & Effect - Add-On $25
Get proper energy conserving materials in Cycles
Get realistic lights with IES textures - IES-Library: Browse - IES Downloads
Glittering or “brilli-brilli” effect
Hacked procedure to get blur using Shading Nodes (see second post doing it horizontally first then vertical) - Needed Blender 4.4
Had never thought of using this technique for RGB
How I Made a 2D-Looking Cat Animation Scene in Blender!
How Ian Hubert Hacked VFX (and you can too!)
How To Combine Normal Maps Correctly (Adding Texture Detail, Blender Tutorial)
How To Combine Normal Maps Correctly (Adding Texture Detail, Blender Tutorial)
How to Bake Perfect Normals in Blender - Blender tutorial showing you how to bake a normal map from a high poly model, to a low poly mode (includes starter file)
How to Blur a Texture in Blender (fake & noisy blur, really) - Another technique, also fake and blur
How to Use Light Groups in Blender
How to create and access custom Node Groups in all your Blender Projects
How to easily make a Wireframe in Blender in 1 Minute
How to make beautiful water shaders in blender
How to make next-level procedural materials in Blender
I wish I knew this before using Image Textures (Blender) - Downloaded, poor, too long for the little it explains… already seen
Is there an alternative to Random per Island for EEVEE?
It's easier when math does the work (great glow or bloom effect)
Keep the texture scale consistent when scaling stuff in Object Mode
Keyframe DESIGNER exposed parameters using the Substance add-on in your DCC of choice - Here Wes McDermott uses Cinema4D add-on, but this should be also possible with Blender add-on -> TO TEST
Make CG Smudges better using this simple trick - With direcional light smearing (anisotropy)
Metallic BSDF node is underrated. Here is how you can use it!
Mixing Materials (terrains) - View entire thread
My New FAVORITE Shading Technique - techniques for subsurface scattering and transmission using geometry proximity
Nebula Setup with Stars Made in Blender Using Raymarching
Nested Dielectrics, the key to better fluid filled objects
Normal maps - DirectX vs OpenGL: what's the difference?
Path Guiding in Blender 3.4, Better Caustics and Less Noise
Prevent color problems when saving in PNG or JPEG2000 from Blender
Procedural Dynamic Paint - Tutorial and showcasing the new features and improvements introduced in Procedural Dynamic Paint v2.1 for GN
Procedural Shading: Fundamentals and Beyond
Quick-Materials - Short videos by Celestial Maze with EXTREMELY useful tips on creating shapes like Substance Designer style
Realistic Gaussian beams in Blender - Part 2 (Asset overview) - How to get started using the procedural Gaussian beam shader, which you can download from my Gumroad for free.
Remake BLOOM menu in Blender 4.2
Save a node group for later use (various methods, for all Geometry Nodes, Shading Editor, Compositor)
Sculpt & Scatter: Nature Scene with Geometry Nodes (Part 2) - YouTube
Shader Control with Geometry Nodes
Shader based welding (to buy, $1)
Shader based welding (screenshots to recreate it)
Shampoo Bottle Part 3, UV mapping, texturing, lighting, & rendering - YouTube (DOWNLOADED) In the final part he gives very good advice on lighting and shading (changing parameters).
Should You Micro-fillet? (Plasticity 3d) - Go to the part about how to use the Bevel Shade in Blender
Small tip, link textures. They are amazing in Blender
Smart materials in ucupaint | passivestar - For UCUPAINT add-on (not installed… yet)
Specular Reflections & Variable Roughness
Specularity and Roughness, Part 2. Dealing with excessively strong reflections
Surface Imperfections Right | Vray, Cycles, Arnold… - How to improve the "Roughness variation" workflow to add surface imperfection by taking inspiration from real phenomenons - Original thread in X with some ideas about how to transfer this to Blender
Switch Node for Blender Materials - Support / Materials and Textures
Texture Coordinates in Geometry Nodes - Interesting discussion on this topic in BlenderArtists.org
Textures Don’t Work on Curves—How to Fix It - If you need to add procedural textures to curves in Blender and want said textures to conform to the form of the curve even while animated
The RIGHT Way to do Edge Wear (in Cycles!)
The easiest way to render wireframe
The viewport can shine since 4.2
This Blender Shader is the Secret to Magical 3D Art - Extremely good to have a good understanding of the whole Shader Node Tree
Those slightly clammy hands left their mark (trace left by fingers on a cell phone screen)
Tip for adding clouds and fog using black and white decals
Using Anisotropic Reflections in Blender
Using Blender like Substance Designer
Using Ray Portal Plane - By Celestialmaze
Using voronoi Texture to create a TV screen
Blender hair full walkthrough¶
YouTube - LIST WITH 5 VIDEOS - Includes link to free Gumroad project files:
Various links on edge masks¶
Better Edge Masks in Blender - Procedural Texturing - Learn how to use the bevel node, and dot product vector math node in Blender, for perfect edge masks.
Blender Let's Build Create an Outer Edge Mask Node - Alternate method for inner and outer edges
Blender Secrets - Eevee Edge Wear - Alternate method
Edge Masks - Blender Smart Materials - 12 Mask Group To be Used for masking Materials - FREE (or donate)
Edging when doing texturing using Ucupaint addon (metal effect on the edges of painted objects)
How to Make an Edge Mask - Basic setup
How to use EDGE MASKS in Blender - A bit more advanced and pretty good
Add decals and logos¶
Adding Decals And Logos To 3D Models (two ways)
How To Add Decals Without Shrinkwrap Modifier in Blender
How to add DECALS and LOGOS (DOWNLOADED)
The correct way to make decals in Blender (NO SHRINKWRAP) - YouTube (DOWNLOADED)
PAINTING¶
How to make Basic Sculpt and Texture Paint in Blender -- Using Ucupaint, Auto Reload & Krita
Paint panel cuts directly on your Normal map with UcuPaint
Texture Painting in Blender Made Simple
You can fix this annoying issue with one click and save yourself many hours of retexturing - Fix issue painting at border of an object
CAMERAS¶
Achieving True Photorealism With Lens Simulation
Lenses. How to use them properly in Blender
Simulated Anamorphic Lens in Blender (preview)
PREVIEWS & RENDER¶
Wireframe render¶
3 easy ways to render Wireframe in Blender 4.2 - YouTube
Create Wireframe Renders In Blender - 3 Quick And Easy Methods | Gachoki Studios (start here. Method 2 or 3)
Easy Ways to Create Wireframe Renders in Blender (2025) | Blender Render farm
Render fast tutorials¶
5 Tips for FASTER 3D Rendering (Blender Cycles) - YouTub- Downloaded - Not exactly tips to increase Cycles speed, but techniques like multilayer, light groups and so…
How to Render Faster In Blender Cycles - YouTube - Downloaded - Not bad… Too much cats
Realistic Shading in Blender Explained - YouTube
The FASTEST Cycles Renders you can get in Blender! - YouTube
Optimization In Blender¶
5 Chapters - Very god tips, advices and overall info
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Make any Blender viewport smooth - This is top notch!
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Level up your render skills in 10 mins | Advanced Cycles tutorial - Also top notch!
Custom Noise Reduction Tip¶
3 Tips for better renderings in Blender 3.4 - YouTube (2:20)
WARNING, if you leave the “Use Nodes” checkbox activated in Compositing, you will have to deactivate it if you do not want to use it.
More on optimizing Renders¶
Reducing Noise - Blender Manual
Transparency¶
How to Use Eevee Transparency in Blender 4.2 (Tutorial) - GOOD, considering it's EEVEE
Realistic Eevee Glass Shader for Blender 4.2 (Tutorial) + LINK to Realistic Eevee Glass Shader (Free Download)
Tips about AgX and how to fine tune it (thread)¶
Related product: Render Raw - Color Correction & Effects - Superhive (formerly Blender Market) - $25
Previews & Render - Misc¶
Burn into image: dynamic Note value (using Python)
Everything About Volumetrics - Volumetric Settings, Volume Absorption, Volume Scattering, Emission, Mixing With Surface Shaders, Volumetrics with no render time
File Paths - Blender 4.5 LTS Manual - variables are currently available in template expressions
Free Sample | Eevee Lighting and Rendering Video Course • Creative Shrimp - Eevee settings for better HDRI Lighting and maximum realism (downloaded)
How to Render Millions of Objects in Blender - Using a combination of rigid body simulations, baking and displacement maps
How to Rendering Vibrant Colors with AgX in Blender using the Raw Workflow
Making user defined metadata texts by using python add-on in Blender VSE
My Secret Blender Render Settings - how to quickly render cinematic animations in blender
Principled BSDF - Blender 4.2 Manual
Render all render passes to files in Cycles (see scene Bose_023_PC.blend > Compositing Tab)
Secret Cycles Denoising Feature!? Blender 3.5 - Speed up Renders
Tonemapping in Blender - Explained in Under 4 Minutes - By Richard Yot
SEQUENCER & COMPOSITOR¶
ACES Doc – Léonel NGUYEN | Lighting – Compositing – Color Management |
Amazing technique by Ilyasse to make things and environments grow from the ground using Compositor (see second post with node setup)
Depth, mist passes and depth of field in Blender, Nuke, Natron and Fusion
Gaze Dependent Simulation of Light Perception in Virtual Reality
How to Use Light Groups in Blender - Light groups can be used to separate lighting in render and play with them in composition
How to outline an object with the compositor
Intro to Blender 5.0 Sequencer - Alternative to Adobe Premiere?
Making custom glare shapes in Blender's compositor - Read the entire thread for great tips and resources
Speed Control - Speed UP or Slow DOWN your VIDEO & AUDIO in Blender's VSE
Speed Up, Slow Down, Freeze Time, & Add Transitions in VSE
Start COMPOSITING in Blender 5.0 in 16 minutes | Blender Compositor Tutorial #b3d - YouTube
Watercolor-like compositing in Blender - YouTube
What is bloom? (And how is it simulated?)
Where is BLOOM in Blender 4 2 - Basically you have to go to the compositor and use the glare node (there was a more direct access before…)
Why Blender 4.4's Video Editor is Revolutionary
BLENDER TO RESOLVE¶
DaVinci Resolve – Training | Blackmagic Design - The official ones - CONTINUE HERE, nobody will know better this app!
- Lots of LOG samples to download here, also!
DaVinci for 3D artists¶
Blender to Resolve: a Freemium Video Course - By Gleb Alexandrov AKA Creative Shrimp (mine!)
Davinci Resolve | ACES + EXR Workflow for 3D Artists
How to export HDR videos for YouTube and Instagram - By the great Polyfjord
According to Roberto, these two guys are great for Resolve¶
NOTE: DaVinci, but not related with Blender…
More:¶
MasterClass — drew simms - Davinci Resolve Master Class - $150
Log samples to download¶
ACES is now even more deeply integrated into Blender 5.2
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera – Gallery | Blackmagic Design
Sample RED Files (needs register, free, I think…)
SCRIPTING & MATHS¶
Not specifically Blender - Maybe I could merge all the general Python info I have for Modo here?
A Comprehensive Overview of Gaussian Splatting | Towards Data Science
A suite of concise explanations and examples covering vectors, rotors, and other things in 3D
Add-on Tutorial - Blender 4.1 Manual (including a “Your First Add-on” section)
Algorithmic Trees / Amit Sch | Observable - Also, to create procedural trees
Blender Python - Scripting Series - YouTube - Darkfall, “Learn Blender Python for Beginners” - Blender Python Tutorial : Shortcut / Custom Keymap [learn python for beginners]
CG Python Academy - 3D artists learning Blender Python.
Create an addon that uses multiple files
Creating custom icons for Blender toolbar
Creative Coding in Blender 2.92: A Primer | by Jeremy Behreandt | Medium
Fibonacci Lattices / Amit Sch - Interesting to translate Fibonacci distributions to Plane, Circle and Sphere
GitHub - Pullusb/How_to_install_Blender_addons: How to install Blender addons - the complete guide
How I animate 3Blue1Brown | A Manim demo with Ben Sparks - YouTube (see links to Manim Python app below video)
How to Convert Your One File Blender Addon to an Addon Package - Blender Market Documentation
How to Derive the Equations of 3D Surfaces of Arbitrary Complexity and Model Them in Blender - Covers first the math approach, and then how to implement in Blender
Lidia Martinez - Matemáticas para programadores
Scripting for Artists - Blender Studio
The secret behind Blender’s tool icons - SVGs? PNGs? Nope. They're actual 3D models - “X” Thread
Vectors & Dot Product • Math for Game Devs [Part 1] - Extensive video by Freya Holmér (3h 16m)
Victor Stepanov¶
Create a Custom Blender Panel with less than 50 lines of Python code
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More interesting add-ons by same author, Victor Stepanov: add-ons at main · CGArtPython
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And also, more interesting YouTube video tutorials on scripting: CG Python - YouTube
Bevel V2¶
NOTE: finally included in Blender 5.2!!!
Creating a new super-bevel node for Blender - Journey and work diary by Howard Trickey
Howard Trickey is a developer who likes 3D programming, and contributes to Blender in his free time, responsible for such things as Bevel and Boolean. His day job is as a Software Engineering Manager at Google.
#98674 - Bevel V2 - blender - Blender Projects
Bevel notes - Documentos de Google
Bevel notes 2 - Documentos de Google
MODO TO BLENDER¶
C4D + Modo -> Blender - Basic Dummy Questions - Support / Other Software - Blender Artists Community
Modo to Blender modeling questions - Support / Modeling - Blender Artists Community