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BlenderNationSoftwareCreating a Mech Girl Character – Part 4︱Retopology Tips Daniel Orji is back with part 4 of his mech girl tutorial series. I share a couple of tips that help me get through the retopo process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP0DYB3mzjU…

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BlenderNationSoftwareCreate a Procedural Cartoon Flame in Blender with Geometry Nodes Paulette Shnier creates a flexible animatable flame system starting with a simple curve and using geometry nodes. Source

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BlenderNationSoftwareBlender Secrets on sale The Blender Secrets sale is live until November 3rd. Get up to 55% off (by getting a bundle) or 30% off the courses or E-book. Check it out on www.3dsecrets.com…

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BlenderNationSoftwareFree browser STEP/STL converter: FabRapid 3D FabRapid 3D is a free browser-based 3D model converter, compressor and viewer. It runs locally with WebAssembly so files never leave the device, and supports 70+ formats including STEP, STL, GLB, OBJ…

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BlenderNationSoftwareLearn To Model Link’s Shield Step By Step Chris Baily shows how to model the Hylian shield from the Legend of Zelda. It may look like a complex surface with curvature and lots of fine detail, but once we break down the steps you’ll see that…

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BlenderNationSoftwareIchno: free one-click technical drawings from Blender scenes Ichno is a new free add-on, available on extensions.blender.org, that generates technical drawings from a Blender scene in one click.

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BlenderNationSoftwareBest of Blender Artists: 2026-44 Every week, hundreds of artists share their work on the Blender Artists forum. I’m putting some of the best work in the spotlight in a weekly post here on BlenderNation.…

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BlenderNationSoftware5 Tips: Square to Round shapes, Inverted Hull, Reduce polycount, find double geometry, better bevels 5 Tips from Blender Secrets: Square to Round shapes, Inverted Hull, Reduce polycount, find double geometry, better bevel. Source

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BlenderNationSoftwareEasy Materials For Link’s Sword Chris Bailey creates materials for the Master Sword from the Legend of Zelda. In the bonus content section, we’ll take our finished sword and create a cool environment for a finished render.

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BlenderNationSoftwareBlender Jobs for October 30, 2026 Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: VFX Artist Art Lead Senior 3D Character Artist (Stylized Games | Unity3D) Europe Senior Technical…

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo