Duncan Rudd
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Filmmaker. CG Animation.
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BlenderNation
6 days ago
BipBop - Pilot Episode
https://www.blendernation.com/2026/02/23/bipbop-pilot-episode/?mtm_campaign=social&mtm_kwd=bsky
#blender
#blender3d
#b3d
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If you or your friends have little ones, please check out ‘BipBop’. A calming animated series that I’m extremely proud to have created alongside Max Brodie, Katie Beesley and the lovely folks at Sycamore Studios.
youtu.be/9mNTZmhBC0Y?...
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Tiny Explorer, Big Heart | BipBop's Desert Adventure (4-Minute Animated Pilot) 🌵
YouTube video by BipBop - Calm Sensory Adventures
https://youtu.be/9mNTZmhBC0Y?feature=shared
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Blender
4 months ago
Did Blender help you this year? Help back! 🧡 If every active user contributed $5 this month, Blender would be funded for the entire year 2026. Professional 3D software. No subscriptions. No limits. Just your support. Do your part. Donate today.
www.blender.org/news/give-ba...
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Massive thanks to Animusic Festival for voting 'The Ballad of Pale Blue Dot' as Best Animation in their 2025 edition. If you haven't seen the film, check it out here:
youtu.be/iNMxVBnIrwQ
#animation
#shortfilm
#blender3d
4 months ago
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Manchester Animation Festival
5 months ago
It’s that glorious time of year again! Who wants to know what we have in store for
#MAF2025
this November? Expect exclusive previews, behind-the-scenes teases and plenty of animation goodness >>
www.manchesteranimationfestival.co.uk
Let's unwrap a few of this year's festival highlights…
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In a surreal turn of events our little film 'The Ballad of Pale Blue Dot' was voted Best Short in the Suzanne awards at last week's Blender Conference! Thank you to everyone involved in putting on such a beautiful event. Congrats to all the teams who had projects on show - they were amazing!
#bcon25
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Fantastic talk by the Animation and Rigging team. So much cool work has been and continues to be done by these lovely folks!
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Pierrick PICAUT
5 months ago
🥳 New tutorial! How I mix 2D and 3D using Blender and After Effects. 🥰 hope you will like it! 👉
youtu.be/PRh13V41T7Q
#Blender
#P2DESIGN
#B3D
#2D
#3D
#animation
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Duncan Rudd
6 months ago
🔥📣Just finished: - Full integration of
#RBFNodes
into SHAPES for
#Blender3d
- RBFNodes working with constraints. - Mirroring of a complete RBFNodes setup with all shape keys. - RBFNodes working with only two poses. Thanks for sharing!
#b3d
#blender
#rigging
#animation
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Blender Studio
6 months ago
Out NOW! Watch OKGo's latest animated video, co-produced with Blender Studio, featuring the incredible work of
@willandersonjr.bsky.social
and Lucas Zanotto. This is an open movie! Download the file and discover how to create your own live procedural animations.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwzb...
#b3d
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What's the opposite of Artificial Intelligence? Naturally Occurring Stupidity? Whatever it is, that's what I'm here for! Check out my new film here - made with love, by humans, for humans:
youtu.be/iNMxVBnIrwQ
#animation
#shortfilm
#blender
#b3d
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6 months ago
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Blender
6 months ago
Blender Conference is just around the corner, which means it's time to vote for the Suzanne Awards! ⭐ Cast your vote for your favorite festival entries and help decide this year's Suzanne Awards winners!
conference.blender.org/2025/festiva...
#b3d
#BCON25
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Blender Conference 2025 — conference.blender.org
Blender Conference 2025 - The event of the year celebrating the Free and Open 3D Creation Software
https://conference.blender.org/2025/festival/entries/vote/
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BlenderNation
6 months ago
https://www.blendernation.com/2025/08/30/194336/?mtm_campaign=social&mtm_kwd=bsky
#blender
#blender3d
#b3d
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Julien Kaspar
6 months ago
I finally finished my deep-dive article on DOGWALK, like I promised :D All about making a playable character in Godot with a choppy animation style! Plenty of visual examples & code snippets! Took quite a while to put together.
studio.blender.org/blog/playabl...
#b3d
#godotengine
#gamedev
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Our new animated film 'The Ballad of Pale Blue Dot' premieres this afternoon! Find out about how Earth was formed, its mis-spent youth, its adventures in parenting and its feelings towards us. Reminder here:
youtu.be/iNMxVBnIrwQ
#animation
#shortfilm
#earthfocus
#climatechange
#b3d
#blender3d
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The Ballad of Pale Blue Dot
YouTube video by Duncan Rudd
https://youtu.be/iNMxVBnIrwQ
6 months ago
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Part music video, part documentary, part cry for help. My new film, 'The Ballad of Pale Blue Dot' will be released towards the end of August. Subscribe on YouTube for the notification -
www.youtube.com/@duncanrudd348
#animation
#shortfilm
#earthfocus
#climatecrisis
#climatechange
#b3d
#blender3d
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7 months ago
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Blender
8 months ago
Blender Foundation and the online developer community proudly present Blender 4.5 LTS! Vulkan, faster EEVEE, improved compositor, Geometry Nodes, nearly 500 bugs fixed, and so, so much more. 👉 Release notes:
www.blender.org/download/rel...
📺 Video recap:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPhA...
#b3d
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4.5 LTS — blender.org
With 2 years of updates, full Vulkan support, and quality-of-life improvements, Blender 4.5 LTS is every Blenderhead’s best friend.
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-5/
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Looks beautiful! Congrats to everyone involved 👏
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@willandersonjr
9 months ago
Trailer for new animated short film EXISTENTIAL GREG 🙀
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Christian Johnson
9 months ago
youtu.be/SeAqnHywrx8
Here is the Pilot episode of Spice Frontier. An Independently produced animated sci fi series. Reposts, Subscribe, Like and passing it on. Would be much appreciated! We would love to tell more stories and keep the spirit of hand crafted art and animation alive!
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Christoph
9 months ago
You can now take a screenshot of Blender for Asset previews. Landed in 4.5 alpha. Go nuts
#b3d
#devgrant
projects.blender.org/blender/blen...
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Cartesian Caramel
10 months ago
The Attribute Transform Constraint now has a working build you can play around with:
builder.blender.org/download/pat...
Feedback is welcome in the PR:
projects.blender.org/blender/blen...
#b3d
#geometrynodes
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Christian Johnson
10 months ago
Trailer is out for the pilot episode coming to youtube May 21st. Anyone wanting to support independent animation please subscibe!🙂 We Have so much more lined up for the Channel!
youtu.be/iazrBeRI6mQ
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Spice Frontier: Escape From Veltegar | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Steamroller Stories
https://youtu.be/iazrBeRI6mQ
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Silly paper car thingy with geo nodes
#b3d
#blender
#geometrynodes
#cars
#animation
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10 months ago
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I live in a place where it rains A LOT... This morning the neighbourhood was covered in ash from wild moorland fires nearby... All is not well.
#blender
#b3d
#geometrynodes
#animation
#earth
#climatechange
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10 months ago
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My next film 'The Ballad of Pale Blue Dot' will be released later this summer. I'll be posting sneak peeks and behind the scenes stuff over the next few months!
#animation
#shortfilm
#geometrynodes
#b3d
#climatecrisis
#earth
10 months ago
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BlenderNation
11 months ago
Procedural Cracks with Geometry Nodes https://www.blendernation.com/2025/04/19/procedural-cracks-with-geometry-nodes/?mtm_campaign=social&mtm_kwd=bsky
#blender
#blender3d
#b3d
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Blender
11 months ago
🎟️ Ticket sale for Blender Conference 2025 starts today! 🐦 Grab your early-bird ticket at
conference.blender.org/2025
#b3d
#BCON25
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Blender Conference 2025 — conference.blender.org
Blender Conference 2025 - The event of the year celebrating the Free and Open 3D Creation Software
https://conference.blender.org/2025
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Pierrick PICAUT
11 months ago
😭If you ever struggled
#rigging
2 handed props 🪓like large swords, staff, riffles... Check out my latest
#Blender
tutorial and discover my method. 👉
youtu.be/mXKXIYUa79w
#animation
#p2design
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dr. Sybren
11 months ago
Blender Conference ticket sales has started! Early bird tickets are limited in number, grab yours before they run out!
#b3d
#blender3d
#bcon25
#conference
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Whoop 🙌
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11 months ago
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Procedural Cracks Tutorial: Tear your terrain using a set of input curves:
youtu.be/DlPSrOKRq88
#b3d
#blender
#geometrynodes
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11 months ago
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harry blends
12 months ago
Introducing Derek - full tutorial at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XqV...
#blender3d
#b3d
#geometrynodes
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Finding time for personal projects is hard. Deep Rooted took over 2 years of late nights and early mornings. Thank you to everyone that's taken the time to watch it, the response has been fantastic. Keep sharing you lovely people!
youtu.be/Q0QM1Ral-7s
#blender
#b3d
#shortfilm
#animation
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12 months ago
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@drsybren.bsky.social
Blender 4.4 slotted actions working like a charm! Body armature and geo nodes driven face rig sharing the same action 😀
#b3d
#blender
#geometryNodes
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12 months ago
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HUMAN ARTISTS: use only one piece to convince people to follow you! Deep Rooted - short film passion project:
youtu.be/Q0QM1Ral-7s
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12 months ago
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Duncan Rudd
12 months ago
Hey
#Blender
users. How about graphing all direct and upstream users of a data block, for example an image texture? Makes it very easy to see where data is used and shared.
#LinkView
#addon
to the rescue!
#3d
#b3d
#nodes
#exploreYourScene
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dr. Sybren
12 months ago
Please test Blender 4.4 release candidate! With the transition to Slotted Actions, see if your old anim is still good when you load them. Give it a good shake, do weird stuff. Grab:
builder.blender.org/download/dai...
Docs :
developer.blender.org/docs/release...
#b3d
#blender3d
#devfund
#animation
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Blender Builds - blender.org
Continuous build delivery with the latest features and fixes. Use at your own risk!
https://builder.blender.org/download/daily/
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Our little animated short "Deep Rooted" will premiere tomorrow, weds 12th March at 16:00 GMT. Link here:
youtu.be/Q0QM1Ral-7s
#animation
#blender
#b3d
#shortfilm
12 months ago
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Gints Zilbalodis
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Manchester Animation Festival
about 1 year ago
🪄We're screening Sylvain Chomet's 2010 film The Illusionist HOME mcr on the 27 January. Can you believe this film is 15 years old already? A magical evening is on the cards so make those winter blues disappear with this enchanting film! 🐇
homemcr.org/film/the-ill...
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New tutorial. Attach procedural lashes to your procedural eyelids:
youtu.be/ibtOHKQ8jKY
#b3d
#animation
#geometrynodes
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about 1 year ago
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Erindale
over 1 year ago
Use code THANKS24 at checkout to get anything on Nodegroup for 60% off until the 2nd! Happy Thanksgiving folks 🦃
nodegroup.xyz/offers/vxjQi...
#b3d
#GeometryNodes
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Video test. I've been playing with Blender 4.3 to create these procedural walking critters with geo nodes. There's some cracking stuff in this version. The for each element zone is awesome!
#blender
#b3d
#geometrynodes
#animation
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over 1 year ago
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Steve Smith
over 1 year ago
Has anyone seen
#BigLizard
on TV or iPlayer yet? It's been my passion project for about 7 years and I'm so happy it's out in the world! Made with Amael Isnard through my studio, Beakus, it follows the adventures of two astronauts on the distant exoplanet
#Proxima
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#animatedseries
#tvshow
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Sol Brennan (3D Rigger/Looking for work)
over 1 year ago
I just got laid off. Gutted. I loved Heart Machine. They were good to me. My only regret is that I couldn't stay. Character rigger of 12+ yrs, 2 GDC talks, 1 Gnomon talk, VES nominee, etc. Spider-Man PS4, The Order:1886, Hyper Light Breaker. All info here:
tinyurl.com/3ccdcmdc
#gamedevjobs
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Sol Brennan - Heart Machine | LinkedIn
A highly enthusiastic technical artist with a strong interest in rigging and animation… · Experience: Heart Machine · Education: University of Abertay Dundee · Location: Vashon · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Sol Brennan’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/solbrennan/
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Simon Thommes
over 1 year ago
Check out this introduction to our free Brushstrokes Tools Blender extension I worked on for Blender Studio 🖌️
youtu.be/fKd-ViC1ZjA
Have fun brushing! :) And make sure to tag your work with it with
#b3d
#brushstrokes
so we can find it 🙌
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Brushstroke Tools for an Easy Painterly Look - Free Blender Addon
YouTube video by Blender Studio
https://youtu.be/fKd-ViC1ZjA
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Another short from the archive. This was my first time using Blender.
#animation
#shortfilm
#b3d
#blender
youtu.be/HJ2nNvCRzW0
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THE PATH - Animated Short
YouTube video by Duncan Rudd
https://youtu.be/HJ2nNvCRzW0
over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
Working on the final touches for
#LinkView
for
#Blender
. Here's a collection of link types which are currently supported. Not sure if something important is missing. Take a look.
#3d
#b3d
#rigtip
#nodes
#rigging
#animation
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My second short - Tanked. A pair of loved up lobsters have their tango interrupted by a sadistic chef.
#animation
#shortfilm
youtu.be/yNxfL95aF-A
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TANKED - AWARD WINNING ANIMATED SHORT
YouTube video by Duncan Rudd
https://youtu.be/yNxfL95aF-A
over 1 year ago
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