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Nice! Shares the simple reasons "Why Linux" and quickly gets deep into the nerdom. I sometimes feel that due to the lack of advertising dollars, we'll never see a tipping point.... but then I see stuff like this. 🤞 Now just need @valvesoftware.com to get us a VR headset alternative to Meta.

YouTube video by PewDiePie I installed Linux (so should you)

Oh wow. PewDiePie is using Linux and making videos on it. 110M subscribers just got Linux-pilled! 🐧

youtu.be/pVI_smLgTY0

talks about valve and steam and lots of other stuff. Had no idea he was so tech savvy!

Introducing Derek - full tutorial at www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XqV... #blender3d #b3d #geometrynodes

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

Look like some rigging and animation for Subnautica 2 is handled in Blender. @subnautica.bsky.social #b3d
youtu.be/i8oqrucfXQo?...

The full timelapse of the blocking stage is now available on my @YouTube

👉https://youtu.be/zTSkjGsEl3o

I will post the blocking plus, VFX and render process later.

#animation #Blender #B3D #p2design #3D

Blender 4.4: Rigging and Animation Updates

https://www.blendernation.com/2025/04/23/blender-4-4-rigging-and-animation-updates/?mtm_campaign=social&mtm_kwd=bsky

#blender #blender3d #b3d

Totally. Gold reference. When you don't just get the bonus of seeing it in real life... but FEELING the living animal.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006) horse animation with lead character animator Christiane Meister. Awesome to see an animator so in love with the subject.

🤝 No bullshitting. Animation nails it.

Looking forward to it. Just watched Deep Rooted and enjoyed every minute.

I can understand that. Coming from Vancouver and last year was iffy, so skipped... and this year I'm yolo-ing, with a stop in Berlin beforehand. Speaking of Vancouver... this year we've got Siggraph.

See you there.

Oh... I know. I remember. 😉 Enjoying monitoring overlapping interests. BTW... will you be in Amsterdam in September?

Tekken 8 muscle deformation via RBF joint system looks super-impressive.

Nice! My longer term goals is to use GN for building and driving armatures (or a "Rigging Nodes") and combine with procedural creation of muscles... as you've also been demonstrating. Fun to see this stuff come to life.

We enjoyed it as well... like a lot. That said, I'm realizing that there are others that don't agree.

Download — blender.org Blender is free and open source. Forever.

Blender 4.4.1 was released today!

If you're on 4.4, definitely update to 4.4.1, as it fixes >100 bugs. But if you're on 4.3, also do the update, as 4.4 is just more stable and polished.

blender.org/download

#b3d #blender3d #devfund

Importing SVGs to Blender can be a disappointing experience. For those of you who are looking for a more eye-pleasing solution: I just wrote an Enhanced SVG importer extension for accurate colors and correct path processing.
extensions.blender.org/approval-que...

Beyond All Reason ★ RTS Beyond All Reason is the ultimate epic-scale RTS game for Windows and Linux. Command colossal armies in battles with thousands of units in fully simulated environments. Wage war across land, sea, and ...

That being said... if you're an RTS nut and want to experience the pinnacle of unit AI, number of units, pathfinding, micromanagement UI and tools, you absolutely cannot beat BAR ("Beyond All Reason"). Plus, it's true "open source", like GPLv2 (same license as Blender).
www.beyondallreason.info

GitHub - electronicarts/CnC_Generals_Zero_Hour: Command and Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour Command and Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour. Contribute to electronicarts/CnC_Generals_Zero_Hour development by creating an account on GitHub.

EA released the source code for a few of their Command & Conquer games... including (my fav) Generals. Ya hear that @pablovazquez.art ? : github.com/electronicar...

Blender riggers, here are methods to for addressing weight mirroring issues on asymmetrical models + bonus explanation of how & why to use Data Transfer Modifier.

WHAT ARE ACTION SLOTS? Before Action Slots, each data-block specific animation—like an object’s position, a camera’s depth of field, or a material’s shader properties—needed its own separate Action. This made it difficult to animate multiple elements together or share animations between objects or even projects. For example, if you wanted to animate a camera moving while also changing its depth of field, you’d need two separate Actions, which couldn’t be easily linked or reused. Now you can mix all sorts of animations such as an object’s position, its material properties, even compositing effects—all within a single Action.

Blender 4.4 has been released!

Slotted Actions are now a thing. And they're here to stay :)

www.blender.org/download/rel...

#b3d #blender3d #animation #release #devfund

4.4 — blender.org Home of the Blender project - Free and Open 3D Creation Software

Blender Foundation and the online developers community proudly present Blender 4.4! 🚀

A massive milestone in stability, with over 700 issues fixed and packed with features. Ready for production.

✨ What's new: www.blender.org/download/rel...
🧡 Donate: fund.blender.org #b3d

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

Guessing it just does a 1 to 1 name match... which obviously won't always work.

The instructions are on the page, and from what I gathered:
You activate the the extension, then give it access to your bsky via app password, then it scrapes and compares, then gives you a list where you can pick the ones you wanna transfer over.

Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store Easily transfer your following users and list members from X to Bluesky.

That said, I acknowledge it can be annoying to use at time (lag & finding connections), so I'll put a bit of energy migrating from Twitter/X to here. Curious about this sky-follower-bridge chrome extension: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...

Considering my exposure to identi.ca, statusnet, gnusocial, push.net, etc... my long-term bet is on Mastodon. 🤞

6 Open-Source Tools Used In The Production Of 'The Wild Robot' There's a lot more open-source software used in big-studio animated features than you may think.

I like this trend. #opensource www.cartoonbrew.com/tech/6-open-...