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🎟 Get tickets: https://b3d.bconna.org/Oi2UjB 🎤 Submit a talk: https://b3d.bconna.org/R4bFJg Following our first North American BCON in Los Angeles, we’re doing it again, bigger, better, and deeper… North America’s Official Blender Conference Is Coming to Austin (BCON 2026)

Make BCON Austin possible this April! The Blender event for North America needs 250 more attendees to happen. Spread the word! Student discounts are available.

🎟️ Tickets: bconna.org/2026/

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#b3d #bconna #bcon

Compilation of shaders is my only gripe with EEVEE. Otherwise I prefer it in every way to Cycles. Every time I touch a node in a shader tree it's a 10 second wait. Which adds up to minutes, hours. It's almost intolerable.

Wait. EEVEE's cached compiling performance in Blender 5.1 is... worse?

Projects to Look Forward to in 2026 — Blender New tools, collaboration, and broader platform support.

It's that time of the year again!

Have a look at (some of) the Blender projects to look forward to in 2026 👀 www.blender.org/development/...

#b3d #DevFund

Utter madness

Blender Foundation is thrilled to announce that Netflix Animation Studios is joining the Development Fund as Corporate Patron.

This support will be dedicated towards general development, to improve content creation tools for individuals and teams working in media workflows.

fund.blender.org #b3d

Fuck that. Unbelievable.

Don’t know but every time this happens is an opportunity for the reporting to rephrase it correctly. And they don’t do it. It’s a 2 foot putt they miss every single time.

Again - any **American company importing goods from those countries** will pay the import tax.

Great idea. I use lattices all the time but didn’t think to run sims on them too. Brilliant

YouTube video by Aaron Van de Weijenberg Make stylized fur and hair in Blender

Made a video showing how to make stylized fur in #blender3d 🎬

1. Disabled shadows
2. Use surface normals attribute in hair shader
3. Convert normal's object space to world space
4. Use Blended render method
5. Use color attribute on surface mesh for fur color

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Nothing good comes after this.

Final submission to #rampagerally 3d challenge 🐭 #b3d

Template / viewport / final submission to the #rampagerally 3D challenge. Now I can resume a normal sleep schedule

Had to back out of Vulcan to OpenGL. It's just way too slow with EEVEE. Touch a shader node (which I'm doing hundreds of times) and it's a long wait to recompile. A shame. I really liked the viewport performance and fast initial load. #b3d

Great analysis, thanks. Have you tried Paint System? If so, where does that sit relative to these two?

Thanks! I'm hearing it as "YOO-chuh-paint"

Jelleometry nodes #b3d #geometrynodes

Any DaVinci Resolve experts know how I can have non-destructive display transform in Fusion that lets me see what I'm doing in a format like AgX, but preserves all the underlying data for later grading in the Color tab?

Can you help settle a question: How do you pronounce ucupaint?

You-queue-paint
You-coo-paint
You-cuh-paint
Ooo-coo-paint
Uh-cuh-pai…
…
?

Thank you for framing it accurately rather than “tariffs on Japan and South Korea”

Interesting, I didn't even know that was a setting

First project with Blender 4.5 beta. Vulcan is much faster 🙌

Autokey Highlight is a must have #blender3d add-on. Puts a red outline around the viewport while auto keying is active. Saves you a river of tears when you blow up your animation because you forgot to turn auto keying off.

Joined a weekly challenge to help snap me out of a three month slump. Theme was "mask". Blender (Eevee) #b3d

It’s a “special military operation”

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