
Tape Animation Tutorial
Let’s model and animate a cool and colorful retro cassette tape scene in Blender.
Tape Animation Tutorial
Let’s model and animate a cool and colorful retro cassette tape scene in Blender.
Mittwoch: Pebble-Smartwatches neu aufgelegt, N64-Retrokonsole mit Verspätung
Neue Armbanduhren mit PebbleOS + N64-Nachbau bekommt Konkurrenz + Androids falsche Update-Hinweise + Blender in neuer Version + Gigabit-Grundbuch für Netzausbau
Blender 4.4: Produktpflege und schnelle Ladezeiten
Die Blender-Entwickler haben sich in Version 4.4 statt auf neue Werkzeuge vor allem auf Tempo, die Bedienoberfläche und nahtlose Workflows konzentriert.
Saw a short video with 2D mesh deform animation today. And got curious if I can make something like that in Blender instead of Spine.
Turns out that I can
It's a very crude example, ofc, made within 1h or so, without preparing or cutting the image beforehand.
Maybe later I'll find time to make something like that with proper attention. Was pretty fun~
#blender 4.4 is out! Here's a showcase video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQElJP1AaS0 and release notes page: https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-4/
Section about video things on that page might have been my f̶a̶u̶l̶t̶ work
Blender 4.4 open-source 3D creation suite introduces slotted actions, revamped animation tools, GPU performance upgrades, and more.
https://linuxiac.com/blender-4-4-open-source-3d-suite-released/
#Blender 4.4 Released with a Big Update for the Experimental Vulkan Backend, #NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50×0 (Blackwell) and #AMD RX 90×0 (RDNA4) Graphics Support https://9to5linux.com/blender-4-4-released-with-a-big-update-for-the-experimental-vulkan-backend
Spiral Roll Geometry Node Presets - Motion Presets Update [$]
The March 2025 update for “Motion Presets for Blender” has been released, here are the new features.
Perfect 'Stroopwafel' Factory Loop Animation in Blender – New Geometry Nodes!
Menno van Roon is creating Dutch Stroopwafels in Blender!
Creating a Biplane in Blender
In this 15 part tutorial series Ryan King shows you how to create this Boeing-Stearman Model 75 Biplane in Blender.
Yoink! now has a demo!
Try it out, see how it works, and decide for yourself. https://realduende.itch.io/yoink
an art trade for @bnnuy :3 lu-fi beats to bnuuy to
Procedural Crystal Generator
Crystals are tedious to create by hand, especially if you want to create lots of them. In this tutorial Manuel looks into how to create a procedural crystal generator from start to finish using Blender 4.3 Geometry Nodes.
FOSS NEWS
FreeBSD 13.5 released with updated packages, support for Purism keyboards with Coreboot and other improvements:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/3/freebsd-13-5-released-as-the-final-update-to-the-freebsd-13-series/
A Latvian film titled "Flow", made with Blender, won Oscar, beating Disney:
https://proton.me/blog/open-source-flow-oscar
(Now we have something to show for the elitist normies, who laugh at FOSS, think that only proprietary software can be good ️)
Bluesky adds support for uploading videos up to 3 minutes long, option to accept/reject chat requests from unknown users, support for muting account directly from a post etc.:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/3/bluesky-now-lets-users-upload-videos-up-to-3-minutes-long-and-enhances-dm-spam-filtering/
Audacity 3.7.2 released with improvements for AppImage bundle for 22.04 LTS, option to turn off automatic tempo detection, new “get effects” button next to the ‘Upload Audio’ button, UUID instance support, bug fixes:
https://9to5linux.com/audacity-3-7-2-improves-the-linux-appimage-bundle-for-ubuntu-22-04-lts
Framework Mono 6.14 released as the first release under WineHQ, with native ARM64 support for macOS, System.Windows.Forms improvements, improved Clipboard and Drag and Drop features etc.:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/3/framework-mono-6-14-released-with-native-arm64-support-and-stability-boosts-under-winehq/
Spotube 4.0 released with redesigned UI, support for yt-dlp and NewPipe, home screen widget support for Android, custom editable Piped and Invidious instance support, bug fixes:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/3/spotube-4-0-brings-a-redesigned-ui-and-other-improvements-to-this-free-spotify-client/
(Linux news in original post)