Maya is designed to handle larger and more complex projects, so it is often used by studios with bigger budgets and more resources. It has other benefits such as advanced character rigging, better rendering capabilities, and more extensive animation tools. It’s the best choice for larger projec...
EXR is one of the many image formats Blender can export. It can allow us to include multiple layers in one image and can hold much more information and is therefore useful when doing compositing and post-processing of the image. So how do we use EXR in Blender? To use the EXR format ...
Rendering 3D is a specialty where great proficiency is required in various aspects, such as lighting, texturing, modeling, and animation. It is a challenge to hire and sustain top talent in-house as this is expensive, and it is hard to do so. Moreover, the creation of the lates...
James Crowther sharesCrowdRender, the new crowd-sourced render farm that he presented at the Blender Conference last year. It presents an alternative to crowd rendering platforms likeSheep Itwith some additional options like creating pools with your own hardware.Since 2013 we'd been working on a ...
So, as you can see, while the future of 3D art is heading towards a real-time, game-engine enabled workflow, it's not too daunting to switch to or to compliment your existing way of working. You may even find you need a less powerful computer than the rendering workstation you've co...
Social media is in a malaise – at least if you believe social media.Instagramand Threads are full of people complaining about the platforms' algorithms, and X... well, it's better not to look if you want to maintain the will to live. ...
Does it really aid understanding? Probably… not? I hope you didn’t need to read any labels in those shadowed valleys in Switzerland, which is where most people actually live! The more we dial up the drama in these Blender hillshades, the more those steep valleys become almost black in ...
Oh yes, neutron stars spin, up to a few hundred timesper second. Let all of this sink in for a bit: An object with such strong gravity that "hills" are barely a few millimeters tall, rotating with a speed that could rival your kitchen blender. We're not playing games anymore. ...
To understand what “product design” is, let’s start by examining the term through the lens of language and take a look at the meanings of the two words from which it is constructed. The general definition of a “product” is an artifact or object crea
If you want best driver support, high performance Ray Tracing, DLSS, GPU Compute that works and is actually properly supported (CUDA, OpenCL). Best Blender Performance, Optix. GeForce Experience features like built in ReShade filters (and yes even Radeon Image Sharpening filter) then go for ...