There are many ways to import images into Blender. The best way depends on what we want to do with the image once we imported it. The most basic way to import an image into Blender is to drag-and-drop it. If you drop it in the 3D viewport it will become a background image object. […]

There are so many sources for materials and textures available for Blender artists that it is starting to become ridiculous. The problem is no longer to find materials, but to find the best ones. Here I list the top 10 sites that gladly provide you with materials. Most of them even for free. Ambientcg.com BlenderKit.com […]

If you are anything like me you jumped straight in when you started learning about Blender. Not too long into the learning experience you might have realized that you need some help with basics, centering objects, origins and pivot points is probably one of them if you came across this page. So how do we […]

There are many scenarios where the boolean modifier is an excellent solution to modeling problems. In this article we will cover a few of them and how we can make the most out of it in Blender. To use the boolean modifier, select an object and go to the modifier stack in the properties panel. […]

I have used Baketools for such a long time that I don't even think about it as an add-on anymore. It has become part of how I use Blender. Baketools has enjoyed continuous development for a few years and has become better and more stable with every release. However, there are still bugs present and […]

When I first came across Render+ and read the product page I was kind of confused to what it did or why I would want it. But once I tried it I realized that it deals with and remedy many of the details that can be real pain points when rendering. What is render+? Render+ […]

Graswald has been around for several years. During that time it has evolved and aged gracefully. In its current state, I dare to say that it is both a good-looking and robust product with just a little too many bells and whistles. Let’s dive deeper into it in this review to see what I mean. […]

There is a limited set of primitive objects we can use as a starting points when modeling in Blender. Therefore, I wanted to give you a little extra help by explaining the extra objects add-on and how it might be helpful. What is the extra objects add-on? There are two extra objects add-ons in Blender. […]

Render times have come down significantly over the last couple of years. One technology that allowed this is denoising. AI can now look at an image and determine what is noise and what isn't with very good accuracy. In this article we will take a closer look atthe Intel denoiser that was recently added to Blender […]

There are many ways to create grass in Blender. That is probably because there are over 12.000 different species in the Poaceae family according to Wikipedia. Poaceae being just  another fancy word for grass. Apart from that grass looks complex and is everywhere. We just need a good way to recreate it for many of our […]

In this article we will take a look at what displacement is and how to use it in Blender. Since Blender 2.8 we have two methods of adding displacement, and we will cover them here. How to use displacement in Blender? Select your object, add a displacement modifier. Press new and go to the texture […]

Let me break it to you: There is no shadow catcher for Eevee in Blender. However, we can fake a shadow catcher using the Shader to RGB node essentially making a shadowcatcher anyway. How to create a shadow catcher with Eevee in Blender? Add a plane below your object Add a material to the plane […]

In version 2.82 Blender got UDIM support. This is exciting because UDIM has become a standard for dealing with texture sets where a single texture is not enough to cover the texturing needs. How UDIM works in Blender? To enable UDIM, go to the UV Editor and create a new image. Make sure to select […]

In this article I explain how to use textures in Blender in the simplest way I can. I also want to expand on just adding a texture so that you can do simple adjustments when needed. How to add a texture in Blender? Go to the shading tab, drag and drop an image texture into […]

The light path node in Blender has always been mysterious to me. While I have found it useful, many times I have not fully understood what it does or how it does it. To finally demystify it, I studied it a bit to learn how it works. Hopefully, this article can help you learn what […]

It has happened to me more than once that I start a scene, then with I'm about 80% through with my main subject; I realize that I want to put it into a scene. I also realize that if I do, I suddenly have several more days or weeks ahead of me before I finish […]

Many times when we create scenes we think a lot about the composition color and even light. But one thing that we often forget is the throw pattern of our lights. This is where IES comes in. IES lighting is essentially a text file that outlines how intense a light will be in any direction. […]

I was sitting with an empty scene open in Blender, and I was thinking about my next project. Then it struck me how vast the area of 3D modeling has become and most people don’t even know how much 3D content they see every day. There are many types of 3D modeling today. Everything from […]

Creating trees is often a very much-needed part of creating realistic renders in Blender. Especially when working with architecture visualization. Nature in your scene is essential and even if you are creating interior scenes you will often need some kind of greenery. After you enabled the sapling add-on press Shift+A and add a "curve->Sapling tree […]

Blender has many modifiers that can help us with many things. But there is a handful of modifiers that keep coming back, and we use them over and over. In this article I want to give you a starter kit of modifiers. The ones that will be the most useful and probably the ones you […]