Blenderust youtube channel just got 500 subscribers! This is first important milestone for me. It really gives me motivation to make interesting and useful educational content. And more of it coming up very soon! Thanks you for being with me! 

In this quick tip I’ll show you how to make your life much easier, working with text objects in Blender, using extremely simple node setup in Animation Nodes.

Just gave a try to a texture paint feature in Blender 2.8. Also, this is actually my first serious attempt a stylized hand-painted look. Here’s what I’ve got in the end

Hi, folks! In this short tutorial I’ll show you how to create fully procedural super-easy, fast, yet flexible stylish countdown, using Blender 2.8 and Animation Nodes 2.1 (both in beta for now) Project file included

Just gave a try to eevee with this 2.5D scene, instead of traditionally building this kind of setup solely in After Effects. http://Array Interactivity and ease of manipulation is just a bliss! What probably will take about an hour to properly setup in AE, here in Blender takes minutes. Proper reflections, fog and DOF is […]

Don’t like to read? Here’s the video version of this article Hello, folks! While a couple of full-fledged tutorials are currently in making, let me have just a few minutes of you time to announce an update for my good’ol Alarm and Shutdown addon to version 1.2 Beta, which now allows you not only to […]

And now to the second part of our Christmas Lights setup, where I’m going to show you how to distribute light bulbs along a spline and to setup nice and handy viewport controls. First part is here

Finally got a chance to give the Fracture Modifier Blender build a try in a real production. The result may not be perfect due to time/budget limitations (as always, duh!), but it was fun to figure out how the whole thing works over night and build something acceptable with it 🙂

Here’s the first part of two part series on creating procedural Christmas lights rig. This method is also useful for creating all kinds of tentacles and vines crawling along some surface. The second part is here.

When creating an asset, whether it be a game prop or a character rig try to use so called procedural approach to perform as many steps as you can. For example, talking about Blender, when you need to bevel some edges of your model, instead of using bevel operator try to use bevel modifier, which generates new geometry […]