Blender
Cycles noise is now blue, and it looks better
Since Blender 4.4, Cycles takes its samples using a 'blue-noise' pattern. So your low sample Cylces renders now look smoother :)
Richard
Founder
Blender Articles
Learn more about Blender and fast rendering.
Blender
Creating Fibonacci Patterns with Geometry Nodes
Today we're going to use math and nature as inspiration to create some cool patterns with Geometry Nodes. We're going to use the Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Ratio to create a pattern that's similar to the seed arrangements found in flowers. It's based on some very simple principles, but can create some really interesting and complex looking patterns.
Richard
Founder
Blender
Beveling text with Geometry Nodes
Two years ago, I did a tutorial on how to make (nicer) text with Geometry Nodes. A lot of people thought it was useful, but I also got a lot of requests to take it a step further: Bevel the text! So that's what I'm sharing today...
Richard
Founder
Blender
Fixing Fireflies in Blender / Cycles
Fireflies often show up when we have small, bright light sources and glossy shaders. Let's look at rendering from first principles to find out why this happens.
Richard
Founder
Blender
Working with SVG files in Geometry Nodes
In this tutorial I'll show you how to work with SVG files in Blender and manipulate them with Geometry Nodes.
Richard
Founder
Blender
Creating Blendergrid projects from the comfort of your own Blender
I'd like to show you an easier way to manage your Blendergrid projects. With our Blender add-on, you can create Blendergrid projects from inside Blender. The add-on has one main purpose:
Richard
Founder
Blender
Path Guiding in Blender: Optimize Your Interior Renders
Discover the power of path guiding in Blender to enhance your interior renders. This guide breaks down how path guiding works, demonstrates its benefits with practical examples, and provides tips for optimizing settings. Perfect for Blender users looking to achieve cleaner, more efficient renders.
Richard
Founder
Blender
Blender Render Optimization - Noise Threshold
I'm planning to cover a bunch of the Blender render settings in a few different articles. The main goal will be render optimization. With render optimization, I am talking about: Reducing render time and/or cost while still getting a high quality render. In this first article I'll cover the Noise Threshold setting.
Richard
Founder
Blender
Understanding Color Management in Blender
Color management in Blender can be a confusing topic. In this article, we look at some common misconceptions I've noticed while running Blendergrid. I'll also share my recommendations for an efficient color workflow for rendering and post processing.
Richard
Founder
Blender
Rendering Spaghetti with Benetton Italy
We have helped 3D studio Fabrica render some stunning animations for fashion brands like Benetton and Sisley. This is an interview with one of their 3D artists, Giorgio, and he was kind enough to show us some behind-the-scenes material!
Kat
Tech. Support
Blender
Blender Color Management: Filmic / Unfilmic nodes
In Dec 2019 I started a thread on Blender Artists - Filmic is on EVERYTHING in the compositor (not just render layers). It was a popular thread - staying active for around 3 years.
Mike
Blender YouTuber
Blender
Rendering for Robots (Synthetic AI training data with Blender for computer vision)
At Blendergrid we've been rendering 3D imagery for all sorts of applications. Recently we've been running Blender in a rather unusual way. We're using Blender to render so called synthetic training data for computer vision algorithms.
Richard
Founder
Blender
Generative 3D NFT Collections in Blender with FZRandomizer
Today we're covering the workflow of generating an NFT collection using FZRandomizer and then rendering it with Blendergrid.
Richard
Founder
Blender
40,000 animations for a Fewocious NFT project (rendered in 3 days instead of 7 years)
We had to render 40,000 animations. Something that would take a normal computer 7 years to complete. We got it done in 3 days and this is how we did it.
Richard
Founder
Blender
Geometry Nodes: Smooth Your Mesh with a Custom Smooth Node
I recently found myself in a situation where I needed to dynamically smooth part of a mesh. I sort of stumbled upon an amazing way to smooth geometry with Geometry Nodes in Blender, so that's what I wanted to share in this article and video.
Richard
Founder
Blender
NFTs and Music Videos with Maciej Drabik
Maciej is a VFX artist from Poland. He has 20 years of experience in 3D, but only recently started using Blender as his main 3D tool. We're taking a look at one of his latest projects: Endless pursuit, a music video inspired by racing games.
Richard
Founder
Blender
Better 3D Text in Blender with Geometry Nodes
Today I'm sharing a quick tip on how to get more control over the topology of your text meshes in Blender. The default Blender text can become quite a mess if you want to convert it to a mesh. With Geometry Nodes, we can have a lot more control over the final topology.
Richard
Founder
Blender
Render Generative 3D NFT Collections in Blender
What if you want to use your 3D model/scene and generate a collection of 3D renders from it? That's what we'll talk about in this article. And we'll do it in a generative / automated way so you don't have to create each combination by hand.
Richard
Founder
Blender
16 Years of Blender
A short video about my experience using Blender for the last 16 years, showing a history of Blender through screenshots of its interface presented in paper-craft.
Mike
Blender YouTuber
Blender
2D In Your 3D Blender Scene
In this Blender tutorial we're covering how to use 2D elements in a 3D Blender scene. If you don't need the complexity of 3D geometry, 2D assets can be a great way to increase the complexity of your scene without adding much render time! In the video, Mike is sharing some great tips and tricks he figured out.
Richard
Founder
Blender
Luma Pixels Studios: Creating Music Video Aneanti with Blender
Luma Pixels Studios recently completed visual effects work on a music video for artist HIRO for their song "Aneanti." We had the pleasure of interviewing them about their production process and learned a lot!
Johnson
Blender Blogger
Blender
Learn Blender Geometry Nodes in 2 Minutes
We're collaborating with Mike again. This time he will be giving you a very quick introduction to Blender's Geometry Nodes feature!
Richard
Founder
Blender
How Sony Music Uses Blender 3D
We're having a chat with Christoffer Kondrup from Sony Music. He is using Blender on a daily basis, and recently started using our render farm. We're very excited to help a brand like Sony Music be more productive and meet their deadlines! Let's see what Chris is working on and how he's using Blender!
Johnson
Blender Blogger
Blender
Render Smarter in Blender, with Adaptive Samples
When you're rendering with Cycles, some areas of the image might already be looking nice and clean, while others are still very grainy. Wouldn't it be amazing if you could laser-focus that expensive render time on those grainy bits? In a "smart" way?
Richard
Founder
Blender
Cycles Users: Beware of Square Samples
There is a sneaky render setting in Blender that can increase your render time by 128x (or more) with a single click. It's called "Square Samples" and if you're not familiar with what this setting is doing, you might be in for a bad time!
Richard
Founder
Blender
From Blender to Natron with Cryptomattes and AOVs
Since version 2.8, Blender has supported the cryptomatte standard for generating compositing masks in Cycles. And more recently, since Blender 2.92 Alpha, this feature has been expanded to support Eevee along with support for Shader AOVs. In this guide, I'm going to walk through how to use cryptomattes and AOVs to your advantage in Blender.
Johnson
Blender Blogger
Blender
6 Cycles Node Tricks that Make Your Blender Life Easier
We've collaborated with Mike again to celebrate Nodevember this year :) He has been playing around with the Cycles material nodes, and has a bunch of clever tricks prepared for you.
Richard
Founder
Blender
Rendering Music Videos with Blender
Filmmaker Rufus Wilson reached out to us earlier this year, asking if we could help him render elements for his production. After that he has been using Blendergrid extensively in order to create footage for 'Thrill', a music video he directed.
Richard
Founder
Blender
Oblique Projections in Blender
Oblique projections cannot be created simply by the pointing the orthographic camera in the right direction. If you look at the middle and right images in the thumbnail, you'll see that one side of the cube-castle appears as a square, and yet two other sides are still visible. This tutorial explains how to render the three projections on the thumbnail.
Richard
Founder
Blender
When Pixar Needs to Speed Up their 3D Workflow, This is What They Do (6 Tricks)
Pixar has long been hailed as one of the top innovators in 3D animation since the early 90s. Given that, the studio has quite a few tricks up its sleeve to optimize their projects and animations. Today I'm going to share a couple of them with you and show how you can take advantage of some of the same technologies used by Pixar in their 3D animation pipeline.
Johnson
Blender Blogger
Blender
Artistic Renders with Imre Lukacs
An interview with one of our users, Imre Lukacs, covering how he's creating some amazing renders using Blender both as an artist and an Architecture student.
Richard
Founder
Blender
IES Lighting in Blender
IES lighting was introduced into Blender with the release of Blender 2.80. In this article we'll take a look at how to easily set up a scene for IES lighting in Blender.
Awe
Blender Blogger
Blender
Render Static Camera Shots Faster and Cheaper
Here's a cool trick that allows you to render a LOT more efficient (meaning faster and/or cheaper). One of our users, Mike, used to do this a lot in his own pipeline and was kind enough to share it with us here.
Richard
Founder
Blender
Compositing Transparent Background Renders for the Web
Have you seen the shiny blue Suzanne render on our homepage? It's rendered with Blender obviously, but there's a ton of compositing going on behind the scenes. All to get a transparent background, while still maintaining the accurate contact shadow and even indirect lighting effects going on on the ground.
Richard
Founder
Blender
Projection Mapping Onto a Building with Blender
Every year, during the dark pre-winter days of November, Dutch city Eindhoven is all about Light Festival GLOW. During this festival, which lasts about a week, 30 "light projects" from light artists all around the world are scattered across the city centre and accessible for free. At GLOW 2017, Blendergrid helped in the creation of one of these projects.
Richard
Founder
Blender
Using Blender to win large Engineering jobs
Today I'm bringing you something a little different: an interview with the Lead Visualization Engineer at the Integral Group, Tyler Disney.
Johnson
Blender Blogger
Blender
7 Ways to Achieve Realistic Lighting in Blender
Lighting is one of the hardest, yet most fulfilling parts of computer graphics (in my opinion). So in this article I'm going to cover seven ways to improve the accuracy and realism of lighting in Cycles.
Johnson
Blender Blogger
Blender
Using Physically Correct Brightness in Cycles
In order to better understand the lighting system in the Cycles render engine, I've decided to dive into understanding how Cycles uses physically based units to accurately measure the intensity of emissive materials.
Johnson
Blender Blogger
Blender
7 mistakes Blender users make when trying to render faster..
When creating Blender projects, one of the most frustrating parts of the process is rendering. Yes, that grueling, slow process watching tiles render one by one. Obviously, we try and make this go as quickly as possible, but sometimes the shortcuts used effect images in subtle, but undesirable ways.
Johnson
Blender Blogger
Blender
Exporting Images from Blender, the Proper Way
When rendering Blender projects, image exporting and file formats are often an unimportant afterthought in the big picture, but Blender offers access to a long list of powerful file formats that give artistic and technical freedom for a wide range of applications.
Johnson
Blender Blogger
Blender
Rendering fluid particles with the CubeSurfer Addon
This orange juice shot was created completely in Blender. Rendered with Blendergrid using the CubeSurfer Addon.
Richard
Founder