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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Peter France knocking it out of the (central?) park as usual... www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDiQ... I thought the general message of getting out there and giving things a go is a message definitely worthy of spreading. :) All the cool assets to share as well, what's not to like!!!!

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How I Made This Realistic Spider-Man Animation

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Surely most are aware of this already but the summer Superhive aka Blender Market sale has started today. If you've been waiting to grab any of our (or anyone else's for that matter) stuff, it's all 25% off for this week. ✨ superhivemarket.com/creators/cre... August 4th to 10th

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Outstanding work everyone! Plus - everyone benefits! :)

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I plotted the numbers a few years ago and predicted possibly next year would be the turning point, but turns out it was indeed a year early and by a significant margin! 😮

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

A bit more messing around with beeble auto extracting useful 3d passes And Hi3D for the meshes The rest is mostly eevee volumetrics and geonodes stuff I realise now that the concept might seem random but the song is called 'Airborne' with a theme of 'rising above it' 😀

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

THERE IS NO SPOON! (DJI Mic 3 test)

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

cooling off in the UK heatwave by touching grass in the evening air while working on some #b3d projects with @glebalexandrov.bsky.social 🥵 if this keeps up, it'll be tricky to tap into the necessary horror vibes for some other planned upcoming ideas. 🤔

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Pretty handy techy image greebly generator thing available online... displacementx.pages.dev There have been others in the past but glad to see this one up and working. 🤓

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

#b3d and Beeble (for the auto passes) experiment. Using some cloudy elements from a previous thing with @glebalexandrov.bsky.social #guitar #indie #acoustic #blender #vfx

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

something that trips a lot of beginners up on topology is creating curves in a grid pattern Instead you can merge a couple of points to have it flow around the shape, then dissolve the redundant blue edges Though you might prefer the accidental heart shaped highlight in the normals 💖😁

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Sharing this here since it involved a 3D modeling challenge.. washingtonpost.com/technology/i... Just 2.5%? It feels like it would be much higher than that considering the general hype - as well as power expenditure and natural resources involved. I suppose it could still get better? 🤔

chart taken from the article about work that each AI system successfully completed. Ranged from 0.8% to 2.5%

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

The sensation of being drunk is uncannily accurate & pretty hilarious! Well done @julienkaspart.bsky.social & the #b3d team on the #GODOT gamejam win! 😁 julienkaspart.itch.io/partyfoul Oh note it may freeze up if played in the browser, it's worth downloading (its small) & launch it locally. 👍

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Dillard the Drunk & Flasky the Flask find a Fridge by Julien Kaspar, VokiToki, vivikowski, Max de Kroon, simonthommes, RiverIntheSky, rBrink21, filedescriptor

Howdy partner, let's get wasted!

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Proud to be a part of this project, amazing to see all the positivity. Link below ⬇️ to see more. 💖

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

it's some kind of irony with a touch of slapstick style standing on a rake type stuff. :D

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Gleb Alexandrov @glebalexandrov.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Hey everyone, we've just released our new course! 🔥 Produce stunningly realistic lighting right up there with Cycles and other path-tracing engines in Blender 5.x - at a fraction of the render time. Watch the trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5uo... #b3d #blender3d

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How to Render REALISM in Seconds with EEVEE | Blender 5 Course

YouTube video by Gleb Alexandrov

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

@captaindisillusion.bsky.social I have brazenly plagiarized a portion of your excellent video youtu.be/xDLxFGXuPEc?... for a brief kernel explanation of the upcoming blender 5.0 release video! 😬 Please file any objections with the hyperspace planning council or slide into the relevant DM's. 💖

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I always enjoyed the @gamemakerstoolkit.com gamejam breakdowns of info such as is shown in the image (engine usage data). Was there one for 2025? I'm not sure i saw that posted around? Even more people participated yet again over the previous year if i'm not mistaken? 😊

piechart of GMTK gamejam of 2024, it shows game engines used:
Unity 43%
Godot 37%
Gamemaker and Unreal at 5% and Other at 10%

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Such a great test! This is one to keep an eye on to see future iterations of the results from these prompts, will AI ever even get anywhere near? 🤔

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AI Animation vs Human Animator – The Dance Battle

YouTube video by Hayk_Animation

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

AMAZING! In several ways : * This video is AMAZING on an amazing number of levels. * Amazing that the algo has done us a disservice of this magnitude. * Amazing that this doesn't have thousands of likes. What's going on? C'mon peeps let's try to right a wrong! 💖

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Gleb Alexandrov @glebalexandrov.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Did you know this simple hack for Eevee to render nicer (aka more realistic-looking) translucency? #b3d 👇 www.creativeshrimp.com/eevee-fake-t... - the tutorial #blender3d #animation #realtime #eevee #3d

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Here i have a vertex rotating on the view axis, pivoting around the 3d cursor. I've made a circle to show the possible path of the vertex when it rotates. When i press Ctrl to snap (to the face) wouldnt we rather it snap to the point that circle intersects with the plane? 🤔

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Quick Blender PSA: Did you know in #b3d you can get different framerate playbacks depending on which window you press play in? Also, if you have lots of nodes even if muted and unplugged that can make a difference? Color me intrigued! ✨

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Gleb Alexandrov @glebalexandrov.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

As for the tomorrow's planned release of Color Grading in Render Raw mini-course - we've also renamed the Resolve chat and support channels on our Discord to 📟🎨-color-grading-chat and support - makes it a broader church as @AidyBurrows3D mentioned 😃 #b3d discord.com/invite/nNReR... < our Discord

Color grading with Render Raw - Blender add-on mini course

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Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I know it's a tough job market out there, but I realize not a lot of people who work in AA\AAA know about WorkWithIndies- but it's probably one of the best places to find off-the-beaten-path listings that you might not come across on LinkedIn. www.workwithindies.com/categories/a...

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Work With Indies - Job Categories

Work With Indies is a job board and a community for artists, designers, developers, and more, to find their next role working in indie games.

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Gleb Alexandrov @glebalexandrov.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Hey everyone, What's New in Blender 4.5 LTS! Official Overview is live! I'm talking about the Eevee changes in this video and @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social owned the compositor module overview! Thanks to @jonlampel.bsky.social for the opportunity! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPhA... #b3d #blender3d #3d

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What's New in Blender 4.5 LTS! Official Overview

YouTube video by Blender

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Gleb Alexandrov @glebalexandrov.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Just to let you know: our free LUT pack for Resolve (AgX, Filmic, OpenDRT and other pro view transforms from #b3d and not only) is now available on Gumroad too 👇🧵 creativeshrimp.gumroad.com/l/agx-luts

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Gleb Alexandrov @glebalexandrov.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Hey everyone, we've just shared a Cosmic Web Geometry Nodes setup for Blender. It is useful for creating superstructures resembling galactic filaments – that actually run super fast and are super well optimized thnx to @bradyajohnston.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjgu... #b3d #blender3d

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Gleb Alexandrov @glebalexandrov.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

A fantastic cosmic web #geonodes setup for Blender. It is useful for creating superstructures resembling galactic filaments – that actually run super fast. Based on the fastest Plexus by @bradyajohnston.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjgu... - the tutorial & the download #b3d #blender3d #3d

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Really impressed with this lighting addon. Light wrangler, as useful for lights as node wrangler is for nodes @glebalexandrov.bsky.social breaks it down here : youtu.be/L-dVsmOlzhU?...

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

New quick #b3d environment tutorial. youtu.be/KMmdUeB2UcY KISS: a good Blender exercise for reducing distraction and endless iteration is to just keep it simple. 😗😃

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Heads up for the amazing patreon folks, few new posts/videos just made live. 🥳 www.patreon.com/c/CreativeSh...

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Making 3d/ Blender tutorials/ gamedev/ music!! [Gleb and Aidy]

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

OUT NOW! 💥🥳 Game Asset Workflow: A Complete Blender Guide. 🕹️ What is it? 11+ Hrs! 😅 A Step-by-Step Guide to Modeling, Sculpting, Texturing, UVs, Optimization and Exporting for Game Engines. 🎮 Links ⬇️ blendermarket.com/products/Gam... creativeshrimp.gumroad.com/l/Game-Asset...

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Game Asset Workflow in Blender: Introduction / Promo Video

YouTube video by Gleb Alexandrov

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

OUT TOMORROW! This took a surprisingly long time to put together and we shrimpcerely hope you enjoy it. 🙂

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I wonder why height is not a bake option after #b3d v2.79 Or maybe a better question is why not add it as an option for cycles/eevee? I guess lack of demand? Does anyone miss this straightforward bake option? Rather than hacking it together with multires and shrinkwraps?

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Gleb Alexandrov @glebalexandrov.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Wow, @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social noticed that one of the updates for Godot 4.4 includes AgX! 🤯 p.s. ACES tone mapping left, AgX right. The snapshot with other Godot changes in 4.4: godotengine.org/article/dev-... #AgX #godot #godotengine #realtime #gamedev

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Gleb Alexandrov @glebalexandrov.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

New Realistic Terrain Library for Blender is out, here's a full review/walkthrough: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukRq... @classydogfilms.bsky.social 😱

mountains 3d render: Foundations of the Earth

Twisted mountains 3d render, Foundations of the Earth; Gleb Alexandrov in red fireman's gloves

Foundations of the Earth arid desert 3d render

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

40,000 people have now signed the Statement on AI Training, which says training gen AI on creative work without a license “must not be permitted”. Thank you to all who have signed. Still open ➡️ aitrainingstatement.org

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Gleb Alexandrov @glebalexandrov.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

A simple yet powerful trick to transform your Blender scenes with easy-to-follow lighting techniques 🦐😊 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCDi... p.s. can you also ring that bell icon or whatever it is on YouTube that makes you actually get notified about our videos? please 🥰 #b3d #3d #blender3d #lighting

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Gleb Alexandrov @glebalexandrov.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Have you seen/downloaded our SuperNoise freebie 3d texture? #b3d #blender3d #3d creativeshrimp.gumroad.com/l/supernoise

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Does anyone know how to rotate coord's in blender so that they never turn into streaks (as they do with the mapping node?) Here i'm simulating that of course we could just rotate the mesh in edit mode - but can that be done with vector nodes instead? 🤔

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Gleb Alexandrov @glebalexandrov.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

#b3d blueskiers! There's a new video drop on our Patreon. A very simple yet *very effective* lighting principle, to create a better-looking HDRI lighting in Blender, packed into a 17-min video. p.s. This technique itself is nothing new, still super useful for #3d. www.patreon.com/posts/use-th...

robo, soft and relatively flat hdri lighting

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

For extra ref & info around the same topic there's this great video from ages ago that pretty much sums it all up.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciXT... I'm currently just assuming that because of engines doing things slightly differently to blender that artifacts still happen in these extreme cases.

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Controlling Shading Behavior

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

[1] Has anyone ever had much success exporting a completely smoothed 6 sided cube with a normal map that's baked from a hi-res beveled cube into e.g. #GodotEngine ? It's never advisable to rely so heavily on a normal map with these extreme gradients...

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

some cool blender/godot experiments! 🙂

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Gleb Alexandrov @glebalexandrov.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Ppl storming Blender Market now as if the products will get sold any moment! 😂 p.s. Psssst... Our Creative Shrimp stuff is 30% off, it's ON SALE NOW. p.p.s. Blender Market is still offline. blendermarket.com

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Kushiro @kushiro.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

One of my free addon called "Safe Inset"😇 It is like blender inset, but prevent self-overlapping. And it is free ! #b3d kushiro.gumroad.com/l/iruis

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Gleb Alexandrov @glebalexandrov.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

We contribute to the Blender's dev fund, on a monthly basis. As @rileyb3d.bsky.social mentions, and that's on point, "There's a long way to go from 0.1% to 2% so GO make a difference and donate. I remember the last big dev-fund push changed the software forever (2.8)". Make a difference. #b3d

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Aidy Burrows @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

and @drsybren.bsky.social is rhythmical anchor and can be relied upon to be both solid and sweet amongst any level of rough and bitter seas! Can navigate all the sea/c's in fact, c++ and beyond! ✨

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Gleb Alexandrov @glebalexandrov.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

💥Some stats for how the experiment with releasing the Blender-to-Resolve course for free with the possibility of donating (donut-ing 🍩) some $ has worked out for us at Creative Shrimp! 🦐 10871 downloads so far $13328 in donations in total $1.23 per download (averaged) 🧵 #b3d #3d #davinciresolve 1/?

Blender-to-Resolve course, 10,871 downloads, a photo of the screen

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