Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 11hThe Curve Loop Tool is a really powerful tool for making smooth curvature. #B3D #Blender #Blender3D 04915
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Another quick motion graphics tip: Blender has some really nice presets for bouncy animation. #Blender #B3D #Blender3D 0309
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A useful trick for when you want to subdivide a mesh made with a boolean union, using the Triangulate modifier. #Blender #B3D #Blender3D 0195
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Here's a quick Geometry Nodes setup for animated text reveal. #Blender #B3D #Blender3D 0219
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 27/09/2026One of those to classify under "how did I not know this in years of Blender use?" - Did you know you can choose a transformation axis merely by holding the middle mouse button? #B3D #Blender #Blender3D 3275
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Three quick ways to mark Edges as Sharp in Blender. #B3D #Blender #Blender3D 0275
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Here's a couple of methods I use for cleaning up topology, after applying a boolean to a surface. #B3D #Blender #Blender3D 2285
Reposted by Jan van den HemelMatt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 24/09/2026Finished the first stage, the blockout, of a great Blender hard surface modeling tutorial from @blendersecrets.bsky.social. Next up seems to be retopology. Here's a playblast of a matcap, since no materials have been created yet. #blender3d #b3d #blender 1163
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Today's tip: How to make a diagonal cut through your mesh, without distorting it, with the Knife and Bisect tools. #Blender3D #B3D #Blender 06312
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Here's how you can use Kushiro's free Curve Face Color add-on together with Exoside's paid Quad Remesher add-on to quickly retopo hard surface meshes. Longer vid on YouTube. #B3D #Blender3D #Blender 0213
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I try to post a short Blender tip video every day, day 2 (so far so good...) How to prepare topology before boolean cutting using Shrinkwrap?? #Blender #B3D #Blender 2598
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Some methods for resolving surface pinching. #B3D #Blender3D #Blender 1346
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Seems that most people use HDRI's, and some only use them for reflections, using Area lights for everything else. Besides Gaffer, what other good add-ons for lighting would you recommend? I know that Light Wrangler is also great (makes light linking much easier for one). #Blender #Blender3D #B3D 272
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 11/09/2026For a long time I used HDRI's as a crutch for lighting, but recently I've been enjoying Area lights in Blender a lot. They're really fun for 'sculpting' the light. #B3D #Blender3D #Blender 0222
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Another 'smartphone camera' render, it's fun to make. #B3D #Blender #Blender3D 0180
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Just a quick test with the "camera controller" add-on for Blender, which lets you control the Blender camera with your (Android) smartphone. It makes it look realistic! Render for my "pocket Blender device" course on 3dSecrets.com #Blender #B3D #Blender3D 0272
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A little render from my "pocket blender device" hard surface modeling course. #Blender #B3D #Blender3D 1274
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I made a new video about how to use @Exoside3D's Quad Remesher as well as @kushirosea's add-on "Curve Face Colour" for a very easy and reliable boolean to subdivision topology workflow in #Blender. Watch it on YouTube: youtu.be/Ut9A1WiGFgw #b3D #Blender3Dyoutu.beBooleans to Subdivision Topology - how to use Quad Remesher for hard surface - Blender SecretsYouTube video by Blender Secrets 0191
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 31/08/2026About 14 hours left on the discount on my Blender e-book. A good time to get it! #Blender #B3D #Blender3D 171
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I'm pretty sloppy when it comes to Blend file naming conventions and my hard drive is pure chaos. But I can find any file in seconds. How? Read more short blog post: www.3dsecrets.com/blog28082026 #Blender #B3D #Blender3D3dsecrets.comBlog 28082026 Finding Files — BLENDER SECRETS 062
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Wrote a short blog post about struggles with Rigid Bodies in Blender. www.3dsecrets.com/blog27082026 #Blender #B3D #Blender3D3dsecrets.comBlender Rigid Bodies - Everything explodes! — BLENDER SECRETS 051
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Get the Blender Secrets book now with a big discount, until midnight 31st of August. #Blender #B3D #Blender3D 0104
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 21/08/2026In this video we look at 11 methods for keeping corners of 3d models sharp in Blender, and we briefly go over how Normals work. youtu.be/Xi2TjaG3-14 #B3D #Blender3D #Blenderyoutu.be11 methods for sharp corners in BlenderYouTube video by Blender Secrets 1255
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 01/08/2026With this technique, it's easy to add details to the surface. No more tedious connecting of geometry. Just some modifiers. And you can apply the modifiers once you want to export the model. Get my hard surface modeling course now with a big discount on www.3dsecrets.com #Blender #Blender3D #B3D 0407
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 29/07/2026It seems that the Box Carve tool (part of Bool Tool) was improved quite a bit in Blender 5.2, have you noticed? #Blender #B3D #Blender3D 1312
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Just discovered this: The free Booltron cutter add-on lets you work non-destructively on Curve and Text objects. #Blender #B3D #Blender3D 1275
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Here's a 1-minute how-to for the new Thin Wall feature, and which settings to adjust for maximum effect. #Blender #B3D #Blender3D 0468
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I've been using Blender 5.2 alpha and now beta for a while now, but I've never been able to install extensions. Is this normal? I always get a "certificate verification error". #Blender #B3D #Blender3D 1100
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 07/07/2026In this video we look at setting up the nodes for tearing cloth apart in Blender 5.2. Longer video on my YouTube channel. #Blender #B3D #Blender3D 0264
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 06/07/20266 Tips for making Hard Surface details like Panel Cuts www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZFn... #B3D #Blender3D #Blender 0191
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 06/07/20262 methods for making panel cuts using modifiers in Blender #Blender #B3D #Blender3D 0182
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Did you know you can paint panel cuts directly on your Normal map with UcuPaint? #blender3d #b3d 0296
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Placing details on a surface is easy with the Instance on Elements modifier (and node) that was added in Blender 5.0. #Blender #B3D #Blender3D 0517
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Easy panel cuts with the Mesh Filter in Sculpt mode. Later we can bake it to a Normal map. #Blender #B3D #Blender3D 0241
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Timelapse of modeling, sculpting and baking a mech head #B3D #Blender #Blender3D 0211
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Cloth Tearing is now easy with Blender 5.2 thanks to some Geometry Nodes-powered modifiers. #Blender #B3D #Blender3D 1418
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Sculpting sharp corners perfectly can be tricky, but the Curve Stroke Method is the solution. If you'd like to learn more about Hard Surface sculpting, check out my course which has a 50% discount at the moment, until Sunday night: 3DSecrets.com #Blender #B3D #Blender3D 0348
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 28/06/2026New Patreon video: creating an animation-ready cat character in Blender (part 1 - base mesh and sculpt) www.patreon.com/BlenderSecre... #Blender #B3D #Blender3Dpatreon.comAnimation-ready cat - part 1 (Base Mesh, Sculpting) | Jan van den HemelAnimation-ready cat - part 1 (Base Mesh, Sculpting) by Jan van den Hemel on Patreon. Join Jan van den Hemel's community for exclusive content and updates. 081
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Easiest panel cuts in Blender. #Blender #B3D #Blender3D 0382
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 23/06/2026As a preview for my Hard Surface sculpting course, I just published a new lesson on YouTube. I'm currently running a sale for this course until Sunday evening. Watch it here: youtu.be/_6uBdIsvm7c #Blender #B3D #Blender3D 0110
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Have you ever wondered how you can extrude in Sculpt Mode? This can be useful for example for creating hard surface concepts. In this blog post, we look at doing just that, as well as how to use the Stroke Method for more accurate masks. www.3dsecrets.com/secrets/extr... #Blender #B3D #Blender3D 0172
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 18/06/20267 Blender Sculpting Tips #Blender #B3D #Blender3D from www.3DSecrets.com 0306
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 17/06/2026In this sample from my E-book, we look at the Double Subdiv method, where we combine two modifiers with different settings to quickly create an all-quads base mesh, for further detailing with Alpha brushes. www.3dsecrets.com/secrets/doub... #Blender #B3D #Blender3D 0101
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Some progress towards a cat base mesh shape... #B3D 0201
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Part 1 of modeling / sculpting a cat - how to create a base mesh easily from 2D planes. #blender #b3d #Blender3D 0207
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Curves are very useful modeling tools! There's a few ways you can create them in Blender. #Blender #B3D #Blender3D 0287
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Sometimes you want instances along an Array to deform, sometimes you want them to preserve their shape. Here's how to do both! #Blender #B3D #Blender3D 0163
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 05/06/2026New video: Model Perfect railings using Curve and Array techniques in Blender - youtu.be/_1OLudY5qQY #Blender #B3D #Blender3D 1253
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Just a few hours left on my sale - get my book or any of my courses with 30% discount! #blender #b3d #blender3D www.3Dsecrets.com 0101
Jan van den Hemel @blendersecrets.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Does anyone here know to get normals from volumetric clouds? Asking for a friend. #houdini #Bnpr 120
