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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Only a couple hours left... not looking to be the case.

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I could use a win today. If you have an extra one laying around you could lend me, that would be appreciated.

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I love it when people realize that well written sci-fi is rarely about all the good and pure things we do as humans.

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You spend the better part of a week making a YouTube tutorial series about a pretty cool and useful add-on. Breaking it into smaller parts to make it easier to watch. You finally get it all published and 24 hours later lose half a dozen subscribers 🤷

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Apart from my Blender channel, I've got a 2nd YouTube channel I've been getting going slowly about guitar. I'd love it if you stopped by and subscribe if you think it's a cool idea. Here is a video of me trying out some guitar sounds yesterday afternoon with #TONEX. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzKr...

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TONEX 2 Beta + Joe Satriani Amp Pack | Just Playing, No Talking

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The outline currently sits at 20 parts and I think it will probably have at least 5 to 10 more by the time I'm done fleshing it out. I don't know if I can pull this off or not. Worth it? Would it get watched? I don't know. That's a lot of effort.

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I spent a few hours today outlining a new @blender.org beginner's course. It would go from someone who just downloaded the program through building a character, rigging it and animating it. All with no AI tools.

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Masking pretty hard today. By the end of the work day I was worn out from trying to be productive.

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My Son who is a med student keeps telling me that I need to drink way more water than I do. So opposite ends of the spectrum I guess.

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

remember, the dose makes the poison.

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Part 2 of the solar system generator video is up 🪐 We dive into a use case for closures that lets planets define their own shape right from the bundle instead of being hardcoded. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n97l... #Blender3D #GeometryNodes #closures

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Part 2: How I Made My Solar System Generator Infinitely Customizable with Closures

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It took me a second to realize what un-derfed meant. I need more sleep.

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In the land of high functioning depression, critical self-talk is the coin of the realm. To cut off that currency helps bring down that cursed economy.

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

New video: I built a solar system in Blender 5.2 using typed and nested bundles. Check it out the lesson. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYau... #Blender #GeometryNodes #b3d

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Typed Bundles in Blender 5.2 — Build a Declarative Solar System (Geometry Nodes)

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"I'll mourn for a kid, but won't cry for a king" - Neon Gravestones by Twenty One Pilots.

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A comically not to scale animation from an upcoming video on using bundles in #Blender #geometrynodes.

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

New video out now, I cover how to use closures in Blender geometry nodes in as simple a way as I could come up with. youtu.be/BqMos-6sSy4

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Geometry Nodes Closures: Plug-and-Play Functions Explained

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Here’s an animation from a video I’m currently working on. It’s all about practical uses for Geometry Nodes Closures. #blender3d #geometrynodes

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Looks great! Nice work. Thanks for your contribution to the world of CG.

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Yeah, I realize I'm small potatoes. So it's nice to be noticed, but maybe not by so many "AI text to 3d model" companies. If I were only a sell out. 🤣

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I get offers to promote AI gen art tools on my YouTube channel frequently. I turn them down. I finally got a real proposal for partnering with a company whose products I've used for years, and so I emailed back about my interest and I get, "we are sorry, this project has been put on hold". Go figure

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I'm still kinda working that out. I'd love to do a full on cartoon with them, but we will see where that idea lands. I've not really been pushing this on my socials much as I'm not dialed in yet. 😊

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

These are 2 of his buddies, Gus and Pellet

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

thanks 😊 I’ve been working on a bevy of characters and this guy is the newest addition. He might be the one

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

There is a little checkbox in Blender 5.3 beta that I’ve been waiting for. The miter scale option fixes those curve to mesh corners! youtu.be/OdSzAk49WKA

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Why Your Curve to Mesh Corners Always Looked Wrong (Fixed in 5.3!)

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

That is one of the things that makes a tool like Blender so great. You have the flexibility to work in so many mediums in the same workspace. I just hope my videos inspire someone to make something awesome, even if it has nothing to do with what I showed.

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Blender 5.3 alpha just added a node that fixes one of the parts of Geometry Nodes that always felt cumbersome: Getting materials from the object to the new geonode geometry. Here's my new video about it. youtu.be/RyFM3W2hlF4 #Blender #GeometryNodes #B3D #Blender3D

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Finally, Materials That Make Sense in Geometry Nodes (Blender 5.3)

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I was happy to see something come along to make this a pinch more intuitive.

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Makes me want to fly an unsanctioned mission in an F16

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This is one interesting way I've been testing to pass in things like curves or color ramps (things that don't have node UI expressions)

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I had a problem creating reusable assets for my animation actions in Blender. So I came up with a decent workflow to make it more simple. Create A Library of Animations Easily youtu.be/f9uYth3KqEU

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Create A Library of Animations Easily

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

My 2070S is getting old, but the cash flow doesn't allow for a good upgrade.

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

If you want to know how to publish your assets to github, I've made a tutorial walkthrough video to show you how: youtu.be/n76BApmMwR8

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How to Host Your Blender Asset Library Online for Free with GitHub! Full Walkthrough

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I'm putting together a web page that is a clearing house for Online Asset Library URLs. johnnygizmo.github.io/blender-asse... There are only a few on there to start (mine, cgmatter, and ambiencg), but I'd love submissions for it if you have one you would like listed.

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Blender Asset Phonebook

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Can't wait to see what you come up with!

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I created some new Boolean utility nodes for Blender geometry nodes. You can get them for free from my online asset library. Check out the video for all the info! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEfk...

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Power Up Your Blender Booleans with my Free New Nodes

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

If you are having trouble getting the new cloth dynamics in Blender 5.2 beta working, I've just uploaded a getting started video where I walk through the basics: pinning, collisions, tearing, etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQQb...

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Blender 5.2 Cloth Dynamics - Getting Started with Johnny

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I posted a video today on how to add cloth stitching to the new Cloth Dynamics node coming in Blender 5.2. I bet we are going to see a lot of cool stuff with the XPBD solver www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_lJ...

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Adding Stitching to the New Blender Cloth Dynamics Node

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Johnny Matthews @johnnygizmo.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I've started using it for product renders at my day job. The marketing dept wants pretty large renders, so splitting them up and rendering them over several machines has been great.

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