Testing out some variants of Blender’s new built‑in materials. Making something pretty feels almo...

Testing out some variants of Blender’s new built‑in materials. Making something pretty feels almo...Testing out some variants of Blender’s new built‑in materials. Making something pretty feels almo...

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Zak Smith

pro

• 5h

Testing out some variants of Blender’s new built‑in materials. Making something pretty feels almost effortless right now!

Blender 3D Design 3D Modeling 3D Rendering

Zak Smith

pro

• Jul 28

What actually makes a product render feel alive? Here's the same tube taken through three stages; clay pass, a clean static render, and finally pushed motion blur a lot. Same geometry, same lighting setup. The only thing that changed was direction. Built entirely in Blender.

Emeelya Urueshe

• Jul 28

I envy you guys that can create wonderful stuff on blender... I'm always so overwhelmed by it

Max Iriani

pro

• Jul 28

Playing around with a scroll-driven 3D animation in Framer.

The "3D" is actually just a video. The animation was made in Blender (not by me), then I exported it as a video and used a component that syncs the video playback with the scroll position.

Pretty cool way to get a 3D-like effect without embedding a real 3D scene.

The quality might look a bit off in places, but I think that's because the animation itself is pretty fast. I'll probably slow it down and see if that improves it.

Framer Blender freelancerlife

Eric Moore

pro

• Jul 28

I used the same setup for a 73-second Seedance film, with scroll controlling video playback. The tricky part was hiding the seams between generated clips so the scrub still felt continuous.

Lindsey Morgan

pro

• Jul 28

Brand design has been really fun lately.

Here's a glimpse of a few recent projects, as I try to find the time to build out full portfolio pieces. 😅

brandidentity branddesign Jitter

Maty Sandoval

max

• Jul 29

That resort mark moving into the pool shot sells the whole mood in two seconds flat, Jitter was clearly worth learning. Is the portfolio backlog piling up because paid work keeps winning out, or is it more the classic struggle to make time for your own stuff?