Prototyping with real-world scenarios, even fictional ones, is one of the best ways to sharpen skills, so here's a "client-style" exercise: a website hero animation.
Keeping motion clean in hero sections is trickier than it looks. Every bit of movement needs to earn its place, or...
The new Blender 5.2 LTS includes the Essentials Library with some beautiful procedural materials! Since they're procedural, you can scale them however you like without having to worry about tiling. Definitely check it out if you haven't already.