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Benchmarking Version Control Solutions for Creative CollaborationA performance
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Rigging ShadersLearn about our method to control properties of shaders on linked
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Fighting (with) Grease PencilAnimating a boxer in 2D, using Grease Pencil, from
a 3D animator's perspective.
Wing It! A Lesson in the Mixture of Layout and PrevisDirector of Animation
Hjalti shares his knowledge and experience on layout and previs, key steps in
productions.


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Blender 4.3 Beta is here!

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Results from Google Summer of Code 2024

Discover the final reports of the six exciting projects of GSoC 2024.

VSE Workshop: August 2024

Write up on the workshop around the Video Sequence Editor that took place at the
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Online Assets Workshop Report

Remote Asset Libraries design and improvements on assets organization.


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