That's a wrap on yet another year of #Mayterials! Huge thanks to everyone who checked out the materials, left comments gave their support along the way. I'll hopefully have all of the final renders up on my portfolio soon™!

Utah teapot has a new nemesis 🤣

all the mayterials I made using blender shader nodes #b3d #mayterials2025

me to my wife who has absolute zero interest: "look, they're finally fixing the uv editor in blender 4.5 & getting rid of that annoying sync select mode which made no sense & finally people from other DCC like maya and 3ds max can finally stop complaining, y'know what i mean??"

Material Maker 1.4b3 is now available for download on itch.io . Please don't hesitate to test it and report bugs. 😉 rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker…

.Jurij Andreev talked to us about the Echoes of Battle project, discussing making an atmospheric large-scale scene and detailing the creation of different types of rocks, terrain, and dragon remains using ZBrush, Blender, Substance 3D Painter, and Unreal Engine 5. Read the

Unpopular opinion: AI will NOT make people happier.

Real-time voxelized lighting is here. H-Trace WSGI now powers our custom nature renderer and terrain. Every tree is fully interactive—you can chop or destroy them, and the lighting updates instantly

.Pavel Oliva 🔶 shared a brief breakdown of his Ammonites on Archaeological Site material created with Material Maker for #Mayterials 2025. Read: 80.lv/articles/how-t…

🌀Swirly projectiles🌀 #IndieGameDev #indiegame #gamedev #unity

An Xbox producer advised laid-off employees to turn to AI for "emotional clarity & confidence". The post had to be quickly deleted after it caught attention. "Hey, ChatGPT, what should I do when I can't read the room?" Full story: 80.lv/articles/xbox-…

There's a lot to learn from the League of Legends style guide, and this blog post dives right into that! Learn about 10 design tips from the League style guide, and take a look at it yourself: vfxapprentice.com/blog/10-league… #vfx #rtvfx

Blender Foundation and the online developer community proudly present Blender 4.5 LTS! Vulkan, faster EEVEE, improved compositor, Geometry Nodes, nearly 500 bugs fixed, and so, so much more. 👉Release notes: blender.org/download/relea… 📺Video recap: youtube.com/watch?v=wPhA0i… #b3d

Stylized Electricity Breakdown ⚡ By using vertex colors, you can animate meshes like a "3D flipbook," giving you precise control over trail behavior. This technique is both flexible and saves performance, perfect for stylized effects. #realtimevfx #UE5 #VFX #gamedev

geometry nodes -> bullet physics pt.2: slinky #b3d #geometrynodes

AK concept practice