80 LEVEL·49wClean Animation on Glass Buttons
Reijo creates stunning glass-like button animations using Blender, featuring smooth flipping motions and candy-like visual effects. The artist's 3D work includes interactive UI elements like yes/no options and login forms, showcasing advanced motion design techniques for creating realistic glass materials and smooth button interactions.
80 LEVEL·47wStudent Breaks Down Bringing Lifelike Polar Bear To Life In 3D
A Gnomon student created a highly realistic 3D polar bear in just 10 weeks, featuring advanced muscle, fat, and skin simulations, procedural hair grooming, facial rigging with motion capture, and complex anatomical systems. The project showcased innovative procedural workflows in Houdini for muscle activation and automated rigging processes, combined with facial motion capture using MocapX for lifelike expressions.
80 LEVEL·49wBeautiful Liquid Glass Effect Made with Three.js
Web developer Faraz Shaikh created a liquid glass effect using Three.js JavaScript 3D library. The effect features smooth drop-like shapes using MeshPhysicalMaterial with ray-marched surfaces built from Signed Distance Fields (SDFs). The demo and source code are available online, showcasing advanced 3D rendering techniques for creating realistic glass materials in web browsers.
80 LEVEL·50wImpressive 3D Tongue Rig Made in Blender
A 3D artist showcased an impressive tongue rigging system for a character created in Blender. The rig demonstrates realistic movement and lighting effects, particularly when compared to the low-poly version. The character is part of an ongoing project that includes detailed facial expressions created using motion capture technology.
Community Picks·49wLighting: Where 3D Comes to Life
Learn how to create realistic lighting effects in CSS 3D scenes by understanding light source characteristics like distance, direction, size, intensity, warmth, and quantity. The tutorial covers using color-mix() function to blend colors for highlights and shadows, creating cast shadows with clip-path property, and applying lighting to complex 3D objects like a CSS chicken character.
80 LEVEL·47wSakura Rabbit's Cool Real-Time Clothes Wrinkle Effect on Mobile
3D artist Sakura Rabbit demonstrates a real-time cloth wrinkle effect running on mobile devices using Unity. The showcase features fabric simulation with stockings that performs well on smartphones, proving that complex real-time rendering effects can be optimized for mobile platforms. The project is available through the artist's Fanbox page.
Low Level Game Dev·47wShould you start with OpenGL or Vulkan?
OpenGL is significantly easier to learn than Vulkan for beginners, requiring 10 times less code to render basic graphics. While Vulkan offers better performance and more control, it demands extensive programming experience and complex debugging. OpenGL remains viable for many applications and provides a better foundation for understanding graphics programming concepts before potentially transitioning to Vulkan.
DesignCourse·49wI built a 3D Web App for Guitarists in 6 days with Cursor
A developer created an interactive 3D web application in 6 days to help guitarists learn fret note locations on the guitar neck. The app uses real-time audio detection to identify played notes and gamifies the learning process with visual feedback. Built with Next.js, Spline 3D for the 3D interface, and Web Audio API for note detection, the project demonstrates rapid development using Cursor AI coding assistant. The app features adjustable note duration, background music, virtual fretboard display, and works with both electric guitars and acoustic guitars via microphone input.
80 LEVEL·51wCheck Out This Charming Scene Created with Feather 3D
3D Artist Ram demonstrates creating charming street scenes using Feather 3D, a mobile app that enables 3D modeling through sketching. The app allows users to draw and erase in 3D space with pen input, rotate objects, set up lighting, and includes AR viewing capabilities. Ram's work showcases the app's versatility for creating detailed 3D artwork directly on mobile devices.
WebKit·47wA step into the spatial web: The HTML model element in Apple Vision Pro
visionOS 26 introduces the HTML model element as a default feature, enabling developers to embed 3D USDZ models directly in web pages for Apple Vision Pro. The element provides a simple API for displaying stereoscopic 3D content with features like orbit mode for user interaction, entity transforms for positioning, environment mapping for realistic lighting, and animation controls similar to video elements. The implementation supports the spatial web vision by making 3D content integration easier than traditional WebXR approaches.
Hacker News·51wAdamCAD: AI Powered CAD
AdamCAD is an AI-powered CAD platform that generates 3D designs from text prompts in seconds. It offers text-to-CAD functionality, image-to-3D conversion, parameter-based refinement, and integration with professional CAD software. The tool aims to accelerate prototyping for hardware teams by enabling rapid 3D model creation through natural language descriptions.
80 LEVEL·48wiCity Gets New Terrain Editing Tools & Road System Enhancements
iCity 1.5, a procedural city generator for Blender, introduces enhanced road systems with highway conversion capabilities, custom intersection presets, and improved road customization options. The update includes new terrain editing tools, a background export system supporting multiple formats (GLB/GLTF, FBX, USD), and enhanced park and green area block controls. Additional improvements cover UV mapping, texture resolution handling, and overall performance stability.
Gamefromscratch·50wBlender 4.5 - Vulkan Has Arrived!
Blender 4.5 beta introduces Vulkan rendering support as its major feature, offering significant performance improvements but requiring manual activation. The release includes quality-of-life improvements like dual scroll wheel support for navigation, multi-object UV viewing without edit mode, customizable properties panel visibility, and enhanced geometry nodes with new import nodes and better organization tools. However, this version marks the end of Intel Mac support and removes Collada file format support, while adding improvements to glTF, USD, and FBX export capabilities.