Last week we took a brief look at the news that Autodesk had released an affordable Indie version of Maya, and that the Blender Foundation had simultaneously released the long-awaited version 2.8.

Tired of re-creating shaders from scratch? Import-Maya-Shaders offers a free solution to convert Maya’s aiStandardSurface shaders to Blender’s Principled BSDF—just don’t expect it to handle your ...

Over the years I've said many times: "If there exists a file format, someone has written an importer for blender". Figured it was time for me to take a stab at it. So I found this repo, and spent a ...

TL;DR: Pixie Pivot lets Blender users yank control of pivots and gizmos like Maya: snap, align, rotate and origin‑shift with precision. New Blender add‑on Pixie Pivot gives users granular control over ...

Using Blender to draw objects from scratch is pretty daunting, especially if you are trying to create something highly complex, such as a face. Blender (free) is pretty daunting to someone who’s never ...

This is my personal setup for blender that merges my muscle memory from using maya, zbrush, mirai and the SFM with most of the blender defaults with some key changes. I am posting my python scripts ...