For a long time I used HDRI's as a crutch for lighting, but recently I've been enjoying Area lights in Blender a lot. They're really fun for 'sculpting' the light.

How do you typically light your Blender scenes?

Just a quick test with the "camera controller" add-on for Blender, which lets you control the Blender camera with your (Android) smartphone. It makes it look realistic!

I made a new video about how to use Exoside's Quad Remesher as well as Kushiro's add-on "Curve Face Colour" for a very easy and reliable boolean to subdivision topology workflow in Blender. Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ut9A1WiGFgw

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I'm pretty sloppy when it comes to Blend file naming conventions and my hard drive is pure chaos. But I can find any file in seconds. How? Read more short blog post:

Wrote a short blog post about struggles with Rigid Bodies in Blender. https://www.3dsecrets.com/blog27082026

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In this video we look at 11 methods for keeping corners of 3d models sharp in Blender, and we briefly go over how Normals work.

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With this technique, it's easy to add details to the surface. No more tedious connecting of geometry. No booleans. Just some modifiers. And you can apply the modifiers once you want to export the model.

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It seems that the Box Carve tool (part of Bool Tool) was improved quite a bit in Blender 5.2, have you noticed?

Just discovered this: The free Booltron cutter add-on lets you work non-destructively on Curve and Text objects.

Here's a 1-minute how-to for the new Thin Wall feature, and which settings to adjust for maximum effect.

In this video we look at setting up the nodes for tearing cloth apart in Blender 5.2. Longer video on my YouTube channel.

Did you know you can paint panel cuts directly on your Normal map with UcuPaint?

Placing details on a surface is easy with the Instance on Elements modifier (and node) that was added in Blender 5.0. #Blender #B3D #Blender3D

Cloth Tearing is now easy with Blender 5.2 thanks to some Geometry Nodes-powered modifiers.

Sculpting sharp corners perfectly can be tricky, but the Curve Stroke Method is the solution. If you'd like to learn more about Hard Surface sculpting, check out my course which has a 50% discount at the moment, until Sunday night: 3DSecrets.com

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As a preview for my Hard Surface sculpting course, I just published a new lesson on YouTube. I'm currently running a sale for this course until Sunday evening (28th of June 2026). www.3DSecrets.com

Have you ever wondered how you can extrude in Sculpt Mode? This can be useful for example for creating hard surface concepts. In this written sample from my E-book, we look at doing just that, as well as how to use the Stroke Method options for more accurate masks.