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What's New Blender 5.0 is good news across the board. For many, the biggest change is probably the full support for ACES pipelines, improved color management, and HDR capabilities. For others, it …

Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even …

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The splash of the last release for the 2.7x series features the main character from the latest open movie project by the Blender Animation Studio. Posed by Hjalti Hjalmarsson and lit by Andy Goralczyk.

The content of this chapter is simply a reference to how rigging is accomplished in Blender. It should be paired with additional resources such as Nathan Vegdahl’s excellent introduction to the fundamental …