A quick reminder for all Blender enthusiasts:Next week I’ll be starting two training courses for BlenderFundamentals: ⭐ pixeltrain Blender Academy – Fundamentals (with Senior Blender trainer Helge Maus)starting from January 20th, remote, in 🇬🇧 English:👉 shorturl.at/e8NG3 ⭐ Blender Grundlagen Schulung (mit Senior Blender Trainer Helge Maus)in collaboration with the Visualisierungs-Akademie Schweiz GmbHJanuary 23rd + 24th, remote, in 🇩🇪 German:👉 shorturl.at/cXWj4 There are still seats available in both courses 🙂I’m lookingRead More
Let’s go into a successful and creative year 2025. If you want to learn Blender in a structured and practice-proven way, then I would like to introduce you to our pixeltrain Blender Academy. With our module course system you build your own learning path tailored to your needs. The modules can be booked separately according to needs and prior knowledge. pixeltrain’s Academy is characterized by small learning groups, well-structured unitsRead More
Just published a short Blender tutorial on YouTube. It’s about the changes and improvements of the keyframing workflow in Blender 4.1 . This video was recorded some time ago for my Patreon page (👉 https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d ) and thanks to my supporters it’s now also on YouTube: 👉 https://youtu.be/v9ZjkkUVVr8?si=2VgKLISXoMI44RSe Have fun! Helge
Today I want to share another amazing and beautiful Blender shortfilm project with the name „Wildheart“. The goal of the makers of this short is to make a feature-length film in the future. So they started with this short film. I hope you like it as much as I do! It tells the story of the bond between two street living kids as they search for a sense of family.Read More
Some time ago I’ve written about the Shortfilm “Supertramp” by Fabrizio Gammardella. It was made in Blender by a small team of talented artists. At the moment there is the opportunity to watch it in the free section of the Festival del Cinema di Salerno. https://show.festivaldelcinema.it/animazione/supertramp/ The film is heartbreaking on one side, but also a wonderful experience to watch. The animation of the dog and the communication without wordsRead More
This series „Blender for Production“ focuses on Blender as a full Production Suite for (Indie) 3D- & VFX Productions. I will explain how to work with the different Modules of Blender and how they are connected. Also, I will give you an introduction to the specific functionalities, but also the production context and workflows, which can help you to use Blender in your productions. In this tutorial we will talk aboutRead More
The End of the year brings us time to reflect, relax and to learn something new! Let’s start learning Blender with our „pixeltrain Blender Fundamentals – Fast Forward“ publication. 👉 YouTube Trailer More than 20+ hours of content in over 114 lessons.Learn everything you need to know for beginners and folks from other 3D applications. Our gift for you is a Holiday Voucher for VIMEO VOD or GUMROAD.Use „XMAS2022“ atRead More
Here is the next lesson of the Tracking Workshop. This time we will talk about semi-automatic tracking, which is a way of adding many trackers for shots, where you don’t want to add supervised trackers. Hope you like the lesson 🙂
Shortly after Sprite Fright, Blender Studio has today announced the next Blender Studio Project. The goal is to develop a high-visual-impact, action-packed 2-minutes-long animation, which is is inspired by the game cinematics and realtime demos formats. The main goals, beside of making a great short like always, are: – Challenge Blender and the creative team to make characters and environments at an unprecedented level of realism and complexity – PushRead More
In todays lesson we will dive into the Camera-Tracking Workflow of a scene inside Blender 3.0 . You will learn about “good and bad trackers”, solving strategies, build a reconstruction scene and most important, how to get your solve error down. Hope you like it! Helge In this tutorial series, we will talk about Blender as a solution for 3D Camera and Object Tracking. Step by Step you will learnRead More