Blender has long been our pick as the best free 3D modelling software. Now, Blender Studio has released its 16th open movie, Project Gold, and it will be sharing the project files and brushstroke tools for achieving the film's painterly look in Blender 4.3.
Project Gold premiered at the Blender Conference 2024 in October and was released online on Thursday, 7 November. Here's how to watch it – and get the tools.
Project Gold is billed as "a story from the heart, a metaphorical journey into the depths of human experience that explores the fragility of life and our capacity for resilience and inner transformation." It has an impressionistic, poetic aesthetic and showcases advanced rendering techniques like light linking, Simulation Nodes, Geometry Nodes-based tools, extending the viewport compositor and interactive image processing and art-directable, stylized, non-photorealistic rendering with Cycles.
The open movie can be viewed on the Blender YouTube channel. Meanwhile, project files and painterly brushstroke tools to get the look of the movie are available as add-ons on the Extensions platform. There's also a workshop, and you can also see the project log files if you subscribe to Blender Studio.
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