3D Artist Gridhart has shared a new personal project, a short they never completed, featuring a "sun-whale" creature moving through a field of flowers. The whale itself was sculpted in ZBrush for iPad, with the rest of the work, rigging, animation, simulation, and rendering, done in Blender.

The artist's portfolio is full of nature-inspired, organic pieces. Have a look at this amazing hummingbird made with Geometry Nodes and "lots of damped track bones":

These explorations of the Spheres Intersections node from Higgsas' toolset are fantastic as well:

Now in beta, Blender 5.2 LTS adds experimental Geometry Nodes physics for hair and cloth simulation, a new Thin Wall rendering mode, and more. See Pau Homs' tutorial on the Paint Filter node, which turns renders into painterly visuals:

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