Denoise - A Podcast about Blender

Worldbuilding with Ludicrous Energy ft. Ian Hubert

Ian Hubert is a legendary Blender VFX artist who is best known for directing the Blender open movie project, Tears of Steel, authoring the Lazy Tutorial series on YouTube

Perfectionism and Standing Up for the Story ft. Sintel Director and Pixar Artist Colin Levy

In many ways, Colin Levy has lived the dream of many Blender artists. He directed the Blender open movie, Sintel, right out of college, landed a job at Pixar, and later q

What's New with Blender Guru ft. Andrew Price

Andrew Price, a.k.a. Blender Guru, has been a notable member of the Blender community for many years and recently passed 3 million subscribers on YouTube. Kent and Jonath

Working with Huge Assets in Blender to Promote Borderlands for Entertainment Weekly

Blender was used to produce a motion magazine cover for Entertainment Weekly as part of their promoting the new Borderlands movie. Guest host Jason van Gumster speaks wit

The State of Blender YouTube ft. Ducky 3D, Bad Normals, and Riley Brown

Jonathan talks with YouTubers Nathan, Martin, and Riley at BCON LA about what their experience has been like teaching Blender online, how they make a living (certainly no

From Maya Beta Tester to Creating a Feature Length Open Movie ft. Blender Bob

Kent is no stranger to community projects, after having directed three large collaborations in the CG Cookie community, and he was especially interested in talking with B

How Hollywood VFX Studios Get Introduced to Blender ft. Chris Parks of Barnstorm

Kent Trammell sits down with Chris Parks of Barnstorm VFX at BCON LA to hear the unique story of how he found his way into the VFX industry and how he's used Blender on b

Why Blender is Getting so Good at Animation ft. Brad Clark, Sir Wade, and Luciano

The animation system in Blender has been undergoing quite the overhaul recently, and the developers are turning one of the software's weaker areas into one of its strengt

Blender vs. the VFX Industry ft. FlippedNormals

Blender’s recent surge in popularity has not shown any signs of slowing. As artists pick it up for the first time and discover how powerful it is, they often wonder wheth

Fueling Artistic Creativity

Creativity is, at its essence, a type of problem-solving. It is fundamental to our work as 3D artists and needs to be cultivated over time. Not everyone goes about that t

How Scary are AI Art Generators?

Neural network-based text to image generators have been around for quite a while now, but only in the last year or so have gotten good enough to capture the attention of

Rookie Blender Mistakes We All Make

Making mistakes is an inevitable part of learning any discipline, and we've all made more than our fair share while working in Blender. In this episode, Jonathan, Chris,

The GPL and the Legal Limits of What You Can Do with Blender

Jay, Jason, and Jonathan get together to talk about why Blender's license matters. Most people know that Blender is free, but not everyone knows that wasn’t always the ca

How Long Does It Take to Learn Blender?

Jonathan, Kent, and Adrian discuss what it was like to learn Blender, why learning any 3D software is universally experienced as challenging, and what beginners can reaso

Hot Takes on Charge, Blender Studio's Latest Short Film

Tim von Reuden, our friend and former CG Cookie concept instructor, drops by to talk to Kent, Wayne, and Jonathan about the story, visuals, and importance of Blender's la