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World Building in Blender - Ian Hubert

Ian Hubert's Blender Conference talk on world building in Blender, covering photogrammetry, camera projection and assembling complex environments from simple shapes at great speed.

Why HN readers recommended it

HN considers it a fantastic, mind-blowing talk that shows how a single skilled artist can build detailed VFX scenes quickly.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Blender
Topic
3d world building
Format
talk
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
4
HN mentions in dataset
5
Recommendation years in dataset
2019–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • Very similar one: [LINK] I also loved his Blender Conference talk about World building: [VIDEO] Here he talk about how to build very complex environment with very simple shapes/approaches with incredible speed.

    iamcreasy on Hacker News · 2020-07
    In Blender green screen VFX of incredible detail – made by a single person
  • I love Ian Hubert's demos of green screening in Blender. [LINK] His Blender Conference talk about photogrammetry / camera projection / projection mapping was fantastic: World Building in Blender - Ian Hubert [VIDEO]

    DonHopkins on Hacker News · 2026-03
    In The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying
  • A [1] video essay about modern art by Jacob Geller. For me, it completely reversed my opinion on modern art and it's worth. This [2] talk about building worlds in Blender by Ian Hubert. [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO]

    gitgud on Hacker News · 2019-12
    In Ask HN: Best Talks of 2019?

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