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Cause of black artifacts in render?

I was following this tutorial on creating a watch and noticed that when I rendered the watch, some pieces were messed up. I'm new to 3D modeling and I've just learned Blender, I can't explain it well, so here's a picture: Other examples: I don't…
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How to give an image or video a TV screen effect?

I thought it would be interesting to create a .blend that filters any regular video or image with vintage television look. Edit: Although this question initially arose from my desire to create a vintage look, it has since been pointed out in a…
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Toggle wireframe mode with hotkey

How do I toggle in and out of wireframe mode with my keyboard? Is there a hotkey for this? I'm a beginner (obviously). I thought I could find this in the "view" menu, but it either doesn't exist or I have horrendous eyesight. Thanks!
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Select every other face loop

How can I select every other edge loop. In this example its not too bad to do it manually but it other cases it might be. How can I easily select alternating face loops?
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How can I create a convincing sea material in Cycles without using the ocean modifier?

I'm trying to render a sea scene animation, but using the ocean modifier and huge subdivisions isn't feasible due to the large scale. Luckily it's a calm sea and seen from quite a distance, but there still should be some kind of animated movement or…
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How can I make a wrought iron basket?

I'm want to know how to make something like the wrought iron shapes as shown in the picture.
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How to animate morphing a rectangular plane into a sphere

How to make a grid-to-sphere animation like this?
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Jump/Scroll to selected object in the outliner?

How can I jump to the selected object in the out-liner, I've got over 200 objects in my scene, all named cube.___ ... and I can't seem to find my selected object. How can I jump to it?
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What are the hotkeys to navigate the timeline?

I am looking for a way to move the timeline a specific amount, scroll, etc. even if the Timeline window is not open. Is this possible?
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How to merge 4 adjacent, coplanar faces into a single face

I have a plane consisting of 4 squares - take as an example a subdivided plane. How can I merge these faces into one?
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How to import a .max model into Blender?

I've tried to import but I don't see the (.max) file as an option when importing. Is there another way to import the 3DMax model into Blender for rigging and animation?
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Does transparency work in eevee

I have been trying to create a transparent lens using the eevee rendering engine in 2.8 but the transparency slider has no effect. Has this feature not been implemented yet? I've looked all over the Web for an answer with no luck. I'm a noobee so am…
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What's the purpose of the EEVEE rendering engine?

Is it an alternative to Cycles, or just for the 3D viewport?
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Python performance with Blender operators

In my script, I have for loop over many cube objects (~1000) and the treatment is very slow. Looking more in details, I notice that in the same amount of loops: if I use python operation or simple blender operation like obj =…
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How to get the directory of open blend file? (from Python)

What's the best way to get the full directory of the current Blender file in Python? It should be cross-platform.
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