The ability to blur textures and texture masks is a very convenient, and some would say essential, feature in visual software (often called “Gaussian Blur”). A feature, Which unfortunately doesn’t come with Blender by default. However, fear not: with a small amount of nodes grouped into a Node Group, we can create our own “Blur Node”.
For a more detailed dive into this subject, check
Bartek Skorupa’s excellent Bcon talk:
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Written by / voice: Jan van den Hemel
Video edited by: Tushar Ganesh