Hey Reader, Zach here, With our updated shortcut PDF for Blender 4.4 (which just released) and a dose of resources and inspiration from the 3D world. After mentioning a few new Blender 4.4 features, I'll share a great animated short "Deep Rooted" followed by a funny and impressive animated ad for a stop-motion add-on. This week P2Design is doing a sale to celebrate 150K YouTube subscribers, and finally a small reminder about our Master 3D Characters Course Sale ending soon. Let’s dive in....
12 days ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, Zach here, With a collection of inspirations and resources from the 3D world. Today I have a free Dynamic Paint tutorial, a great-looking upcoming sci-fi short film using Blender, a medieval castle siege animation, and a UV unwrapping tutorial by Jim Morren with a reminder about our latest 3D Characters Course update. Let’s dive in. How to use Dynamic Paint in Blender I’ll kick off with this great tutorial from the CG Cookie guys, explaining how to use the Dynamic Paint effect in...
19 days ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, Zach here, With a new free tutorial, and a HUGE update for our Master 3D Characters in Blender course. Blender UV Unwrapping Made Simple If Blenders UV’s have intimidated you into sticking with procedural textures and generated mapping, you are not alone. But that changes today. Jim Morren has created a fun and beginner-friendly tutorial covering UV fundamentals in Blender. We set out to create the ultimate UV tutorial for Blender, that helps you actually enjoy the UV process, and...
21 days ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, Zach here, With a handful of news and inspirations from the 3D world. Today, I’ll start with this week’s biggest Blender news: A feature film made entirely in Blender has won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature! I also have a Grease Pencil tutorial, a stunning battle scene animation, and an impressive sci-fi shot. Let's dive in. "Flow" team wins an Oscar and thanks Blender "Flow" - a beautiful animation movie made in Blender (and rendered in EEVEE) has just won an Oscar for Best...
26 days ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, Zach here, With new inspirations and resources from the 3D world. Today I have a neat hard-surface modeling and a cinematic storytelling tutorial, a behind-the-scenes video of the "Koji" short film, and an exciting car animation made in Blender. As a cherry on top, I’ll share the latest game asset creation course from Creative Shrimp. Let’s dive in. Make Hard-surface Models like a Pro If you’re struggling with making good quality 3D models and the very word "topology" makes you...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, Zach here, Today I have a new Blender tutorial for you, and I’m also excited to announce that our latest course is coming VERY soon (more on that below). First, our new tutorial from Martin Klekner covers a workflow that allows you to build short films and animations quickly in Blender, so you spend more time figuring out the best way to tell your stories. Our upcoming course is called "Master Cinematic Storytelling in Blender", from our veteran course author, Martin Klekner. Why...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, Zach here, With a fresh round of inspiration and resources from the 3D world. Today we have a fun CG Boost tutorial on making a low poly parrot-bot, a video about making a cool watercolor effect in Blender, an impressive sci-fi short about a cosmic mining industry and an interview with the director of the award-winning feature film "Flow" (that was made entirely in Blender). Let’s dive in. Making a low poly, realtime-ready, pixel-textured Parrot Bot in Blender Louis (our Robotic...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, Zach here, With a new dose of inspiration and resources from the 3D world. Today I have a new Pwnisher 3D Challenge, a story of our student who created a video game from our course, a free tutorial on creating huge 3D landscapes, and an amazing pixel art animation. Let’s dive in. "Chasm’s Call" - New Pwnisher 3D Challenge It’s this time of the year again! Another 3D challenge by Clinton Jones aka Pwnisher has started. This time it’s called "The Chasm’s Call" and it's about...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, Zach here, With a new round of inspiration and resources from the 3D world. Today I have a beautiful anime-style animation made in Blender, a tutorial on creating realistic macro shots and a teaser for the upcoming Warhammer 40K animation "Astartes II". Finally, a reminder about our soon ending sale of the Robotic Planet course (that just received 2 brand-new chapters). Let’s dive in. "The Lost Tower" - Beautiful Blender Animation Many 3D artists try to give their animations a...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read