Hey Reader, Zach here, Bringing you a CG Boost Black Friday Sale with a 30% discount on our best-selling courses (and a few other Black Friday deals from other sources), as well as some resources and inspiration from the 3D world including a tutorial on procedural materials and an inspiring documentary about the creation of the legendary Half-Life 2 video game. Letās dive in. Select CG Boost Courses 30% OFF for Black Friday Weāre offering four of our best-selling courses 30% off to celebrate...
8 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 2 min read
Hey Reader, Zach here, With some fresh news, inspirations, and resources from the 3D world. The big news for today is the release of Blender 4.3 with some exciting new features. Weāve also updated our handy Blender shortcut PDF to be compatible with this latest version. Our friends at ToAnimate announced a 30% Black Friday sale, and finally, I want to share a cool video summing up the Blender Conference 2024 experience from a non-Blender-user perspective. Letās dive in. Blender 4.3 is out,...
15 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 1 min read
Hey Reader, Zach here, With a fresh collection of inspirations and resources from the 3D world. Today I have for you: a beautiful pixel-art-styled animated short, a free car game made in Blender, a teaser for a cute Blender animation about sheep and a 3D remake of Akiraās Neo-Tokyo shots. Letās dive in. Monito Adventures - Blender Pixel Art Short Pixel art is a style that comes from the world of early computer games of the 80s and 90s, but it is still inspiring for artists. Tim Morrow has...
22 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 1 min read
Hey Reader, Zach here, With new inspirations, tutorials, and resources from the 3D world. Iāll start with Project Gold, a painterly Open Movie project by Blender Studio. I also have a great Blender Conference talk with Cycles tips, a new Grease Pencil 3 tutorial from our Magic Storybook instructor Kevin, and a cool add-on for animating wrinkles on clothing without cloth simulations. Letās dive in. "Project Gold" beautiful breakdown of an unfinished Blender Open Movie Project Gold is the...
29 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 2 min read
Hey Reader, Zach here, With a fresh collection of news, inspiration and resources from the 3D world. Today I have for you two fantastic animated shorts made in Blender, a 100% free Ghost Rig from ToAnimate and a series of tutorials on 90s anime-styled modeling, shading, and rigging. Letās dive in. "Koji" Blender animated short - Suzanne Award 2024 winner Iām back from the Blender Conference in Amsterdam, and one of the great things there was the Suzanne Awards Festival, where I got to have a...
about 1 month agoĀ ā¢Ā 1 min read
Hey Reader, Zach here, With a collection of news and resources from the 3D world. Iām currently in Amsterdam attending the Blender Conference 2024 with some other members of the CG Boost team, so Iāll start with sharing some stuff straight from there. I also have for you: some good news about Quixel Megascans that you can get for free with the launch of Epic Gamesā Fab store, an amazing add-on that turns Blender into (sort of) a game engine, and a charmingly stylized short Blender animation....
about 1 month agoĀ ā¢Ā 2 min read
Hey Reader, Zach here, With a fresh collection of news and resources from the 3D world. Today I have a new free 3D asset collection from Polyhaven, a cool music visualization tutorial from Polyfjord, some valuable career tips from P2Design, and some free Geometry Nodes generators from Blenderesse. Letās dive in. Free "Namaqualand" 3D nature assets from Polyhaven PolyHavenās team has just released an impressive new collection of 100% free 3D nature assets. Even though their assets are free (in...
about 2 months agoĀ ā¢Ā 1 min read
Hey Reader, Zach here, With a fresh collection of news from the 3D world. Today Iām sharing a new video from Jim (our new Master 3D Characters course instructor) who gives an overview of whatās inside the course. Our other instructor Cov shows how to make an epic kingdom environment in Blender. Then we jump into 5 camera tricks you can use to improve your animated shots, followed by a sci-fi cinematic VFX shot made with Blender and Nuke by an ex-Marvel artist. Letās dive in. A look inside our...
about 2 months agoĀ ā¢Ā 2 min read
Hey Reader, Zach here Great news, our new course Master 3D Characters in Blender has just launched! š„³ Stop talking, take me to the course page šā”ļø Have you ever paused to look at the characters in your favorite movies or games and thought: "Man, that looks so good, I wish I could create something like that. I wish CG Boost made a course that teaches me exactly that!"? But while patiently waiting for us to make the course, you start carefully sculpting your great character idea, and you...
about 2 months agoĀ ā¢Ā 3 min read