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💡 5 Quick Blender Tips from CG Boost (Best of August 2025)
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Zach here, With 5 of our most popular quick-tip tutorials from August 2025. Check out how much Blender wizardry you can learn from CG Boost instructors in less than 60 seconds each. Let’s dive in. ​Tip 1: Make Your Blender Character Hold an Object​Jim Morren shows a simple and powerful way to make your character hold a rifle (or any other object) in its hand or both hands using the Child Of Constraint. This allows us to animate the object and the character’s hands following its movements automatically. ​Tip 2: Understand UV Seams Placement​Another tip from Jim emphasizes the importance of accurate UV unwrapping. All of this can’t be explained in a 1-minute video, but Jim will direct you to our in-depth tutorial where you can learn the fundamentals of UVs. Once you understand them properly, UVs can become really fun! ​Tip 3: How to Make Pixel-Art in Blender​Daniel Nees demonstrates an easy way to create pixel art in Blender using a clever trick with shaders and the Freestyle rendering feature for outlines. However, the real pixel magic happens by simply reducing the samples in EEVEE and the render resolution to numbers so low that they are only familiar to computer Stone Age men like me. 😉 ​Tip 4: A Scene Transition Effect with Geometry Nodes​Learn how to make a slow reveal transition effect of a whole Blender scene using a simple Geometry Nodes setup from our 3D robots' overlord, Louis du Mont. The technique is demonstrated on a scene with a running ostrich-bot (one of the amazing creatures inhabiting Louis’ Robotic Planet course). ​A Simple Gradient Lighting Hack​Martin Klekner is a real goldmine of tips and tricks to make great-looking stuff the easy way. In this short video, he shares one of his favorite lighting hacks - planes with gradients. While this is technically not a lighting technique, it can imitate some lighting effects effectively without overwhelming your hardware with complex computations. Here you can also find more of our short videos. That’s all from me today, have a great week, and till next time. ~Zach |
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Hey Reader, Zach here, The other day, in a CG Boost team meeting, we were discussing how platforms are oversaturated with content and images, which can make it feel like, what’s the point of making more content? Then Masha who has been on our team since the very beginning of CG Boost said: The reason I create art is to give life to my imagination. I like the process of thinking about an idea and fully bringing it to life. That encouraged me. Like a breath of fresh air, it was a great reminder...
Hey Reader, Zach here, With fresh inspirations and resources from the 3D world. Today I’ll start with a new 3D challenge straight from Pixar, followed by a cool car animation breakdown and a new 3D character course from Blender Secrets. Let’s dive in. New Pixar RenderMan 3D Challenge "First Contact" 3D challenges are sprouting like mushrooms all around, but this one is pretty special. Pixar just announced its 12th annual 3D render challenge, this time named "First Contact". To participate,...
Hey [FIRST NAME GOES HERE], Zach here, With some fresh inspirations and resources from the 3D world. Today, I’ll share Polyfjord's new 3D tracking technique, a CGI dragon in Iceland, and a reminder about our Master Compositing in Blender Course Sale ending today. As a cherry on top, Free Mannequin Rigs from P2Design. Let’s dive in. Polyfjord’s new Photogrammetry 3D Tracking Workflow When Polyfjord releases a new video, I always watch it, expecting something exciting. This time was no...