🎫 Black Friday is here, what should you choose?



Hey Reader,

Zach here,

Now it's the exciting time of the year with Black Friday sales all over the place.

A great opportunity to save some money, but it can also be quite overwhelming.

To help you out, we’ve carefully prepared a list of some of our most recommended discounted Blender courses for you.

But before we get to the list below, I want to encourage you to take a moment to think about what you are really aiming to do in 3D?

Think about your own goals, what would you love to learn in the next year? Is it storytelling, modeling, lighting? Or something completely different?

Take a moment to really consider what will help you most, and avoid making rash purchases.

Ok! Now that you have that clear, let's check out our recommendations:

First, our very own Creature Forge and Magic Storybook courses are 20% off. From now until December 4th, 2023 16:00 CET.

In our Creature Forge course, you will learn how to bring your own epic creatures to life, in Blender. You will sculpt, texture, rig and animate your own creations from scratch.

In our Magic Storybook course* you will learn how to use Blender with Grease Pencil, to build any 2.5D world you can imagine, as if they came straight out of a magic storybook.

Next week, we will publish a big update for the course, which will be free for everyone that owns the course.

*Formerly known as “Master Grease Pencil in Blender”.

Coupon code for both CG Boost courses: BOOST23

All P2Design courses 25% off until December 3rd 11:59pm CET

P2Design offers some of the best animation and rigging courses for Blender.

They will also be releasing a brand-new course called "Ablaze" on November 24th, about real-time 3D VFX for games in Unreal Engine 5.

It will also be included in the Black Friday discount.

P2Design discount code: BF2023

Blender Secrets eBook and Hard Surface Sculpting course 25% off until December 1st

Blender Secrets just released a hard surface sculpting course for Blender, plus they have their famous Blender Secrets eBook, filled with easy to follow and useful content to help you master Blender.

Both products are on sale right now.

Blender Secrets coupon code: Friday

Creative Shrimp courses 30% off, on Blender Market.

You most likely already know about Creative Shrimp and their excellent courses like Photogrammetry and Cinematic lighting.

They also have a new and very cool real-time procedural particles tool for Blender, all powered using Geometry Nodes.

No coupon code needed.**

Human: Realistic Portrait Creation course 30% off, on Blender Market

Go through the entire process of creating a fully detailed photo-realistic human portrait.

No coupon code needed.**

**Note: The Blender Market Black Friday sale begins midnight November 24th and ends on 27th 11:59 pm Central Time US.

Finally, you can check out Blender Guru's Black Friday sheet for a list of interesting Black Friday sales for digital artists.

Best of luck with choosing the right courses and tools for your projects. 🙂

~Zach

P.S. Some of the links above are affiliate links.

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