Hey Reader, Zach here, In our last email, I introduced Daniel Nees, author of the Master Compositing in Blender course, and shared more about his talents as a VFX artist and Compositor. With the launch coming tomorrow (December 20th), I can’t wait for you to experience it. So, today I want to give you a more in depth overview of what the course teaches, and what our Beta testers have to say about it. What Master Compositing in Blender teaches At a glance, here is what the course will teach...
7 days ago • 4 min read
Hey Reader, Zach here, I’m excited to announce that the launch of our latest course, Master Compositing in Blender, is arriving this Friday, 20th December. And now a great time to introduce you to the wise wizard of compositing VFX and instructor of our new course, Daniel Nees. Why Learn Compositing in Blender from Daniel Nees? Compositing is fun, satisfying, and powerful. It’s the closest thing to having a “make look beautiful” button in Blender. Blenders Compositor delivers some truly...
9 days ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, Zach here, With a fresh round of inspiration and resources from the 3D world. I’ll start with a cool video about creating a Star Wars battle VFX shot with Blender (that gets me back to when I started learning 3D) and then I’ll share an inspiring samurai stop-motion animation with anime vibes. The long-awaited premiere of "Secret Level" (an animated series inspired by various video games) has finally come, so I’m sharing some details and thoughts about this, as well as a useful...
13 days ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, Zach here, With two new YouTube videos from our CG Boost instructors: Daniel Nees, about our upcoming Blender compositing course and Jim Morren, with tips on making 3D Character creation more fun. I also have some Grease Pencil inspirations for you and "Clay Pencil" - a cool Geometry Nodes group for generating 3D meshes from Grease Pencil. Let’s dive in. New Blender Compositing Course coming soon A new "Master Compositing in Blender" course is coming to CG Boost December 20th...
20 days ago • 2 min read
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. Let’s dive in. Select CG Boost Courses 30% OFF for Black Friday We’re offering four of our best-selling courses 30% off to celebrate...
27 days ago • 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. We’ve 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. Let’s dive in. Blender 4.3 is out,...
about 1 month ago • 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 Akira’s Neo-Tokyo shots. Let’s 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...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, Zach here, With new inspirations, tutorials, and resources from the 3D world. I’ll 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. Let’s dive in. "Project Gold" beautiful breakdown of an unfinished Blender Open Movie Project Gold is the...
about 2 months ago • 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. Let’s dive in. "Koji" Blender animated short - Suzanne Award 2024 winner I’m 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 2 months ago • 1 min read