Announcement: New Training Series – Vehicle Modeling Series

by Jonathan Williamson

Jonathan is back with another official training series for the Blender Community. Last year Jonathan took on the task of creating the 2010 Blender Training Series which ran through the ins and outs of the new Blender 2.5 release. This contained over 23hours of education video lessons.

This time around we have based this series on another fantastic concept from David Revoy. This series is set out to provide an in-depth look at an intense modeling work flow of a Sci-Fi vehicle. The amount of detail we will be modeling is both intimidating and exciting! If you take a look at the couple preview images below you will see what I mean on what we will be taking on.

The series will be available for regular purchase just soon as the production is complete. We cannot give a definitive timeline on this just yet but we are shooting for a final release sometime toward the end of February 2011. In the mean-time we have opened up for pre-orders for the early birds out there.

No tutorial on Blender Cookie has ever reached this amount of detail, well we think anyways. ;) But enough talk on this,  we have prepared it’s very own page full of much more information and eye candy.

>>> PROCEED TO THE VEHICLE TRAINING PAGE

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In this series we are taking an exclusive look at modeling only, thus we will be going for more in depth than usual.

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>>> PROCEED TO THE VEHICLE TRAINING PAGE

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Discussion

57 Responses to “Announcement: New Training Series – Vehicle Modeling Series”
  1. Urenze
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    I’m already wishing its release day! Great!

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     Jan 17, 2011 at 10:04 pm
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  2. Urenze
    Posts: 15

    I’m already wishing its release day! Great!

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     Jan 17, 2011 at 10:04 pm
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  3. Urenze
    Posts: 15

    Pre-ordered already!

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     Jan 17, 2011 at 10:09 pm
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  4. Urenze
    Posts: 15

    Pre-ordered already!

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     Jan 17, 2011 at 10:09 pm
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  5. Brennan
    Posts: 18

    This is amazing! I am totally investing!

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     Jan 17, 2011 at 10:52 pm
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  6. ristridyn
    Posts: 141

    sounds perfect! :)

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     Jan 18, 2011 at 12:13 am
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  7. marlowe
    Posts: 10

    Just pre-ordered, can’t wait!

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     Jan 18, 2011 at 12:18 am
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  8. ginoskotheon
    Posts: 169

    This is awesome!

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     Jan 18, 2011 at 12:23 am
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  9. vix22
    Posts: 29

    again i cant say enough about you guys… thank you so much

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     Jan 18, 2011 at 12:32 am
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  10. jorisar
    Posts: 2

    Exciting times ahead…..looking forward to it, and yes it would be a really good idea to see the texturing of this and rendering, perhaps even with Vray (to combine 2 things in one).

    Good work, thanks, greetz

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     Jan 18, 2011 at 12:52 am
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  11. mickipixel
    Posts: 1

    AWESOME !!!! just what i was after, some nice hard edge modeling. Pre-ordering on pay day :o )

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     Jan 18, 2011 at 1:35 am
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  12. jibz
    Posts: 24

    cool!!!
    I want this tutorial!!!

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     Jan 18, 2011 at 2:16 am
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  13. ordagon
    Posts: 5

    This will be something really cool, already preordered

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     Jan 18, 2011 at 3:30 am
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  14. GhostDog
    Posts: 13

    Wow, concepts already look stunning, I think I’m definitely buying it. Can’t wait.

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     Jan 18, 2011 at 3:41 am
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  15. gp123
    Posts: 84

    Sa-weeeet! i think that sums it up!

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     Jan 18, 2011 at 4:06 am
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  16. mangagothic
    Posts: 30

    One step closer to the pros for a lot of people. I look forward to reviewing this one. Thank you so much :)

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     Jan 18, 2011 at 5:41 am
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  17. gary parkin
    Posts: 99

    How and where can I preorder this?

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     Jan 18, 2011 at 6:30 am
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    • gary parkin
      Posts: 99

      Found it. I needed coffee this morning.

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       Jan 18, 2011 at 6:32 am
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  18. ashish424
    Posts: 3

    AWESOME,already pre-ordered

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     Jan 18, 2011 at 6:31 am
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  19. JoKaYo
    Posts: 50

    it seems really awesome but I don’t know whether its gonna be a free or an exclusive tutorial I hope it would be free :) and thanks for every thing

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     Jan 18, 2011 at 6:52 am
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  20. MTracer
    Posts: 11

    Huh. Kinda looks like a banshee from SC2. Neat!

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     Jan 18, 2011 at 7:14 am
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  21. lephilwld
    Posts: 2

    But what about the Porsche tutorial?

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     Jan 18, 2011 at 7:15 am
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  22. digitalpush
    Posts: 2

    heck yea! Consider this preordered! Dang Johnathon is a busy guy! I just saw on Amazon that he is supposed to be authoring a book that is coming out this year! Geez, I wish I was a third as productive as him.

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     Jan 18, 2011 at 8:02 am
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  23. sirtooby
    Posts: 14

    This will be great :) Preorder done

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     Jan 18, 2011 at 8:22 am
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  24. ufoalf30
    Posts: 4

    Where can i pre order??

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     Jan 18, 2011 at 2:48 pm
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  25. Fusobotic
    Posts: 11

    Hmm, I did something similar to this a while back. Same dual fan, V tail style:

    http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=332276&l=0b355fa584&id=1695927579

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     Jan 18, 2011 at 2:49 pm
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  26. ludimus
    Posts: 7

    nice 10-12 hours for $24, love this site

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     Jan 18, 2011 at 2:57 pm
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  27. ufoalf30
    Posts: 4

    Thnx pre order is done nice. I digg this site it´s realy good. Ceep up the good work.

    Best regards from Ufoalf30(swe)

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  28. bardes
    Posts: 53

    Hey, I saw you and David in the restaurant after the blender conference. Since than I’m waiting for this!!!

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     Jan 18, 2011 at 3:48 pm
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  29. Ante
    Posts: 2

    Nice work,im pre-ordering tommorow :D

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     Jan 18, 2011 at 5:35 pm
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  30. jiminyboy
    Posts: 4

    Pre-order: Check! :)

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     Jan 19, 2011 at 12:54 am
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  31. Daniel
    Posts: 13

    I thoroughly enjoyed your last training series, and I am definitely getting this one.

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     Jan 19, 2011 at 11:51 pm
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  32. Florian
    Posts: 15

    This is so great!

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     Jan 20, 2011 at 7:50 am
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  33. sammo241
    Posts: 3

    I am retired and you guys just keep the juices flowing.

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     Jan 20, 2011 at 8:13 pm
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  34. SeanM
    Posts: 2

    I pre-ordered the 2010 Blender Training Series, and have only just gotten started with it, stupid life getting in the way…
    Anyway, totally enjoying it so far by the way, that I’ve not only pre-ordered this but chose the DVD option too.

    Concept art like this has ALWAYS been one of the things that I’ve wanted to learn to do, so now with both the base training series and this I’ll finally be able to get all the interesting and insane flying, crawling, slithering vehicles out of my head. In short (too late I know) thanks for doing this.

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     Jan 20, 2011 at 8:36 pm
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  35. ninthjake
    Posts: 16

    This looks fabulous. I was not that excited for the Kara series but this looks like a real hit.

    I’d just like you to take things slow and don’t rush on this one. If you can’t finish it in time for the deadline, delay it. A delayed quality tutorial is always more appreciated than a half-finished tutorial released on time.

    Good luck, I will definitely be following this ;)

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     Jan 21, 2011 at 2:05 am
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  36. digitalpush
    Posts: 2

    Consider this pre-ordered!

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     Jan 21, 2011 at 6:00 am
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  37. mike
    Posts: 12

    I am drooling in a manner that will allow me to use my basement as an indoor swimming pool in a matter of minutes… though, that doesn’t really mean that I want to…

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     Jan 22, 2011 at 2:19 am
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  38. Guillermo
    Posts: 1

    Pre-ordered. I couldn’t resist!

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     Jan 22, 2011 at 10:24 am
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  39. catallaxy
    Posts: 48

    Count me in. This sounds very very cool indeed!

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     Jan 22, 2011 at 1:05 pm
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  40. Lydorn
    Posts: 10

    This looks very promising!

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     Jan 23, 2011 at 12:09 pm
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  41. airsnake
    Posts: 23

    Pre-ordered just now… I hope you will cover, in future, also the texturing and rendering :)

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     Jan 25, 2011 at 1:45 am
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  42. holly
    Posts: 12

    I very much liked the kara tutorial (not completely finished with it yet though)

    and I have already preordered this one. Please continue the great stuff.

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     Jan 25, 2011 at 10:32 am
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  43. floridajo
    Posts: 37

    Bam! Just bought .
    Thanks for a good deal!!
    I’ll buy at that price without thinking.
    $50 or $60 maybe yes, maybe not.

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     Jan 25, 2011 at 3:45 pm
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  44. nbing2007
    Posts: 1

    Just Pre-Ordered! I can’t wait to get started!

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     Jan 26, 2011 at 8:06 am
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  45. Darth_Gimp
    Posts: 24

    I am extremely hesitant on this even though it looks like a good training series. I paid for the last one and well, I couldn’t even use it. I wasn’t aware of the file sizes before I paid for them and in the end I wasn’t able to download the training or use it. Got the t-shirt though.. it was small enough that I gave it away.

    I had asked about DVD’s and I know there was talk about it.. but I am guessing that its something I would have to pay extra for.

    So yeah, I am hesitant on this one.

    sorry guys.. not trying to sound negative.. but my experience with the last training wasn’t all that great.

    Darth Gimp

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     Jan 26, 2011 at 7:29 pm
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    • wesburke
      Posts: 319

      Hey Darth,

      Hope you are doing well and sorry to hear you had a bad experience. If you wanted to give it another go on the download let me know. It definitely turned out to be quite a bit bigger then we had imagined! But send me an e-mail at support@cgcookie.zendesk.com and can work to try to get this in your hands.

      This series we are very much in mind of the download size and working to mitigate the file size where we can. As well as offering the DVD to help this. Talk more soon!

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      • Darth_Gimp
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        Sounds great.. I am thinking of signing up for a Citizen account soon as well. Just need to upgrade my drive :)

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  46. hallowedking
    Posts: 19

    All I ask is please don’t time lapse it for the sake of making it shorter,I find time lapsed tutorials to be very difficult to follow as I ave tried both tutorials from cg masters and I believe it is much easier to follow in real time,since there is going to be a dvd version those of us with more storage space don’t have to worry about the file size as much,so I don’t care how long the tutorial is if its all real time,I’m waiting to order until I know if its all real time or time lapsed,every in depth tutorial such as this should follow the training series route in my opinion,all real time.

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     Jan 26, 2011 at 8:35 pm
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    • jonathanwilliamson
      Posts: 1761

      Have no fear no part will be timelapsed. I too am not a fan of timelapsed tutorials (except where necessary or where they don’t cause detail to be left out). Every single second of modeling will be recorded and included in the training.

      -Jonathan

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      • Darth_Gimp
        Posts: 24

        I was going to say.. I’ve never known Jonathan to timelapse his tutorials.

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  47. Some guy
    Posts: 1

    Hey I want to preorder this but I would like to see some screenshots of the tutorial
    When would that be possible?

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     Feb 3, 2011 at 4:01 pm
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  48. gary parkin
    Posts: 99

    Still waiting patiently. This is going to be great.
    And I’ll pre-order the second rendering part, too, if you do it.

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     Feb 24, 2011 at 6:46 am
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  49. Gigante
    Posts: 1

    It’s done ! I’ve pre-ordered ! When will it be released ? I can’t wait !

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     Mar 4, 2011 at 2:47 pm
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  50. verticies
    Posts: 140

    I just ordered, can’t wait. Already looking forward to part2, materials and textures.

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     Mar 15, 2011 at 11:17 pm
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  51. gbyfcsam
    Posts: 44

    Looks a good one!

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