Site News: Price Drop and Introducing Bundles

by Wes Burke

Price Drop on Vehicle and 2010 Blender Training Series.

The Blender Vehicle Training Series and our 2010 Blender Training Series have been in the CG Cookie Library for some time now and have been humbly well received by the community. But with the new Low Poly Training series recently released and others planned, we wanted to make some room on the CG Cookie shelves. Plus with the holidays approaching…why not right?

So as of today we’ve dropped the prices of the Vehicle Modeling Series and the 2010 Character series permanently! We are also reinstating the bundle for these two products and now offering a “whole library” bundle option to the site in efforts to get the training series in more hands.

New Prices:

2010 Blender Training Series:

This is still arguably the largest series we have done and a great starting place for any aspiring Blender Generalists or Character Artists. With just over 23 hours of video education. Part 1 gets you ramped up on Blender itself, while Part 2 takes you deeper into the Blender vortex of character creation knowledge. Read more about this Series

Digital Was: 72.00  -  Now: 52.00 – Order Now

Vehicle Modeling Training Series:

One of our best selling series in the Library, the Blender Vehicle series comes with over 15 hours of video education, along with some great concept art by David Revoy. This series takes you through tackling some difficult hard surface shapes while still retaining smooth mesh topology. Read more about this Series

Digital was: 48.00 - Digital now: 30.00 – Order Now
DVD-R was: 54.00 - DVDR + Digital now: 36.00 – Order Now

New Bundles:

It is pretty neat that we can even offer bundles, as it means we have more then one Training Series out there. :) Now these series are not for the faint hearted and come with some large downloads. Make sure you have prepped your Internet if you choose all digital downloads. ;) Since we don’t have a fancy shop which allows bundling, we have created these guys here.

Bundle: Vehicle and Low Poly Series

Already have our 2010 Kara series and are looking to catch up over the upcoming holidays? These two series will quickly bring you up to speed on hard surface modeling and entering the realm of low poly creation to Unity 3D.

Included in this bundle:  Vehicle Modeling Series | Low Poly Character Blender to Unity 3D

Digital only: Price: 66USD -  Save: 20USD - Over 36hrs of Blender Video Education  - Order this Bundle

Bundle: 2010 / Low Poly Series (Character Bundle)


If you are looking for tackling the entire character production pipeline on a high resolution and a low poly character, then this bundle is a great starting point. Both series cater to the new Blender enthusiast, while offering more technical and texture painting instructions later in the series.

Included in this bundle: 2010 Blender Training Series Part 1 and Part 2 | Low Poly Character Blender to Unity 3D

Digital only: Price: 80USD –  Save: 28USD - Over 36hrs of Blender Video Education  - Order this Bundle

Bundle: 2010 / Vehicle Series

A great way to pick up the two founding training series of CG Cookie at the same time. This bundle will take you though the beginner steps of blender, more of the intermediate character rigging, animation and really dive into the hard surface modeling.

Included in this bundle: 2010 Blender Training Series Part 1 and Part 2 | Vehicle Modeling Series

Digital Only: Price:60 Save: 22USD  - Order this Bundle

Bundle: Training Series Library: (All 3)

If you are new to blender and CG Cookie, this is a great way to get a crash course in Blender. This bundle will take you through the beginning steps of using Blender and it’s interface, to Hard Surface Modeling on a Vehicle, to Low Poly character creation, Rigging and exporting out to Unity 3D.

Included in this bundle: 2010 Blender Training Series Part 1 and Part 2 | Vehicle Modeling Series | Low Poly Character Blender to Unity 3D

Digital Only: Price: 100.00 Save 38.00 - Over 59hrs of Blender Video Education – Order this Bundle

Again, these bundles are now a permanent addition to the Cg Cookie family and we thank you so much for the support of us and the site. There are some great things in mid production that we cannot wait to get out to you. These bundles are for the Digital Versions only. Though if you are interested in the DVDR version for the Vehicle and or Low Poly series in a bundle, just please send us a direct e-mail to support@cgcookie.com. These are not currently offered with just a limitation of our shop/processing setup.

CG Cookie, INC is a monthly Platinum donor to the Blender Development Foundation. Your support of us and the site makes this possible.

Discussion

30 Responses to “Site News: Price Drop and Introducing Bundles”
  1. Joe Bloggs
    Posts: 19

    Can I just ask are the prices in £ or $?

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     Nov 15, 2011 at 10:10 am
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    • jonathanwilliamson
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      All the prices are in USD ($). The current exchange rate is 1 British pound sterling = 1.5856 US dollars

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       Nov 15, 2011 at 10:38 am
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      • Joe Bloggs
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        Cheers :)

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         Nov 15, 2011 at 10:49 am
  2. shaiseger
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    Does Digital version means it will be available for download after purchasing? if so, what will be the total size of Kara+Vehicle?

    Thanks!
    I love your site!

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     Nov 15, 2011 at 1:30 pm
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    • jonathanwilliamson
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      Hi Shai,

      Yep that’s exactly what digital means! After purchasing you’ll receive a download link for the entire series. If I remember right the download is about 20 gigs, but it is broken up into about 800-1000mb files, served from a CDN service. We encourage only downloading one part at a time. It’s a lot to download but also a lot of training!

      -Jonathan

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      • shaiseger
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        Thanks a lot!
        I just bought this bundle.
        I’m really grateful for all your work in this terrific site, and this is my way to say thanks!
        shai.

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         Nov 15, 2011 at 2:28 pm
      • jonathanwilliamson
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        Thanks so much for the support! I hope you like the series. If you find yourself getting stuck anywhere along the way please do not hesitate to ask for help!

        -Jonathan

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  3. blkumpula
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    Is there going to be an option to bundle LowPoly+Vehicle? I had already purchased Kara previously.

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     Nov 15, 2011 at 7:53 pm
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    • wesburke
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      Oops – Good catch and added. :)

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       Nov 15, 2011 at 9:45 pm
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  4. lucaskerbs
    Posts: 3

    I feel so unlucky, I just got the Low Poly series, is there a way that I can upgrade to all three?

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     Nov 15, 2011 at 9:06 pm
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    • wesburke
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      Hey Lucas – sure thing and thanks for sending in the e-mail.

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  5. thondal
    Posts: 2

    I bought the kara when it came out, same with vehicle training(august)… possible to get a discount for the low poly? Perhaps the remainder of the vehicle + low poly price?

    -thondal

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     Nov 16, 2011 at 4:37 pm
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  6. buckeroo
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    This looks really good. I have a question about the Low Poly Character tutorials. I notice that the character has a huge beak mask. Does the tutorial show how to model the lips or the rest of the face?

    And finally, I checked out the page and some of the status is “In progress”. Are the videos complete or do we have to wait for a download? This is the page I went to http://cgcookie.com/training-series/low-poly-character/

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     Nov 16, 2011 at 8:41 pm
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  7. jaxom191
    Posts: 9

    Thank you for making all of these, I just got the three part set yesterday.
    Just from the Intro part of the 2010 I have found more about blender then the Book on 2.60a I got from the store last week. Looking forward to realy diging into the over the weekend.

    And again Thank you.

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     Dec 30, 2011 at 4:05 pm
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    • jonathanwilliamson
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      That’s great to hear Jeffrey! Please let me know if you have any questions throughout the tutorials or need any help.

      Cheers and best of luck!

      -Jonathan

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      • jaxom191
        Posts: 9

        Well got to the Modeling 2-4 for the Kara 2010,
        over the weekend.

        by thw way 2-4 through 2-6 seem to be out of order.
        was watching the vids and it looks like it should go 2-6,
        2-4,2-5 I know it probably could be done in any order I did it 2-6 then 2-4 just so it looked the same, and I realy wanted to get the head back on the body. Having fun with this. I have not picked up a 3D Program since 1998 and that was Rhino3D.

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      • jaxom191
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        2010 Kara. Ok trying to put the rivits on the back straps, have the curv in place and the rivit model at the center point. I am running Blender 2.61 Trunk. The array to curv does not work. and the curv when I make it comes in as a beziercurv not a circlecurv. don’t know how to fix this

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  8. daviduy1
    Posts: 3

    Hi I just recently purchased this bundle and very excited to do the tutorials, I am downloading at the moment and I found out that this files are huge so it would take me time to finish downloading these tutorials.

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  9. jaxom191
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    Is there a Help Page for these? Had to Put the rivits on with a mirror and shrikwrap, could not get the array to work, Would like help to see what I am doing wrong. the array would be nice to have working for othere things.

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     Jan 17, 2012 at 11:13 am
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    • jaxom191
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      Well doing some diging and testing setting and found a work around, don’t know if it’s a Blender 2.61 problem or not but the array to curve did not work, if you set it to count but still have the curve modifier for it to fallow it works. Hope if anyone else has this problem this helps.

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  10. gamekelly
    Posts: 4

    Hi I want to know what kind of blender was used for the low poly tutorial, just recently purchased it thank you.

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     Jan 17, 2012 at 6:49 pm
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    • jonathanwilliamson
      Posts: 1761

      Hi there, if I remember right I was using Blender 2.58 at the time of the Lowpoly series. The current version is Blender 2.61 but everything in the Lowpoly series is still completely relevant :)

      -Jonathan

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  11. gamekelly
    Posts: 4

    Hi jonathan just recently started this tutorial but one thing I noticed upon using the blender 2.61 version is that the empty was missing on the pull down list.

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     Jan 17, 2012 at 7:02 pm
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    • gamekelly
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      I just found out that my blender tends to open my old project files automatically and I just deleted all of it thats why I cant see the empty on the list so I clicked the reset to default on blender 2.61 and the empty shows on the drop down selection.

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  12. jaxom191
    Posts: 9

    Ok I asked for help, But found work arounds for things I was having problems with. now I realy need help. I am still working on the 2010 training. I do not know how to fix somthing I messed up with the model. texturing scale is off and invers… as in I have to set things to – when jonathan has it +. such as if the seting is .400 I have to set it -.04 to get it to look correct. I tryed ctrl-A to set rot-scale but that make the thing explode in all directions and just go crazy. I am on my way to that point myself. I like what I have and would prefer not having to start over. how do I get help on this. One more thing don’t know if I need to download 2.59 or not to get this but I am using 2.61 and when adding the rig for Kara I only get one option and it looks very deferent the the one shown.

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     Feb 14, 2012 at 12:00 pm
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    • jonathanwilliamson
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      Hi Jeffrey,

      The best place to go for help with any of our training series is to email support@cgcookie.com

      This will submit a support ticket to our system that allows us to easily track and solve it. If you could, please just be sure to include as much information as you can. Screenshots in particular are very helpful when trying to diagnos problems :)

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      • jaxom191
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        Thank you. I will do that ASAP.

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  13. wolfdog
    Posts: 1

    I bought the Bundle but wasn’t logged in so how do I add it to my account so I can re-download them later?

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