THE COOKIE NETWORK

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Citizen Tutorial \ Intermediate \ Physics/Dynamics \ Rigging

Simulating a Spiral Phone Cord

by Kent Trammell - May 21, 13

Let Blender Animate For You! In this follow up Citizen video to "Rigging a Spiral Phone Cord" I'm going to show you how a dynamic rig can make animation simple and realistic. Though a physics-based ...

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Articles \ Site News

Project: Art of Blender Book – Cal...

by Wes Burke - May 17, 13

Today I am excited to announce CG Cookie's newest project. Over the next few months we will be gathering the best Blender artwork around and compiling it into a beautifully bound, professionally printed ...

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Advanced \ Citizen Tutorial \ Modeling

Hard-Surface Weapon Retopology in Blende...

by Jonathan Williamson - April 26, 13

Learn How To Retopologize Complex, Hard-surface Forms in Blender Through the continued improvement of sculpting tools and workflow we now have a lot of different ways we can choose to model a subject. A ...

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Shop \ Textures

Game Texture Packs Available Now from th...

by Jonathan Williamson - April 19, 13

100 Total Textures Ready For Use In Your Game! I'm excited to announce we have partnered with GameTextures.com to provide top-notch, ready-to-use texture packs through our CG Cookie Shop. Each of these texture packs comes ...

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NOTE: Check out the Coming Soon section for a peak at future tutorials and courses!

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Cycles \ Intermediate \ Modeling \ Rendering

Creating a 3D Typography Effect in Blender

by Jonathan Williamson - November 12, 12

Learn how to create a cool 3D Typographic effect in Blender In celebration of passing 16,000 likes on the Blender Cookie ...

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Advanced \ Citizen Tutorial \ Modeling

Citizen Exclusive: Modeling a Car series – part 09

by Jonathan Williamson - November 8, 12

Modeling a Car in Blender 2.6 Hello and welcome to this Citizen Exclusive series on modeling a car! This series will be ...

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Compositing \ Cycles \ Intermediate \ Materials and Shading

Introduction to Blender’s Node Groups

by Jonathan Williamson - November 6, 12

Learn how to use Blender's node groups to create reusable shaders and compositing effects The node groups in Blender can be ...

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Articles \ Contests

Scarecrow Contest Winners Announced!

by Wes Burke - November 2, 12

The Blender Scarecrow battle is over! There were just under a 100 entries to the contest which made it quite difficult ...

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Citizen Tutorial \ Interface \ Intermediate

Being More Productive in Blender with Custom Hotkeys

by Jonathan Williamson - November 1, 12

Learn how to be more productive in Blender by creating custom hotkeys for your favorite tools. In this Citizen tutorial I ...

Blender's Frame node helps to organize your node setups

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Compositing \ Intermediate \ Materials and Shading

Using Frame Nodes in Blender for Clean and Organized Node Setups

by Jonathan Williamson - October 30, 12

Learn how to use Blender's Frame Node for super clean and organized node setups. In this tutorial you'll learn how to ...

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Advanced \ Modeling

Blender Conference 2012 – Working with Complex Topology

by Jonathan Williamson - October 29, 12

Learn how to handle complex topology in Blender during the retopology process in this talk from Jonathan Williamson at the ...

Artwork by David Revoy

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Intermediate \ Rendering

Improving Blender Renders with Photography Techniques – Part 04

by Tiago Nunes - October 23, 12

Learn how to improve your Blender renders by applying several key photography methods. In this last part of our video tutorial ...

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Citizen Tutorial \ Sculpting \ Texturing and UV Unwrapping \ Workflow \ Written Tutorial

Using a Drawing Tablet with Blender

by Jonathan Williamson - October 18, 12

Learn how to use a drawing tablet to improve Blender's sculpting and texturing workflow Drawing tablets are incredible tools. They enable ...

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Articles \ Site News

Pre-Order: Animation Tool Kit

by Wes Burke - October 12, 12

We are excited to announce Animation Tool Kit, a training series on character animation in Blender. Following the Animation Fundamentals Series, ...

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Articles \ Contests

Contest: Creating a Scarecrow in Blender

by Wes Burke - October 9, 12

Welcome to this years Blender Halloween Contest: Create a Scarecrow in Blender This year we are going to switch our focus ...

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15,000 Likes Giveaway!

by Jonathan Williamson - October 8, 12

Today is a cool and humbling day! We are within a few points of passing 15,000 likes on our Facebook ...

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Advanced \ Modeling \ Texturing and UV Unwrapping

Creating a Low Poly Game Asset in Blender – Addendum

by Jonathan Williamson - October 6, 12

It's time to fix some Blender normal maps! It recently came to our attention that some serious mistakes were made during ...

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Blender Release Overviews

Blender 2.64 Overview – New Features and Updates

by Jonathan Williamson - October 4, 12

Welcome to this overview of Blender 2.64 and all the new features and enhancements this update brings! This Blender release is ...

Customizing the Blender Toolbar with Python Scripting

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Beginner \ Interface \ Scripting

Tip: Tweaking Blender’s Interface with Scripting

by Jonathan Williamson - September 30, 12

Learn how to tweak Blender's interface and customize the toolbar with simple scripting. In this Blender tutorial Jonathan will show you ...