The best Blender addons for modeling, sculpting, lighting, animation and rendering - all in one place. If you're looking for a new workflow booster, you've come to the...

Learn about Material Creation, Shading, Lighting, and Rendering with Blender and Cycles. Build believable painted metal materials and metallic materials that utilize e...

This course is an extensive journey through the entire 3D animation process. You will learn how to model the avian "Piero" character, paint him, rig him, animate him, ...

How to create shaders and materials in Blender? In this Blender course, you will learn everything you need to know about materials in Cycles and Eevee, custom shaders,...

Take a journey into the desert with this video course on procedural creation in Blender 2.8! You will learn a flexible workflow for building realistic sand dunes. Let ...

In this course I will show you some of the major stages of a Visual Effects (VFX) pipeline by doing a fun little project: Compositing a 3D monster into some life actio...

Image bit depth and compression play a huge role in how your normal maps look in any game or render engine. In this article I share my insight into how these affect yo...

In this episode, Chunck goes all out to recreate a subway cart scene in Eevee, modeling all of the essential parts, developing convincing materials and composing a qua...

Sven Juhlin is a gifted character artist. He's a master modeler, texture artist, shading artist, and render artist. He has worked for some of the biggest names in comp...

Learn how Blender is used by two artists at Psyonix to make Rocket League, one of the most popular eSports in the world. From in-game models to cinematics, Blender is ...

This first week is a shading and lighting with Blender crash course. We're overviewing render engines like Cycles, Eevee, material properties, node editing, mixing BSD...

Blender comes with an extensive range of pre-installed add-ons, some of which are activated by default and have become an inseparable part of Blender, such as the Cycl...

Grass is just about everywhere outside, so it's really handy to know how to render it well. This course covers everything you'll need to make your own: modeling, shadi...

Each week there is quite a bit which transpires at CG Cookie. New education is released across the network, new renders are added to the gallery, all while the crew is...

In these seven lessons you will be exposed to a Blender workflow for modeling and animating a looping corridor tunnel scene in Blender. This style is popular with moti...

If "Texturing" is like a paint's color then "Shading" is like a paint's finish: matte, semi-gloss, hi-gloss, etc. Shading is what makes an object appear metallic, tran...

This short course focuses on generating a complex image with a streamlined workflow. A huge benefit of computer graphics is the ability to quickly and efficiently ...