We love coffee! But you already knew that. Now, you can enjoy a special CG Cookie roast "Midnight Realm" to take you to a place of a hyperconductive creativity.
How should you promote your work and why? We asked an industry insider Jessica Tung Chi Lee about building your brand and landing a dream job as a digital artist.
Blender 2.82 includes several new features and useful updates, from modeling to animation and UI improvements. We cover all the major and exciting new changes included...
The Creative Director for PIXO VR, Benjamin Mazza, is on the front lines of VR development for professional training. We talked to him about how VR will change our eve...
Blender is free software, but its license affects what you can do with it. We at CG Cookie, Blender Market, and Orange Turbine understand the license and have thoughts...
As Blender 4.0 gears up for release, the buzz around Blender 4.1 and Eevee Next is palpable. Let’s explore what we know and the hype surrounding its March 5th, 2024 re...
This course has been updated to: https://www.cgcookie.com/course/learn-the-blender-basics
If you're new to Blender then you're in the right place! With this free i...
Blender is the best tool for schools teaching 3D and animation. To alleviate the pain of creating a Blender lesson plan from scratch, we created one: it's ready to use...
Ever felt you lack the time to master Blender? Dive into these tips where we debunk the 'no time' myth. Discover the motivation behind learning, establish effective ha...
We sat down with Mike Rossi, a CG Cookie tutorial author and Interface Technical Artist at Deep Silver Volition to talk about his experience in the industry and his ad...
Blockbuster movies, videogames and news reports wouldn’t be the same today without the use of greenscreen. Also known as Chroma key compositing or Chroma keying, this ...
The last Blender 2.8 Doodle of the winter series! This time we're focusing the first hour on sculpting a majestic wolf howling at the moon. The second hour we will bui...
Incorporating Live Events into the CG Cookie educational offerings is a key step to evolving the way we teach. They open new doors for instruction that are built on re...
After 10 years of running CG Cookie, do we have remote work all figure out? The answer is a resolute no. But we’ve learned a few crucial lessons on navigating the murk...
Another week, another library visit! This time, we made our way to the Harold Washington Library in Chicago. Our courageous community ambassador Charlie Williams intro...
In this series you'll learn some key stages in the visual effects pipeline needed to create a transformer shot. We won't be learning modeling or animating here, but in...
In this episode, let's build ourselves a mage's hat! We will cover basic shape creation for the base of our hat, and then get familiar with the new cloth sculpting fea...
In a more traditional modeling workflow we spend a lot of time adding, removing, and tweaking the vertices and edges that make up our model. Typically this is done wit...
In this Unity course we’ll take a look at how to create RPG style damage points. Using the new UI system, we’ll animate and script UI text and images to display once a...
Winning an Artstation contest changed Maarten's life, but he believes the biggest turning point was switching to Blender. We talked to him about why he sees his art as...
