In our new video, Jim Morren shows how to use free motion capture data to quickly create character animations in Blender.

You'll learn how to export your character and rig, import the motion capture data, create a transfer rig, adjust the motion capture animation and finally, bring it all together into a single animation.

Introducing our first-ever Cubic Worlds Challenge.

In this challenge, you’ll be limited to using only cubic shapes to create an 8-second long 3D animation, inspired by your favorite media, whether it’s a book, movie, TV show, video game etc.

Click here to learn more

In our new video, Alan Planes shows how by setting limitations, you can be more ambitious and have more fun with creating 3D animations in Blender.

We updated our Blender Hotkey Sheet PDF to reflect the changes in the new stable version of Blender 3.5. 🧾

It includes a colored version and a grayscale version, optimized for printing.

You can download it here, without the need to sign up or login. Enjoy!

We're happy to announce the next big update for our Master 3D Sculpting in Blender course.

This time, we added a full new chapter about animating the epic creature.

Check this video for a quick overview:

This chapter comes with 17 new videos and over 3 hours of content.

You will learn how to...

• Animate the camera and add life to the environment
• Quickly add motion to the creature with animation modifiers
• Add an element of surprise to the animation for extra fun
• Manually animate the creature react to the surprise
• Make all animations loopable
• Adjust the compositing and render settings for faster Cycles rendering

In the end, you will have a high quality and fun looping animation, ready to be shared with the world.

If you own the course already, click here to jump right in and enjoy the new content (it's free for all course owners).

If you haven't joined yet...

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We're happy to announce the next big update for our Master 3D Sculpting in Blender course.

This time, we added a full new chapter about rendering the epic creature.

Check this video for a quick overview:

This chapter comes with 12 new videos and about 2 hours of content.

You will learn how to...

• Pose the creature and pick a fitting camera perspective
• Create a simple environment with pre-made 3D assets
• Create a moody lighting setup to highlight all the details of the creature
• Render the scene and make color adjustments and adding effects in the Compositor

In the end, you will have a beautiful still render of the creature, ready to be shared with the world.

If you own the course already, click here to jump right in (it's free for all course owners).

If you haven't joined yet...

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We're happy to announce the next big update for our Master 3D Sculpting in Blender course.

This time, we added a full new chapter about rigging the epic creature, which we created in the previous chapters.

Check this video for a quick overview:

This chapter comes with 12 new videos and over 2 hours of content.

You will learn how to...

• Bake complex materials into simple texture maps
• Use the free Rigify add-on to quickly create a fully-featured rig
• Use the Rigify building blocks (samples) to extend the rig to our needs
• Adjust the Rigify Rig Layers menu, to have full control over our rig
• Using the Weight Paint mode to fix deformation issues when posing the creature

In the end, you will have a fully rigged creature, ready to be posed and animated. And you will be able to rig nearly any creature or character you can imagine.

If you own the course already, click here to jump right in (it's free for all course owners).

If you haven't joined yet...

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2023 is about to start, so it is time for another round of Sculpt January.

It is an online event, where you can challenge your sculpting skills (digital or traditional) over 31 days of January, with a set of 31 topics we provide (prompts below).

Please note: We decided that this will be the last time we are hosting this event.

Learn all about it here

In this Resources email, Zach Reinhardt shares another round of useful and inspiring CG and Blender related resources.

This time, let's have a look at the new Blender Open Movie and some new CG Boost Blender tutorials.

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In our new video, Kevin Ramirez shows how to create this stylized microscope in Blender. He’ll walk you through modeling, shading, and adding details with Grease Pencil.