In this Blender secrets email, Jan van den Hemel shares some tips for UV unwrapping that will speed up your unwrapping workflow.

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New Arctic Chapter Added!

In chapter 4 we explored the A.N.T. landscape add-on and in chapters 5 & 6 we dived into the node-based workflows. Now, in the new chapter of the Master 3D Environments in Blender course, it's time to combine these approaches and add a new tool to your arsenal - sculpting!

Chapter 7 will teach you how to utilize A.N.T. to generate a base mesh, use texture-based sculpting to add details on it and finally, use the node-based shading methods to create a snow-ice material blend. On top of it, I will of course breakdown my final scene, its rendering and compositing. You will also learn how to make a neat translucent water volume!

All in all we added almost 1 hour of new content to the course.

Here are the newlessons of Chapter 9:

• 7.1 - Arctic Reference Images
• 7.2 - Creating the Glacier Base
• 7.3 - Skewing the Glacier
• 7.4 - Sculpting the Glacier
• 7.5 - Snow Material
• 7.6 - Ice Material
• 7.7 - Blending & Transparency
• 7.8 - Adding Translucent Water
• 7.9 - Finishing the Scene
• 7.10 - Rendering the Arctic Scene
• 7.11 - Arctic Scene Compositing

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 a stunning Blender showreel, how to master cinematic lighting, an interesting look at how CG and VFX where made in the past and more.

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In this Blender secrets email, Jan van den Hemel shares how to add moving cloud shadows to your environment scenes in Blender.

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

This time let's discover "Cycles X", a beautifully made animated short, a stunning CG environment breakdown and more.

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We are happy to announce the winners of the 25th CG Boost challenge with the topic "Futuristic Transport".

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We added 5 new lessons to chapter 5 "Cute Creature Retopology" of the Master 3D Sculpting in Blender course update, this chapter is now complete.

The new lessons will finish up the steb-by-step retopology process of the cute creature, and we will learn about some free and paid tools that help us to auto-retopologize a sculpting in a matter of seconds, with the downside of being less accurate.

The next chapter is planned to be released in May 2021. There we will finish up the cute creature sculpting, by adding high resolution details.

Here are the newlessons of chapter 5:

• 5.12 - Mouth and Eye Holes
• 5.13 - Multires Modifier Projection
• 5.14 - Auto-Retopology: QuadriFlow
• 5.15 - Auto-Retopology: Instant Meshes
• 5.16 - Auto-Retopology: Quad Remesher
• Chapter 5 Download Section

In our new YouTube video, Martin Klekner shares how to set up a starry night sky using a simple node-based setup in Blender. You can use the resulting sky dome in any of your night scenes.

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Rendering & Compositing Misty scene!

Rendering misty scenes can be a tricky business, but by using the few tricks and tips I provide in these new lessons of chapter 9, it shouldn't be a problem for you. Also, you will learn how to put your rendered layers together in Blender's Compositor, to achieve an even better result.

With that, chapter 9 focused on getting real-world landscape data using the GIS add-on is now complete. 😀 

Here are the new lessons of Chapter 9:

• 9.11 - Rendering the Scottish Lake Scene
• 9.12 - Compositing the Scottish Lake Scene