In this Blender secrets email, Jan van den Hemel shares how to use the Substance add-on for Blender, to import free Substance materials.

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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 have a look at a huge animation course for Blender, an infinite Nintendo loop breakdown and more.

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New "Presentation" (shading and rendering) chapter has been added!

We added 24 new lessons (4+ hours of new content) to the Master 3D Sculpting in Blender course.

Check the video below to see what the new chapter is all about:

This is the last chapter of the "Part 2 - Cute Creature" sculpting process and marks a big milestone of the course update. Now, besides all the sculpting fundamentals (which are explained in part 1 of the course), the full sculpting workflow is explained in detail, using the cute creature as a practical example.

In the new chapter, you will learn how to create a clay shader from scratch, which you can use to make all your sculptings look nice, in a few seconds (see image below). You will learn how to use the new Sculpt Vertex Colors and combine them with procedural shading workflows to color the creature.

Then you will learn an advanced workflow to pose the creature, using the Pose Brush and the Mesh Deform modifier.

At the end we will create a flexible camera and lighting set up and render out some still renders and a turntable animation, and enhance the image with some post-processing effects in Blender's Compositor.

Here are the newlessons of chapter 7:

• 7.1 - Chapter Introduction
• 7.2 - Clay Shader - Preparation
• 7.3 - Clay Shader - Bump Map
• 7.4 - Clay Shader - Roughness and Color
• 7.5 - Clay Shader - Node Group
• 7.6 - Sculpt Vertex Color Basics
• 7.7 - Coloring - Preparation
• 7.8 - Coloring - Vertex Colors
• 7.9 - Coloring - Body
• 7.10 - Coloring - Body Details
• 7.11 - Coloring - Eyes
• 7.12 - Coloring - Backpack
• 7.13 - Pose Brush Basics
• 7.14 - Posing - Cage Mesh
• 7.15 - Posing - Binding and Face Sets
• 7.16 - Posing - Create a Pose - Part 1
• 7.17 - Posing - Create a Pose - Part 2
• 7.18 - Camera and Light Setup
• 7.19 - Artistic Lighting and Render Settings
• 7.20 - Post-processing
• 7.21 - Batch Still Renders - Clay Shader
• 7.22 - Batch Still Renders - Color
• 7.23 - Turntable Animation
• 7.24 - Image Sequence to Video File

We also added the new chapter to the download section of the course, which you can access here. The total size of the new chapter is 21.5 GB in high quality, and 17.4 GB in medium quality.

We are happy to announce our 29th CG Boost Art Challenge with the topic “Treehouse”!

This art challenge is for all 3D artists wanting to improve their skills and get the chance to win great prizes!

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We are happy to announce the winners of the 28th CG Boost challenge with the topic "Life on a Train".

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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 have a look at a stunning and delicious Blender short, some cool free Blender add-ons from Adobe and more.

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In our new YouTube video, Zach Reinhardt shows how to use a low poly base human and turn it into yourself, in Blender.

He will go over how to change the colors and shape of the character, and how to add new elements like a beard and glasses.

New character creation and rigging chapter has been added!

We added 22 new lessons (3.5 hours of new content) to the Cubic Worlds course for Blender. This is the first chapter of "Part 2 - Characters & Machines" of the course.

In the new chapter, you will learn how to create human characters by using a base character as foundation. We will dive into rigging this character by learning everything important about the armature object, bones, constraints and drivers.

In the second part of the chapter, you will learn how to model a dog, and fully rig it, by using the human character rig as foundation.

Here are the newlessons of chapter 7:

• 7.1 - Chapter Introduction
• 7.2 - Character Modeling Overview
• 7.3 - Yourself in Cubic Worlds
• 7.4 - Armature and Bones Basics
• 7.5 - Character Rig - Deform Bones
• 7.6 - Character Rig - Controller Bones
• 7.7 - Constraints Basics
• 7.8 - Character Rig - Constraints
• 7.9 - Skinning Basics
• 7.10 - Character Rig - Skinning
• 7.11 - Drivers Basics
• 7.12 - Character Rig - Drivers
• 7.13 - Character Rig - Organization
• 7.14 - Change a Rigged Character - Part 1
• 7.15 - Change a Rigged Character - Part 2
• 7.16 - Attach Objects to Hands
• 7.17 - Dog Preparation
• 7.18 - Dog Modeling - Part 1
• 7.19 - Dog Modeling - Part 2
• 7.20 - Dog Rig - Reusing the Human Rig
• 7.21 - Dog Rig - Constraints and Skinning
• 7.22 - Dog Rig - Drivers

We also added the new chapter to the download section of the course, which you can access here. The total size of the new chapter is 4.82 GB in high quality, and 2.25 GB in medium quality.

In this Blender secrets email, Jan van den Hemel shares how to create human characters using the free MB-Lab add-on for 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 have a look at a "perfect face" generated in Blender, some Geometry Nodes magic and more.

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