We are happy to announce the winners of the 30th CG Boost challenge with the topic "Monster in the Closet".

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We added two new lessons to the course, about modeling a human character in the Cubic Worlds style from scratch.

In the recently added chapter 7 you learn everything about creating and rigging characters and animals. One part were missing, though, modeling a human character from scratch. That's why we added exactly that, in two new lessons.

Here are the NEWlessons of chapter 7:

• 7.2 - Character Modeling - Part 1
• 7.3 - Character Modeling - Part 2

In this Blender secrets email, Jan van den Hemel shares how to use Alphas (grayscale image textures) to sculpt ornaments onto a sword.

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In this NEWinterview we talk with Philip Hofmänner, the 1st place winner of the CG Boost Futuristic Transport Challenge from Zürich, Switzerland.

He will give us some insights of his journey as CG artist and a look behind the scenes of his winning artwork.

Read the full interview 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 a new content for our Blender environment course, a tutorial on how to create a procedural fabric material in Blender and more.

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New Basics Lessons, new Download Section and new Trailer.

In the past weeks we polished the Master 3D Environments Course, with some problematic lessons re-done and project files re-packed.

Check out the new trailer below.

New Download Section

Among the repacked project files for the lessons, you can now also find the bonus Asset Library, where we included all sorts of goodies for environment creation in Blender. From a 3D pack of bushes, trees, animated birds, to a 2D library of dust sequences, animated light rays, large-scale terrain textures and more.

Find the NEWdownload section for the course here:

• Download the Course

Here is the UPDATEDAsset Library for the course:

• Asset Library

New Lessons

Additionally, Martin added new lessons to the basics section of chapter 3, to help you navigate some of the problems that might arise while you're going through the course.

Chapter 15 now offers a rain lesson, where you will learn how to create, render and composite rain simulation over your shots.

And finally, to finish all up, the compositing breakdown of the very first shot of the trailer is available in chapter 11, lesson 11.

Here are the NEW lessons of chapter 3:

• 3.14 - Tips for Faster Viewport Response
• 3.15 - Rendering Tips for Faster Volumetrics

Here is the NEWlesson of chapter 11:

• 11.11 - Animated Ocean: Teaser Scene Breakdown

Here is the NEW lesson of chapter 15:

• 15.5 - Rain

We are working on more content for the course, so stay tuned.

We are happy to announce our 30th CG Boost Art Challenge with the topic “Monster in the Closet”!

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 29th CG Boost challenge with the topic "Treehouse".

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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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