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newchallenge
7 months ago

New 3D Art Challenge: City in the Sky

We are happy to announce our 34th CG Boost Art Challenge with the topic “City in the Sky”!

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

Join the challenge here

newnewsletter
7 months ago

[Resources] Blender 3.2 is 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 3.2 release, an impressive procedural generated project, some fun Blender tutorials and more.

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updateAnnouncement
7 months ago

"Blender Hotkey Sheet" PDF updated to Blender 3.2

We updated our Blender Hotkey Sheet PDF to reflect the changes in the new stable version of Blender 3.2. 🧾

You can sign up here for free to get it (email required), or just login to your CG Boost Academy account if you have signed up already, and download it.

Announcement
7 months ago

Our new CG Boost website is live! 🥳

We are super happy to show you our new website!

For a very long time we wanted to upgrade our website, not just to give it a fresh and more professional look, but also to better communicate what CG Boost is all about and make it easier to navigate (and easier to manage in the background).

In the beginning of this year we finally got the ball rolling and now after over 4 months of hard work, it is finally done!

Here you can read more about what and why we changed it.

Check it out!

newvideo
7 months ago

New Video: Environments with Geometry Nodes in Blender (Breakdown)

In our new YouTube video, Martin Klekner breaks down the latest environment from his "Master 3D Environments in Blender" course.

He goes into using Geometry Nodes for landscape shots, scattering assets, adding 2D elements and lighting large scenes. For step-by-step lessons, make sure to check out the full course.

newnewsletter
7 months ago

[Resources] Impressive Star Wars Short Film ✨

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 an impressive Star Wars fan film made with Blender, some useful Blender tutorials and more.

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newnewsletter
8 months ago

[Resources] LEGO Justice League 🧱

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 Blender shader nodes tutorial, some inspiring 3D short films and more.

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updatecourse
8 months ago

Course Update: Master 3D Sculpting in Blender

We added the third full chapter of the "Epic Creature" sculpting exercise, with 21 new videos and a running time of ~3.5 hours, to our Master 3D Sculpting in Blender course.

In this new chapter, you will learn how to texture the creature. We will UV unwrap the model, bake different texture maps, texture paint the base color and add fine details to the skin in the shader editor.

Additionally, we will make use of UDIMs to increase the texture resolution and create semi-realistic eyes for the creature.

Here are the newlessons of chapter 10:

  • 10.1 - Chapter Introduction
  • 10.2 - Retopology using Bsurfaces
  • 10.3 - Retopology Tips
  • 10.4 - UV Unwrapping Workflow
  • 10.5 - UV Unwrapping the Creature
  • 10.6 - UV Packing and UDIMs
  • 10.7 - Baking Preparations
  • 10.8 - Normal Map Baking
  • 10.9 - Displacement Map Baking
  • 10.10 - Curvature Map Baking
  • 10.11 - Texture Painting Workflow
  • 10.12 - Painting Color Map - Part 1
  • 10.13 - Painting Color Map - Part 2
  • 10.14 - Color Details - Part 1
  • 10.15 - Color Details - Part 2
  • 10.16 - Emission Details
  • 10.17 - Roughness Map
  • 10.18 - Bump Map
  • 10.19 - Subsurface Scattering
  • 10.20 - Eyes - Part 1
  • 10.21 - Eyes - Part 2

We also Updatedthe Download Section of the course, where the new chapter is now included:

  • Download the new chapter

Next we will work on the "Epic Creature Presentation" chapter, where you will learn how to add a simple rig to the creature, and create some nice renders. We don't have a release date yet, but it will be at some point in 2022. Stay tuned!

newnewsletter
9 months ago

[Resources] Spacecraft in Blender 👩‍🚀🚀

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 some Blender tutorials, a photo real short film and more.

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updatecourse
9 months ago

Course Update: Master 3D Environments in Blender

One of the most requested tutorial topics for the Master 3D Environments in Blender course was how to add lightning to your shots. In this free tutorial on our YouTube channel, we go deep into how to do just that!

You will learn how to use Grease Pencil to add animated lightning, light up your scene with it, and then composite it into your rendered footage.

Simultaneously, we added similar lessons to the course's Chapter 15 that focuses on weather effects:

Here are the 2 new lessons of chapter 15:

  • Lightning
  • Lightning Compositing