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[Resources] Epic Jurassic Park Environment Animation 🌄
Hey Reader,
Zach here, with another round of useful and inspiring CG and Blender related resources.
"Plexus" Effect Blender Tutorial
Entagma uploaded a new Blender tutorial where he creates the "plexus" effect using Geometry Nodes. Which are essentially moving dots with random connected lines. So, a pretty cool motion graphics animation.
Blender Environment Animation (Jurassic Park)
Although super short, this is a pretty realistic looking animation, created in Blender (Cycles) by Julien Herbey.
Here you can get a bit of behind the scenes info.
Here is a fun Blender Geometry Nodes tutorial by Joey Carlino, teaching how to turn any kind 3D object into a fluffy, fuzzy plushy. 🐩
Black Friday Blender Course Deals
Black Friday is here, and although we don't have a Black Friday sale running, there are some great deals from our friends and partners.
Below you find some must have Blender courses which are currently discounted. These are affiliate links.
- Creative Shrimp - Cinematic Lighting course for Blender (25% off)
- Polygon Runway - All Blender courses (50% off - Code: BLACK50)
- CG Dive - All Blender courses (50% off - Code: BF2022)
- P2Design - All Blender courses (25% off - Code: BF2022)
- TOAnimate - Blender animation course (15% off - Code: BF15)
- Many Blender Market courses and products discounted
- Our new Grease Pencil course (20% off - Code: EARLYBIRD20)
That's it for this week, now enjoy your weekend and stay creative!
~Zach
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Hey Reader, Zach here, With a new collection of inspiration and resources from the 3D world. Today, I’ll share Kaizen’s free tutorial on compositing, followed by "Forest Therapy" - a funny summer animation, the news about the V-Ray for Blender release, and finally, a new Blender Secrets hard-surface course. Let’s dive in. The Power of Compositing in Blender If you’ve never touched Blender’s compositor, you need to watch this video from Kaizen. Jesse explains the basics of what compositing is...
Hey Reader, Zach here, With a new long-awaited Community Challenge, new Art Sprints and the “Master Cinematic Storytelling in Blender” course Sale. Let’s dive in. CG Boost Challenges are back! After more than a year of pause, we took the time to rethink and restructure our approach to the challenges, and we’re finally ready to start a new one! We gave it an appropriate name and a theme: The Adventure Begins The goal is simple: Create a 3D artwork (a still render or animation) inspired by the...
Hey Reader, Zach here, Today, let’s try something new. I’ll share five of our most successful quick-tip YouTube Shorts videos we’ve created in the last two months. Each video is prepared by one of our course instructors in a fun and simple way so that you can get the most out of it in less than 60 seconds. Let’s dive in. Tip 1: Fix Symmetry Problems with Jim Morren When creating a symmetrical object, you can sometimes run into an issue where symmetry stops working correctly. Here, Jim Morren...