CG Cookie Courses

Procedural Modeling with Blender's Geometry Nodes - SIGGRAPH Labs Table Demo

Build a procedural table in Blender with Geometry Nodes, controlling tabletop roundness and edge profiles before instancing its legs.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Animate Your First 3D Scene - Blender Pong

Learn Blender animation by bringing a Pong scene to life with keyframes, the timeline, and the Graph Editor.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Model and Texture Your First 3D Scene - Blender Pong

Build and texture a first 3D Pong scene in Blender while learning camera setup, modeling modes, Eevee rendering, and materials.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Vehicle Rigging and Animation in Blender - Live Stream

Live troubleshooting and tips for rigging and animating an off-road vehicle in Blender, including wheel rotation, spring rigs, linked files, overrides, and Python scripting.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Make Spider Webs in Blender with Geometry Nodes

Create procedural spider webs in Blender with Geometry Nodes, exploring node-based modeling, point manipulation, web materials, and the math behind the process.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Fish Scales in Blender - How to Cover Any Object With Scales

Use Blender Geometry Nodes to procedurally cover any mesh surface with fish scales, swapping and transferring attributes to control complex selections.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Pots and Vases Made in Blender - Geometry Nodes - Procedural

Build a flexible procedural pottery system in Blender using Geometry Nodes and procedural materials to create adjustable pots, vases, cups, and mugs.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Essential Blender Tips for UV Unwrapping Subdivision Surfaces

Learn Blender UV unwrapping techniques for subdivision-surface meshes, including seam placement, pinning, stitching, texel density, and island packing.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

PBR Texture Bombing for Blender - Procedural Effects for Image Textures with the Scattershot Addon

Learn texture bombing in Blender with the Scattershot addon using procedural scattering, Voronoi and noise methods, alpha layers, and PBR texture sets.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How I Made This Render in Blender - Starting With a Sketch - Useful Tools and Lazy Hacks

Follow an artist’s process from a stick-figure sketch to a finished Blender scene, including character posing, shaders, assets, compositing, and self-critique.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How Euler Rotations Work in Blender - Fixing Rotations and Gimbal Lock Pt 2

Fix Euler rotation problems and gimbal lock in Blender using filtering, baking, and conversion techniques.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Modeling a Sci-Fi Motorcycle in Blender - How to Build Complex Assets

A behind-the-scenes Blender workflow for turning a sci-fi motorcycle concept into a finished hard-surface asset, from blockout through detailing and UV preparation.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Instant Procedural Image Scattering & Randomization in Blender with Voronoi Vector Coordinates

Use Voronoi coordinates in Blender to scatter and randomize image textures across cells with edge warping, box mapping, overlap, and tri-planar mapping.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Creating Realistic Environments with Blender

Build photorealistic industrial environments in Blender with low-poly models, procedural materials, Eevee lighting, volumetric effects, and compositing.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Model & Texture a Character in Blender

Create a cute character from a cube in Blender, then finish it with simple materials, texture, and vertex painting.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video