3D & VFX Courses and Certifications

Grant Abbitt

One Punch Man - 3D Modelling for Printing - Blender

Model and pose a detailed One Punch Man character in Blender, then prepare, slice, and print it as a physical figure.

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

Grant Abbitt

Make Simple, Fun Characters in Blender

Create a simple, fun 3D character in Blender using mirror modeling, shaped edges, eyes, and shading.

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

Grant Abbitt

Sculpting Barrels - Beginners Follow Along

Follow along in Blender to sculpt and detail a low-poly barrel using mirror, bracket, layer, and remesh tools.

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

Grant Abbitt

Texture Painting Metal - Blunderbuss

Learn to hand-paint brass metal textures for a low-poly game asset using shading, highlights, and finishing details.

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

CG Cookie

Make a Realistic Cookie in Blender - Beginner Tutorial

Create a realistic chocolate chip cookie in Blender using modeling tricks and procedural shaders.

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

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How to Animate Boiling Water in Blender - With Bubbling Effect

Create a realistic boiling-water animation in Blender by modeling a container, displacing the water surface, adding particle bubbles, and using refraction materials.

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

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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

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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

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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

CG Cookie

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

CG Cookie

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

CG Cookie

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

CG Cookie

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

CG Cookie

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

CG Cookie

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