4 great CGCookie Courses that are now free

Last year CGCookie Five was announced and some so-called outdated tutorials were put to rest in the CGCookie archive, where users can download all the material that it’s no longer streamed.

In there there are videos like “Blender 2.72 overview”, that might be interesting only to historians or nostalgic ones, but there are also some other courses that, although a bit outdated regarding Blender’s UI or feature set, are still great for learning. Here you have 4 jewels that you can download for free from the CGCookie archive:

  1. Blender Animation Fundamentals

Link to the archive: https://cgcookie.com/archive/blender-animation-fundamentals/

  1. Crash Course: Freestyle Rendering

Link to the archive: https://cgcookie.com/archive/crash-course-freestyle-rendering/

  1. 2D Tracking and compositing in Blender

Link to the archive: https://cgcookie.com/archive/2d-compositing-tracking-blender/

  1. Styling and rendering long hair with Blender and Cycles

Link to the archive: https://cgcookie.com/archive/styling-and-rendering-long-hair-with-blender-and-cycles/

Hope some find this useful. Cheers!

Interesting.

You would think that the Animation Fundamentals is still awesome for an animation course… Cool that is for free and not deleted but I still think it is pretty valuable. I am still able to follow it well even with the changed UI. Hard to get good quality animation only tutorials from people within the blender community. Leonard Beorn, a veteran animator, teaches the absolute essential animation fundamentals. With that quality of information, it could still be easily sold by bundling that with the Parkour video he also teaches. I mean the quality is pretty much like the online animation workshops. With the exception of not having a classroom and a mentor anyway…

Hey,
I wanna learn VFX in blender.
Camera tracking. Match lighting, green screen compositing. Realistic shaders. That kinda things.
But I don’t know wich site is better for me,
Blender cloud or CG Cookie.

For shaders you can’t beat Blender Cookie’s Kent Tramell

I seem to remember Blender Cloud being good for the others (it’s been a while)

As a general thought, I’d say CG Cookie is mainly a 3d/digital art education site (it also has the community side), whilst the Blender Cloud is not intended mainly as an educational site. Because of that, for learning, I’d rather go for CGC. Having said that, the B-Cloud does have “Track, Match, Blend” course, which is great for learning tracking and some basic compositing.

Thanks for the tutos!

www.cgjam.net is mostly about vfx

The quality of tuition and content on CG Cookie is just superb across the board.

It is not free, you have to pay for their monthly plan. Correct me if I was wrong.