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in today's video we're gonna talk about nine of the absolute best blender courses that have

been released in the last couple of years from creating characters rigging animation lighting

and post-production and as a bonus we will include the best resources for learning blender but before

we do that i wanted to let you guys know that the blender market is having right now a huge sale

that includes discounts on add-ons courses shaders you name it without further ado let's jump right in

first we're going to take a look at a new training that was released recently

by glab alexandrov from creative shrimp this training is all about cinematic lighting and

how to achieve that cinematic look in your scene glab will be your instructor throughout the course

and he has been doing this for many years and now he accumulated all that knowledge he learned and

experience in this training where he offers a complete explanation of all the lighting

knowledge and techniques that can make any render look more alive and cinematic and now let's talk

about what you will eventually find in the course with a six hour plus step-by-step guide for

lighting blender you will be able to understand and learn how to light characters still objects

as well as environments additionally you will get to know the full workflow of lighting

in both ev and cycles furthermore all the videos are manually edited with close captions in english

and to help you follow along the course you will find all the project files and environments

displayed in the course as well as useful assets such as node groups textures and models

also we have this weapon creation training using blender marmoset tool bag and substance painter

for baking texturing and portfolio ready renders this will be a great start for you if you want to

start creating cool looking firearms for video games and this is your guy trust me because the

instructor is an artist who has a lot of experience under his belt when it comes to this specific

subject this training includes 90 hour video files with about an hour per video in addition to

essential reference images and a full audio commentary in english not only that but this

training also provides a great chance for those who never got the chance to try the luxury of using

blender or baffled on how to start with it as i said the training comes from a very qualified

as i said the training comes from a very qualified professional when it comes to weapons

it provides the knowledge in how to create a customizable revolver

for fps games as well as two mountable attachment pieces for it

have you ever wanted to become a professional blender animator as quickly as possible if you

do then you should definitely check out this course from to animate the training covers

everything about lenders animation tools and the knowledge that goes into it it also shows you

some super handy anons it basically has everything else you need to know when it comes to animation

inside blender it contains over 40 comprehensive video lessons that are divided into four chapters

the first one will be just an intro the second one you're gonna be able to experience different

types of rigs and after that you will learn actually how to animate those rigs and use

anons to create the process of animation as a professional

our next pick is an awesome course by the folks at true vfx the developers behind some of the

most popular anons like true terrain true space true sky and so on this course is going to help

you to bring your artwork to the next level by mastering the art of post-processing which is

really important often when we work on projects especially for beginners we neglect the post

processing step although it is one of the most important steps in crafting an awesome render

throughout this six hour plus course you will master the art of post-processing from beginner

to pro you will start at the beginning by getting a good understanding of the differences between

3d and 2d software like blender photoshop affinity photo etc you will also learn some of the

fundamentals like creating masks and using adjustment layers but you will also learn

how to incorporate blender output data to your advantage things like color passes and so on

which will help you fix mistakes or change colors to your liking also you will learn

how to add atmosphere fog clouds stars light rays rain snow and much more

if you want to create 3d assets fast and with more accuracy you will need photogrammetry and

this course especially is going to be about that which is an in-depth course that will cover all

the steps necessary to learn how to create realistic 3d models and environments using

photogrammetry techniques and tools you will basically need open source software such as

blender gimp darktable and reality capture which is not free but it is definitely not free

is not free but it is the best and it is highly recommended especially when working on such

projects this training is also by gleb alexandrov in addition to 80 boros 80 and gleb have been

learning to use photogrammetry techniques for many years now and hopefully this training will

be a gateway to share with us what they have learned over the years they will show you all

you need to know during over 12 hours of video footage delivered throughout 80 plus video

tutorials now if you want to create realistic characters this is a great training by cg cookie

called human it focuses on achieving photorealism in 3d characters and faces especially because it

is one of the most wanted skills in computer graphics generally speaking whether it be for

vfx video games animation or simply for the love of the craft creating realistic characters is

worthwhile although it can be really challenging yet like every creative process in blender

creating life-like human faces can be learned and it has nothing to do with the talent

human is a deep dive course into the process of portraiture it is created by the instructor

ken tramell who has been an instructor at cg cookie for nearly 10 years the training goes

through the process of how to make a realistic human step by step you will be taken through the

foundations of facial anatomy texturing grooming and lighting just to name a few things in addition

to exploring the depth of blender's capabilities what you will get with this training is more than

80 lessons across five chapters it's going to be over 25 hours of video which i believe is going

to be covering every step of the way in detail and the project source files will be available

in addition to an atomic reference tool with 30 dollars value

after creating a character of course the next step is animation because it plays a very important

role in both gaming and film industries the ability to create good character animation

or lack thereof can make or break your projects most 3d artists got quickly discouraged or

intimidated by animation since it is kind of a long process to learn fortunately this course

called alive by pieric picot from p2 design who's known for their top-notch courses can help you do

that easily the course contains over 32 hours of video content spanning over 180 videos throughout

this course you will learn all the fundamentals of animation and you will get access to all the

tricks and techniques you will need to create everything from a cute character to a kick-ass

hero character animation and by following this training you will go from a very basic animation

to high-end advanced level character animations all inside blender

one thing i forgot to mention is that before you start actually working on animations

you need to rig your characters the rigging process can be sometimes very challenging

especially for newbies who didn't learn the fundamentals of rigging and they usually get

quickly discouraged or intimidated by it but luckily we have this course called the art of

effective rigging also by pieric picot from p2 design this training includes 57 videos

spanning over 11 hours of video content broken up into six chapters all models rigs textures and

assets in this course are available for you to use in your learning process and you will find

a blender file for each step of the course to help you learn in a more methodical manner

another field of animation is motion graphics i think this is a very good motion graphics course

that can help you get started in blender you will learn about procedural modeling and finding ways

to be creative when it comes to creating nice structures you will also learn about

ambient animations and simulations in addition to optimizing and fusing stuff to create nice

motion effects in the shading section the instructor will show you how to set up complex

shaders that will allow you to have more control when it comes to different things with materials

in the rendering chapters you will be focusing on how to use evi properly in addition to learning

about volumetrics particle lights compositing and so on in the end you will go through the process

of creating complete projects with the instructor projects such as a tunnel loop cube wave background

the walking man and the hologram landscape if you are interested in these courses you will find the

necessary links in the description also as a bonus we're going to talk about three of the most useful

resources when it comes to learning blender first we have blender bros who have great and

high quality hard surface modeling courses asset packs and basically everything you will need to

get started with hard service modeling inside blender blender bros actually aims to provide

you with top-notch and educational hard surface modeling training from zero to hero also if you

want to expand your knowledge with blender cg boost is definitely a good place to start they

have some interesting courses that can suit both beginners and intermediate level artists

ranging from modeling and sculpting courses to environment creation and texturing but my favorite

course is the grease pencil course the platform currently has more than 18 000 students and it

now contains seven courses and even if you don't have the money there is a free course that helps

you start in your journey with blender cg cookie on the other hand is another amazing platform

for learning everything about blender it is probably the largest right now when it comes

to blender courses since it has tons of stuff that are both for beginners and experienced artists

who want to get even more experience the courses range from the blender basics to advanced animation

geometry nodes modeling rigging rendering and so on and it even has a grease pencil course for those

who want to create comic books as i said if you are interested you will find everything in the

description below and as i said the blender market is having right now a huge sale so you'll probably

want to take advantage of that i hope you found this video useful if you did please give it a

thumbs up you can also check some of our previous videos thank you guys for watching and i'll see

you in the next one