Cg Cookie - Introduction To Character Modeling In Blender !!better!! Jun 2026

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"I tried to follow a YouTube video for three weeks and kept getting ‘pinching’ at the armpit. Jonathan’s lesson on topology flow solved that in 15 minutes. Worth the subscription price alone." – CG Cookie - Introduction to Character Modeling in Blender

Note: The course teaches techniques that work in Blender 3.6 LTS through Blender 4.2+. CG Cookie updates their videos if a Blender update breaks a specific add-on. The cycle continued

Once the mesh is clean, you learn how to cut seams on the character’s head, arms, and legs to lay the 3D skin flat into a 2D texture map (UV Unwrapping). By the end, you have a "naked" mesh ready for texturing in Substance Painter or Blender’s native Shader Editor. Worth the subscription price alone

The course is structured over approximately 20+ hours of video content (spread across multiple chapters). Here is what you actually learn.

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