Ever scale a cube in Object Mode and wonder why the edges still say 2000mm in Edit Mode? That’s because Blender keeps the original size and just multiplies it by the scale factor. Quick fix: Ctrl + A → Apply Scale.

✨ In games, boring > fancy. A short, snappy animation feels responsive. A flashy one looks cool… but slows the player down. 🎮⚡️ Good gameplay is about clarity + speed, not showing off.

Snapping in Blender doesn’t have to be guesswork. ⚡️ With G + Axis + B, you can snap to faces, edges, or vertices and align objects with millimeter precision. Perfect for clean modeling and faster workflows.

🏆 New staff pick: "Low Poly Room with Cats Final" made in Blender by our member Matthew Ullrey

🏆 New staff pick: "Green Lantern" made in Blender by our member Bennie Griffin 💚

Blender 4.4+ adds a Filter Width slider to the bump node — drop it lower on detailed height maps and watch your bumps get way sharper. 👀 #Blender3D #BlenderTips

🏆 New Staff Pick: "My Room" made in Blender by our member Allwin Fernandes 👏

Blender Basics tip 💡 Turn a flat grid into terrain in seconds. 👉 Hit O for proportional editing → move 1 vertex, and the rest follow. Perfect for landscapes + organic shapes.

💡 Did you know? Blender’s input fields are calculators: type 5+2, hit Enter, get 7. They’ll even convert 3′7″ to metric—no more head math.

Our member Aneeqa Younas won’t stop until every Pokémon is in Blender 👏🔥 Here’s the newest batch! Check out her full gallery 👉 cgcookie.com/u/aneeqayoun...

Ever wonder why your materials look off in the viewport? 👀 It’s all about the lighting! Swapping in a custom HDRI makes your colors pop exactly as intended. 💡 #Blender3D #HDRI #3DRendering #CGI"

How to get perfectly snapped handles in seconds⚡ Duplicate + snap with precision. Alt+D + axis = handles perfectly aligned every time.

Blender Basics tip ✨ How to select hidden objects.

Lower the opacity. Set real-world scale. Suddenly your reference images in Blender actually work for you 👌 Part of our new CRAFTSMAN course → showing how Blender can be a precision tool for DIY + carpentry.

Ever thought about using blender to design real furniture? not just renders — like, measure it, cut it, build it in your garage. 🪚 we just dropped CRAFTSMAN, a new CG Cookie course from a real-life carpenter who uses blender as his workshop.

Seeing ugly seams in your baked textures? 😬 That’s aliasing from baking UV islands right up to the edge of your mesh. Here is how to fix it: #b3d #BlenderTips #3Dmodeling #TextureBaking #GameDev

💡 Blender Tip: Rip + Fill Like a Pro Want to cut open your mesh and instantly fill the gap with clean geometry? Here’s the shortcut: Alt + V. 🪄 If you only ever used V for Rip, give Alt + V a try — it’s like Rip on steroids. 🦾

🚨 New Blender BASICS just dropped — and it’s our 7th version, now updated for Blender 4.5 LTS. ⠀ This is the go-to course for total beginners. Free to watch, always. 🧵👇

🐾 Meet Oddy the Cat – a stylized fur study in Blender by Rosario Rosato Using Geometry + Material Nodes, Rosario crafted this fuzzy little guy from scratch, focusing on believable, appealing fur. Nailed it! 👏 #b3d #3dart #3character

🍯Too chubby to fly. Too proud to care. "Cute Flof Bee" made in Blender by our member Suban Waseem 👏

❌ urban planning ✅ urban spinning

Yes, these are made in Blender 🤯 Our member Rosario Rosato blew our mind with these super-realistic renders.

🧵 Blender 4.5 LTS just dropped — here’s what’s actually useful to know if you're modeling, shading, animating, or building tools. A thread on practical upgrades that will speed you up and help you do more with less. 👇

Yes, this was made in Blender! 🤯 CG Cookie member John Nyquist started this piece as a phone doodle—and it evolved into a full Grease Pencil illustration. He even used Blender’s compositor to place it onto a photo of newsprint paper, capturing that classic Silver Age comic book feel.

If you want to master Blender (fast) this is the only bundle you'll need. 30 courses, out of which 19 are from CG Cookie (including HUMAN)🍪 🔥 Now on Superhive Market / Limited-time offer (expires Thursday, July 24th)

You can do your own logo reveal in Blender using only spheres, physics, and force fields — no particles or keyframes. It’s way easier than it looks.

Confirmed: BCON returns to North America in 2026! 🎊 This time, we're taking the iconic 6th street in downtown Austin, TX. 🗓️ Save the date: April 13-14, 2026

HUMAN, made in Blender 🤲

🚨 Blender 4.5 is almost here — and it's a game-changer. 👉 It's an LTS (Long Term Support) release. That means 2 years of bug fixes and max reliability. Here’s why it matters (and 6 reasonsto be excited). 🧵

The Smoke Cannon Collision tutorial is our most-watched recent Blender livestream💨

👂 Got Blender questions? Ask it - the CG Cookie community loves to answer. 👉 cgcookie.com/community

🗣️ Did you know Blender can be used for real-world projects? Master carpenter and 3D artist, Sascha Feider, is working on his first CG Cookie course: Precision Modeling with Blender for Real World Application. Coming later this year!

The journey to 150 Blender-made Pokèmon continues 💪 Earlier this year, we shared the first 10 Pokèmon modelled by our member Aneeqa. She has been busy since then, adding another 10 to her collection 👏 Gotta render 'em all! ☄️

🧙‍♂️ Spice Vendor’s House — a stylized fantasy 3D scene built in just 4 weeks by 90+ Blender artists around the world 🌍💻 Inspired by Vadim Zaitsev’s art, it combined modeling, sculpting, FX & texture painting — all coordinated via DIY tools like Google Docs. #b3d

POV: baking textures in Blender 👨‍🍳

💡 How to loop a text around a ring in Blender (Disclaimer: advice not intended for the forging of soul-binding artifacts)

Our friend @lucasfalcao3d.bsky.social breaks down how he creates his 3d characters with Blender, fast. Using a basemesh is the way to go (the pros do it, too).

Scultping a human head in Blender: ear topology tip 👂

(Short) hands up if you knew this! Is this the ultimate geometry nodes trick? #geometrynodes #blendertutorial #b3d

💡 Triangulation isn’t consistent across 3D software—Blender, Maya or Unity may all handle it differently. If you bake maps on a non-triangulated mesh, it can lead to shading errors later. Always triangulate your low-poly mesh before baking to avoid issues.

💡 How to make your own preset in Blender with custom brushes, materials and layouts (without having to re-create it each time). This way, you'll have it saved and ready to go for your next project 💪 #blendertutorial #greasepencil #b3d

First peek at LUMINOR: Creating a Vintage Camera in Blender 📸 realistic modeling 📸 procedural texturing 📸 materials & lighting Coming to CG Cookie soon...by @ewawierbik.bsky.social 🖤

"Jinx" from Arcane Made in Blender by our member Dani Tufeld

💡 How to fix pixel bleed margin on your Blender model #b3d #blendertip #texture

brb, making Blender in Blender

Our course BASEMESH is the ultimate shortcut to creating stylized characters in Blender. Thanks to all our students who completed and consistently gave it 5⭐️ reviews!

How to quickly reverse a shape in Blender (and make a sad Cubey)

✨ New in Blender 4.4: Slotted Animation Action Now you can animate with non-overlapping strips in a clean, organized way. Perfect for modular actions & better control. 🧩💥

BAKE is out of the oven🧑‍🍳 Master the art & science of texture baking for (not only) game asset creation in Blender.

This robot is feeling particularly sassy 💅