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Overpowered Environment Creation Technique

Hey everyone! Hope you're doing well. In this video I'll show you how to 3D scan environments from google earth to use as the perfect, realistic template for creating 3D scenes. Hope you enjoy.

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Jungle Warfare | Project Sneak Peek

Hey guys! Hope you're all doing well.

I wanted to share some behind the scenes work in progress shots from my new project! It will of course be a full tutorial as well.

The main idea is that two soldiers are making their way through a jungle environment, high tension. They are looking around the area carefully, suspecting they are being watched or could be ambushed at any second. Then at the end of the animation, they reach a viewpoint, put their guns down, and look out unto what ...

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Kingdom Color Grading and Compositing Tutorial

Hey guys!

Hope you're having a good day. I've had a lot of requests to show the workflow for the color grading in the new Kingdom environment, so here it is! I hope you get something out of it, and of course feel free to ask any questions if you have them.

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The Kingdom Project File - Download

Hey everyone!

Super excited to bring you all the project file for my newest YouTube tutorial! Hopefully this will be fun to explore around in, check out what I did for yourself, and break it down while watching the video.

It contains mostly everything that makes up the scene, minus a few objects and materials that I'm not allowed to distribute. For example you'll notice the trees are missing, and some of the terrain materials.

Download instructions:

I've provided the...

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Autumn Forest Ecosystem - 3D Download

Hey guys! Excited to share with you all this autumn ecosystem that I've been developing! It includes all the plants, textures, and geometry node setup. Hope you learn something from it, and feel free to use it in your own projects!

Download instructions:

I've provided the files as an archive, so you'll need to highlight both the downloaded files, right click, and using a file extraction software like winrar, extract them "as an archive". Then you'll get the complete file! Enjoy! View Post

Hyper-Real Mountain Tutorial

Hey everyone, hope you're doing well! Here's a tutorial on creating super realistic mountains in Gaea and Blender. It's all about the texturing!

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How to make Eevee look like Cycles

Hey everyone! Hope you're having a good day when you read this. In this video I'm showing you a cool little workflow on how to replicate the look of cycles in Eevee. Eevee also absolutely has it's limitations, and I'll talk a bit about that too. Enjoy!

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Video Game Photogrammetry Tutorial

Hey everyone!

Here's a tutorial on 3d scanning objects in a game world, processing them, and then importing them into Blender. Hope you enjoy and get something out of it!

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Dragon Animation Tutorial + Download

Hey everyone! Hope you're doing well.

Here's a quick tutorial on how I animated the dragon for the Skyrim video, as well as a download for the mesh. Hope you enjoy!

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Low Poly to High Poly Modeling + Texel Density Guide

Hey guys! Here's a tutorial on modeling the door from the Skyrim Town Kit. It features a cool workflow, bringing a low poly object to high poly via sculpting, then optimizing the mesh, then UV unwrapping. Hope you enjoy!

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The Skyrim Town Kit

This is the Skyrim Town Kit!

I'm so excited to finally release this full 3D pack to you guys. I already know you'll be cooking up the most awesome Skyrim towns with this kit - or medieval, fantasy, feudal, anything! I put so much time into making sure everything is the highest quality possible, both visually and optimally. I can't wait to see what you create.

Here's what's included:

  • 5 carefully crafted houses from Riverwood

  • The complete kit - which fea...

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Skyrim Town Kit - Sneak Peek

Hey guys! Hope you're doing well today!

I wanted to quickly tease the idea and face of the Skyrim Town Kit. Along with the new video dropping in a few weeks, I'm releasing this full modular kit that includes all the houses that I've created for the town in Skyrim, and also each piece that assembled them, so that you can create your own custom houses! The cool part is, it's available for all of you guys! Anyone who signs up on my Patreon gets instant access to it. So it's not locked behi...

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Upcoming Video SNEAK PEEK

Hey guys! Hope you're doing well.

Just wanted to drop a little sneak peek in here for you guys. The environment is still in development, but I'm thrilled about the results so far. My main efforts are going into writing the script and animations, and then once that's done, rendering, editing, and RELEASE. Can't wait!

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Cool new modeling technique! (Remesh + Smooth)

Hey guys! Recently I've been using this cool non-destructive workflow for modeling objects, and I wanted to share it with you all. It's very different from the traditional sub-div workflow, and I find it so much more flexible and fun. It doesn't replace the more traditional ways to model, but it's a fantastic addition to my toolset! Hope you enjoy and get something out of it!

Big content coming soon. Currently I'm putting all my energy into producing the next YouTube video.

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Icelandic Mountain - 3D File Download & Timelapse

Hey everyone!

Pretty fun thing for you guys today. A custom made Icelandic mountain along with a timelapse tutorial! I created the mountain in Gaea and then textured it in Blender. It came out pretty great!

Everything you need is attached below. If blender doesn't immediately load the textures and stuff up, you might have to go file>find missing files, and then use the folders I attached below. And also, if the displacement of the mountain doesn't come up immediately, you might...

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INTER-4 Tacticomp

Hey everyone!
Hope you're having a good day. This is an awesome fully custom model I created a while back that I wanted to share here! The one provided is slightly different from the one in the photos, and it also comes with an additional custom HUD. Feel free to use it in any of your projects, break it down to figure out how it was made, or use it as reference, whatever!

IMPORTANT:
I provided the blend file as well as the texture file. The textures are not packed into the blend f...

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Upcoming video: Teaser 2

Hey guys! Hope you're doing well.

I'm making some great progress on the new video, and finally starting to have some solid work-in-progress shots. As you might be able to guess, I'm recreating the town of Riverwood from Skyrim. Actually a better word is remastering. This iconic location that grabbed the imagination of 10 year old me in 2011 is going to look as close to real as I can get it. Also, I'm so excited to announce that along with the video I'll be releasing a pack incl...

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Forest Floor | Geometry Nodes Tutorial

Hey guys! In this tutorial I show you how I built the pine forest floor using geometry nodes, layer by layer, and then how to transfer that system unto a larger plane. Hope you enjoy!

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How to texture REALISTIC buildings in Blender

Hey guys! I just released a new youtube video on the CG Boost youtube channel. I show you my texturing workflow for buildings, which is also featured in my Urban Environments course. New Patreon exclusive content coming soon too!

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Decals & Grunge Pack

Hey guys! Here's a collection of grunge textures and decals that I use throughout various projects. You can never have enough of these, and these in particular are super versatile! There's graffiti, dripping grunge, damage, stickers, typical grunge for masking and imperfections, stains, etc. in here that I made myself from free online sources. Hope you enjoy!

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Forest Color Grading Workflow

Hey guys! A ton of people have requested that I breakdown the color grading for the newest forest environment, so here it is! Hope you get something out of it!

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Next video sneak peek!

Hey guys! I wanted to tease the next what's coming in the next YouTube video...

Those of you who recognize this location might know EXACTLY what's going on here. Needless to say, this will be my most ambitious 3D project and video tutorial to date. LETS GO

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Horror Animation Project File Breakdown | Geometry nodes, workflow, rendering tips, etc.

Hey guys! Another cool video here for you today. I thought a behind the scenes look at the new video's blend file would be interesting. I talk all about the geometry nodes setup and how to effectively layer things, general workflow tips, lighting, and a few other things. Hope you enjoy!

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Environment Optimization Guide

Hey guys!
Optimizing your environments is extremely important when dealing with highly realistic scenes like the forest from my latest video. In this video I'll take you through the four most important ways to make your scene run much quicker, and in many cases, run at all. Enjoy and feel free to ask me any questions!

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Complete Tree Animation Guide

Hey guys! One of the most exciting new techniques for me in Blender is animating trees procedurally. I briefly covered the process in my new YouTube video, but I felt it needed an extended breakdown! Hope you guys enjoy and I'll be looking forward to seeing your windy forests.

Also! Exciting video here, because it marks my return to YouTube and Patreon content. After a long year of developing my new Urban Environments Course, I'm ready to dive back in to creating personal projects and t...

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New video on the course!

Hey everybody! We just posted a video detailing everything inside my new urban environments course. I'd also like to use this moment to announce that a new, very ambitious project is underway for my YouTube channel - FINALLY able to jump into something new after working on this course. With this new video will come tons of new Patreon content. This place is about to get a whole ton of awesome content, so stay tuned.

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My course's trailer is out!!

Hey guys!! The day has come. My course is finally releasing and here's the big reveal trailer. Hope you enjoy and thanks for the support while I worked on this!

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Second Teaser for Master Urban Environments!

Hey guys!
The second teaser for my new course just dropped. I'm really proud of this one, kinda reminds me of a resident evil menu or something! Will have more stuff coming soon :)

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My new course is coming soon with CG Boost!

Hey guys!
I've been working so hard on this project for over a year, and now we're counting down the days till release. Can't wait for you guys to see more soon. Thanks for all the support while I've been very sneakily creating this!

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Barrens Color Grading Workflow

Ello. Just roughly going through my color grading workflow in Davinci for my Barrens project. Lemme know if you have any questions! Have a good one :)

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