Cg Cookie - Introduction To Character Modeling In Blender 【2026 Release】

In this introduction course, Jonathan Williamson argues that while Booleans are great for hard-surface robots, they are dangerous for organic characters. Booleans create "ngons" (polygons with more than 4 sides) and triangulation errors.

Jonathan’s teaching philosophy is unique. He does not "speed model." He does not hide mistakes. In fact, some of the most valuable parts of the course are the five-minute segments where he realizes he made a bad edge loop, deletes twenty minutes of work, and explains why he is backtracking. CG Cookie - Introduction to Character Modeling in Blender

But with hundreds of Blender tutorials on YouTube, why pay for a course? And what makes this particular CG Cookie workflow different from the rest? In this introduction course, Jonathan Williamson argues that