While the backhoe was rendered with Cycles. I first tried rendering the environment with Cycles as well...but I needed it to finish before my kids graduated college....Eevee came to the rescue! In this course, learn how to create photorealistic environments with Eevee. The total runtime is 5 hours of video, broken into easy-to-digest lessons.

Unlock Creative Control: Tweak and Perfect Your 3D Renders with Compositing. That’s where compositing can save you! In a 3D workflow, compositing tools will let you change an object's color, material, shadows, reflection, your scene lighting, and almost anything else AFTER you’ve rendered. When it comes to saving time, it’s your digital superpower! In this course, you’ll learn how to break your 3D scene down into layers and passes that let you adjust and tweak your 3D render in ways you didn’t know were possible. You’ll learn how to create a matte for literally anything in your scene, and if you don’t know what a matte is, you’ll learn that too!

Portalethium is a sci-fi game that the CG Cookie crew developed for the purpose of A) playing and B) learning. It's a tower defense game that was built from the ground up using Blender for 3D asset creation and Unity for game development. We decided that a modular environment was the best way to approach building the game level. Modularity works like Lego's, where pre-built pieces are interchangeable and extensible. This allows for a flexible level-design process that's perfect for iteration. It's also much easier to build a collection of interchangeable pieces than it is to build and texture an entire, un-modular level.