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Prepare to take your drawings to a whole new dimension in “Dimensional Drawing Workout with Wouter Tulp”, where you’ll join renowned character designer Wouter Tulp on a 9-week creative journey that will pump up your skills in creating depth on a 2D canvas!

Learn Spanish fast from scratch to advanced level: master grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, listening and speaking

Learn Blender from Basics to Projects with Real-World Workflow Thinking

Stop typing code character by character. Master Cursor, Claude, and agent workflows to create production-ready applications 10 times faster. Become a system architect, not just an executor.

Hello and welcome to my Patreon! With a small contribution per month, you can help me to continue producing videos and other content. You can also join the higher level to get exclusive tutorials, mostly in the Houdini context with a focus on motion design / abstract design, look deveopment and more.

This tutorial mainly focuses on Pyro simulation, and involves various pyro simulations like the volcanic plume, the volcanic bombs, sparse smoke in the air, shockwave smoke, smoke and fire spreading on the terrain, and smoke from rolling rocks, to give you an in-depth understanding of Pyro

In this tutorial, we will first analyze the physical features of a reference, and then create it in Houdini by Height Fields, FLIP fluid, and Whitewater system.

this tutorial covers the basic knowledge and two practical scene cases, including reference analysis, fluid simulation, scene setup, lighting, materials, rendering, and final compositing.

This is a large-scale tsunami scene tutorial in Houdini, a comprehensive big case with a lot of FX elements. It tackles fluid simulation, RBD simulation, SBD simulation, etc., and is suitable for intermediate and advanced FX artists.

Modern Shopify SEO Using AI, AEO and GEO

Learn generator protection principles, earth-fault schemes, differential relays, and many more.

Materials, Technologies, Testing, Regulations & Career Pathways

Hands-On Foundations for Creating Autonomous AI Agents

Create optimized Unity VFX: different types of effects, Shader Graph, Particle System, Cinemachine

This is a comprehensive course on Visual Studio Code, designed not only for beginners but also for experienced developers who want to work faster, better, and more efficiently. Even if you have been using VS Code for a long time, you will discover many tricks, hidden features, and practices that will significantly speed up daily development.

The class will guide you through the initial setup and basic operations in an easy-to-understand manner, so that even beginners can create animations using Blender.

In this comprehensive course (6h), I will guide you through the entire feather system workflow inside Maya(2025) using the powerful grooming tool Yeti(5.1.8).

This introduction to lighting and compositing by Jon Perez provides insight into a professional workflow used at studios for cinematic production.

Complete Step-By-Step Guide to five AWS Projects to help you get hired as a Cloud Engineer. Build these high-quality projects, and add them into your portfolio!

In this course, you will learn how to create realistic visual effects using Blender through a full-scale video project using practical materials shot by a professional team.

Have you ever dreamed of creating lifelike creature characters in Blender? This course uses a Eurasian wolf as a case study and will guide you step-by-step to complete a cinematic and realistic Eurasian wolf model.

Learn SEO Link Building and Local SEO. Write Content. Use ChatGPT. Use SEO Tools. Update Wikipedia. Get HQ Backlinks.

Get Page #1 Rankings and Grow Your Organic Traffic from Basics to Advanced.

Learn Play and Discover Computer Science

This in-depth course covers Pascal Campion’s creative process, from inspiration to completed work. Students will gain a full understanding of the work and creativity that go into creating an original narrative illustration.

Subtitle: From Zero Foundation to 3D Printing Delivery, Master Full-Process GSC Figure Modeling Skills

Master WordPress development: Build modern plugins with Vue.js, REST API, Hooks, and a reactive Admin Dashboard.

Build real-world enterprise apps with AI-powered Vibe Coding techniques using tools like Copilot, RooCode, Docker, etc

A course to master web design, responsive design, animating websites, creating 3D websites and using AI to create webs.

FX animation is a complex niche, but not independent. There are different directions, styles and implementation methods. In this course we will study the basics of stylized hand-drawn FX animation that can be used in game development and motion design.

3 in 1 Course: Learn to design websites with Figma, build with Webflow, and make a living freelancing.

Learn Figma from Scratch: Design Beautiful Websites & Mobile Apps using Figma Tools for Web Design and Mobile App Design