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Learn Docker from scratch by containerizing Node.js & NestJS apps using Dockerfiles, Docker Compose, PostgreSQL

A beginner-friendly guide to herbal preparation methods — without overwhelm, detoxes, or rigid protocols

Unlock the full potential of native 3D in After Effects by bringing Blender into your toolkit. This comprehensive course takes you from beginner to pro, guiding you step-by-step to create a stunning promotional video.

Character storytelling is about making believable, living characters using tools that are available to us.

In this 8-week course, students will learn the fundamentals and insights to creating successful character designs.

Join over a thousand beginners who’ve learned to make their own fully rigged 3D characters for games, animation, and renders. You won’t just learn how to make cool art — you’ll learn the exact workflows I use for freelance work and YouTube animations, from start to finish.

Push your creative boundaries with Sonja Christoph in “3D for Illustrations”, where you will merge 2D art with 3D technology.

A complete 6-step process for digital landscape painting, covering how to observe and analyze scenes, design strong compositions using shape relationships, handle lighting and depth, develop an efficient workflow, suggest textures and materials, and apply final adjustments for a polished result.

Learn how to paint over Blender 3D renders to make engaging stylized environment design! Join Ulysse in this 8-week class and learn the all of the important 2D and 3D fundamentals for environment concept art and design.

Let’s learn about common misconceptions, industry-tested techniques, and most importantly how to make the process fun and personal

Alex Konstad will give you the tools to be able to construct your own believable hard surface designs. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by the restrictive nature of drawing functional mechanical objects, this class will unlock your creativity!

Build, deploy & sell n8n automations using Docker & VPS. Launch your own automation agency with real client workflows.

Your Passport to Navigating Thailand with Confidence

Master the Art of AI Receptionists: Build, Deploy, and Sell Voice Agents That Talk, Think, and Book Appointments.

WebSphere Liberty: Learn Installation, Configuration, Deployments, Troubleshooting, Performance Tuning & Administration

In 26 lessons, Grammy-winning musician Tom Morello will teach you the guitar techniques, rhythms, and riffs that define his signature style,

Bored of having to repeat yourself? Let’s work on your pronunciation, so you can pronounce any word clearly and correctly. Get ready for a huge confidence boost!

This tutorial is through a character design telling how a character was created from mission to sketch to final work.

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