Paul Caggegi

Category: Blog

  • CONCEPT – CGCOOKIE GREASE PENCIL COURSE

    CONCEPT – CGCOOKIE GREASE PENCIL COURSE

    After a couple of month’s work, my new grease pencil course, CONCEPT has dropped! This requires CG Cookie membership for access, and focuses on the process of creating a single piece of concept art. It’s a super-quick course, and includes a lesson on color theory; shows my methods for making textures and palettes; and gives you a step-by-step guide to creating a concept sheet to hand over to a client.

  • Galleries!

    Galleries!

    I produce a wide variety of art – from professional work stuff, to life drawing and even some NSFW topics. It’s difficult to post everything on Social Media, as Instagram will flag stuff; Cara does not yet allow NSFW (meaning nudity of any kind). Mastodon so far has the best methods, allowing me to add a Content Warning and mark posts as sensitive.

    So I’ve begun to post some stuff here in two galleries – a professional, and a personal. I’m still working on a better gallery set up, and would welcome any suggestions for a good gallery plug-in which creates an easy and intuitive user experience to navigate – perhaps something with a sort function? Until then, I am segmenting sets so that they are viewable easily on all devices.

    PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO

    A collection of work-related images from work I have done over the years.

    PersoNAL PORTFOLIO

    A collection of life drawing, reference drawing, and images I have created with the consent of all parties involved. NSFW warning!

  • BCON-LA – Storyboarding Presentation

    BCON-LA – Storyboarding Presentation

    On April 19th, I attended the inaugural BCON-LA hosted by CG Cookie (for whom I work for as an instructor). I presented a talk on Storyboarding in 3D Space using Blender, and how it fits into a Blender-specific pipeline. It was well-attended, and while only the audio from the original footage could be salvaged, it gave me an opportunity to add in all the animated content I could not show live during the presentation.

  • DRAW!

    DRAW!

    DRAW! is a new FREE course from CG Cookie which will give you all the basics for understanding and using Grease Pencil. This course will serve as a basis for some up-coming courses on concept art, and eventually storyboarding!

  • MODIFY – a new CG Cookie Course

    MODIFY – a new CG Cookie Course

    I completed my second course for CG Cookie this year. It is a comprehensive guide to Blender’s Modifiers. Honestly, it was a daunting task, but I managed to create a comprehensive guide to all the main modifiers in Blender. These can be referenced at any time my students, whenever they require a primer on a particular modifier, or if they just want to see what it does.

    MODIFY is now streaming on cgcookie.com https://b3d.cgcookie.com/oblQ7A and is also available on Blender Market https://b3d.cgcookie.com/fzfhCi

  • DeNoise Podcast

    DeNoise Podcast

    So one of my recent projects with CG Cookie was producing the DeNoise podcast. It was a few months of wrangling the team to help test a method of recording; figuring out best practices for audio and video capture, and eventually editing the content into a coherent product. Jonathan Lampel took over at the end, and did an amazing job of setting up the RSS feed, publishing it all to platforms such as Spotify and iTunes, and other podcast platforms.

    I’m really proud of this one! You should totally give it a listen. Here is a link to the CG Cookie DeNoise landing page, but searching “DeNoise Podcast” wherever you listen to Podcasts should get you there.

  • Creative Freedom Summit – Grease Pencil demo

    Creative Freedom Summit – Grease Pencil demo

    I took part in the Creative Freedom Summit hosted by The Fedora Project recently. Thankyou to Mairin Duffy for the opportunity to talk, and for teaching me more about FOSS! If you wish to see some of the other great talks, they’re all available on their Peertube Channel

  • PANELS

    PANELS

    In 2022, I completed a full start-to-finish course using Blender’s Grease Pencil to create a comic for CG Cookie. The results for the course as well as the finished comic exceeded my expectations. I put everything into the production to make sure all techniques, tips and methods were the most up-to-date, easy to follow and well researched as possible.

    It is currently available to CG Cookie members, as well as on Blendermarket as a stand-alone course.

  • Officially an Instructor at CG Cookie!

    Officially an Instructor at CG Cookie!

    So I’ve been a bit quiet on the Youtube and blogging front, but there’s a very good reason. After months of working with CG Cookie on a yet-to-be-released project, I’ve been brought on as an instructor. I will be producing a couple of courses to be released later this year, focusing on Grease Pencil, comic creation and storyboarding. It’s pretty exciting stuff!

    If you’d like to check out my new instructor page over on the official site, it’s here: https://cgcookie.com/p/instructor-paul-caggegi

    Pavla Karon wrote a really nice article as an introduction there too https://cgcookie.com/posts/welcoming-paul-caggegi-cg-cookie-s-new-blender-instructor