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Which Blender Lighting Course is Right for You? (Comparison)

Gleb Alexandrov — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:45:52 +0000

Struggling to choose between our Cinematic Lighting and EEVEE Realistic Lighting courses? In this video, we break down the key differences between these two to help you decide which course fits your workflow best – or if you should grab both.

Complete Lighting Bundle (15% off)

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The Breakdown

Cinematic Lighting in Blender: Our foundational course, now remastered for Blender 5.x. It focuses on Cycles, still shots, and the ‘photography’ side of lighting – think light direction and quality.

Watch the Reverse key lighting freebie from this course:

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EEVEE Realistic Lighting and Rendering: A newer addition to the “Shrimpverse” that focuses on real-time rendering and animation. It’s more technical, teaching you how to master EEVEE’s specific settings and quirks to achieve high-end visual fidelity.

Watch the realistic character lighting techniques freebie from this course:

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Which one should you pick?

Choose Cinematic Lighting if you want to create photorealistic still renders using Cycles. Choose EEVEE Realistic Lighting if you are interested in real-time workflows and animation.

Choose the Bundle if you want the full picture. Taking both will give you twice the theory and a deeper understanding of how to light in both engines.

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FAQ

Q: Is there a knowledge overlap between these courses?

A: Both courses feature a lot of lighting theory from photography and cinematography, thus there’s some overlap. That being said, I studied a lot in-between these courses – and my understanding of certain things got, hopefully, better. So there’s a lot of new bits of lighting theory explored and incorporated. And the old bits revisited.

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Q: If I already own one of these courses, can I still make use of the bundle offer?

A: We value our community. If you’ve already purchased one of these elsewhere and want to complete your collection on Superhive or Gumroad, don’t worry, we’ve got your back on the pricing. Drop us a line.

https://www.creativeshrimp.com/contact

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Q: Which course shall I take first, CL or Eevee?

A: Both. But if you have to choose, go with the remastered Cinematic Lighting first, as it’s the most fundamental out of the two. But nothing prevents you from checking the first chapters (that is, the Minerals and the Elevator Shaft, respectively) from these courses. See what gets you excited.

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Links:

Complete Lighting Bundle (15% off)

CreativeShrimp.com/courses – Deep-dive Blender courses on Eevee, photoreal lighting, and rendering. That’s us.

EEVEE Realistic Lighting and Rendering course

Cinematic Lighting and Rendering course got remastered

Free minimal post-processing setup for Blender’s compositor

Folks, if you have any question as for making use of the bundle if you’ve already got one of the courses (thank you so much btw!) – feel free to drop us a line. Or any other questions.

p.s. And no, we won’t charge twice for our courses or anything, when it comes to the new Superhive policy which is currently being discussed.

https://www.creativeshrimp.com/contact

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Blender 2.8 Tutorial | Retopology

Aidy Burrows — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 12:02:58 +0000

A new Blender 2.8 feature is the Poly build tool. These are early Blender steps in producing a more complete native retopology environment. Let’s take a look and explore some retopology options!

How to setup for Retopology
The Poly build Tool
General retopology workflow
Extra apps & addon options

Extra Retopo App/Addon Options

CG Cookie’s Retopoflow – Amazing Blender Addon

TopoGun – Dedicated software for retopology

ZBrush – Commercial 3D App, incredible for sculpting also contains good retopology options

3D Coat – Commercial 3D Application that has some cool retopology tools

After this video was produced another Add-on good for retopology came to our attention – The PolyQuilt Addon. A nice quick overview can be found here. Also more info can be found on the Blender Artist page.

2.8 HSM Update Youtube playlist

Hard-surface modeling on BlenderMarket (2.79 full course and 2.80+ update)

Hard-surface modeling on Gumroad (2.79 full course and 2.80+ update)

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Blender 2.8 Tutorial | Remeshing Tools

Aidy Burrows — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 14:31:37 +0000

Blender 2.81 now ships with two new ways to remesh your models, a fast one based on volumes and another one preserving quads. Let’s take a look at how they might affect our hard surface workflow!

Why Remesh? How? and Where?
Learn the main differences between them.
All the Voxel options
All the Quadriflow options
The old skool Remesh Modifier
Additional Apps and Addons to take it further

2.8 HSM Update Youtube playlist

Hard-surface modeling on BlenderMarket (2.79 full course and 2.80+ update)

Hard-surface modeling on Gumroad (2.79 full course and 2.80+ update)

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Blender 2.8 Modeling | Fundamentals Crash Course

Aidy Burrows — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 17:15:27 +0000

How do you know what level of modeling skill you’re at? Have you mastered the modeling fundamentals? What does that actually mean? Here is a 25 minute crash course into what we might call the standard modeling toolkit. If you know all this stuff and if I was in a position to I’d be handing out 3D Modeling fundamental diplomas left, right and center! (Or should that be -x, x and y!)

ENEMY No. 1! When it comes to Modeling problems and how to fix it
Modeling fundamentals complete list
Object Level modeling fundamentals
Edit Level modeling fundamentals
Essential shading tips for modeling
Essential selection tips for modeling

2.8 HSM Update Youtube playlist

Hard-surface modeling on BlenderMarket (2.79 full course and 2.80+ update)

Hard-surface modeling on Gumroad (2.79 full course and 2.80+ update)

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Blender 2.8 SETUP | What we change and why

Aidy Burrows — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 13:20:48 +0000

Even though we try to change nothing to make it as easy to follow along, that wouldn’t really be teaching a very good workflow in many cases. So! Here are some of the changes we often make to default Blender and why we make them.

By default Blender is setup for the average user but while that causes the least amount of changes that need to be made, the perfectly ‘average’ user doesn’t really exist. Blender is so versatile it couldn’t possibly really cater for everyone by default.