Paid Tutorial Platforms

Subscription and course-based learning platforms.

• 📰BlenderNation. Daily news, art and tutorials for Blender.
• 📺 Custom Character Skeletons and Animations ~ Upside Tutorials. Custom character skeletons and animation in Unreal.
• 📺 Large Scale PCG Tutorial with Gaea Maps ~ Aziel Arts. Zelda-inspired landscapes built with procedural content generation.
• 📺 MEGA TUTORIAL ~ Unreal Sensei. Long-form Unreal Engine course covering Nanite and Lumen.
• 📺 What Studio Ghibli Does That Disney Doesn’t ~ Pomeroy Art Academy. Stylistic differences between Studio Ghibli and Disney animation.
• 25 Tips and Tricks ~ Unreal University. Unreal Engine shortcuts and tips.
• 3D Computer Graphics Programming Paid. Learn the theory and math behind 3D graphics by building a software renderer from scratch in C.
• 3D for Designers Paid. C4D and motion design courses.
• AAA Ghibli Forest in Blender & Unreal ~ ShinGidora. Stylized environment tips, partly promoting his TREEBOX commercial script.
• Achieve True Color in Unreal Engine: Disabling Tonemapper ~ Kibibyte. Custom Unreal looks via LUTs and disabling the tonemapper.
• Add VFX to Cinematic RAW and LOG Footage. Adding VFX to cinematic RAW and LOG footage.
• Animation Programming Basics. Basics of animation programming.
• Animators React to KPop Demon Hunters - ft. THE DIRECTORS ~ Corridor Crew. Animation and VFX reactions and breakdowns.
• Artisticrender. Tutorials, tips and resources for Blender and 3D.
• Beginning Python For Maya (Zurbrigg) Paid. Structured Python course for Maya users.
• Blender 3D Architect. News, tutorials and training for architectural visualization in Blender.
• Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/Python Scripting. Python scripting chapter from the Blender 3D: Noob to Pro wikibook.
• Blender Beginner 3D Modeling Tutorial. Beginner 3D modeling tutorials in Blender.
• Blender Secrets. Hundreds of one-minute video tutorials, each on a specific Blender topic.
• BOOST Foliage Performance ~ Joshua M Kerr. Foliage performance via world position offset in materials.
• Build iOS app with Rive Animations. Three-hour course on building a SwiftUI app with Rive animations.
• CG Cookie. Free Blender tutorials from CG Cookie.
• CG Shortcuts (site) Paid. C4D workflow courses.
• CGCookie Paid. Blender courses. $29/mo.
• Character Customization Tutorial. Finished project for a Unity blendshape character customization tutorial series.
• CHEAPEST Motion Capture Setup for Metahumans ~ Charlie Driscoll. Budget motion capture setup for MetaHumans, aimed at filmmaking.
• Computer Graphics. MIT ray tracing and animation course, fall 2012.
• Computerphile 3DGS explanation. Computerphile explainer on 3D Gaussian splatting.
• Create 3D Graphics in JS Using WebGL. Getting started with WebGL content without any frameworks.
• Create the Most AMAZING Animations with Rive. Rive animation crash course by DesignCourse.
• Darkfall (blog). Blender Python and node tutorials.
• Dean Yurke - Unreal Engine and VFX Filmmaking. Pro movie VFX artist explains his Unreal filmmaking process.
• DebugLog HTC Vive Unity 3D Steam VR Video Tutorial. HTC Vive SteamVR tutorials in Unity.
• Default Cube. CGMatter's second channel for longer Blender tutorials.
• Design Patterns in Unity Example. Derek Banas's design patterns tutorial series translated to C# in Unity.
• Environment Art Breakdown ~ Stylized Station. Environment art breakdown by Melissa Perl.
• GameDev.tv Unreal Engine Blueprint Game Developer Online Course. Unreal Engine Blueprint game development course.
• Getting Started with VR in Unity (DigitalTutors). Introductory tutorial for building VR experiences in Unity.
• GitHub: mixandjam. Source for the mix and jam Unity video tutorials.
• Houdini Tricks Tumblr. Assorted Houdini tips and quick tutorials.
• HTC Vive SteamVR Tutorial using Flafla2 Teleport, Probuil Box, Lab Render. HTC Vive SteamVR tutorial covering teleport, ProBuilder and the Lab Renderer.
• Hunyuan 2.1 Install Guide ~ Stefan 3D AI Lab. ComfyUI install guide for Hunyuan 3D 2.1.
• I Nailed the Anime Look ~ SILKROAD Project. Anime outlines and shadows done in UV space rather than as a filter.
• Interactive 3D Graphics. Udacity course on real-time 3D graphics fundamentals.
• Interplanety. Blender tutorials, articles and Python scripting notes.
• Introduction to Machine Learning (Course) Paid. Full Rebelway machine learning course.
• Jonathan Lindgren Paid. 3D design and motion courses.
• Learn ARKit using Unity - Udacity. Udacity course on ARKit development using Unity.
• Learn OpenGL: Beginner's guide to 3D rendering and game development with OpenGL and C++. Beginner's guide to 3D rendering and game development with OpenGL and C++.
• LearnSquared Paid. Professional CG courses.
• Lecture 18: Monte Carlo Rendering (CMU 15-462/662). Monte Carlo rendering lecture with a strong introduction to importance sampling.
• Many techniques available for Stylized Grass ~ Ghislain Girardot. Stylized grass techniques in Blender.
• Material Ambient Occlusion ~ William Faucher. Baking ambient occlusion maps onto models in Unreal.
• Mind + Motion (Effectatron) Paid. Derek Kirk's C4D + Redshift course. Covers imposter syndrome / mental health alongside technique. $10–$49.99 per course.
• MIT Inverse Rendering Lectures (Module 2). Academic deep dive into inverse rendering.
• MoGraph Mentor (site) Paid. 3D motion design courses.
• Motion Design School (site) Paid. Motion graphics courses.
• Pablander Academy Freemium. Character sculpting and digital art courses, tutorials, and brush packs (ZBrush, Blender, Substance, Marmoset).
• Patata School Paid. C4D and Octane courses.
• Pixel Art Tutorial Basics for Beginners. Pixel art basics for beginners.
• Pixel logic. In-depth pixel art tutorial book.
• Pluralsight Paid. All software, $29/mo.
• Pragmatic VFX Paid. Advanced Houdini courses from an ILM FX TD.
• Ray Wenderlich's Tutorials. Beginner and mid-level Unity tutorials and small example games.
• RMA Houdini Tutorials. Houdini tutorials by RMA.
• Roll A-Ball ECS Style. Unity Roll-A-Ball tutorial recreated with the Entity Component System.
• Stop Being Afraid of Houdini Paid. Houdini course for C4D motion artists.
• Tech Gear HDA. Houdini HDA tutorial for generating cylindrical hard-surface details like gears and bolts for sci-fi assets.
• Technical Art & Materials. Real-time shader and material tutorials by Ben Cloward.
• The CG Essentials. Blender tutorials covering modeling, rendering, animation and particle simulation.
• tinyrenderer. Computer graphics course that builds a simplified OpenGL-style software renderer from scratch.
• Tony Munoz | Game Creator Accelerator. Unreal Engine game development tutorials.
• Tutorial from the authors of 3DGS. Gaussian splatting tutorial from the authors of 3DGS.
• Tutorial: Controlling Objects with Vive Trackers in Unity. Setting up Vive Trackers to control objects in Unity.
• Two-minute explanation of 3DGS. Two-minute explainer on 3D Gaussian splatting.
• Unity + Vive Tutorial: Beginners. Beginner Unity and Vive VR tutorials.
• Unity 3D Steam VR Video Tutorial Series. Unity SteamVR video tutorial series.
• Unity Gems Wordpress. Unity3D tutorials.
• Unity in HoloLens. Microsoft's official tutorials for building HoloLens apps in Unity.
• Unity Readme. Adds a readme / tutorial panel to the inspector tab of a Unity project.
• Unity tutorials in AR. Unity Learn tutorials filtered for augmented reality.
• Unity5 EditorVR hello world tutorial video (from scratch) featuring Oculus. Unity EditorVR hello-world walkthrough featuring Oculus.
• Unreal C++. Tutorials covering common Unreal Engine features implemented in C++.
• Unreal tutorial for Rive + Noesis. Adding Rive to Unreal games using Noesis.
• Vector Math for 3D Computer Graphics. Tutorial on vector and matrix algebra from a computer graphics viewpoint.
• Vive Tutorial - Intro / UI | Unity VR (VRTK). Unity VR UI tutorial using VRTK.
• WebGL Academy. Learn WebGL and 3D algorithms in a progressive, interactive way.
• Wingfox Paid. CG tutorials sold per course.
• World of Level Design. Tutorials dedicated to level and environment design.