Channel: CG Cookie

Category: Education

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Description: Speed up your UV unwrapping workflow in Blender with these tips from CG Cookie's Pothead character creation course! You can watch the full course on CG Cookie: rb.gy/amt3sb (lesson 1 and 2 are unlocked) The course is also available on the Blender Market: rb.gy/bkjvzg Addons mentioned (not affiliates): UV Packmaster 2: blendermarket.com/products/uvpackmaster2 UV Packer: uv-packer.com/blender 00:00 - Intro 00:40 - Using a Grid Texture 01:20 - Resetting UVs 01:40 - Placing Seams 01:58 - Live Unwrap 02:28 - Edge Tagging 03:15 - Working with Subdiv Off 03:57 - Why Straighten UVs 5:06 - Follow Active Quads 06:15 - Auto Aligning Edges 06:40 - Follow Active Quads cont. 06:58 - Pinning 08:11 - Moving pinned islands to the side 08:42 - Hiding finished islands 09:22 - Straightening Complex Islands 09:55 - Seams with subdiv cause pinching 10:20 - Visualizing modified UVs 11:14 - Advanced Follow Active Quads 13:33- Using Snapping to stitch UVs 14:12 - Using Pinning to guide unwrap 15:04 - Splitting concave areas 15:24 - Face area ratio causing subdiv stretching 16:53 - Fixing subdiv UV Smooth stretching 18:08 - How to unwrap basically anything by stitching 22:58 - Turn Live Unwrap off! 23:31 - Average Islands Scale 23:52 - Packing multiple objects 24:28 - Adjusting texel density 25:21 - Better packing algorithms 25:55 - Final thoughts "WHO IS CG COOKIE?" We are real people! (OK, maybe some of us are cyborgs - we don't ask.) CG Cookie is a small crew of Blender artists, baking fresh videos for the Blender community. 🍪Enroll to cgcookie.com to stream 100's of Blender courses with passionate Blender instructors to answer your questions. "WHERE SHOULD I START LEARNING BLENDER?" For Blender beginners, we have a free tutorial series "Getting Started with Blender" bit.ly/36xCDVJ "I WANT MORE CG COOKIE IN MY LIFE!" Got it. Here's where you can reach us! instagram.com/cgcookie twitter.com/cgcookie facebook.com/cgcookieinc Want Blender news in your mailbox? Sign up here for spam-free newsletter cgcookie.com/newsletter #CGCookie #blendertutorial #b3d