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: https://rb.gy/t2d1e2 (lesson 1 and 2 are unlocked)

The course is also available on the Blender Market: https://rb.gy/bkjvzg

Addons mentioned (not affiliates):
UV Packmaster 2: https://blendermarket.com/products/uvpackmaster2
UV Packer: https://www.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

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