The Wintershire Blender Course
Learn how to create beautiful winter environments in Blender
This course guides you through the entire process of creating this render and animation from start to finish, with all assets and tools included so that you can learn to create beautiful winter environments just like this one, on your own.
$149
Bonus Daytime Lighting Section Included
After finishing the night version I take you through the process of completely relighting the scene, transforming it into a cozy daytime environment.
This covers the entire Day lighting process, rendering, and post processing for both the still and the animation.
This course will teach you how to create beautiful winter environments in Blender.
This course takes you step-by-step through the entire process from start to finish, teaching you everything from creating the Hobbit hole models to building the entire scene and lighting it, as well as animation and post processing.
What this course covers:
Modeling
UV Unwrapping
Texturing
Composition
Asset Distribution and scene creation
Geometry nodes
Procedural materials
Animation
Lighting (Both Night and daytime)
Post processing
And much more!
Included Assets
This course comes with hundreds of assets for you to use for your own work.
Nature Asset Packs
I have included lots of nature assets that I use in my projects all the time
Fantasy Tree Asset Pack
This is one of my favorite packs that I use all the time in my renders. There are tons of fantasy trees that you can use to create your own fantasy forest renders!
The Max Hay Collab Pack
Max Hay and I spent weeks modelling this huge pack of fantasy 3D models. We use this stuff all the time in our own work. There’s a ton of assets in here to help you create insane renders quickly and easily.
Geometry Node Tools
Throughout this course we create some geometry node tools to help with our process, You also have access to these full tools from the start incase you don’t want to create them yourself.
Snow Generator
String Light Generator
Vine Generator
Course Overview
Chapter 1 - Fundamentals
Here we cover all of the basics such as my workspace, shortcuts, Ideas and inspiration, setting up the asset browser and so on.
Chapter 2 - Creating the Models
We start this course modeling our main assets for our scene, then UV unwrapping, and texturing
What we cover:
Modeling the main assets
UV Unwrapping
Texturing
Chapter 3 - Blocking out the Scene and sculpting the Landscape
After our assets are finished, we begin blocking out our scene and getting the composition figured out.
What we cover:
Composition
Landscape Sculpting
Scene Block Out
Basic Camera Animation
Chapter 4 - Setting Up the Early Lighting
Now that the blockout is done we start on the early lighting by adding in a sky, environment light, volumetrics, and moonlight.
What we cover:
Lighting Basics
Volumetrics
Background Sky Creation
Chapter 5 - Creating the Materials and Path
In this stage we create our our procedural snow material and our pathways.
What we cover:
Procedural Material Creation
Landscape Sculpting
Path Creation
Chapter 6 - Detailing
Now we move into the detailing stage, adding many assets into the scene, doing some more lighting, scattering, and creating some Geometry node tools to help make our workflow easier.
What we cover:
Scattering
Geometry nodes (Snow generator, Vine drawing tool, and String lights)
Lighting
Asset distribution and scene building
Chapter 7 - Final Details
This is the final stages of the project. We do our final checks making sure everything is added that we need, finalizing the lighting, and finishing the camera animation.
What we cover:
How I make sure a render is finished
Final Lighting
The final detailing stage
Perfecting the Camera Animation
Chapter 8 - Render Setup
Now that the 3D portion is done we now go over the rendering settings for stills and animations.
What we cover:
My Animation and Still Render Settings
Getting the Project Ready to render
Chapter 9 - Post Processing
This is the final stage of our project, Post processing. I guide you through my full process perfecting the render by color correction, lighting adjustments, and ways you can fix mistakes with paint over.
What we cover:
How to post Process the Still Render in Photoshop
How to post Process the Animation in Davinci Resolve
Chapter 10 - Extra Content
This section covers a full relighting of the scene, turning it into a daytime scene. I go over all of my daytime lighting techniques as well as post processing for the still and animation.
What we cover:
A full re lighting section covering my full daylighting process and methods
Post processing Both the still render and animation
Here is everything you’ll get:
The Wintershire Course
18+ hours of step by step guidance covering my entire workflow from start to finish.
This comes with project files for every section, so if you get stuck or want to analyze exactly how they are set up, you are free to do so.
This course covers modeling, multiple geometry node tool and procedural material creation sections, along with everything you need to know about creating winter environments in Blender
Bonus Daytime Relighting Section
3+ hours of step by step guidance covering my daytime lighting process, taking you through how I place lights, how I go about using light blockers, and light absorption, as well as the full post processing for both the still and animated version.
The Max Hay Collab Asset Pack
Max Hay and I spent weeks modeling fantasy assets which we use in our own work all the time. You can now use the same pack in your work too.
Geometry Node Tools
This course comes with geometry node tools that you can use in your projects as well as videos teaching you how to make them yourself!
Snow Generator
Vine Generator
String Light Generator
Nature Asset Packs
I have included lots of other nature assets as well that I use in my projects all the time for you to use
Bonus Fantasy Tree Asset Pack
This is one of my favorite packs that I use all the time in my renders. There are tons of fantasy trees that you can use to create your own fantasy forest renders!
Access to my private discord community
Access to the Paid community Discord server with hundreds of other blender artists.
If you need help, feedback, want to share your work, or even just hangout this is the place.
One free month of a Sweeper3D membership
You will be given a discount code to access my membership completely FREE for an entire month!
This will grant you access to all content on my site such as:
In depth tutorials every month (30+)
Over 80+ full process videos of all of my renders
Assets and even some project files!
Money-Back Guarantee
If you are not satisfied with this course for any reason, I offer a 30-day money-back guarantee. Simply contact me within 30 days of your purchase, and I will refund your payment in full, no questions asked.
Wintershire Course
Learn to Create High-Quality Winter Environments in Blender.
you’ll receive:
• Full Access to the Wintershire Course
• 20+ Hours of Step-by-Step Training
• 300+ Premium Assets Included – Use them in your own projects
• Unlimited Lifetime Access – Learn at your own pace, anytime
$149
One time
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Course Annual Membership Bundle
Get the Wintershire Course + 1 Year of Sweeper3D Membership FREE!
you’ll receive:
• Full Access to the Wintershire Course
• 1 Year of Sweeper3D Membership (Normally $199.99/Year) Covered by Your Included Discount Code
After purchasing, you’ll receive a discount code to sign up for your free first year.
Membership renews at standard pricing after 12 months unless canceled.
$299
One time
Course FAQ
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This course uses Blender for most of this course, with a little bit of Photoshop and Davinci resolve to post process the final render and animation.
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This course is meant for someone that knows the basics of blender. I try my best to make it as beginner friendly as possible though and cover as many of the essentials throughout this course. I am always happy to help as well if you get stuck or need help with a section!
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You can get a full refund within 30 days if you don’t like this course.
You will not be permitted to use any of the downloadable assets unless you re purchase the course.
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This course uses default blender features for the entire process.
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Yes. The course is a series of pre recorded videos, so you can go through at whatever speed you like and revisit it at any time.
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The Final project file on my system sits at around 11.0 -12.5GB vram usage. You can use optimization methods like simplify and others I mention in the course to cut that in half if needed.
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Main course is 19 hours.
5 Hours of modeling, Geometry nodes, material creation.
14 Hours of scene creation
Lots of bonus content and extras included as well.
All assets and tools are available for you to use as well if you aren’t interested in any of those topics and just want to focus on scene creation!
Course Questions
Still have questions about the course?
Contact me if you need help with anything! I will get back to you as soon as possible!