We are currently working on a few new upgrades to the network, but I am pleased to announce that CG Cookie is receiving an upgrade for our file delivery system for our source download files right now. As more and more of you hammer away on our servers, they are starting to dent a bit. We have heard this clatter and before anything cracks we have started to upgrade our files to CDN (Content Delivery Network) from Rack Space Cloud.

“A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a system of computers containing copies of data, placed at various points in a network so as to maximize bandwidth for access to the data from clients throughout the network. A client accesses a copy of the data near to the client, as opposed to all clients accessing the same central server, so as to avoid bottleneck near that server.” – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network

Learn more about how CDN works

We are uploading all new education source files directly to this service, and are back logging our older education over the next few weeks. It is going to take a bit of time to get everything moved over with a truck load of GB to move, upload and correct any download links, but we will get it.

How does this affect you?

If anything you should see quicker download times and more efficient connectivity on the large .zips. It is pretty slick how all of this works, so if you do notice a difference drop us a note and also read the link above on Wikipedia.

That is it, I didn’t want to take too much of your time. Big high fives and back to it.

Blender Cookie

As an education provider, we are always trying to find new topics for Modo tutorials that you, the user will find helpful and entertaining. The single best way we can do this by knowing what you personally would like to learn.

So if you are more interested in modeling tutorials let us know below, or have a specific topic you would like to see covered please place it in the text field.

With the success and outstanding community following on our sister sites. Blender Cookie and Max Cookie, we are excited to announce our new sibling site to the family: Modo Cookie

Modo Cookie is a new education site from CG Cookie educators and will work to become a large education resource for you the Modo user.

Wes Burke, founder of CG Cookie and its education sites has had the pleasure of working with Alessandro Cangelosi, respected CG artist whom as worked on films such as 2012 and popular 360 and PS3 game titles. Both will be working hard to kick-start education on the site as we bring in other talented authors.

Modo Cookie is a site dedicated to supplying consistent, high quality, Modo education materials produced by industry professionals from around the globe. By offering high resolution streaming videos, written education, developer interviews and featured resources, we aim to be a central hub for Modo education.

What do we have planned for this site.

We were so anxious to get the site in front of you, that what we are presenting is the foundation or platform. We have a few features and sections that we are still boarding up and will be added on soon. If anything we prepared Modo Cookie to accept growth.

Our hopes and dreams.

Of course when we start a new project we have some pie in the sky ideas on where we would like to see it go, but in reality we can only set up a few bumpers and nudge it from time to time.