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October is ‘Beginning 3D Modelling’ month – Join us as we use Tinkercad, Kenney shape and Unity to build objects and arrange them in a scene. We’ll also show you how to set up a VR backrooms scene and explore it in a Quest 3 headset 🙂

Don’t forget our new puzzle book ‘These are the Classic Movies Wordsearches you’re looking for’ is available now 🙂 Amazon | Etsy

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New month – New freebies and deals!

Here's the October 2026 round-up of asset deals and freebies including the Unity autumn sale and the Humble Bundle Backrooms pack for Blender.

Welcome to ‘Beginning 3D Modelling’ Month!

A beginner-friendly 8‑part series introducing 3D modelling with Tinkercad, Kenney Shape and Unity.

State of the art(ful) AI: Traitors (UK) starts on Thursday. We use Riverside to create a Japanese and French trailer!

We convert the Traitors UK celebrity edition trailer using Riverside’s AI tools!

Beginning Adobe After Effects: Explainer 5 of 5

Learn how to export an animated composition to an mp4 video file in this beginner-friendly Adobe After Effects explainer.

Don't miss our best from image editing month!

Video editing: Vegas Pro explainer 1 of 5

Let's create a project, import video clips and save the project

Image editing: Photoshop explainer 2 of 5

Let's open, rotate and crop an image.

Image editing: PaintShop Pro explainer 2 of 5

Let's open, rotate and crop an image.

Image editing: GIMP explainer 2 of 5

Let's open, rotate and crop an image.

Image editing: PaintShop Pro explainer 3 of 5

Let's open an image and apply basic colour correction.

Image editing: GIMP explainer 5 of 5

Let's create a new image with a single-colour background.

Welcome to image editing month!

Image editing month begins!

Image editing: Photoshop explainer 3 of 5

Let's open an image and apply basic colour correction.

The jot of editing portrait photos!

Image editing: GIMP explainer 1 of 5

Let's open, resize and save a logo image using GIMP

A laptop displays a ski jumper mid-air with digital editing tools and graphics overlaying the screen.

Image editing: PaintShop Pro explainer 2 of 5

Learn how to open, rotate, and crop images with our waffle-free, beginner-friendly explainers. Get ready to enhance your image editing skills with pixels.cool!

Text "FREEBIE!" in bold white letters over a colorful, swirling rainbow background.

‘Get started with Creative Digital Skills’ (Kindle edition) is FREE to download until 6 September!

"Get Started with Creative Digital Skills" is FREE until 6 September!

Creating elearning: Storyline explainer 5 of 8

Add text-to-speech and animation.

The number "2000" in bold white text, surrounded by colorful firework-like bursts on a black background.

Super Summer of Search: Puzzle #13

Embark on a retro gaming adventure with our new wordsearch book! Try this example puzzle from the book as we seek out the best games from the year 2000!

Websites in focus

Websites in focus: aescripts.com

Let's look at what aescripts.com has to offer!

In focus: Envato Network

Need creative assets? See what ENVATO has to offer!

Back to the classics

Retro Pixels: The 2012 British Video Games Awards

Happy New Year and welcome to pixels.cool! Step inside to start learning and creating 🙂

Retro Pixels: Lemmings – Can you dig it?

It's a new Lemmings documentary!

Summer of Digital Love: Retro Gamer Magazine

Summer of digital love: Retro Gamer Magazine

Retro Pixels: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (2009)

Welcome to 2010 - The Vancouver Winter Olympics are starting 🙂