26 Essential Blender Tips for UV Unwrapping Subdivision Surfaces

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: (lesson 1 and 2 are unlocked) The course is also available on the Blender Market: Addons mentioned (not affiliates): UV Packmaster 2: UV Packer: 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