Paul Orlando Caggegi (He/Him)
In my long and varied career, I have worn many hats. I’ve been an educator, illustrator, video editor, worked in advertising, and sometimes brought all those skills to bear to produce online content – both paid and free.
In 2025, I produced the Blender Basics course for CG Cookie.
A comprehensive guide to get you started with Blender, and if the reviews are anything to go by, I did an ok job!
You can also access this course on their Youtube Channel.
I produced several other courses during my four years there. I’m particularly proud of DRAW! Which was an introduction to Blender’s Grease Pencil.
Students have gotten a great deal of knowledge from this one – and that’s what makes me most proud.
This course is also free on CG Cookie’s Youtube Channel, but the advantage of taking a free course via their website was always the community interaction and access to course content – which I also supplied.
CG Cookie was not my first foray into online education. I also produced a couple courses for Canopy Games which are still being purchased to this day through Udemy. It is an unexpected joy when people who took those courses come up to me at a conference and show me their finished illustration!
I’ve also worked in tertiary education, having produced and taught courses on the fundamentals of design, concept, and taken students through projects which trained them in software from Adobe Creative Suite, to Blender.
Freelance work involved some agency work, and I have been hired by studios such a Leo Burnett, M&C Saachi, and Viacom (working for both Nickelodeon and MTV)
That’s a long time to look back on, having only graduated in 2001 from UWS Nepean with a BA in Communication Studies!
I’m active mostly on the Fediverse, but I have collected and procured various work I am proud of here in this website. I hope you check some of it out on the portfolio pages!
Paul Caggegi 
