Blender From Zero
A complete course for beginners
Brand new to 3d or Blender or both?
This is the one for you!
Want to get into 3d
but feeling overwhelmed?
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A step-by-step course
perfect for you.
- An absolute-beginner friendly introduction to the fundamentals of 3d in Blender
- A deep dive into the how and why of all the tools you’ll need to start working confidently in 3d.
- A fun exercise in free, unconstrained image-making.
61 Videos - 3h 24minutes
6 Logical Modules
A Complete Beginner's Curriculum:
1. Interface (6 Videos)
A complete tour of Blender's super-flexible UI
- How panels and windows function
- Split and join windows: customize your layout
- Make it easy to work on multiple facets of your projects simultaneously.
- A detailed look at the main windows: 3d Viewport, Outliner, Properties Editor.
2. Navigation (4 Videos)
Learn to move in 3d space
- Using the middle mouse button
- Navigational HUD elements (or “gizmos”).
- Working in orthographic views
- Navigational preference settings
- Navigational "pie" or HUD menu
3. Creating & Transforming Objects (14 Videos)
Create and manipulate 3d forms
- Constrain how we move, scale and rotate (transform) objects
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Transforming objects with precision
- Transform gizmos
- Global Vs Local Coordinates
- Snap Menu and Pivot Point: control where an object is transformed from.
- Bringing simple 3d objects into a scene.
- 3D cursor and how to control its placement
- Last-Operation menu: tweak object parameters
- Snap objects to surfaces
- "Draw" objects into existence
- Extra Objects addon
4. Edit Mode (15 Videos)
Take control of your geometry
- Access the vertices, edges and polygons of your models
- Extrude Tool: pull new geometry out of the surface of your model
- Inset Tool
- Loop Cuts
- Bevel tool
- Apply Object Scale; Object Vs Edit Mode
- Split an object into separate parts
- Delete specific types of geometry
- Proportional Editing: transform whole regions of an object
- Hierarchies: “child” components and “parent” objects
- Bool Tool: easily join, split and cut objects
5. Materials (11 Videos)
Add Colour and Texture
- Apply multiple materials to a single object.
- Material types: metallic, transparent, image-based
- Procedural or mathematically generated materials
- Mapping: how materials are applied to an object’s surface
6. Lighting & Rendering
(7 Videos)
Prepare to output a finished image
- World (ambient) lighting
- HDRI (image-based) lighting
- Area lamps, and tips on how to position them.
- Control the resolution and fidelity of the final output
- Eevee and Cycles render engines
- Balance image quality against render time
Testimonials
I really can't recommend that BLENDER FROM ZERO training highly enough as a way to quickly get up to speed. It’s absolutely terrific! So many little gotchas coming from C4D explained in a quick and clear way.
I really appreciate short and focused chapters