” on the numeric keypad to zoom in on the selected model, and “ 0” on the numeric keypad to toggle the scene camera view. You likely won’t be able to memorize them all, and for that, Andrew has created a Blender Shortcut PDF that users can download for free. These almost become necessary for completing the course. Upon using Blender, because of how many different features it has, you’ll definitely want to learn some of the hot key shortcuts throughout the series. Andrew breaks the course down into four different “levels.” Going through a level each day was the best approach for me. With that much information thrown at you, you’ll want to give yourself some time to soak it all in. The course is twenty-four videos long, with each tutorial averaging about fifteen minutes. The tutorial series took me about four days, working two to four hours each day. It really is a full-fledged introductory course to Blender. In the course, you’ll also model a glass coffee cup.īecause of this, you’ll want to set aside a few days to complete the course. Aside from creating the donut, you’ll also get to create a glass cup filled with coffee, creating some nice contrast with the organic styling of the donut, compared to the more rigid design of the glass cup. You’ll learn about many of Blender’s features, such as using nodes to create textures, keyframing animation, rendering settings, and more. The donut tutorial series covers a lot more than just modeling a donut from scratch. Recognizing the 80/20 Rule to help make Blender less intimidating. This helped me take a step back and breakdown the intimidation that comes with learning a new program, such as Blender. This was immediately something I could relate to from my work in programs like After Effects. He mentions the 80/20 Rule, which states that you’re going to use 20% of the features 80% of the time. One of the first things Andrew explains in the series is about what aspects of Blender you’ll use the most. Tabs and panels appear much more cohesive, and it’s easier for a beginner to get their bearings. Now the UI has a more natural structure and feel, and looks right on par with other 3D programs-like Cinema 4D and 3DS Max. However, in 2018, Blender totally revamped the UI with version 2.80. In the past, Blender’s UI always looked overwhelming for new users like myself. Your first impression will likely come from Blender’s user interface. I'm currently creating lot of donuts, and will post my progress here.Trailer for the Blender Guru’s Donut tutorial series. The playlist is really fun to follow, Andrew is a fantastic teacher. Blender as a software was already overwhelming because of its strange and complicated interface and concepts, and the learning material was making it worse.Īnyway, this week when Youtube's algorithm decided I should care about Blender, I quickly found out that a lot of high quality learning material is now available for free and if very high resolution! I decided to go with Blender Guru's playlist "Blender Beginner Tutorial Series". I can still remember how confusing video tutorials (or written tutorials) where at the time, with terrible audio, low resolution, and in general instructions that were confusing and difficult to follow. At the time seeing what they were doing piqued my interest and I tried to learn how to use Blender as a past time activity, though I never got to the point of creating something interesting. I've first learned about Blender more than 10 years ago from friends who were quite serious at making 3D content. That was enough to convince me to look for Blender tutorals as I was failing to get any good results by my own. Hendy's progress as seen in the video is very impressive to say the least, and the scene he created and showcase at the end talks to me. Such as this really cool progress report from Hendy August: I had decided to do a simple logo in 3D using Blender for a side project, and somehow the suggestion algorithm picked that fact and decided to list videos of people documenting their progress creatin 3D content. A few days ago Youtube's algorithm had a small surprise for me.
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