Overview
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Get up and running with Blender 2.91, the powerful open-source tool for 2D and 3D modeling, animation, compositing, and post-production.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Introducing Blender 2.91 for beginners
- How to install and things to know
- How to use the exercise files
- First steps, navigating the interface
- Menus, search, and shortcuts
- Create your first objects
- Modifying objects
- Make a scene, add lights
- Render your scene
- Challenge: Add more objects
- Solution: Add more objects
- Overview of modeling and sculpting
- Create your first sculpture
- Common sculpting tools and settings
- Deep dive: Dynamic topology
- Optimizing your model for animation
- Edit Mode
- Common modeling tools
- Challenge: Create an aquarium rock
- Solution: Create an aquarium rock
- Overview of texturing
- Creating your first materials
- The Shader Editor
- Unwrapping
- UV tools
- Paint your first texture
- Deep dive: Preserving normal detail
- Challenge: Make your fish look wet
- Solution: Make your fish look wet
- Overview of animation
- Create your first rig
- Weight painting
- Shape keys
- Set your first keyframe
- Common animation tools
- Challenge: Animate the fish
- Solution: Animate the fish
- Overview of particles and physics
- Particle magic in blender
- Forces simulation in Blender
- Filling up with fluid simulations
- Light it on fire
- Dynamic painting
- Deep dive: Caching
- Challenge: Filling the fish tank
- Solution: Filling the fish tank
- Collections, scenes, and view layers
- Lighting
- Eevee vs. cycles
- Deep dive: Eevee tips
- Deep dive: Cycles tips
- Challenge: Render your first animation
- Solution: Render your first animation
- Compositing and video editing
- Grease Pencil overview
- Commonly used add-ons
- Exporting to game engines
- Next steps
