Overview
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Get up and running with Blender 3, the powerful open-source tool for 2D and 3D modeling, animation, compositing, and post-production.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Introducing Blender 3.0 for beginners
- How to install and things to know
- How to use the exercise files
- First steps: Navigating the interface
- Menus, search, and shortcuts
- Navigating the interface
- Creating your first objects
- Modifying objects
- Making a scene and adding lights
- Rendering your scene
- Challenge: Add more objects
- Solution: Add more objects
- Overview of character creation tools
- Creating concepts with Grease Pencil
- Creating your first sculpture
- Optimizing your model for animation
- Edit mode for 3D modelling
- Challenge: Refine your character's face
- Solution: Refine your character's face
- Overview of texturing
- Creating your first materials
- The Shader Editor
- Unwrapping
- Painting your first texture
- Challenge: Paint Gourdy
- Solution: Paint Gourdy
- Overview of animation
- Creating your first armature
- Refining your armature
- Shape keys and drivers
- Setting your first keyframe
- Common animation tools
- Challenge: Animate Gourdy
- Solution: Animate Gourdy
- Overview of visual effects in Blender
- Geometry Nodes magic
- Creating cloth in Blender
- Become a barber with hair simulation
- Having fun with fluids sims
- Turning up the heat with fire sims
- Challenge: Add an effect
- Solution: Add an effect
- Collections, scenes, and view layers
- Using the Asset Browser
- Lighting
- Rendering overview
- Deep dive: EEVEE tips
- Deep dive: Cycles tips
- Challenge: Render your first animation
- Solution: Render your first animation
- Video editing in Blender
- 2D animation overview
- Unreal Engine workflows for Blender
- Using virtual reality in Blender
- Next steps
