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Blender for Complete Beginners

Joey Carlino via YouTube

Overview

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Dive into a comprehensive beginner's tutorial on Blender, covering essential skills for 3D modeling and scene creation. Learn navigation techniques, object manipulation, and basic modeling as you construct a charming low-poly scene. Master fundamental tools and concepts including adding and deleting objects, transforming elements, working with materials, and utilizing features like proportional editing and snapping. Explore the interface, understand key panels and windows, and grasp important workflows such as parenting and applying transforms. Progress through practical exercises, creating various scene elements like trees, houses, and terrain. Conclude with an introduction to lighting, cameras, and rendering engines to bring your creation to life. Gain a solid foundation in Blender's capabilities, preparing you for more advanced 3D modeling and animation projects.

Syllabus

- Start
- Downloading Blender
- YouTube tips
- Navigation
- F3 search
- Adding / deleting objects
- Shade smooth
- Move, rotate, scale
- Transform tools
- Duplicating
- Flower
- Gizmos
- Axis locking
- Finishing the flower
- Cube island
- Reset Transform
- Selecting
- Simple tree
- N panel
- Units
- Lock camera to view
- Object mode
- Windows
- Outliner
- View options
- Rendering
- Materials
- Origin Point
- Tree 2
- Repeating actions
- Proportional editing
- Fence
- Tree 3
- Randomize transform
- Apply transform
- Hiding
- Local view
- House roof
- Global transform
- Local transform
- 3D cursor
- Pivot point
- Well
- Snapping
- House 2
- Vertex snapping
- Face project snapping
- House continued
- Parenting
- Finishing the scene
- Door
- Window
- Land
- Putting together the pieces
- Rocks
- Camera
- Lights
- Eevee and cycles
- Final render

Taught by

Joey Carlino

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