Blender 4 Essential Training

54 Video Lessons

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About this Course

Get up and running with Blender, the powerful open-source tool for 2D and 3D modeling, animation, compositing, and post-production.
Blender is a powerful open-source solution for 2D and 3D modeling, animation, compositing, and post-production. In this course, get a thorough overview of the feature set in Blender and beyond, as well as practical production techniques that combine know-how with a healthy dose of how-to.

Expert dives into specific techniques, such as scene layout and modeling, sculpting, texturing and shading, 2D and 3D animation, character rigging, dynamic simulations, rendering, and game engine exporting. Plus, get performance-boosting tricks to get Blender to render your creations even faster.

 

Each lesson helps you gain the control and skill you need to create professional artwork for multiple platforms: games, movies, and animation.

 

Contents

 

1. Learn Blender in Under an Hour
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

 

2. Modeling and Sculpting
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

 

3. Textures and Shading
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

 

4. Create Animations
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

 

5. Particles, Forces, and Fire
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

 

6. Putting It All Together
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

 

7. Advanced Techniques
Compositing and video editing

Grease Pencil overview

Commonly used add-ons

Exporting to game engines

1. Language: English. 

2. Secure download. 

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4. Practice while you learn

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5. Secure payment by PayPal.

6. 30 days refund.

7. No subscription needed.

8. Lifetime access.

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