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Blender Beginner
Learn the fundamental features, tools, and functions of Blender 3DPreview the first lesson free — get full access to all 38 lessons.
Beginner Provider : Jay Grewall 9 chapters · 38 Lessons · 2h 56m in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese
Course Description
Blender 3D is a robust, user-friendly, all-in-one 3D modeling, rendering, and animation application. Blender is widely used by 3D artists, architectural designers, animators, and special effects professionals who seek a complete set of tools without needing to learn additional software packages. Best of all, Blender 3D is completely free to download and use for personal or professional purposes. Thanks to the thousands of developers in the Blender community, it is quickly becoming a standard software package in the gaming, television, and film industries.
In this introduction to Blender 3D, you will get acquainted with the interface, learn how to navigate 3D environments, create and modify objects in 3D space, and understand how Blender treats objects in scenes. By exploring the geometry of 3D objects you will learn how to modify their properties, like position, rotation, size, and texture, and begin animating them using Blender’s timeline. We will go over Blender’s variety of lights and how they can be used to render scenes. You’ll also be introduced to Blender’s modifiers and dynamic physics features.
What You'll Learn
- Navigate the Blender interface and move through 3D environments
- Create, transform, and modify objects in 3D space, including their position, rotation, size, and texture
- Distinguish between vertices, edges, and faces, and edit geometry using tools like extrude, inset, bevel, loop cuts, and knife
- Assemble objects into scenes by building a room, table, and chair
- Apply Blender's lights, including point and sun lights, and use render engines to render scenes
- Animate objects using Blender's timeline and explore modifiers and dynamic physics features
Key Takeaways
- Blender 3D is a free, all-in-one application for 3D modeling, rendering, and animation used by 3D artists, architectural designers, animators, and special effects professionals.
- Blender lets you create and modify objects in 3D space and adjust their properties such as position, rotation, size, and texture.
- The course covers editing geometry through vertices, edges, and faces using tools like subdivision, extrude, inset, bevel, loop cuts, knife, and bisect.
- Blender offers a variety of lights, such as point and sun lights, that can be used to render scenes.
- Blender includes modifiers, dynamic physics features, and a timeline for animating objects.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this Blender course for?
It is an introduction to Blender 3D suited to beginners getting acquainted with the interface, navigating 3D environments, creating and modifying objects, and animating them. Blender itself is widely used by 3D artists, architectural designers, animators, and special effects professionals.
What will I learn to build in this course?
You will assemble objects in a scene, including building a room and table, building a chair, and adding objects to the room.
What modeling and editing tools does the course cover?
The course covers object transformation, the 3D cursor, modifying vertices, edges, and faces, subdivision and dissolving, extrude, inset, bevel, loop cuts, knife, bisect, precision coordinates, and the measure and protractor tool.
Does the course cover lighting and rendering?
Yes. It introduces Blender's variety of lights and their properties, including point light and sun light, along with shading views, render engines, and sample renders.
Is Blender free to use?
Yes. Blender 3D is completely free to download and use for personal or professional purposes.
