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Introduction to Blender 3D: Complete beginner’s guide to 3D modeling

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Introduction to Blender 3D: Complete beginner’s guide to 3D modeling

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About Introduction to Blender 3D: Complete beginner’s guide to 3D modeling

Introduction

Downloading Blender

Setting up Blender

Blender's interface

Modularity

Workspaces

Navigating the viewport

Perspective vs. orthographic views

Orthographic views

Selecting objects

Deleting objects

Transformations: Tool bar

Transformations: Handles

Transformations: Shortcuts

Adding objects

3D cursor

Render modes

Outliner

Properties panel

Object modes

Vertices, edges and faces

Modeling tools

Smooth and flat shading

Timeline

Toy train: Locomotive

Toy train: Locomotive pieces

Toy train: Wheels

Toy train: Wagon

Toy train: Materials

Toy train: Lighting

Toy train: Camera

Toy train: Render and final image

What You Will Learn?

  • Want to know how to get started into the world of 3D modeling and animation? Create your first 3D model using the free and open-source software, Blender..
  • If you’ve ever felt intimidated or overwhelmed about learning a 3D software or if you don’t know how to get started in the world of 3D, this is the right course for you! In less than three hours you will learn all the fundamentals of working with Blender. We’ll go through navigating the interface and moving around the viewport, you’ll learn the essential tools for working in 3D, I’ll show you the shortcuts you can use and some valuable tips I’ve learned through my own experience with the program, and after we’ve covered all the basic tools, we will work on your very first 3D model. Our project will consist of building a toy train with the use of basic shapes, giving it some color, and doing a final render so you can display your work as an image..
  • This course will cover Blender’s interface, navigating the viewport, doing transformations on objects, basic modeling concepts, a little bit of animation, the creation of simple materials, lighting, and rendering..
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