Blender 2.83 Essential Training

Get up and running with Blender 2.83, the powerful open-source tool for 2D and 3D modeling, animation, compositing, and post-production.

Introduction

• Introducing Blender 2.83 for beginners
• Get started with Blender 2.83
• How to use the exercise files

1. The New Blender 2.8

• The new Blender 2.83 interface
• Viewport overlays and pie menus
• The 3D cursor
• Advanced transforming and snapping
• Properties panel
• Scenes, layers, and collections
• Workspaces
• Create custom workspaces
• Preferences and shortcuts

2. Scene Layout and Modeling

• Add and create objects in Blender
• Edit mode
• Multi-object editing
• Basic Blender modifiers
• Constraints in Blender
• What is object data in Blender?
• Cleaning up your Blender scenes
• Connecting scenes: Linking
• Connecting scenes: Appending
• Connecting scenes: Library overrides

3. Sculpting

• Blender sculpting basics
• Basic sculpting tools
• Advanced sculpting tools
• Masks in sculpting
• Face sets
• Textures for custom brushes
• Remeshing for reuse
• Poly building for precise remeshing
• Preserve sculptural detail by baking normals

4. Textures and Shading

• Basics of unwrapping 3D models
• Easy unwrapping with Mark Seam
• Paint textures in Blender
• Shading, shading, shading

5. 3D Animation

• 3D animation overview
• Pose mode
• Animation with drivers
• Animate with the Graph Editor
• Create a basic rig
• Paint weights
• Make a human character rig

6. Simulation and Dynamics

• Quick particles physics degree
• Particle simulations with force fields
• Cloth simulations in Blender
• Dynamic painting
• Fantastic fluid simulations
• Fire and smoke simulations
• Rigid body dynamics

7. Rendering

• Workbench vs. Eevee versus Cycles
• Evolving Eevee
• Screen space reflections
• Advanced Eevee techniques
• Eevee render passes
• Working the workbench
• Cycles overview
• A hairy situation
• Cryptomattes
• Speeding up Cycles even more
• Intel Open Image Denoise node

8. 2D Animation

• A brand-new Grease Pencil
• Annotating in 3D
• Draw mode
• Inking line tools
• Animating drawings as objects
• Hand-drawn animation tools
• Sculpt your drawings
• Visual effects for Grease Pencil
• Modifiers for Grease Pencil

9. VFX and Video Editing

• Camera tracking
• Compositing your next great piece
• Video editor basics

10. Use Blender with Other Programs

• Blender and Maya workflow
• Blender and Unreal Engine workflow
• Alembic

Conclusion

• Next steps