Blender 2.91 Essential Training

Get up and running with Blender 2.91, the powerful open-source tool for 2D and 3D modeling, animation, compositing, and post-production.

Introduction

• Introducing Blender 2.91 for beginners
• How to install and things to know
• How to use the exercise files

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

Conclusion

• Next steps