Blender 3.3 Essential Training

Get up and running with Blender 3.3, a powerful open-source tool for 2D and 3D modeling, animation, game making, compositing, and post-production.

Introduction

• Introducing Blender 3.3 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
• Arrange your Blender scene and add materials
• Add lights and render your scene
• Challenge: Add more objects
• Solution: Add more objects

2. Create a Character with Modeling and Sculpting

• Overview of character creation tools
• Creating concepts with Grease Pencil
• Create your first sculpture
• 3D modeling in Blender
• Turning logos into 3D models
• Create a landscape with Geometry Nodes
• Challenge: Put your lunar scene together
• Solution: Put your lunar scene together

3. Textures and Shading

• Overview of texturing
• Creating your first materials in Blender
• Advanced Shader Editor workflow
• Unwrapping
• Texture painting in Blender
• Sculpture painting in Blender
• Challenge: Paint your astronaut
• Solution: Paint your astronaut

4. Create Animations

• Overview of animation
• Preparing your objects for animation
• Using Rigify to create 3D characters
• Refining Rigify with weight painting
• Set your first keyframe
• Blender character animation tools
• Challenge: Animate your astronaut
• Solution: Animate your astronaut

5. Visual Effects and Simulation in Blender

• Overview of visual effects in Blender
• Creating cloth in Blender
• Rigid
• Having fun with fluids sims
• Turning up the heat with fire sims
• Become a barber with the new Hair system
• Challenge: Add an effect
• Solution: Add an effect

6. Put It All Together

• Collections, scenes, and view layers
• BlenderKit for scene assembly
• Refining lighting in Blender
• Rendering with EEVEE
• Rendering with cycles
• Render output and compositing in Blender
• Challenge: Render your first animation
• Solution: Render your first animation

7. Advanced Blender Topics

• Linking and Library Overrides
• Track footage in Blender
• Unreal Engine workflows for Blender

Conclusion

• Next steps