Blender 4.0 Essential Training

Get up and running with Blender 4.0, the powerful open-source tool for 2D and 3D modeling, animation, compositing, and post-production.

Introduction

• Introducing Blender 4.0 for beginners
• How to install and things to know
• How to use the exercise files

1. Your First Hour with Blender

• Understanding how Blender works
• Menus, search, and shortcuts
• Create your first objects in Blender
• How to use modifiers in Blender
• How to add materials to objects in Blender
• Add lights and change their colors in Blender
• Challenge: Make your first scene in Blender 4.0
• Solution: Render your first scene in Blender

2. Create a Starfighter

• Overview of creation tools in Blender
• Creating concepts with Grease Pencil
• Storyboarding with Grease Pencil
• Learn to 3D model in Blender
• Advanced 3D modelling tools in Blender
• Add details with Boolean
• Challenge: Fix a 3D model
• Solution: N-Gons in Blender

3. Shade and Texture

• Overview of shading and texturing
• Creating your first material in Blender
• Add details with advanced materials
• Why you should use Node Wrangler
• Setting up your objects for painting
• Painting a texture inside of Blender
• Challenge: Detail your starfighter
• Solution: Detail your starfighter

4. Learn to Rig and Animate

• Overview of animation
• What is rigging and why is it important?
• Refine your rig in Blender
• Set your first keyframe in Blender
• Why Pose Mode is awesome for animation
• The Graph Editor
• Challenge: Animate your first scene
• Solution: Animate your first scene

5. Why Geometry Nodes Are Amazing

• Overview of Geometry Nodes in Blender
• Geometry Node samples
• Your first Geometry Node setup
• Using Geometry Nodes for a trench run
• Using Geometry Nodes for VFX
• Turn your Geometry Node into a tool
• Challenge: Implement Geometry Nodes
• Solution: Implementing Geometry Nodes

6. Put It All Together

• How to organize your scenes in Blender
• Valuable online libraries for Blender
• Working with lights in Blender
• Rendering with Cycles
• What is EEVEE and Hydra?
• Color, compositing, and Kuwahara
• Challenge: Render your first animation
• Solution: Render your first animation

Conclusion

• Next steps