Blender: Tips, Tricks and Techniques

Discover insider tips, tricks, and techniques that can help you work smarter with Blender, the powerful open-source software for working with 3D graphics.

Welcome

• Series welcome

Blender: Tips, Tricks, & Techniques

• Handy Blender settings and add-ons
• PBR workflow for Blender
• Light it on fire!
• Filmic and HDR in Blender
• Quick animation tips and tricks
• Camera tracking like a pro
• Materials and Multiscatter GGX
• Destroy everything with dynamics
• Kill fireflies with good render settings
• Rig a character with Rigify
• Let's make clouds!
• Quick compositing tricks
• Rig a mouth using Shape Keys
• Ignite a fiery tornado
• An in-depth eye rig
• DupliFaces
• Particle armies
• Let's make grass
• Make it rain
• Cloth simulation: Flag
• A quick ocean
• Dynamic painting
• UV like a pro
• Camera tricks
• Shrink wrap your life
• Alembics and offsets
• Work with modeling tools
• Orphan data
• Use the Mesh Edit Tools add-on
• Sculpting in Blender
• Lattices
• 3D printing
• New add-ons for Dynamic Sky
• Magic UV
• Import Images as Planes
• Projections in camera
• How to data transfer
• UV without UVs
• Work with the Grease Pencil
• Random color nodes
• Tile textures
• Wood floor textures
• Light path nodes for rendering
• Emission volumes for quick rendering
• Pointiness in cycles
• Box mapping in cycles
• Save memory in Blender with Remap
• Quick mesh cleanup with Dissolve
• Undo History
• Quick mesh cleanup with Decimate
• Forming fog and mist
• Create glare streaks
• Create rays of light
• Useful geometry with Archimesh
• Grow ivy or moss on an object
• Create a twist effect for columns
• Unique selection tools
• Bridge edge loops
• Take measurements inside of Blender
• Extra hidden objects in Blender
• Hide geometry with masks
• Create cutouts
• A better way to fill in a mesh
• Create a 3D text object
• Clean up renders with denoising
• Quick render tests with overrides
• Quick Fluid
• Simplify AO
• Add-ons: Dynamic Context Menu
• Python: Quick renaming
• Python: Set origin on multiple objects
• Animating cameras: Turnaround
• Animating cameras: Following objects
• Using multiple constraints on one object
• Fun with constraints: Elevator and Pivot
• Face rigging with Rigify
• Quick tree making
• Quick strokes in freestyle and line boil
• Advanced freestyle lines
• Cartoon shading in cycles
• Quick animation with functions
• Python: Set viewport color
• Modeling hair using Curves
• Making quick fur
• Using the Hair BSDF node
• Making fire out of nodes
• Combining multiple UV maps
• Workflows: Why you should link
• Workflows: Rigging with a mesh cage
• Workflows: Using NLA Editor
• Workflows: Sharing animation
• Dealing with a dense scenes, part 1: Groups and layers
• Dealing with a dense scenes, part 2: Scene background
• Dealing with a dense scenes, part 3: ID mask
• Dealing with a dense scenes, part 4: Cryptomattes
• Modeling: Quick Bend, Solidify, and Fatten
• Rigging: Molding and fixing your rigged character
• Dynamically paint different cycle materials
• Create and clean a mess with physics
• Create and clean a mess with particles
• Creating particles along a curve
• Modeling: Remeshing with Blender
• Modeling: Remeshing with instant meshes
• Groups are now collections
• Driving animation with the new Drivers tools
• Bone Relative for faster rigging
• The big jump: Welcome to Blender 2.8
• Where is everything in Blender 2.8?!
• Cleaner bevel and hardening normals
• The new Weighted Normal modifier
• Smoothing it out with custom normals
• Mesh analysis for 3D printers
• Subdividing beautifully
• Modeling: Photogrammetry with Meshroom
• View layers and masking your objects
• One simple trick to rendering faster
• Quick viewport renders in Blender 2.8
• EEVEE for beginners: Materials
• EEVEE for beginners: Light and shadow
• EEVEE for beginners: Depth of field
• EEVEE for beginners: Volumes
• EEVEE for beginners: Motion blur
• EEVEE for beginners: Toon shading with Shader to RGB
• EEVEE for Beginners: Indirection lighting probes
• EEVEE for Beginners: Reflections
• EEVEE for Beginners: Hair
• Blender 2.8 animation: Keying sets
• Blender 2.8 animation: Delta transforms
• Blender physics 101: Hair dynamics
• Blender physics 101: Hair children
• Blender physics 101: Hairs and particle instances
• Blender physics 101: Soft body dynamics
• Blender physics 101: Combining hair and soft body
• Blender physics 101: Hi-res smoke
• Blender physics 101: Fireballs
• Blender physics 101: Smoke and forces
• Blender physics 101: Rendering volumes faster
• Blender physics 101: Particle smoke
• Blender physics 101: Smoke magic
• Quick tip: Clipping plane
• Intel Open Image Denoise to make images pretty and faster
• UI improvements in Blender 2.81 and 2.82
• Library Overrides
• Let’s make balloons: Cloth simulation with air pressure
• Mantaflow: New physically based fluid simulation
• Smoke and fire simulations with Mantaflow
• Mantaflow guides
• Advanced Cycles nodes updates
• Blender and UDIM
• New sculpting tools in Blender
• Remeshing sculpts in Blender
• Create levels of detail objects with Multires
• Actual sun positions in Blender
• Fix self-overlapping transparency
• New helpful Blender preferences
• Blender 2.83 and virtual reality
• Adaptive sampling in Blender 2.83
• Wave and noise texture updates in Blender 2.83
• Volume rendering speed-up trick
• Attach objects with updated Child Of constraint
• New sculpting brush: The Cloth brush
• Quickly organize sculpture with Face Sets
• Simplify Graph Editor keys with Decimate
• Projected textures with lights
• New Unreal Engine tools for Blender
• How OpenVDB improves Blender volumes
• Expand UVs automatically with Blender 2.90
• New Transform Fill for Grease Pencil
• Grease Pencil Vertex Paint tricks
• Easy way to manage collections
• An incredible update to Sky in Blender 2.90
• Unsubdivide High Polygon meshes in Blender 2.90
• Modeling updates to Blender 2.90
• Preview scenes with Viewport Denoising in Blender
• Library overrides updates in Blender 2.90
• Use BlenderKit to quickly build out scenes
• Updated Physics tab for fluids
• The latest in quality-of-life improvements
• How to use wetmaps and particles to make snow
• Command the high seas with Blender's updated ocean
• Using heat to make explosions hot
• Importing SVGs to make beautiful logo renders
• Quickly create a dog or cat rig in Blender
• Animating animals in Blender
• How to use the NLA editor in Blender
• Grease pencil to 3D mesh
• Create augmented reality files with Blender
• Cloth, collisions, and Alembic caches
• Data transfer for porting character rigs
• How Geometry Nodes Changes Everything
• Point Clouds
• Block Out a Scene in Blender in Two Clicks!
• Getting Sticky with Viscosity
• Camera Tracking in Blender 2.92 Improvements
• Image Trace Your Drawings in Grease Pencil!
• Making 2D Animation Easier with Interpolating
• Quick Cryptomattes with EEVEE
• Move Along a Curve
• Sculpt like a Pro with MultiRes and Sculpt Mode
• What data-blocks are and how to use them
• Helpful animation tips and tricks