Learn to Make Blender 3D Music Videos - Beginner Tutorial

Dive into a comprehensive beginner tutorial designed for video editors looking to expand their skills into 3D animation using Blender. Learn the fundamentals of 3D modeling, materials, lighting, and animation through two hands-on projects: a 3D-tracked composite shot integrating After Effects and Blender, and a fully 3D scene featuring a car in motion. Master essential Blender features tailored specifically for video editors, including navigation, object and edit modes, basic modeling techniques, material creation, lighting setups, asset management, UV mapping, keyframe animation, and rendering. Explore advanced topics such as using the node editor for materials, graph editor for animation refinement, and effective compositing techniques in After Effects. By the end of this 56-minute course, gain the confidence to create and integrate 3D elements into your video projects, opening up new creative and financial opportunities in your editing career.

- Intro
- Basics
- Navigation bar rundown
- Object mode vs edit mode
- Basics of modeling
- Starting on our first project
- How to create and apply basic materials
- Lighting
- Compositing any 3d object into After Effects
- Asset browser
- Creating materials using the node editor
- Manually adjusting projection of a texture
- Using UV mapping to project our texture
- Basics of keyframe animation
- Using the graph editor for animation
- Render settings and sending to After Effects
- After Effects compositing tricks