Just watch any Ducky3D video and you'll learn a lot. No need for a full course, it's faster to learn by doing.
Ask HN: Recommend me a Blender course
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Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a Blender course
#12Ian Hubert's Lazy Tutorials would be an excellent supplementary series once you know some of the basics. They're not a general guide to Blender, but they're great resources. He has his own style of working and he's shockingly productive with it.
Lazy Tutorials: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4Dq5VyfewIxxjzS34k2NES_P...
My favourite guides of his are not in the Lazy Tutorials playlist, though. Perhaps they were not lazy enough:
Blender Motion Tracking: Room Transformation - https://youtu.be/lY8Ol2n4o4A
Wild Tricks for Greenscreen in Blender - https://youtu.be/RxD6H3ri8RI
Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a Blender course
#13Blender Guru's Donut tutorial is regarded as the "Hello World" of Blender. Long tutorials will start getting boring after a certain period of time. So I would suggest following a couple of random Ducky 3D's abstract designs after this one. After that follow the OG IanHubert's lazy 1 minute tutorial.It contain only the core concepts remaining you have to explore and find out. Checkout Polyfjord also.
You must do this Blender Donut tutorial series. It is a rite of passage and source of bonding with other people, but it is also quite excellent. You may do other things too, but this is where you need to start.
Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a Blender course
#14Hijack because blender rarely hits the front page and this seems relevant to my interests:
Anyone who has courses that are not youtube tutorials feel free to throw them at me. Anything goes, as long as it isn't hyper-specific on an obscure part of blender.
Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a Blender course
#15This is older but was extremely helpful for me:
https://www.udemy.com/course/blender-28-the-complete-guide-f...
It just about does everything. I never finished but I was able to at least 3d model with some efficiency pretty quickly.
Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a Blender course
#16Check out CG Cookie https://cgcookie.com
Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a Blender course
#17Hi there!
Glad you asked - I am a creator of Blender courses, my main platform is Youtube and Skillshare.
I am a goldsmith, autodidact in Blender and freelancer for about 5 years in 3d design for 3d printing, but I also dabble in illustration and animation.
I recently launched a Blender course for complete beginners. It gives a complete overview of the basic functionality. It think it is exactly what you requested. It is available in German and English.
It is relatively short, around 1:50. If you already have CAD experience you may be able to work through it in even less time. You will gain a very good basic understanding of the Blender UI functionality and may branch in any direction you would like to.
Here is the introductory lesson on YT in English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uubpbTLQQzk
...und hier in Deutsch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qISnAxWaMQA&t=2s
If you'd like one free year of Skillshare premium, you might participate in my give away which runs until end of October, I also plan another one in November. Just create a project model and post a screenshot under the Skillshare course (will be explained there also), and you enter the give away. Honestly, you will have a real chance of winning, as the courses just launched recently and there aren't as many projects yet :)
Hope this helps!
Greetings and viele Grüße Gesa
Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a Blender course
#18Hi there! Glad you asked - I am a creator of Blender courses, my main platform is Youtube and Skillshare. I am a goldsmith, autodidact in Blender and freelancer for about 5 years in 3d design for 3d printing, but I also dabble in illustration and animation. I recently launched a Blender course for complete beginners. It gives a complete overview of the basic functionality. It think it is exactly what you requested. I…
Happy to hear that people are offering courses for Blender.
I skimmed through the course and will do the tutorial later on my machine.
The combination with jewelry is nice even if I didn't know such use-cases exist.
Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a Blender course
#19I'm in the middle of this course and finding it to be very good: https://www.udemy.com/course/blendertutorial/
Don't let the long total length fool you - the course was updated for 3.2, but still contains the 2.8 lessons as an appendix.
Lessons are very brisk and the instructor narrates every action and keypress. I'm flying through the course.
Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a Blender course
#20Check out CG Cookie https://cgcookie.com
I actually plan to subscribe to them in a bit (focusing on animation and rigging courses from P2Design[0] currently, which i recommend), just unsure if their whole course is worth it.
Protip, if you're like me and undecided on whether the entire suite is worth it - they have specific courses, and even a bundle that can get you a lot of bang for your buck over on Blender Market[1]. BM has many of their courses for purchase rather than the large sub. The one i'm primarily interested in is their HUMAN course bundle[2], which is interesting because for ~$150 you can get 5 courses which appear to be some of their best work.
This whole thing sounds like an Ad... but i suppose that's the point of this thread lol. I'm not affiliated with anyone in my post. Though i do really like P2Design :)
[0]: https://www.p2design-academy.com/ [1]: https://blendermarket.com/creators/cgcookie [2]: https://blendermarket.com/products/human-realistic-portrait-...