I learned blender way quicker by watching short condensed videos showing the workflow rather than the result. I'm still not familiar with all the terminology and hotkeys, but just seeing what happens conveys more than hours of video explaining what something does - here is a good one: https://youtu.be/9mWrEXvnk9o
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#42I'd look up Grant Abbitt. I think he's excellent for beginners and provides a good foundation. He does some paid stuff, but there's plenty of good free stuff on YouTube.
I tend to listen to him at around 1.5 times normal speed, but that works ok.
Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a Blender course
#43Once you get through the basics check out Entagma's work; they've been making Houdini content for a long time and are now doing the same for Blender: https://entagma.com/category/blender/
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#44These are my favorite Blender resources:
- Blender Guru : Start with the Donut Tutorial
- Arrimus3D : For hard-surface modeling and topology (software agnostic)
- CGBoost : high information density
- Ian Hubert and Blender Secrets - Short and direct tutorials
- Erindale : Procedural Shader and Geometry Nodes
- CGCookie : another general Blender channel
- Derek Elliot : Product animation and motion graphics
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#45Philosophy in blender -- whew that's a topic! We can all wish it had stayed monolithic but there are multiple, like overlapping waves holding onto vestiges of previous eras. Left click versus right click select was a real war and to some degree, minor skirmishes are still being fought. If you really and truly want to learn to 'go with the flow', realize that the 'default' hotkeys are not the real 'default' hotkeys fo…
This is super helpful to know and corresponds well with my experience when trying to learn Blender. As I had not followed along all those battles of the past, I miss a lot of context. That makes it hard to judge what is considered best practice now and what is the idiomatic way to do things. What would you recommend? Is it worth getting used to right click select or is left click select OK? Are the new 'default' hotk…
Learn the new default ones.
First, not all veterans stay with the old ones. Second, going forward all learning material and documentation will use the new ones. Third, even those veterans who stay with the old shortcuts for convenience mostly don't see it as a war and will tell you to just go with the "new" flow.
And last, but very much not least: it's a numbers' game. There are quite few veterans (Blender was and still is relatively niche), but a boatload of new Blenderers learning it right now (or having started within the last three years when the UI revamp was released). And many many more than even that boatload of new people will start learning in the next few years.
Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a Blender course
#46Blender 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 can definitely skip the animation sections at the end unless they interest you.
That the thing about his series: You can skip any topic.
Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a Blender course
#47Hi 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.
Thanks! I do have a lot on jewelry and 3D printing, but I also recently launched a purely introductory course which is for anyone interested in Blender. Just visit my Skillshare profile page, there you can find all the courses if you scroll down, as well:
https://www.skillshare.com/r/user/gesa_pickbrenner
Greetings
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#48Hijack 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.
Hi there, if you'd like to give my course on Skillshare a chance, you might test it for a month for free :)
I have some on jewelry and 3d printing (somewhat obscure ;), but also a purely introductory and very general course for Blender:
https://skl.sh/3xw8S77
If you post a project until the 31st of October you will participate in the give away for one year of free Skillshare.
Greetings
Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a Blender course
#49Both Udemy and GameDev.tv have very good tutorials and you can get them on sale for about $10 or so every now and then, especially in Humble Bundles. I've been taking several of their blender courses and it depends on what specifically you want to learn. An excellent overall Blender course is The Blender 2.8 Encyclopedia. It covers many subjects, as the name implies. It is constantly updated whenever Blender comes out with new stuff. Their Unity 3d course is the best. I took it for over a year because there were so many lessons and I learned a great deal.