Blender 3.3 Essential Training

Course details

Blender is a powerful open-source solution for 2D and 3D modeling, animation, compositing, and post-production. In this course, get a thorough overview of the updates, features, and enhancements in Blender 3.3, as well as practical production techniques that combine know-how with a healthy dose of how-to. Instructor David Andrade guides you through learning Blender in under an hour, then dives into specific techniques, such as modeling and sculpting a character, using textures and shading, creating animations, and using Blender to create visual effects and simulations. Learn about the recent connections Blender offers to the Unreal and Unity game engines. Plus, get performance-boosting tricks to render your creations even faster. Each lesson helps you gain the control and skill you need to create professional artwork for multiple platforms: games, movies, and animation.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Introducing Blender 3.3 for beginners
02 - How to install and things to know
03 - How to use the exercise files

1. Learn Blender in under an Hour

04 - First steps, navigating the interface
05 - Menus, search, and shortcuts
06 - Create your first objects
07 - Modifying objects
08 - Arrange your Blender scene and add materials
09 - Add lights and render your scene
10 - Challenge - Add more objects
11 - Solution - Add more objects

2. Create a Character with Modeling and Sculpting

12 - Overview of character creation tools
13 - Creating concepts with Grease Pencil
14 - Create your first sculpture
15 - 3D modeling in Blender
16 - Turning logos into 3D models
17 - Create a landscape with Geometry Nodes
18 - Challenge - Put your lunar scene together
19 - Solution - Put your lunar scene together

3. Textures and Shading

20 - Overview of texturing
21 - Creating your first materials in Blender
22 - Advanced Shader Editor workflow
23 - Unwrapping
24 - Texture painting in Blender
25 - Sculpture painting in Blender
26 - Challenge - Paint your astronaut
27 - Solution - Paint your astronaut

4. Create Animations

28 - Overview of animation
29 - Preparing your objects for animation
30 - Using Rigify to create 3D characters
31 - Refining Rigify with weight painting
32 - Set your first keyframe
33 - Blender character animation tools
34 - Challenge - Animate your astronaut
35 - Solution - Animate your astronaut

5. Visual Effects and Simulation in Blender

36 - Overview of visual effects in Blender
37 - Creating cloth in Blender
38 - Rigid
39 - Having fun with fluids sims
40 - Turning up the heat with fire sims
41 - Become a barber with the new Hair system
42 - Challenge - Add an effect
43 - Solution - Add an effect

6. Put It All Together

44 - Collections, scenes, and view layers
45 - BlenderKit for scene assembly
46 - Refining lighting in Blender
47 - Rendering with EEVEE
48 - Rendering with cycles
49 - Render output and compositing in Blender
50 - Challenge - Render your first animation
51 - Solution - Render your first animation

7. Advanced Blender Topics

52 - Linking and Library Overrides
53 - Track footage in Blender
54 - Unreal Engine workflows for Blender

Conclusion

55 - Next steps