3D Design & Animation · Blog
Techniques, workflows and honest advice from the 3D Design & Animation school, written for people learning the craft.
Blender feels huge because it is huge: modeling, sculpting, animation, simulation, video editing, all in one window. You learn it by ignoring most of it: navigate, model, texture, light, render. In that order.
Read the postA 3D environment is just a lot of small props arranged and lit well. You make your first one by blocking out a small room, modeling a few key objects, texturing, lighting, and rendering. Small scene, real finish, every time.
Read the postModeling is building with clean geometry, like construction. Sculpting is shaping a digital lump of clay, like art class. For a first skill, start with modeling: it teaches the fundamentals every other 3D job depends on.
Read the postBlender is not hard so much as huge. One window holds modeling, sculpting, animation, simulation and video editing, so your first look is a wall of buttons for jobs you do not have yet. Learn one corner and the wall becomes a doorway.
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