Introduction
Introducing Blender 4.0 for beginners
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How to install and things to know
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How to use the exercise files
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1. Your First Hour with Blender
Understanding how Blender works
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Menus, search, and shortcuts
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Create your first objects in Blender
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How to use modifiers in Blender
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How to add materials to objects in Blender
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Add lights and change their colors in Blender
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Challenge: Make your first scene in Blender 4.0
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Solution: Render your first scene in Blender
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2. Create a Starfighter
Overview of creation tools in Blender
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Creating concepts with Grease Pencil
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Storyboarding with Grease Pencil
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Learn to 3D model in Blender
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Advanced 3D modelling tools in Blender
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Add details with Boolean
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Challenge: Fix a 3D model
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Solution: N-Gons in Blender
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3. Shade and Texture
Overview of shading and texturing
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Creating your first material in Blender
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Add details with advanced materials
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Why you should use Node Wrangler
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Setting up your objects for painting
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Painting a texture inside of Blender
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Challenge: Detail your starfighter
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Solution: Detail your starfighter
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4. Learn to Rig and Animate
Overview of animation
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What is rigging and why is it important?
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Refine your rig in Blender
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Set your first keyframe in Blender
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Why Pose Mode is awesome for animation
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The Graph Editor
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Challenge: Animate your first scene
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Solution: Animate your first scene
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5. Why Geometry Nodes Are Amazing
Overview of Geometry Nodes in Blender
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Geometry Node samples
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Your first Geometry Node setup
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Using Geometry Nodes for a trench run
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Using Geometry Nodes for VFX
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Turn your Geometry Node into a tool
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Challenge: Implement Geometry Nodes
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Solution: Implementing Geometry Nodes
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6. Put It All Together
How to organize your scenes in Blender
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Valuable online libraries for Blender
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Working with lights in Blender
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Rendering with Cycles
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What is EEVEE and Hydra?
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Color, compositing, and Kuwahara
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Challenge: Render your first animation
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Solution: Render your first animation
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Ex_Files_Blender_4_0_EssT.zip
(1.2 GB)