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Finally an article that makes me feel confident enough to actually try using blender. In the past I have tried a number of tutorials, but the problem was they a

by ToJans 10y ago

Finally an article that makes me feel confident enough to actually try using blender. In the past I have tried a number of tutorials, but the problem was they all went way too deep in the subject matter, so I was feeling overwhelmed. This one seems to give you just enough information to get going; looks like I will give it another try.

Siberias 10y ago
I felt the same way. It gets you started on the fundamentals and explains it in a straightforward way. I once finished a short course on using Autodesk Maya, but when I tried to move over to blender for personal projects, I found the change jarring, but with a start like this, I would've been more motivated to push onwards and learn the rest of Blender's functions
khedoros1 10y ago
A few years before it was open-sourced, I became interested in 3D modeling, using 3D Studio Max at school. When I looked for free-ish software, I found Blender. It had about 1/10 of the options back then, and a bunch of features were locked up behind a license key, but it was small enough to fit on a floppy. So I downloaded it at school, took it home...and was flummoxed without any access to tutorials. I got about as far as this tutorial did through experimentation. A few years later, I picked it up again when I had a more convenient internet connection. Learning it through tutorials was a lot like learning a new programming language. Find some that cover the basic interface, then the intermediate interface, then stumble through the advanced tuts for whichever feature you think would be useful to know how to use. It's a great piece of software, and it feels nice to use once you've developed the muscle memory. The comparison to vim is somewhat apt, but that only really hit me when someone else mentioned it in a post a few months ago.
aclsid 10y ago
Sorry to sound blunt, but that tutorial is not precisely the best resource you can use. Try this http://gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html http://gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html instead. Screencasts are always easier for this kind of stuff anyways.
TACIXAT 10y ago
Find a good Youtube video tutorial for what you want to learn and follow along. I'm doing a series on character creation right now. There are probably some very good resources on Udemy and the like for a small amount of money. Once you learn the short cuts and the tools it is very easy to use, much like Photoshop.

by ToJans 10y ago

Siberias 10y ago

I felt the same way. It gets you started on the fundamentals and explains it in a straightforward way. I once finished a short course on using Autodesk Maya, but when I tried to move over to blender for personal projects, I found the change jarring, but with a start like this, I would've been more motivated to push onwards and learn the rest of Blender's functions

khedoros1 10y ago

A few years before it was open-sourced, I became interested in 3D modeling, using 3D Studio Max at school. When I looked for free-ish software, I found Blender. It had about 1/10 of the options back then, and a bunch of features were locked up behind a license key, but it was small enough to fit on a floppy. So I downloaded it at school, took it home...and was flummoxed without any access to tutorials. I got about as far as this tutorial did through experimentation. A few years later, I picked it up again when I had a more convenient internet connection. Learning it through tutorials was a lot like learning a new programming language. Find some that cover the basic interface, then the intermediate interface, then stumble through the advanced tuts for whichever feature you think would be useful to know how to use. It's a great piece of software, and it feels nice to use once you've developed the muscle memory. The comparison to vim is somewhat apt, but that only really hit me when someone else mentioned it in a post a few months ago.

aclsid 10y ago

Sorry to sound blunt, but that tutorial is not precisely the best resource you can use. Try this http://gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html http://gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html instead. Screencasts are always easier for this kind of stuff anyways.

TACIXAT 10y ago

Find a good Youtube video tutorial for what you want to learn and follow along. I'm doing a series on character creation right now. There are probably some very good resources on Udemy and the like for a small amount of money. Once you learn the short cuts and the tools it is very easy to use, much like Photoshop.