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While I think the documentation is pretty good, something like Blender is really hard to find your way around initially as a layman. I’ve found YouTube tutoria

by aidos 5y ago

While I think the documentation is pretty good, something like Blender is really hard to find your way around initially as a layman. I’ve found YouTube tutorials to be the best way so far but, My God, they’re slow going. Don’t get me wrong BlenderGuru has done incredible work. I just really struggle with video as a long form learning medium. Does anyone have a good (non video) resource for getting into Blender? I know my way around a bit, but would love to get deeper into it. I recall an article on HN in the past that walked through the controls from a coders perspective (vim like control). Something along those lines.

dantondwa 5y ago
Apart from the Blender manual itself, I don't think there are. In general, I also find the repetition of basic things in every Blender video to be exhausting, even if by sticking to it I do learn a lot more stuff. Ian Hubert and his 1 minute tutorial are fun exceptions to this. Perhaps you could study Blenders' nodes systems? I've found that channels dedicated to shader and geometry nodes are a lot more precise in their terminology and succinct in their explanations. Probably that is because their target audiences are slightly more advanced and, also, the positive influence of math on their method. Here are a few Youtube channels I recommend: - Erindale. He's probably the most known Blender node wizard. His videos are pleasant, thorough and accurate. - Just 3d things. Another channel about nodes, also very thorough and precise. - Sam Bowman. A channel that methodically goes through the creation of different materials. A very useful resource. - Entagma. They're mainly Houdini people, but in the last months they've also started doing geometry nodes videos. Great and informative stuff. There are many others, but I can't remember them right now.
- aidos 5y ago
  That’s awesome. Thanks.
- markmsmith 5y ago
  Different use case (of more engineering / 3D printing), but I've also found the channel Maker Tales and his Precison Modelling tutorial series really good, with relatively short, focused videos.
peterashford 5y ago
This is true for every 3D editor.

by aidos 5y ago

dantondwa 5y ago

Apart from the Blender manual itself, I don't think there are. In general, I also find the repetition of basic things in every Blender video to be exhausting, even if by sticking to it I do learn a lot more stuff. Ian Hubert and his 1 minute tutorial are fun exceptions to this. Perhaps you could study Blenders' nodes systems? I've found that channels dedicated to shader and geometry nodes are a lot more precise in their terminology and succinct in their explanations. Probably that is because their target audiences are slightly more advanced and, also, the positive influence of math on their method. Here are a few Youtube channels I recommend: - Erindale. He's probably the most known Blender node wizard. His videos are pleasant, thorough and accurate. - Just 3d things. Another channel about nodes, also very thorough and precise. - Sam Bowman. A channel that methodically goes through the creation of different materials. A very useful resource. - Entagma. They're mainly Houdini people, but in the last months they've also started doing geometry nodes videos. Great and informative stuff. There are many others, but I can't remember them right now.

aidos 5y ago
That’s awesome. Thanks.
markmsmith 5y ago
Different use case (of more engineering / 3D printing), but I've also found the channel Maker Tales and his Precison Modelling tutorial series really good, with relatively short, focused videos.

peterashford 5y ago

This is true for every 3D editor.