The Ultimate Blender 3D Animated Short AI Course

Explore an interactive blender shortcut keys cheat sheet with searchable shortcuts, GIF demos, and explanations for edit mode, sculpting, grab (g), extrude (e), and hide (h), enhancing your workflow.

Generate reference images for your character using ai tools like dreamlike and lexica, applying prompts and initial-image techniques to refine a sci-fi look and helmet style.

Finish blocking the character's body, feet, and neck in Blender using extrusion, loop cuts, edge slide, and proportional editing, setting up the head for the next video.

Explore three rigging solutions and learn to rig a character with Mixamo, export an FBX, and create a Blender control rig with the Mixamo add-on for IK-based posing.

Learn how Blender 4.0 introduces bone collections, replacing bone layers and groups, and how to manage, select, deselect, assign, move, and rename bones across collections.

Shape the pants with wrinkles, pockets, belt, seams, and folds, using sculpt mode with inflate and grab brushes and solidify and subdivision modifiers for mid-detail texture.

Learn how to reparent clothing to the generated rig with automatic weights, then refine deformation in pose mode using sculpting and inflate/deflate techniques to fix pockets, patches, and jacket interactions.

Explore the new principled bsdf shader focusing on subsurface random walk skin, index of refraction, and anisotropy to model realistic skin scattering in cycles.

Learn to create a Blender eye entirely with shader nodes, building iris, pupil, and veins using masks, gradients, color ramps, and Voronoi textures for procedural color and detail.

Master procedural texturing of eyes and teeth in Blender, adjusting iris and pupil sizes and painting a bump-mapped teeth texture. Unwrap UVs, add seams, and finalize a polished character look.

Create a jaw shapekey in Blender to control opening and closing. Use the 3D cursor pivot, shape keys, and sculpting tools to align the jaw with the mouth.

Create drivers for eyelid and eyebrow shape keys using armature bones with scripted expressions and z location in local space. Copy drivers to the opposite side and test axis flips.

Create custom shapes for bones and shape keys in a blender character rig, using crescent, triangle, circle, and ai glass shapes to visualize each bone’s function.

Update to the ultimate Blender course reveals AI texture generation options beyond with poly.cam, texture.lab.xyz, and mage.space, plus applying albedo, normal, and roughness maps in Blender.

Create a glass roof with a grid bone structure and archways using Blender modifiers, including solidify for thickness, wireframe for the lattice, and array and subdivision for detail.

learn android 3d scanning workflows with kiri engine and polycam to capture detail, export as obj or glTF, and import into blender.

Texture the pillars in Blender using a shader network with noise textures, color ramps, ambient occlusion, and bumps to create weathered, ringed pillar surfaces under a sunset sky.

Texture the roof by creating glass with transmission and screen space refractions and reflections, then craft roof beams with a metal material, bump, noise textures, and a magic texture pattern.

Apply cracks to the floor with boolean operations and solidify modifiers. Use geometry nodes to scatter debris around cracks via proximity-based placement.

Learn to create a marble breakaway in Blender using booleans, loop cuts, and bevels to carve cracked pieces and render a chaotic floor scene.

Create a humanoid creature head in Blender for a 3D animated short, shaping a base mesh into a horned monster using shape keys and refining nostrils.

Adjust the base character mesh to shape a creature body using proportional editing, spine, abs, and obliques, then refine with sculpt mode and subdivision surface modifier.