Blender Essentials - 3D Modelling Training Course

Navigate Blender's interface by mastering the 3D viewport, timeline, and outliner; organize scenes with collections and the world, and adjust render, output, and lighting settings across multiple viewports.

Learn how computers view 3D objects with polygons, use UV sphere to show segment counts, and apply shade smooth or shade auto smooth to balance realism and performance.

Explore adding and arranging objects in Blender, import an image as a mesh plane, set up a camera and light, and use text and extrude geometry to refine the scene.

Practice a 3d collage in Blender by arranging three or more images, applying lighting, and rendering a square PNG for social media to showcase a brand and grow your portfolio.

Learn to add and manage materials in Blender, assign colors with a color picker, share or duplicate materials, rename them, and explore diffuse, roughness, metallic, transparency, and index of refraction.

Switch to edit mode with tab to reshape objects by editing vertices, not just scaling the whole object. Apply scale to keep bevels at 45 degrees and maintain uniform proportions.

Learn mesh selection in Blender by editing mode and using vertex, edge, and face tools; apply box select in visibility mode and know when to add vertices for finer modeling.

Learn to model 3D shapes beyond the add menu by adding details and creating custom objects in Blender, starting in edit mode with essential tools to model most objects.

Use the extrude region tool on faces to add detail with the gizmo. Move an edge upward to shape the base of a house, showing how extrusion builds the mesh.

Use Blender's inset tool to create a window and connect corners for a coherent mesh. Refine thickness with extrude, vertex adjustments, and the scale tool to shape a chimney.

Master the bevel tool by selecting edges, pulling the gizmo, and flattening corners, and learn to bevel multiple edges at once for large sections like a roof.

Learn to add a door in Blender using loop cut and slide tools, edge slide, and extrude region; master selecting faces, scaling to zero on Z, and preserving the mesh.

Master the knife tool in Blender to cut freely, create a heart on a roof, extrude the face, and fine-tune with shrink and fatten for precise geometry.

Explore the shear tool in Blender: select faces, move them, and skew geometry by dragging the gizmo, creating tilted shapes like an Alice in Wonderland house.

Learn Blender's core modeling tools and shortcuts, from selection modes to extrude, inset, bevel, and edge slides, and why ngons and triangles hinder clean meshes.

Master deleting and refining a mesh in Blender by deleting vertices and faces, using wireframe, dissolving, bridging edge loops, and fixing ngons with the knife tool.

Learn to model round objects by starting with a cylinder and adding bevels and insets. Use edge loops, wireframe views, and extrude along normals to create smooth, rounded bottle shapes.

Model a bottle and cap for a brand, exploring shapes to craft a unique, low-polygon container and deliver screenshots in solid and wireframe views with edge flow checks.

Model a glass chili oil bottle in blender from a 64-polygon cylinder, using insets, bevels, and loop cuts, check proportions in wireframe, and extrude top cap for an industrial look.

Master three-dimensional modelling of a separate cap object for a glass bottle using a cylinder, insetting, extruding, bevels, and edge bridges to create a hollow, glass-like cap.

Learn how Blender's render engines, EV and Cycles, balance speed and realism. Cycles delivers more realistic light calculation but slower rendering, so a capable gpu is essential.

Set up the cycles render engine in blender, enable GPU compute for faster rendering, and turn on AI denoising to reduce noise in the final image.

Wrap a 360-degree HDRi around the world to create reflections, then master node-based world setup using environment texture, background, and world output in Blender.

Create glass in Blender by switching from the principled bsdf to the glass bsdf, adjust roughness, and add thickness with the solidify modifier for realistic transparency in cycles.

Explore fixing a bad shell with the solidify modifier: use thickness clamp to fix distortions, or apply the modifier and manually delete faces, select linked, and edge bridge.

Finish shading a bottle by applying materials, adding thickness and interior details, and experimenting with colors, roughness, and metals for a cycles render with an hdrI environment.

Shade the bottle with an hdr i for realistic lighting, switch to cycles on gpu, create thick glass with solidify and bevel, separate the liquid, and apply chili oil glass.

Combine separated models by copying a wine bottle and a wine glass between Blender windows. Use the measure tool and a scale cube, then apply scale so solidify behaves consistently.

Learn how to add and configure a camera in Blender, adjust focal length and depth of field, focus on objects, and set image resolution for square or standard outputs.

Explore four light types in Blender—point light, sunlight, spotlight, and area light. Learn how radius, color, and spread shape shadows and control the light direction.

Master cycles rendering in Blender by optimizing max samples, CPU vs GPU compute, and denoise for balanced noise, detail, render time, and animation quality.

Design a simple, visually striking product render with a studio built from geometric shapes and the bottle on stage. Use a main light object to explore light falloff.

Create a product render in Blender: set up the scene, camera, HDRi, cycles lighting, and materials; apply advanced lighting like negative fill for a premium industrial bottle look.