In this comprehensive video tutorial Blender guru, Karan Shah, will walk you through a detailed demonstration of the Blender user interface. From navigation, to modeling, and even animation, this tutorial is a must for anyone who is interested in learning this free, yet very powerful, open source 3d application.
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thks
really nice
great tutorial, thanks…
Tanks for the tutorial. I was looking for a good tutorial on getting started in Blender, and this is perfect! Are you going to follow this up with a tutorial on making a model of something in Blender? The monkey hard would be great.
Sorry about the spelling mistakes.
you can check out how ’suzanne’ the monkey is modeled by adding it to your scene with space bar, add mesh->monkey,
(its includde in blender as some kind of mascot or whatever so its along the primitives that u can add)
by default it is set to solid and not subsurfed or modified in any way, so u can see a very lowpoly version of the monkey, however the way it was modeled from scratch (rather boxmodelling or modelled poly by poly etc.) can’t be determined that way, guess it would require to have a reference picture of it if there was any,
Anyway maybe this well you a bit, since i’m not sure if there will be a tutorial about suzanne in the near future (maybe there already was one but i’m not aware of it)
Best regards
Nixon
Excellent tutorial. I have recently downloaded Blender to try it out. This is immensely thorough and very helpful and should get me up and running in no time. Great Job!
Awesome great job explaining blender 3d.
Thanks!
Great, very handy
Very nice!
Up and running in no time? I started using Blender about two years ago, and I still can’t do average modeling.
Then you’re doing something wrong o_O. I was able after a few days.
BTT: Why a 2.49 overview? First 2.5 alpha should be coming out next month. Why not cover the new interface? Anyways, thanks for your tutorial.
Nice, but 2.49 is out of time in one month.
Blender Interface from 2.5 is more usefull !
Thats why I laid more stress on shortcut keys.
Thanks
How did you create the plane that you were modifying in the video…? When I add a plane I always get a simple square?
The plane I was speaking about is at about 13 minutes of the video
How did you create the flat surface at about the 13min mark of the video?
if u want a plane like karan had just add a plane, tab into edit mode, select all vertices with a key,
hit the w-key and choose subdivide multi, determine the number of divisions to get the ammount of subdivisions u like and u have it:)
the oter choice of subdivision would be subdivide (makes just a single cut)
and subdivide multi fractal (gives a randomness in value the vertices and results in a nonflat surface wich in some case comes in handy if u need a variation instead of a flat plane)
Hope this can help
Regards
Nixon
Hey Karan,
thanks for this great blender interface basics tutorial!
I always learn something new from all the tutorials i see and yours definetly helped me alot in many terms (introduction to yafaray, setting up scenes etc).
So i wanna say much appreciation for your effort and dedication and the best luck for your further projects!
Much regards
Nixon
Thanks for the tutorial. It is the best one I have found for the blender interface and taught me a few things that I didn’t already know.
Nice tutorial!
BTW, Blender 2.5 will be Beta software, and it’s functionality won’t fully match 2.49 until some time near the end of the year (at the earliest). Even then, it will still be Beta software until after the Durian Project in the Spring of 2010. These are details from the creator of Blender, Ton Roosendaal.
In fact, the Blender Foundation is recommending that real documentation should begin at the Beta 2 phase which occurs at the end of December into January. You can get more info at BlenderNation:
http://www.blendernation.com/blender-developers-meeting-notes-7/
I just think it’s important for people to fully understand the true nature of Blender 2.5 development. There’s been quite a bit of hype concerning its development timeline that might result in some degree of disappointment in the early phases of its Beta releases. When it’s finally ready, it’ll be awesome, but that time is later than sooner.
i have seen this character in a lot of modeling tutorials
but i can not download the fiv file ,why?
Hi Karan,
I´m very happy with your introduction, text book reading is not my cup of tea, but with a visual clear image I catch easily and fast the Blender world.
Thanks for your great effort.
Love the knowledge available, possibly a very good video, but I can’t understand everything the guy is saying. ?????
Could we pleeeeeeease redo this video with a different voice over.
(No strong accent would be appreciated)
Sound isn’t good and he mumbles at times.
Cheers
Could have been a great video…but it has audio issues.
Please re-do this video with a voice everyone can understand.
The sound isn’t the best, and the voice over mumbled a couple of times.
Could we pleeeeease have a new voice over person?
Cheers
David
Great tutorial! I’ve been watching quite a few online blender tutorials and this one is the most detailed and easiest one to follow.
Despite your accent, I had no trouble understanding what you were saying. There was a spot in the video where there was an audio issue – no sound to be exact – right before and at the beginning of the discussion on proportional editing.
Thank you. This was extremely helpful. I look forward to watching more of your tutorials.
The best Blender beginners tutorial ive seen. Its quite an indepth study, which i find as a bonus. I definetely see your extensive knowledge in this field. Thank you very much Karan.
ehhhhhhhhh? please change that guy voice for other like look its wake up! im from spain and i understand english but whit this guy its imposible!!
That would not be possible as Karan is the author of this tutorial, and to dub someone else’s voice over his would not give him due respect….plus it would violate his rights as the creator.
that was a good tutorial, pretty good
I’m a newbe, i have question to you or someone else, How tome make our work to be a movie, i mean, for example, after we made a landscape or map, then we want to follow the route with fly camera (like many creation posted in youtube)…. thanks a lot for your answer before.