COURSE CONTENTS

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*** Project file names are shown in Blue color.

Master 3D Content creation tools in Blender. With 6 demo projects. Beginner to Pro

Chapters:

1. Introduction. Getting Ready

2. Blender crash course with country house

3. Blender fundamentals

4. Working in Object Mode. Objects and their Properties.

5. 3D modeling in Edit Mode

6. PROJECT 1. [EASY] Simple scene with wood furniture and dishes

7. PROJECT 2. [EASY] Ancient weapons set. 

8. PROJECT 3. [MODERATE] A sailboat 

9. Shading. Materials and Textures.

10. Lighting. Rendering and working with the Camera

11. Modifiers

12. Addons

13. PROJECT 4. [HARD] Sci-Fi Door

14. Hair Particle System

15. Texture Painting

16. PROJECT 5. [HARD] Sci-Fi Weapon

17. Sculpting

18. PROJECT 6. [HARD] Female Character Bust

19. Other powerful features of Blender

Lessons inside chapters: Introduction. Getting ready.

1. Intro and overall information about the course

2. How to study this course

3. Install Blender

Blender Crash Course with Country House

1. Why?

2. Blender interface. Moving around. Transforming objects

3. Mesh Elements. Building blocks of a 3D model

4. Country house. Modeling 1

5. Country house. Modeling 2

6. Country house. Modeling 3

7. Material basics

8. Texture basics

9. Country house. Applying Materials

10. Country house. Growing Grass

11. Getting free assets from BlenderKit

12. Country house. Lighting and Rendering

Blender Fundamentals

1. Blender interface basics

2. Overview of editors

3. Properties editor

4. Blender Preferences

5. Viewport Shading options

6. Customizing and saving startup file

7. Navigation in the 3D viewport

8. Walk and Fly Navigation

9. Tools. Transform Tools and Shortcuts

10. Work modes - Workshops

11. Asset Browser

12. Scene optimization. Do these and Blender will never crash again

Working in Object Mode. Objects and their Properties

1. Object types general overview

2. Object origin

3. Important options in Object Menu. Cleaning up the blend file

4. Objects and Object data. Object and Object data Properties

5. Correct Collection Instancing. Make Instances Real

6. Transform orientations

7. Transform Pivot point

8. Snapping options

9. Proportional editing

3D modeling in Edit mode

1. Edit mode tools 1. Extrude. Bevel. Inset faces. Loop Cut

2. Edit mode tools 2

3. Selecting geometry

4. Deleting geometry

5. Overview of Add and Mesh menus

6. Normals

7. Mesh clean up

8. Vertex tools

9. Edge tools

10. Face tools

11. Top 5 modeling problems beginners face

12. Curves and text objects. SVG

13. Vertex Groups. Weight Painting

14. Shape Keys

15. Color Attributes. Vertex Painting

16. Working with Reference Images

PROJECT 1. [EASY] Simple scene with wood furniture and dishes

1. Modeling the chair

2. Modeling the table

3. Modeling the dishes

4. UV Unwrapping. Applying Materials and textures

5. Texturing the models. Better background lighting

6. zFiles

PROJECT 2. [EASY] Ancient weapons set

1. Modeling a simple Ax

2. Modeling a more Complex Ax

3. Modeling a sharp something

4. Modeling a Sword 1

5. Modeling a Sword 2

6. Texturing the Simple Axe. Texture Painting

7. Baking Simple Ax Textures to Image files.

8. Texturing the Complex Sword

9. zFiles

PROJECT 3. [MODERATE] A sailboat

1. Modeling 1

2. Modeling 2

3. Modeling 3

4. Modeling 4

5. Modeling 5. Finish

6. Shading 1. UV Unwrapping 1

7. Shading 1. UV Unwrapping 2

8. Shading 3. UV Unwrapping 3. Finished

9. Shading 4. Texture Painting 1

10. Shading 4. Texture Painting 2. Finished

11. Shader Setup. World and Lighting Setup. Final Notes

12. zFiles

Shading. Materials and Textures

1. Intro to Shading Lighting and Rendering sections

2. Intro to Shading and materials

3. Material properties

4. Node based Shader editor

5. What nodes we have. Quick overview

6. Most common shader nodes

7. Node Wrangler addon shortcuts

8. Principled BSDF

9. Principled Volume

10. Glass shader in Cycles

11. Glass shader in Eevee

12. Power of black and white

13. Textures in Blender

14. Common procedural textures

15. Using image textures. Texture maps

16. Image texture node options

17. Movie texture

18. ColorRamp node

19. Bump node

20. UV Reference 1. UV Maps. Unwrapping and editing UVs

21. UV reference 2. Workflows. Rules. Editing options

22. UDIMs Lets learn everything

23. Bake procedural textures to image textures

24. Generating Edge wear. Dirt built up effects

25. Packing or Embedding texture files into blend or FBX files

26. Copying Assigning Linking Duplicating materials. Selecting by materials

Lighting. Rendering. Working with the Camera

1. Intro to lighting. rendering. render and camera options

2. Rendering quick demo

3. Basics of lighting. Light sources

4. Global illumination (GI) or Indirect lighting

5. Light objects in Cycles

6. Light objects in Eevee

7. World properties in Cycles. Environment texture. Nishita sky

8. Rendering with Cycles. Most important options

9. Eevee render engine. Most important options

10. Bake indirect light in Eevee

11. Working with the camera. Basics

12. Camera properties

13. Better camera control. Switch Cameras Automatically etc.

14. Rendering images. Resolution. Format etc.

15. Render animations

16. Viewport rendering

17. Noise reduction and faster rendering tips in Cycles

18. Shadow caustics

19. Lights with nodes. IES Textures

20. How to use the Shadow Catcher

21. Using Mist Pass. Denoise and Defocus in Compositing to fake effects

Modifiers

1. Intro. Common modifier properties. Important rules

2. Modifier Tools Addon

3. Array

4. Bevel

5. Boolean

6. Build

7. Decimate

8. Mirror

9. Screw

10. Skin

11. Solidify

12. Subdivision Surface

13. Triangulate

14. Wireframe

15. Curve

16. Displace

17. Hook

18. Lattice

19. Shrinkwrap

20. Simple Deform

21. Surface Deform

22. Wave

23. Vertex Weight Proximity

24. Weighted Normal

Addons

1. Inro

2. BlenderKit

3. Import Images as Planes

4. Carver

5. Bool Tool

6. Cell Fracture

7. A.N.T. Landscapes

8. Sapling Tree Gen

9. How to use Quixel Bridge with Blender

10. Botaniq. Paid addon for Trees and Vegetation

11. Get more addons

PROJECT 4. [HARD] Sci-Fi Door

1. Using AI to generate reference images

2. Modeling 1. Creating the general shape of the door

3. Modeling 2.

4. Modeling 3. Rounded edges. Pipes and other details

5. Modeling 4.  Boolean n Knife Cuts. More Pipes. Pipe holders. [TIMELAPSE]

6. Modeling 5. Door details. Refinements. Finish

7. Modeling the environment

8. Lighting the scene

9. Applying materials. Final render

10. Better materials by Texture painting and better shader setup

11. zFiles

Hair Particle System

1. Intro. Hair Emission. Render

2. Strand type. Material. Viewport display. Children

3. Hair shape. Forces. Windy Grass field. Texture

Texture Painting

1. Before we start

2. Intro. Tools

3. Slots. Brushes. Color. Gradient. Color Palette

4. Advanced. Texture. Texture mask

5. Strokes. Stabilize. Fallof. Cursor

6. Cavity Mask. Symmetry. Options

PROJECT 5. [HARD] Sci-Fi Weapon

1. Modeling 1. The Stock

2. Modeling 2. Stock connection

3. Modeling 3. The Grip or Handle

4. Modeling 4. Corrections. The Trigger. Receiver 1 [Timelapse Only]

5. Modeling 5. Receiver or Chamber 2

6. Modeling 6. The Magazine

7. Modeling 7. The Sight or Scope

8. Modeling 8. The 2nd Grip. Barrel cover.

9. Modeling 9. The Barrel.

10. Modeling 10. Finish

11. Shading 1. Initial material setup. UV Unwrapping

12. Shading 2. Achieving consistent texture detail

13. Shading 3. Baking Texture Masks (Important but Optional)

14. Shading 4. Painting textures. Most Important Concepts and Tricks

15. Shading 5. Creating Other Materials

16. Shading 6. Final notes

17. Quick Scene Setup and Render

18. zFiles

Sculpting

1. Intro. Tools overview

2. Shortcuts. Most common brushes. Generate. Contrast. Transform brushes

3. All the other Brushes and Tools

4. Mask Tools and Auto Masking

5. Brush settings overview

6. Dynamic Topology. Magic Button

7. Remesh. Quad Remesh. Symmetry

8. Retopology. Intro. Setup and Manual Retopo

9. Speed Up your Retopo with addons

10. Multires Modifier in Sculpting

11. Bake Multires details to Normal map

PROJECT 6. [HARD] Female Character Bust

1. Project Intro

2. Sculpting 1. Basic bust shape

3. Sculpting 2. Face enhancement. Ear started

4. Sculpting 3. The ears. Face enhancement. Finish

5. Sculpting 4. Important final notes

6. Retopology demo 1. Face retopology

7. Retopology demo 2. Ear retopology. Finish

8. Capturing and sculpting fine details with Multires modifier

9. UV unwrapping. Baking Normal map. Texture painting

10. Eye texture. Hair growth

11. Project Summary

12. Using Mixamo animations

13. zFiles

Other powerful features of Blender

1. Animation 1. Fundamentals. Timeline. Ways. FPS. Actions etc.

2. Animation 2. Constraints. Skeleton. Rigging. Naming. Weight Painting. Pose Library etc.

3. Simulations and Physics in Blender. Overview and Examples

4. Geometry Nodes. Quick overview. Example projects

5. Grease Pencil. Quick overview. Example projects

6. VFX and Compositing. Overview and practical example