Learning Blender - A step by step beginner Tutorial for 3D Artists

Hi everyone, it's been a while but today I am happy to share a 2 hour and step by step Blender beginners course. All the way from basic navigation, setting up shortcuts, installing and mastering free and useful plugins, modifiers, tools over to modelling a 20mm Vulcan cannon round at the end to make it worthwhile to sit through the 2 hours. Oh and as well as making a render for it. 📸✨ If you are coming from 3ds Max like I did then you will find a few comparisons and references I make to it. Now that this beginners introduction is done you can expect more tutorials to come out in the future. All relevant links at the bottom of the description. Don't forget to subscribe! 🙂 You can buy this tutorial together with the free flashbang tutorial if you want to buy me a coffee https://chamferzone.gumroad.com/l/BlenderForBeginnersTipJarEdition 00:00 Intro 4:28 Basic Navigation 5:12 Perspective and Ortho views 7:42 Add new meshes/Primitives 8:19 Collections/Folders 8:48 Deleting objects 9:06 Quick look at the Edit mode 9:45 Layout and Modeling viewports 12:19 Downloading a few excellent free Plugins 16:38 Installing Plugins 19:27 QBlocker Plugin (for creating Primitives faster) 22:48 Select and deselect objects 24:23 Move, rotate and scale 25:02 Increasing the undo steps 26:48 Slowing actions down for more precision 28:00 Updating Blender to a newer version release 29:46 Wireframe Mode and putting it on a shortcut 31:27 CAD Transform Plugin 33:28 Object and Edit mode 34:05 Subdivide 34:19 Vertex, Edge, Face Mode 34:53 Loop and Ring selections 35:59 Element Mode 36:34 Dissolving Edges 37:32 Vertex to Edge connection 38:00 Dissolving Faces 38:42 Fill Mode/Bridge Mode 39:31 Backface Culling 39:52 Collapsing geometry 40:45 Target welding 41:14 Maxivzs interactive tools 41:48 Quick Favorites 42:19 Putting Select, Move, Rotate and Scale on Q,W,E,R Shortcuts 45:08 Extrude 46:40 Aligning geometry on X,Y or Z 48:45 Xray Mode 49:50 Inset 51:00 Bevel 52:05 Knife/Cut tool 52:50 Tilde key - Quick ortho view menu 53:59 Edge Constraint mode 55:06 Instances and copies in Edit Mode 56:07 Separate/Detach elements 56:26 Changing the origin/pivot point on our object 57:43 Instances and copies in Object Mode 01:00:00 Smoothing 01:01:09 Attaching Objects together 01:02:49 Separating several elements 01:04:07 Isolation mode 01:04:30 Material Editor and assigning materials 01:07:31 Copying materials from object to object 01:08:11 Working on multiple objects in edit mode 01:09:23 Boolean Modifier 01:11:41 Bevel modifier and Bevel weights / making highpoly geometry 01:13:32 Subdivision Surface / Turbosmooth 01:15:48 Edit vs. Object mode again 01:17:34 Wireframe Mode full 01:21:05 Mirror Modifier 01:24:13 Modifier hierarchy 01:26:13 Solidify/Shell Modifier 01:27:31 Boolean operations with JMesh Plugin 01:28:54 Bevel with JMesh Plugin 01:30:15 Primitive Mode & Boolean operations with JMesh Plugin 01:35:48 Mirroring with JMesh Plugin 01:36:48 Array modifier with JMesh Plugin 01:37:31 Circle Array modifier with JMesh Plugin 01:38:24 Reset X Form 01:39:34 Flipping Normals 01:40:39 Smart Extrude / Extrude Manifold 01:42:11 Curves, Shapes or Splines 01:46:17 Mesh to curve with JMesh Plugin 01:46:52 Text in Blender 01:48:04 Let's model a 20mm Vulcan Cannon Round 💣💥 01:48:23 Units setup in Blender 01:48:33 Adding a reference image and scaling it to the right size 01:49:49 Measure tool 01:50:05 Loop Cut tool 01:52:36 Orbit around selection 02:01:37 Center origin pivot points to multiple objects 02:01:44 Ridgid body and gravity drop 02:04:28 Visual Transform 02:04:41 Adding lights and adjusting their properties 02:05:16 Shading Mode and adding a HDRI image 02:06:03 Scene properties (Ambient Occlusion, Surface Reflections etc.) 02:08:57 Camera settings and making a render Free Plugins appearing in this Tutorial: (Installation shown in the tutorial) maxivz interactivetools https://github.com/maxivz/interactivetoolsblender CAD Transform Plugin https://gumroad.com/l/nQVcS QBlocker https://gumroad.com/l/goev (You don't need this plugin anymore, in the latest Blender Versions we now have an equal tool that comes with Blender by default. You can access it here: https://i.imgur.com/h9MJ9HM.png) TexTools http://renderhjs.net/textools/blender/ UV Squares https://github.com/Radivarig/UvSquares JMesh tools https://github.com/jayanam/jmesh-tools Reference image 20mm Vulcan Round: https://imgur.com/u5WnKeN ChamferZone Community links: All tutorials https://chamferzone.com/ https://discord.gg/s98PbNk7pM - Join our awesome 3D Art community Twitter https://twitter.com/ChamferZone/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ChamferZone/ Artstation https://www.artstation.com/timbergholz/