4 HN users recommended this tutorial3 months2022–2023score 4
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
Called a rite of passage for new Blender users and the standard first recommendation for learning the program.
Blender Guru's beginner tutorial series, in which you model, light, texture and render a donut while learning Blender's core features. This is Part 1 of the Blender 3.0 version.
Make the donut: [this video] It's kind of a right of passage for Blender newbies. I learned (well.. I'm learning) Blender this year and I'm glad I did. It's very intimidating at first, but you get the hang of it, and then you can't imagine a world without it. I now even prefer it to stuff like Photoshop for doing simple graphics work.
Donut tutorial is a rite of passage for Blender newbies.
100% agreed, the Donut tutorial is great. Make sure to use the 3.0 version instead of the 2.8 version, he released an updated tutorial with the improved Blender UI: [this video] PS, definitely use an external mouse! You cannot really only use the trackpad/keyboard for Blender effectively.
Donut tutorial is great; use the updated 3.0 version.
Youtube is your friend: it is a bottomless pit of Blender tutorials from the very basic step-by-step "learn how to use the UI" to super-advanced topics. This guy has an extensive collections on both basic and advanced stuff: [this video]
Extensive basic and advanced Blender tutorial collection.
I've followed Janine Pauke's work for many years ( [link] she has produced a very cool introductory course for Blender: [link] And, of course, there's the famous donut tutorial series: [this video]
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