Blender 3.0 Beginner Tutorial - Part 1 on HackerTube: recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2022–2023.
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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.
Called a rite of passage for new Blender users and the standard first recommendation for learning the program.
“the Donut tutorial is great.”
4 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
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.
in “Ask HN: Recommend me a Blender course” · View on HN
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.
in “Blender 3.1” · View on HN
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
in “Blender 16yo winner of UK younganimator of the year” · View on HN
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
in “Blender 4.0” · View on HN