Welcome to The Ultimate Blender 4 Course: Modelling, Assembly & Render, a comprehensive course designed to elevate your skills in 3D modelling and rendering using Blender—the powerful, free, and open-source alternative to Maya and 3DS Max.
This course is tailored for both beginners and experienced artists looking to master the intricacies of detailed model design, assembly, and rendering. With a strong emphasis on practical application, we focus on creating a professional-grade chair model, leveraging Blender’s latest tools and techniques to bring your designs to life.
Welcome to The Ultimate Blender 4 Course: Modelling, Assembly & Render, a comprehensive course designed to elevate your skills in 3D modelling and rendering using Blender—the powerful, free, and open-source alternative to Maya and 3DS Max.
This course is tailored for both beginners and experienced artists looking to master the intricacies of detailed model design, assembly, and rendering. With a strong emphasis on practical application, we focus on creating a professional-grade chair model, leveraging Blender’s latest tools and techniques to bring your designs to life.
By the end of this course, you will have a solid grasp of Blender’s core functionalities, including Boolean subtraction, modifier stacking, freestyle rendering, and realistic lighting setups. Whether you're building a portfolio, preparing for a career in 3D design, or simply exploring a new creative passion, this course will give you the expertise and confidence to produce high-quality 3D models.
Key Features:
Taught by an expert instructor with a thriving community of over 100,000 students
Master Blender 4’s newest tools for precise model assembly and rendering
Step-by-step guidance from basic modelling principles to advanced workflows
Improve efficiency with Blender shortcuts and time-saving techniques
Designed based on real student feedback for the most relevant, practical learning experience
Learn the importance of modifier order for precision and control in your models
Transform your models into professional-quality renders with optimized lighting and materials
Course Journey:
Engaging, step-by-step tutorials focusing on chair modelling & assembly in Blender 4
Hands-on practice with a variety of assets to enhance your projects
Deep dive into lighting, rendering, and freestyle techniques
Key workflow strategies to improve efficiency and output quality
Essential skills for real-world 3D modelling applications
Whether you're looking to enhance your portfolio, dive into the world of 3D modelling, or refine your existing skills in Blender, 'Blender 4 Mastery: Techniques for Model Assembly' offers the tools and knowledge you need. This course is ideal for aspiring 3D artists, designers, and anyone passionate about digital modelling and rendering.
This is your chance to level up your 3D modelling skills with practical, real-world projects in Blender 4. Whether you're a complete beginner or refining your craft, this course is packed with expert insights, hands-on projects, and industry-proven techniques to help you succeed.
Don’t miss out—click ‘ENROL NOW’ and start creating professional-quality 3D models today.
This lecture guides you through the process of downloading and installing Blender, the popular open-source 3D software, from Blender.org. It covers obtaining the latest stable version, compatible with major operating systems, and offers insights into alternative downloading options through platforms like Steam, Snap, or the Microsoft Store. The lecture also explores Blender's archive of previous releases for specialized needs. Finally, it walks you through the installation process and the initial setup of Blender, including configuring initial settings such as user interface language, keyboard shortcuts, cursor control, and the interface theme.
This quiz assesses the understanding of the specific steps for downloading and installing Blender, as outlined in the video. It focuses on distinguishing between the installation process and the initial setup or use of the software. The details provided in the video about visiting Blender.org, using alternative platforms for updates, and navigating the website's archive section are crucial for understanding the comprehensive process involved in acquiring and setting up Blender.
This lecture delves into the customization of Blender's user interface and preferences, focusing on enhancing the user experience and workflow efficiency. It covers adjusting resolution scale, tooltip settings, interface translation, theme selection, mouse emulation, navigation settings, keymap customization, system settings, file paths, and saving techniques. The lecture emphasizes the flexibility of Blender's settings to cater to individual needs, whether for language, accessibility, or specific workflow preferences.
This quiz is crafted to assess comprehension of Blender's interface customization, particularly the 'resolution scale' setting in the user preferences. This feature is a crucial aspect of Blender's flexibility, allowing users to adjust the interface for improved visibility and usability.
This lecture focuses on enabling and managing add-ons in Blender, which are essential for extending the software's capabilities. It demonstrates how to access and activate specific add-ons, like 'Loop Tools' and 'Node Wrangler', and how to customize their settings for optimal use. The lecture emphasizes the importance of add-ons in enhancing Blender's functionality for tasks like mesh editing and texture node configuration.
This lecture covers the critical aspects of Blender's file recovery and autosave features. It explains how to recover files from accidental closures or crashes, demonstrating the process of recovering the last session and locating autosave files. The lecture emphasizes the importance of these features in preserving work and mitigating data loss, offering insights into customizing autosave settings and managing backup files.
This lecture introduces the use of shortcuts in Blender, a key aspect of efficient workflow. It explains how to access and utilize various tools and commands through shortcuts, using duplication as an example. The lecture also provides a resource for learning and memorizing these shortcuts, highlighting a downloadable shortcut guide available on the course's website.
This lecture provides a comprehensive guide to navigating Blender's 3D view, covering essential techniques like orbiting, zooming, panning, and view switching. It highlights the utility of the middle mouse button (MMB) and various key combinations for smooth and efficient 3D space navigation. The lecture also discusses using view gizmos and camera controls to enhance visualization and focuses on specific features like 'orbit around selection' and camera adjustments.
This lecture focuses on setting up and utilizing Blender's Asset Browser. It covers creating a dedicated workspace, managing assets within Blender, and integrating external asset libraries. Key topics include duplicating workspaces, adjusting panels, marking and categorizing assets, and downloading and appending external assets. The lecture concludes by demonstrating how to create, organize, and use asset libraries, and highlights the versatility of the Asset Browser in Blender.
This lecture introduces how to set up the unit scale in Blender, focusing on the flexibility of Blender's unit system. It covers resetting to default units, understanding Blender's generic unit measure, and working with different scales for metric and imperial units. The lecture demonstrates how to adjust unit scale for various applications like game engines or CAD software. It also explains how to input dimensions in Blender using different units, showcasing Blender's ability to convert between metric and imperial measurements.
This lecture delves into advanced snapping techniques in Blender. It starts by setting up a new Blender file and configuring unit settings. The focus then shifts to snapping methods, including both relative and absolute snapping, and exploring different snap types like increment, vertex, and face. The lecture demonstrates how to utilize snapping for precise positioning and alignment, including beveling and aligning objects to target faces. Techniques like setting a base point for snapping and aligning object rotation are also covered. The session concludes with an adjustment to scene properties and emphasizes the importance of saving the file.
This lecture covers the process of setting up reference images in Blender, a crucial step for accurate and faithful modeling based on pre-existing concepts or designs. The session begins with clearing the existing scene, followed by importing and positioning reference images for different views of a model. Key aspects include adjusting image properties like size, offset, visibility, and opacity, and using a plane as a scaling reference. The lecture concludes with organizing the reference images in Blender's Outliner and setting them up for efficient modeling workflow.
This lecture continues from the previous session, focusing on detailed chair modeling in Blender. It begins with adjusting the reference plane and proceeds through a series of precise vertex manipulations. Key techniques include rotating and aligning vertices, using the knife tool for cutting, deleting faces, and adding edges for better geometry. The session also introduces the use of modifiers like solidify and mirror, essential for adding thickness and symmetry to the model. The lecture concludes with applying transformations to ensure accurate mirror modifier application.
This lecture focuses on enhancing the realism of a chair model in Blender through the application of bevel modifiers. It guides students through the process of adding a rounded front edge and softening the side edges of the chair's arm. The lecture covers the necessity of applying the solidify modifier before adding bevels, adjusting bevel weights, and managing the order of modifiers for desired effects. It also introduces the concept of smooth shading and auto smooth for a polished finish.
This lecture focuses on creating the inner section of a chair model in Blender. It begins with temporarily disabling bevel and mirror modifiers to view the object's base geometry. The process involves duplicating and separating edges, adjusting vertices using custom orientations, and snapping to align with existing edges. The lecture also covers deleting unnecessary vertices, extruding edges, creating faces, and ensuring vertex alignment. Finally, it concludes with the addition of a solidify modifier to give the object thickness.
This lecture focuses on refining the chair model by adjusting the bevel and mirror modifiers. It begins with troubleshooting an issue with the bevel modifier and reordering the solidify modifier in the stack. The lecture then proceeds to adding corner rounds and setting up the seat of the chair using various Blender tools and techniques, including extruding, snapping, and orienting vertices. Key aspects include ensuring proper alignment and thickness of the seat, and fine-tuning the modifiers for a polished finish. The session concludes with optimizing the modifier setup for the best visual result.
This lecture covers the process of modeling the chair supports in Blender. It begins by duplicating a part of the chair seat and adjusting it to form the supports. The lecture demonstrates using vertex snap for precise positioning, deleting unnecessary vertices, and extruding to create the required shape. It also includes the creation of a custom orientation for accurate alignment and the adjustment of modifiers to refine the model. Finally, it concludes with aligning and snapping the supports to the correct size relative to the chair.
This lecture demonstrates the process of modeling the backrest of a chair in Blender using a curve. It begins with setting up the workspace and adding a path curve, followed by precise alignment and scaling. The lecture guides students through adjusting curve vertices to match the reference image, both in terms of length and height. It also includes converting the curve to a mesh for added depth, refining the edges with a bevel modifier, and ensuring smooth shading. The session concludes with rotating and positioning the backrest accurately relative to the chair seat.
This lecture demonstrates creating a front support for a chair model in Blender. It involves duplicating a section of the chair, editing it to match the desired profile, and adjusting its dimensions. Key steps include selecting and deleting unnecessary faces, repositioning vertices, and utilizing snapping tools for precise alignment. The session also covers the use of the mirror modifier to ensure symmetry, and concludes with adding and cleaning up faces for a polished model.
This lecture focuses on setting up an asset library workspace in Blender and importing bolt assets for chair assembly. It includes instructions for duplicating the layout tab, creating an asset browser space, and adding a custom asset library. The session details how to import bolt assets into the scene, adjust their position and orientation, and align them precisely for use in the chair model. It also touches on using the Bolt Factory add-on for creating custom bolts and nuts.
This lecture teaches how to create subtraction cutters in Blender for a chair assembly, specifically to fit a bolt assembly. It involves hiding unnecessary elements, visualizing the necessary subtractions, and using instances of collections for guidance. The session covers creating and positioning different cutter shapes, including a cylinder for the bolt, a larger cutter for the washer, and a rectangular cutter for the nut. It concludes with organizing these cutters into a dedicated collection and cleaning up the workspace.
This lecture covers the process of using Boolean operations to subtract custom cutter shapes from various sections of a chair model in Blender. It includes changing cutter objects to wireframe for visual clarity, applying Boolean modifiers to different chair parts, and adjusting the cutter objects for precise fit. The session also emphasizes the importance of the order of modifiers, particularly mirror and bevel modifiers, in achieving the desired effect. It concludes with a demonstration of applying these techniques to multiple parts of the chair model.
This lecture guides students through the process of positioning bolt assemblies and executing boolean subtractions on a chair model in Blender. It starts by organizing the workspace and creating an empty object for easier manipulation of cutter objects. Students learn to parent cutter objects to the empty for efficient duplication and positioning. The session covers precisely positioning bolt assemblies using Blender's snapping and hierarchy selection tools, and applying Boolean modifiers to create accurate bolt holes in the chair model. The lecture concludes with a challenge for students to apply these techniques to additional bolt assemblies on the chair.
This lecture focuses on the final assembly steps for a chair model in Blender, specifically mirroring bolt assemblies and accurately positioning dowels. It teaches how to select and mirror bolt assemblies using material linkage and the 3D cursor as a pivot point. The lecture then guides students through the precise positioning of dowels using reference images and Blender's snap tools. It concludes with a demonstration of mirroring the dowel objects across the chair model, ensuring symmetry and accurate placement.
This lecture serves as an introduction to UV mapping and texturing in Blender, focusing on the preparation needed before diving into these processes. It discusses the use of procedural materials and texture maps, highlighting the versatility in creating materials for 3D models. The lecture provides guidance on sourcing high-quality texture maps from websites like Poly Haven and Ambient Textures, with tips on choosing and downloading suitable textures for the chair model. It concludes by encouraging students to gather and organize their chosen textures in preparation for the upcoming detailed texturing sessions.
This lecture walks through the process of adding texture maps to create materials for a chair model in Blender. It includes steps to create a new material, use the Node Wrangler add-on for efficient texturing, and connect multiple texture maps to the Principled BSDF node. The session also covers necessary pre-texturing checks, such as verifying object transformations and face orientations, and discusses the implications of applying modifiers. The lecture aims to ensure students have a correctly set-up model for UV mapping and texturing.
This lecture focuses on UV mapping and applying wood textures to various sections of a chair model in Blender. It begins by isolating objects for UV unwrapping and adjusting textures to reduce stretching. The session guides students through rotating and positioning UVs to align wood grain correctly, and using the smart UV project for unwrapping. It also includes steps to apply a second wood material to other parts of the chair, emphasizing the importance of consistent grain direction and proper UV placement. The lecture concludes with linking materials across multiple chair parts for a unified look.
This lecture covers creating a backdrop for rendering the chair model in Blender. It involves placing a large plane in the scene, adjusting its material, and scaling it appropriately. The session demonstrates forming walls by extruding edges and using a bevel modifier to create a smooth curve at the base of the backdrop. It concludes with applying auto smooth shading to ensure a seamless transition in the render.
This lecture details the steps for setting up lighting and rendering for a chair model in Blender. It involves duplicating the layout tab, splitting the viewport, and utilizing Blender's 3-point lighting add-on. The session covers arranging the lights and camera, adjusting render settings, and performing test renders. It concludes with instructions for saving the rendered image, ensuring students can effectively present their 3D models.
This lecture covers the process of creating a FreeStyle drawing-style render in Blender. It begins by duplicating the current scene to preserve the original setup and making changes to the new scene for a FreeStyle render. The session guides students through adjusting materials, world color, and FreeStyle settings to achieve a line-based drawing effect. It includes tips for ensuring all necessary edges are included in the render and making adjustments to resolve any rendering issues.
This lecture demonstrates how to use the MeasureIt add-on in Blender to add dimensions to a chair model. It covers the steps for enabling the add-on, configuring its default settings, and adding dimensions to specific parts of the chair. The session provides detailed instructions on customizing the appearance and positioning of the dimension lines and text. It concludes with a guide on measuring distances between two objects and preparing for rendering these dimensions.
This lecture outlines the process of rendering dimensions using the MeasureIt add-on and combining them with the main scene render through compositing in Blender. It provides detailed instructions for rendering dimensions separately, preparing the compositing workspace, and using an Alpha Over node to overlay the dimension render on the main scene render. The session concludes with tips on saving the composite render and maintaining flexibility in rendering with or without dimensions.
This lecture guides students through the process of creating an 'exploded view' scene in Blender for a chair model. It involves duplicating the current scene, applying specific modifiers to the chair components, and separating these components for the exploded view. The session includes detailed steps on how to apply boolean and mirror modifiers correctly, separate objects, and duplicate and mirror empty objects for precise alignment of bolts in the chair model.
This lecture details the steps to create an exploded view render of a chair model in Blender, showcasing each component separately for visual clarity. It includes instructions for setting keyframes, manipulating object positions, adjusting camera framing, and resolving rendering issues. The lecture also covers the use of collections and FreeStyle settings to refine the final render, specifically addressing the presentation of dowels in the model.
This lecture demonstrates how to export a Freestyle render as an SVG file in Blender and introduces an add-on for rendering models at a specific scale. The session covers enabling the 'Freestyle SVG Exporter' add-on, adjusting camera view, and executing the render which simultaneously generates an SVG file. It also introduces an upcoming add-on that allows for rendering at custom scales, suitable for specific paper sizes and printer DPI settings.
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