Blender 3.0 Beginner Tutorial - Part 1

Blender Guru · 9.3M views · 2021-12-03 · 16:43

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Overview

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.

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Called a rite of passage for new Blender users and the standard first recommendation for learning the program.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2022–2023

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Animation & visual effects Computer graphics & rendering

What people said

franciscop · 2022-10 · Strong recommendation
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: [VIDEO] PS, definitely use an external mouse! You cannot really only use the trackpad/keyboard for Blender effectively.
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Mizza · 2022-03 · Strong recommendation
Make the donut: [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.
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ur-whale · 2023-11 · Recommendation
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: [VIDEO]
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