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| − | Welcome to notes for a 3 hour workshop introducing the basics of Blender, written by [http://dbbd.sg Debbie]. | + | Welcome to the notes for a 3-hour workshop introducing the basics of Blender, written by [http://dbbd.sg Debbie]. |
| + | By the end of this workshop, we'll have covered the basics of: the Blender Interface, Shortcuts, Selecting Objects, Transforming Objects, Moving Objects, Adding and Removing Objects, Adding Modifiers, Creating Diffuse/Specular materials, UV Unwrapping, Lighting, Camera Positioning, and how to render with Cycles (Blender's ray-trace based production render engine). | ||
Revision as of 12:57, 20 November 2016
Welcome to the notes for a 3-hour workshop introducing the basics of Blender, written by Debbie. By the end of this workshop, we'll have covered the basics of: the Blender Interface, Shortcuts, Selecting Objects, Transforming Objects, Moving Objects, Adding and Removing Objects, Adding Modifiers, Creating Diffuse/Specular materials, UV Unwrapping, Lighting, Camera Positioning, and how to render with Cycles (Blender's ray-trace based production render engine).
Contents
Set up your devices
Keyboard
- If you have a laptop without dedicated numpad go to Blender User Preferences > Input.
- Blender User Preferences SHORTCUT is
Cmd ,
Mouse
- If you don't have a 3 button mouse, go to Blender User Preferences > Input.
- Blender User Preferences SHORTCUT is
Cmd ,
- Selecting 'emulate mouse' will mean that you can simulate the middle mouse button if you press the
Altkey while using the left mouse button. - But please get a three-button mouse.
Open Blender - It always begins with a box
- Whenever you open Blender, it always starts with a box.
- You'll notice that if you click around with the left mouse button, nothing happens.
- But if you click on your middle mouse button and drag around, this is what moves your view around.
See also
- Blender - My master notes for Blender
