Difference between revisions of "Introduction to Blender"

Revision as of 13:25, 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). Finally, we will export the image and make it into a 3d pano for google cardboard. ALL IN 3 HOURS. CAN WE DO IT?

Set up your devices

Ideally, you should have a laptop with a dedicated numpad, but if you don't we can emulate it. It is advisable that you have a three-mouse button.

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 Alt key 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