Christine Lemmer-Webberblenderguru, the mrbeast of blender
if you're trying to learn blender, I promise you that you can do better with a tutorial by pretty much anyone other than blenderguru
christaThe best resources to learn Blender from are still the Blender manual, but that's a bit dry as most manuals are and videos are often better, and so for the rest the Blender Studio folks. Plus, you're supporting free culture works in the process! https://studio.blender.org/ has some resources free, and you can pay to get access to the rest, but they're all under CC BY, which is pretty great.
The second best are tons of shy and excited people on YouTube who want to show you a few tips.
Some of my favorites:
- Harry Blends
- Sophie Jantak
- Deduze
- Pepe School Land, especially the Grease Pencil Random Tips and Tricks series (name is unrelated to the popularity of a certain frog)
Getting started with Grease Pencil first is often a good idea, because 2d is a gentler introduction for many people, but it also eases you into many of the 3d concepts.
Rusty Shackleford@cwebber unfortunate that some of the introductory series are paywalled, but understandable, these days I'd rather pay for someone's work anyway.
@dannotdaniel I found this guy some months ago, not many videos / not super popular, but he seems great for basics… what do you think?
Jon A. Cruz@cwebber thank you for posting this. Over on the 3dprinting subreddit Blender gets recommended often (including by me), but I didn't know which starting point I should recommend for newbies.
cassie@cwebber my favorite blender tutorials are Ian Hubert’s “lazy tutorials”. They are NOT beginner tutorials, but I think they’re super strong as early-intermediate tutorials. Once you know all the basics and know how to look up how to use tools you don’t know, they’ll extremely rapidly expose you to a bunch of different techniques with just enough guidance to make you go explore more on your own. (Also worth noting they’re centered around making good images, not good models.)
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