Blender Basics

Blender can be super daunting when you first start using it. In this lesson, I’ll help you get acclimated to the software by showing you the lay of the land and the wide array of tools at your disposal!

Now that we’re a bit more familiar with Blender, I’ll begin to show you how to use its many tools to model some basic shapes, culminating in the most visually simple chess piece-- the pawn.

Taking what we learned by making the pawn in our last lesson, we move forward to design a slightly more complex piece: the rook.

We’re ready to start working on some of the more intricate pieces. In this lesson, I’ll show you how to go about modeling the king and queen.

As we work on the bishop and knight chess pieces, we get the opportunity to explore some new tools to account for the complexities in these pieces.

Now that we’ve got our models established, we can begin adding color and texture. I’ll show what you need to know to begin easily adding convincing detail to your models.

I’ll show you how to use Mixer to create some basic textures you can use on your models. I’ll talk about things to consider when choosing textures and how to import them into Blender.

In this lesson, I’ll show you how lighting works in Blender, and the variety of settings that can help you customize the lighting to your heart’s content.

Taking what we’ve learned from previous lessons, you’re well-equipped to begin setting up your own scenes using the models you’ve worked on throughout this course. I’ll show you some helpful tips and techniques I use to create compelling scenes.

This time, I’ll show you the huge range of modifiers Blender has to offer to make your 3D modeling process a breeze.