Welcome to Blender!

1. Welcome to Blender! Crash Course for the Absolute Beginner

2. A quick introduction to Blender and how the 3D Environment works Introduction to 3D

3. How does 3D Modelling even work? • Anything you model in Blender starts from primitive shapes (e.g. cubes, cylinders, spheres, torus etc…) • 3D Models are called meshes. • Let’s see what primitive shapes Blender offers… • Press SHIFT+ A (insert mesh) • This launches the menu of preset meshes • In this course, we will be manipulating primitive shapes to form complex structures like foliage(trees and nature), infrastructure(buildings) and human beings.

4. The Blender Interface: Controlling the Viewport Excuse me, what is a viewport?

5. The Blender Interface: Controlling the Viewport Basically, this is the viewport in Blender

6. The Blender Interface: Controlling the Viewport • You can control your viewport with the NumPad. Top View Moves viewpoint upwards Moves viewpoint leftwards Moves viewpoint rightwards Front View Right View Moves viewpoint downwards

7. The Blender Interface: Controlling the Viewport Switch between Orthographic and Perspective Mode Orthographic Mode: Portrays objects with no regard to point–of-view. Perspective Mode: Takes angle of viewpoint into account; reflects how objects look like in the final render

8. The Blender Interface: Controlling the Viewport The top left-hand corner of the viewport tells you what view you are in.

9. The Blender Interface: Controlling the Viewport • Lastly, you can move your viewport around by pressing • SHIFT + RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON and dragging.

10. How to deform your objects! Mesh Manipulation

11. 4 Most Commonly Used Keys • Grab – You press this to pull/drag the mesh • Scale – You press this to resize the mesh • Rotate – You press this to turn the mesh • Extrude – You press this to extend the mesh *you don’t have to keep pressing the keys just press once, let go and just move your mouse

12. The Blender Interface: Controlling the Viewport In the bottom left-hand corner, you can see the x, y, and z axis. You can constraint mesh manipulation to any axis by pressing any of the four keys followed by x, y or z.

13. Clicking parts of the object to work with! Selection

14. Selection Tools – Do you know your ABCs? • All – You press this select/deselect everything on the active mesh • Border – You use this tool to box up the area you wish to select • Circle – Transforms your cursor into something like a Photoshop brush where you can highlight areas you wish to select !! Take Note: Each new selection does not override the previous selection. To select a new area, press A to deselect everything first.

15. Selection Mode - Mouse • To select ONE thing on your mesh, right-c lick. • To select multiple parts of the object at a time, hold downSHIFT while right-clicking. OR +

16. Selection Mode - Mouse • Notice how your mouse can only select corners of the object? • What you can select by right-clicking depends on the selection mode you are in. • There are 3 selection modes in Blender: • Vertex Selection Mode • Edge Selection Mode • Face Selection Mode To toggle between selection modes, press CTRL + TAB

17. Some concepts illustrated by the CUBE! Vertex Edge Face

18. Magic buttons that make life easier! Summary of Hot-Keys

19. Hot Keys! Viewport Selection Mesh Manipulation E – Extrude G – Grab R – Rotate S– Scale • Numpad 1 – Front View • Numpad 2 – Pan Upwards • Numpad 3– Right View • Numpad 4 – Pan Left • Numpad 5 – Ortho/Persp • Numpad 6 – Pan Right • Numpad 7 – Top View • Numpad 8 – Pan Downwards • A – Select/Deselect All • B – Border(Box) Select • C – Circle Select

20. That’s all Folks! You are now officially a novice in Blender Modelling!