In this blender video we will cover the basics of lighting within Blender.
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I can’t use Shift A!!!!! It just won’t work… HEEEEEEELP!!!!!
What seems to be the problem Boris? You can also add objects by going to the Add menu at the top of the viewport.
-Jonathan
you can use “space” to for more advance search of both objekts, modefiers and many more ^^
hello. im an ecuadorian architecture student and im trying to start using blender. i finished these 7 tutorials and now i want to keep going but there are too much tutorials that i dont know which one try out to keep learning. please can you tell me which tutorials should i watch to keep learning about modeling and rendering. im not yet intrested in animation but i cant already model or giving textures and materias or lighting to my projects. i will be very thankfull if you help me giving me a list of tutorials that i should watch to get to make nice architecture models and renders.
Hi Nicolas,
Here are a couple tutorials I would recommend:
http://cgcookie.com/blender/2010/09/09/series-modeling-a-shipping-container-part-01/
http://cgcookie.com/blender/2011/08/30/tip-using-the-masonry-add-on/
http://cgcookie.com/blender/2011/08/03/tip-using-the-snapping-tool-in-blender-2-5/
http://cgcookie.com/blender/2011/07/08/creating-a-damaged-pillar-part-01/
http://vimeo.com/26119905
Enjoy! Please let me know if you need any help.
-Jonathan
Just wanted to say thanks to you and everyone who have given their time to share their knowledge with beginners like me.
You’re very welcome! Please let us know if there’s ever anything else we can help with.
-Jonathan
Yeah I have been learning myself all the time (in 1 week the basics of Modelling, Texturing, Rigging) And thx to someone on youtube I found these tutorials. Though I have little more knowledge than these tutorials, I will still see them, to be sure not missing any info or knowledge. What I’m really intresting in right now is a tutorial for Camera tracking / Animated objects in Real life videos / Scene transformation (eg. like in the real video you see a door and in blender you “transform” it into a high security door). Anyway I am by far knowledged enough right now, but I hope, when the time is near I could watch some nice tutorials to step up the ladder
thx
Hi. some of the functions doesn’t work on the MAC OS, i dont know why, but i cant select the entire workspace and move it around, can you help me please?
press a!
You can diselect and select all your models.
can you make the gaming engine tutorials as well? my dream is to become an animator and create games
In your views as you manipulate the light source, what did you set up to have a line that goes from the light to the cube? (For example, at time marker 4:00).
Also wondering this…
Found it. Use rotation on the sun/lamp .
What did you have to set up to have a line that goes between the light source and the cube (for example, as seen at time marker 4:00)?
Great tutorial, really helps me
how do i make the lighting visible?
Hi, I tried to do an animation where the object is stationary, but the camera moved. When I tried to render it, it went very very slow and then blender crashed. Any tricks? or is this just a limitation of the computer I am working from?
Awesome tutorial series, thanks so much for these.
You’re very welcome! Let me know if there’s anything you find missing on the site or any tutorials you feel ought to be covered.
-Jonathan
hi. im just asking i want to take the “animating path” that means im intrested in animating and i really want to know wich tutorials around here will help me to achieve my goal…thats all im asking
Wow, thank you so much for these videos, i’ve been trying to understand blender for 2 months, and today i found these vids, now it’s no problem, omg thanks!
Hi, I’m really enjoying these tutorials (7th one in an hour
). I wanted to know if you could help me with building a rocket and animating its lift off. I;m watching these videos with this goal in mind. So if you could direct me to a link or such that would help me, I would greatly appreciate it.
Dumb question I am sure…sorry. How do you toggle between render image screen and back to object mode screen?
F11
-Jonathan
great tutorials just took me a while to find some. Yay
i am supposed to program some double pendulum in matlab and create a .dat file then draw the pendulum in blender. link the two so that the data on the .dat file that matlab creates can be used to animate the blender file. i really am not sure how to even start on the drawing. how to put in the joints. worse off to tell the blender file that this part of the drawing should move according to these results. and my project is due next week. i’m lost. but you have a great program here. powerful and simple.
ohh the double pendulum i am supposed to draw is the one on the movie IRON MAN 2 at around 1:13:30m into the movie or on youtube… Swinging Sticks Iron Man 2
any help is much much much appreciated
I can move the lamp. However, when I view my object through the camera perspective the shading never changes. What am I doing wrong?
Oops. never mind! I don’t think I was rendering the image properly. i got it.
Hi! Newbie here… I have imported a vector drawing (logo) which was done in Illustrator and saved as an svg file. I can’t figure out how to extrude the logo to make it 3D and not flat.
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks in advance, and thanks for the wonderful application.
~Bob C.
You should be able extrude it by going to the Curve properties and adjusting the “Extrude” or “Depth” setting.
Thanks Jonathan! can’t believe I missed that, sheesh.
THANKS for your prompt reply.
Digging in on the tutorials!
~Bob
I’ve just discovered Blender and I’m enthralled thanks largely to your terrific introduction tutorials. My eleven year old son and I are learning together which began from his algebra study. Blender not only ties in with that study but it opens a new way of thinking. Thankyou for taking the time out to help others Johnathan – More power to you
having trouble with getting materials and textures using new 2.5 manual but you are updating those pages now. It says something is wrong in that area and to wait for your update. I have a texture stuck on my 1st blender try and I have deleted the one that was issued with the 2.506 download. This is more fun than shooting fis in a barrel.
Thanks a lot for all those fun and very instructive tutorials! I am just knowing blender, but seems like this is will not be easy to abandon this now.
It looks very interesting and I would like to try it. I am very knew to Blender!!
dear sir i love blender i just join it’s trening shoot i enjoy but i like to learn complitely it so pls give me help to learn it
i like learn and teach to other free so i hope blender is very imp for new comers artist
thank you blender and blender team
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india
I’m using the 2.60 release now, and just found these intro tutorials. They were extremely helpful! Thanks! One question. The render shortcut seems to be different in this version. Both F11 and F12 render the scene, so what’s the difference between these two renders; why two buttons?
(Posted a second time because I didn’t check the email replies box, sorry)
I’m using the 2.60 release now, and just found these intro tutorials. They were extremely helpful! Thanks! One question. The render shortcut seems to be different in this version. Both F11 and F12 render the scene, so what’s the difference between these two renders; why two buttons?
F11 does not render. It is simply used to show the image you have already rendered. (So if you use F11, you will never see any changes, because it does not actually render your scene)
Does anyone know a good tutorial for more in depth materials on this website?
Just wanted to say thanks. I found this program the other night and the interface, while very well designed, isn’t..natural for someone to just pick up if they haven’t used other modeling programs. (Last one I used was Key3D when I was a kid, lol.) Your tutorials have just been flat out amazing. At first I needed to watch every click you made, but by the fourth video I was just listening to what you said as I clicked around the program.
Thank you!
I’m very excited to get started in this program and use it to create convincing scenes for some of the stuff I’ve made in photoshop
1 have a small doubt how to change the camera to top view
You can switch the view to Top by pressing Numpad 7
-Jonathan
Thank you Jonathan.
My nephew has been looking at my blender work and wanted to get into it but I was unsure of how to go about explaining everything. These Tutorials are just what he needed.
Keep up the excellent work.
Gary
Hi Gary,
That’s great to hear! I hope he continues to find them helpful
-Jonathan
Nice tutorial
Thank you for this tutorial! I discovered blender a couple of weeks ago and I followed this tutorial (all 7 videos). I know all the things you explained in the videos. But what’s the best next step to learn blender? I don’t do specific things with blender. Hope to hear something!
Laurens
Thanks for the tutorials. Your tutorials are very clear and easy to follow. I’m hoping to do Lego animation with Blender.
When I first downloaded this program I had no idea how to use it or move the cube around, not even how to delete it, I went through this tutorial and now it makes sense, so if you are new to blender you should go through this 7 steps tutorial, it really helps!!! thanks.
I am a retired eng. and would like to know if Blender will work designing
Mechanical parts and a full Assembly of a machine. also will the animation
allow viewing a rotating part i.e. turbine shaft spinning, on a horizontal
and vertical axis. Will Blender allow SIMULATION of moving parts in real time
cycle 360 deg.s. Can a moving body of water be simulated i.e. constant flow.
Thanks for your help keeping my brains working John
The answer to each of those is yes
Blender allows you to animate any object, including the camera is most anyway you wish. You can also do complete fluid simulations via the fluid simulator in the physics panel. You can check out this tutorial for an introduction to fluids: http://cgcookie.com/blender/2010/03/29/introduction-to-fluid-simulator/
Cheers and best of luck!
Hey guys,
I was just wondering- where is the lamp?
I’m using Blender 2.62, but as I’m relatively new to it, I don’t know where to find the lamp or how to make it show up?
Any suggestions…
Thanks!
Wow! Where were you guys when I was trying to learn Blender several years ago??? I got discouraged, left. But I never lost my fascination for Blender and now I’m back. Great beginners tutorials! (For me, a refresher course and excellent!) Thank you.
Thank you for these very helpful tutorials. It helped me understand Blender and I’m starting to like it. I discovered Blender in the PC Authority magazine from Australia a year ago. I’ve downloaded the version 2.62 just yesterday and I had no idea on how to use it until i watched your tutorials today. Thank you very much for this will be a great help for me especially in my profession as a marine engineer. I hope my English is understandable, since I’m just starting to learn it too.
Hey Jonathan, these 7 tutorials are totally aAwWeEsSoOmMeE!
You have helped me SOOooOOoo Much!
THANK YOU for taking the time to share this here for us, and for all the tips you add in regularly. I’m sure so many people are making GIANT steps thanks to you. I loved stepping into the Blender world with you, and I will definitely try the other tutorials you recommended… actually, I’m heading out there right now
***Have a beautiful day!***
You’re very welcome! I’m thrilled you’ve found the introductions helpful. Best of luck with Blender, please speak up if you have any trouble along the way!
-Jonathan
I am a complete beginner, do you have anything that might help me?
Thanks for the tutorials but where do i go from here, I still don’t know how to build a house or make a person?
Oh hello! im from mexico and I think you hear this very often but i really want to learn to use this program. Two weeks ago i didn’t even know that Blender existed and now i’m very very interested in 3D animation and video/photo editing. I started by looking on you tube, And many pages but none of them helped very much. Finally i found this Website and i checked these 7 video tutorials which were very helpful, and i want to go on and completely understand all the blender tools, but many of the other tutorials are only available for citizen account, and… right now i don’t have money for that…. sooo i would like you to recommend me websites, tutorials, specially for Modeling Training. Thank you
Where do I go after this? Do I just do like whatever tutorial I want, or is there a specified tutorial series to further my blender education?
Hi Thomas,
Is there a particular area that interests you? Modeling, animation, rendering?
-Jonathan
I’d also like to know this. While I can’t say what the ‘OP’ there wanted… I’d love to know where to go for general newbie rendering on stuff like vehicles, ships/spacecraft, weaponry, mechanical objects…
I have no idea what I’m learning *for* (Games? Movies? No clue!), but I’d love to learn those things as they’re what interests me most. =D
Hi your tutorials or great because im new to this. Im currently using Blender 2.62 and I cant figure out how to add a background image. I tried pressing “N” and then selecting add image but it wont show the image. Please help!
i need help with this program and what tutorials i should watch im a high school student trying to start up a gaming company to make some bucks and i have a team of 8 people as of today any suggestions.
Thanks for your tutorials, it is hard to see how one could progress without them.
I cannot get shift plus D to work, I must be doing something, but what I don’t know.
Can you offer advice?
Hi Raymond,
For duplicating object you need to first select the object and then press the “Shift” key and the “D” key. That will duplicate the object and automatically put you into grab mode such that you can place the new object where ever you like.
Cheers,
Jonathan
Hi I’m starting up a animation new project where the cam looks through the sky and i wanted to add in a lighting flare look that you would normally get from looking in to the sun how would i go about doing this
This helped me alot!, I watched the whole tutorial from 1 to 7 and now practicing my Modeling and Animation, but i have to get used with the Lightning and Interface Controls or Hotkeys first..
Thanks for the tutorial
Thanks for this tutorial! What is the best to learn after this series?
Hi Tim,
I would recommend checking out my Introduction to Cycles next, it is the new render engine that is built into Blender that offers much more realistic results with an interactive rendering environment: http://cgcookie.com/blender/2011/09/16/introduction-blender-cycles-render-engine/
Cheers and best of luck!
For the last 5 days I was wondering for good tutorial on blender, I found getting started tutorial very helpful to get started/ comfortable with blender. It really developed the basic idea of 3D animation, again thanks for this valuable tutorial