I've learned an awful lot of things on Blender from this single 35 minutes than on countless "tutorials" out there. Thank you very much Chris, you are a _true_ educator; and, please, carry on with this Blender series, because it's going to be very useful to a lot of people (not just me)
I second this. Chris's ability to communicate complex subjects to the everyman who doesn't know where to start is second to none to the point that he deserves applause for this
this is not a tutorial. this is some actual education video on blender. with a manner of an actual teacher and professor. giving actual information for actual students... this is not a "walk with me" type of tutorial, this is "look this is how you walk, now walk" type of material. awesome...
Chris has exceeded even his usual high level of enthusiasm. Watching him, I can imagine myself getting into Blender and getting lost in what psychologists call a flow state. Bravo!
You should be hired to be an official Blender instructor. Seriously. You have conveyed better instructions on Blender's basic use then I've seen in years on TH-cam.
I've watched many blender video's and have learned more from this one than all the others; the intro was very good and pointed out things other tutorials missed out completely. I hope you continue to make these. Thanks for sharing.
I started blender few days ago and I have been watching tutorials on different channels. I can say this is the best tutorial so far I have seen. He explained what he is doing, why is he doing it, and multiple ways to do it. Blender is different from the other 3D modeling software I have been using. Without proper tutorial it is very difficult and will take a long time to progress. Hope to see more tutorials from this channel. Thank you.
You have delivered to us a wonderful tutorial on Blender which is arguably the best on TH-cam and maybe on the whole internet. Your tutorial is clear and concise, the way tutorials should be. Your delivery has contagious enthusiasm. You come across friendly and personable without sacrificing a technical explanation (the way tutorials should be). Truly, the comments I have read say it better than I can. I only wish to sum up my comment with the ever famous line from a very popular sci fi show, "May you live long and prosper, " and continue making our lives better with Explaining Computers.
In the early days of my Blender journey, I swear I had the exact same "Ooo, I made a sandcrawler by moving two vectors!!" epiphany you described, EXACTLY as you described it. Get out of my mind!! I agree with the other commenters below - this is one of the clearest tutorials out there. Thank you!
A brilliant tutorial, thank you so much Chris. I have always struggled with Blender tutorials on TH-cam as they overload you with keyboard shortcuts and try to teach you too many tools at once. I hope this video proves to be very popular, as I am keen to learn more about Blender from you.
The Best tutorial of blender 3d modelling I have ever watched. I watched hours of lecture but this single 35 minutes video has more knowledge than the hours of lecture I watched. Thankyou sir☺
@Zodiac_dz It was great stuff...and you noticed that sly dog slid in homework for us without saying it was homework. Now I have to go figure out making those additional pieces, assemble them and then use to cut out those sections from the original material.😊😅
I've been using Blender off and on since about 2015. I'm not even 20 minutes into this video yet, and I've lost track of how many times I've exclaimed aloud "I never knew you could do that!" Thank you so much for making a straightforward Blender tutorial :)
Sometimes it is good to view "step-by-step" tutorials using Blender, but Christopher Barnatt is the real deal. If you want true teaching in Blender that shows you the reasoning behind how to model in Blender, Chris is your man. Great tutorial to say the least. I hope he continues this series.
This is absolutely brilliant, Christopher. You make everything so easy to follow. I am now officially a Blender user, for sure. Thank you very much for this video. Please continue. 👍😊
I am very impressed: Your breadth and depth of knowledge of tools from programming, creating objects to editing video is amazing! And The ability to convey this to us laypeople. In awe, sir! A proud member of 'Chris University' 900K and growing!
To be honest I deleted the program because I wasn't able to find a good working set of instructions, but now I have and this will help me a lot working with the program again. Why aren't all teachers like you ? Thanks a lot for sharing from Mexico.
This was a really nice intro to blender. Blender does *everyting* and can seem to overwhelming it is nice to pick a specific task and realize that at its core it is not really all that complicated.
This is a really awesome video, please consider doing a series. Your precise almost CAD-like prototyping approach to Blender is much less common on TH-cam, and is a hugely beneficial skill set to have within the program. I am a proficient user, and still found some of the UI elements you covered to be a valuable refresher for doing more precise work.
The quality difference to the usual "tutorials" out there is insane. I felt pretty comfy around Blender already, but I really wish this would have been my starting point. Could have saved a lot of figuring out myself. I will take this as positive example of how to make educational content, if I for whatever reason feel like making a tutorial myself some day. Tank you.
Wow, I've used Blender for some time now for some 'simple' objects, but a lot of what you're showing is completely unknown to me. I am definitely going to use these tips to my advantage. Thanks for sharing!
I've seen a lot of videos about Blender, from basic to advanced, but none of them gave me all the tricks you showed here and explained in such a clear and simple way. You have great teaching skills!
This was a great introduction, Chris! I would like to see more videos doing more complex modelling as you mentioned at the end of this video. P.s Congratulations on 900k subscribers!
I've watched many Blender videos in order to learn modeling for jewellry, your video is by far the clearest and most concise of all. Thank you! Please keep them coming.
Thank you very much, Christopher. I had been a fan of yours because I was delighted and inspired by your many descriptions of single board computers and your enjoyable "bed-side" manner. I have also been a "Blender-Head" since about 2006, or so. I have ground through many Blender tutorial videos, in the time since then but, I have never experienced a Blender tutorial video as clear and confident as yours. I strongly believe that this is your true calling. You should definitely do some more Blender videos. You have a wonderful sense of humor but, you seem to be thoroughly juiced, in terms of how to use Blender! I hope that you will get more into Blender. Thank you again.
As others have said, your tutorial is exceptional. Well thought out and truly made for the hapless beginner, with concise, easy to follow instructions in a very logical 'baby steps' fashion. You showed and described each step clearly, no confusing jargon, no skipping past salient points, no assuming people will know what you mean, you actually say what you mean. You explain what you're doing, why you're doing it, how to do it and what it does. These four very important steps are so often overlooked but help so much with understanding the process. I've seen many tutorials completed by people following step-by-step instructions with no explanations, they don't understand why they do each step or how each step even works, which means they cannot use what they did in the tutorial for anything else as they have no understanding of how to implement what they 'learned'. So many beginner tutorials assume an already decent understanding and working knowledge of the programs, which invariably leads to confusion and frustration because the tutorials skip so many of the fundamental basics, which to them seem obvious, but to a noob they're far from obvious. Thank you, Chris.
The fact that you used this bracket in your previous video and now showed how you created it in Blender is very helpful and interesting. I would like to see a video on what you would see as the next logical step in using Blender. Of course, my interest in Blender would be to use it for making mesh items for the virtual world of Second Life. With that being said, I'm not sure just how many of your viewers are interested in creating virtual items. Personally, I hope there are many. This was, yet again, another excellent video and I'm looking forward to your next one! (EDIT): Oh yes, since I do make a few TH-cam videos each year, I would be interested in how to use Blender for creating video animations!
Greetings Perry. The next logical step with Blender is applying materials (surfacing) and making renders. And meshes with textures are what you would need for Second Life. After that, creating animations is relatively straight-forward third step.
I'd definitely be interested in seeing more blender tutorials. While my interests aren't in virtual items, but more for modeling and 3D printing. I'm sure there would be a lot of crossover for both.
This is the first video I should have watched at some point when I started learning Blender, I could have saved myself a lot of time researching and on many occasions confusing myself with add-ons just to test if Blender had practical potential for creating precision models. By far this is the video of the first big step to correctly start in the world of Blender with a focus on engineering modeling. It's not bad to use add-ons if they improve the workflow, but sometimes I felt like I was going outside of Blender's native logic, which is impressive how it has evolved. Thank you very much Christopher for sharing your knowledge in a very objective way.
IDK if I've ever found a video on the internet that is this detailed and understandable. Not what I expected to find when I started this project. He got my like and subscribe less then 20 mins in. You are the hero we needed. lol THANK YOU!
The best I could manage in the last few years was to convert a SVG file into a 3D mesh for use elsewhere. Having seen in the two segments of this clip, I now have a better understanding and that it is more mode-based than I was making it out to be. One of the big issues I've had with so many Blender guide videos, is that the one doing it just goes way too fast and often misses key points, giving no time to take information in and to keep up or just losing the viewer completely. Chris...why aren't there more people like you around!?
there are so many excellent tutorials that do explain it, i do have a video that shows people to go to for Blender and all FLOSS apps, you might find one who is better and there are links in the comments to those same people. but there is Blender Guru, there is people like Kaizen, Derk and Chris P among the many who will walk you through it.
At first I thought this would be a total beginner tutorial but I'm baffled by the concise, well explained and thorough content you have made here. This is to show that there are so many "hidden" functions and ways to do things in Blender. I've saved this video to rewatch it every once in a while to make sure I'm using everything shown here. Thanks for the excellent video!
Fantastic overview of the basics whilst making an actual object. Easy to follow along. Recommended for those seeking to learn Blender. Great for utilizing bevel and boolean subtraction tools.
Hi Chris, gotta comment to say this is great and I hope you produce more. Despite now working in a 3D design and print job (albeit with software that deals only with the specific objects I have to print - they are personalised medical devices for NHS patients), I have been trying to learn Blender for my home projects ever since the free version of Sketchup became hobbled to the point it really has ceased to be useful. I have tried a couple of ‘courses’ by other youTubers only really to become confused before I started. Watching this quick half hour explanation has given me the confidence to go back and look again.
Just wanted to say "Thank you!", because your video has been one of the most helpful videos for a new Blender user like myself. Your pacing is perfect, you clearly narrate what's happening without extra unnecessary dialog, and the quality speaks for itself. Thank you for being a quality content creator!
Blender is an amazing tool that I'm going to practice with for my model making work. Thank you Chris for all the hard work that you've put in, an interesting video indeed :)
Awesome! I love Blender, even though it is so hard to use! I made a basic animation which had a Mclaren 720s going down a highway. It wasn't too bad, but I know there is room for improvement. Nice to see that you made a video on Blender, I have always been waiting for a video like this!
I have watched several engineering modeling videos for Blender. Most try to mimic other programs and/or use plugins that mimic. This is exactly what I was looking for. A video for native editing.
Hi Christopher. It's been said on and on, including by myself, but you do have a sense of effective pedagogy. Which makes each of your posts particularly helpful and instructive as well. Thank you very much. I used to design models with early Blender versions. I switched to Fusion 360 in its free (and so limited) version. Nevertheless I have to work complex models offline and naturally came back to my first love i.e. Blender. I do need some refresh. You helped me. Thank you Sir. Hope you'll make Blender's additional tutorials. Can't wait.
I love your groundbreaking ability to split very complex things into easy-to-understand pieces so I would really love to see more videos like this from you. I am particularly interested in blender lessons because I want to learn 3D modeling. And, of course, it was really fun to follow your steps while watching this video. Sadly, I wasn't patient enough to make the one-to-one model replica but I managed to replicate the most of the things (I didn't make a VGA hole and reset hole). 👀
time and repeat task and you will get there, if in doubt just create the bit you didn't manage on its own you can always drag the file onto blenders main window and append the object to your other one, and move it into place!
Fantastic tutorial. I've been using Blender in my hobby for a few years & I've learnt a few things here, no other tutorials explain as simply & efficiently as you do. Please continue the series. Many thanks.
Your intro about building something specific is SPOT ON. This is how I operate. I don't need to learn things I may never use. I just want this ONE. THING. DONE!! 😂
Absolutely fantastic video Chris. You should make this into a series of video's, I bought a 3D printer just before Christmas. The only things I have printed are things I downloaded.. Using Blender will open a hole new world of possibility's for me.. Thanks So Much for the video...The only criticism I have is the fast forwarding through building the other objects... But very much looking forward to more videos like this..
Thanks for this. I totally accept your pint about the fast-forwards. But the video was getting very long, and no new tools were used in those sections. Good luck creating some things to 3D print!
This one may be actually the first video of yours which is actually going to teach me something, not only to hear some news about products and get my memory exercised. The Blender workflow is somewhat different than FreeCAD which i am already getting used to. I will install Blender too, and choose one which suits me better. Or use both, depending on the object i want to model.
I've used both. I my opinion FC is better for precision modelling. In Blender , measurement is too obscure . You can't go back to a specific sketch and easily alter a dimension like you can in FreeCAD
This is such a nice video on how to use blender for 3D printing, so many people should learn this as it really helps when you find a STL that is slightly broken or if you just want to modify it slightly. (or in the end create your own objects) I personally use it for making 3D models for printing and I have recently used it to do video editing (There is better video editors, but its fun).
I found out that SketchUp nearly don't need any knowledge when starting. I once though I use free at to make something to print. Couldn't do anything and remembered I used SketchUp when this was from Google. Startet and did this damn object without even looking for a tutorial. I say for casual using its better because you can create something without learning the Programm.
Outstanding. Several years back I was told that Blender was for organic models, not engineering or precisely dimensioned models. A quick search of training videos supported the statement. In one video you clearly proved that Blender can clearly function as the primary modeling software for a 3D printer. Thank you for a fantastic video.
I so greatly appreciate you dedicating some of your own life to teaching us things. It matters a lot and just know that you make such a positive impact to our world!
I don’t typically comment, much less watch a video of this length. In the age where attention spans are growing shorter, I watch most TH-cam videos 2x the speed, but I watched this video at regular speed! My ADHD will have me falling asleep or completely distracted normally. This video however, everything was straight to the point, and I appreciate how personable you are! I also chuckled at the little quips. 😆🙌 I am so thankful I found this video because I am just starting out. I tried blender a few years ago, was completely overwhelmed and deleted the program afterwards. However, I went from watching this video, to redownloading Blender. I jumped back in and was able to create a small project, Start to finish. In only a couple of hours! I have never been able to pick up a new skill so quickly, thank you so much and I am off to watch your other video.🙏💗 PLEASE make more videos for Blender!
👏👏👏Thank you, thank you, thank you! You teach so that I get what I need to use Blender without being frustrated. I teach how to work in SAP as well as other systems for a living and I don't teach in a way that would be suited for me because my audience has so many people from such different backgrounds and I have to make sure I don't lose them. You teach in a way that is suited for me. It is fast, efficient, covers a lot, and leaves nothing out. I love your sense of humor too. Please keep up the videos. You are incredibly smart and knowledgeable, and I appreciate anything you want to teach in Blender.
I wish this video had been available when I first started using Blender many years ago. You managed to convey an enormous amount of information in a short time in your usual clear and informative way. Having watched many hundreds of Blender tutorials I can honestly say that for anyone starting out you will not find a better introduction to the software than this. Your 1 million subscribers was already guaranteed but I think if you could include Blender tutorials in addition to your other excellent content it would prove hugely popular. Just a side note for anyone thinking that because it's free it can't be that good, nothing could be further from the truth. Blender has advanced greatly over the years and now rivals other 3d packages like Solidworks, Autocad, Maya etc and the big advantage Blender has of course is that those other softwares cost a great deal of money but Blender is free.
Thank you Chris for your instructional video on Blender. I've learned some excellent basic modelling skills which previously I didn't really understand!!! You are very precise and well organised in your approach. A lot of Blender videos skip over the very important CAD details you have illustrated!
To every beginner reading this, please be aware that 90% of your troubles in Blender will come from these 3 evils: 1. Uneven scale (Chris covered this at 22:30 and I cannot express how important of a point that is) 2. Flipped normals (Inverted faces) 3. Doubles (multiple vertices, edges or faces on top of one another) These are the first 3 things you look at when you experience any unexpected behavior. Im sure Chris will cover these in future videos, I just wanted to give everyone a heads up so that they dont gloss over these concepts on their learning journey. As for the video itself, I watched and enjoyed all of it over a cup of tea! I consider myself fairly experienced in Blender, and learning new things from a video targeted at beginners never gets old! Keep it up Chris, you are way too good at this stuff to stop here :)
Thanks for this. I very much agree with your points. Number 2 and 3 are important in all 3D packages when modelling meshes. Number 1 is a somewhat Blender thing! :)
And, this is why, I love your channel, Christopher you cover everything, from simple (How to's) to the complicated (Blender), there's something for everyone on your channel, I love this computer world, so many possibilities, it's never ending. Have a good rest of your weekend Christopher. As Always, Be Smart and Stay Safe.
Thank you so much for this! I've been trying to go through another tutorial but gave up after getting bored. This one has helped me get into the swing of things and feel I can start doing stuff without tutorials now. Especially loved that you didn't focus too much on the keyboard shortcuts and showed the buttons as well. Made it a lot easier to follow and keep notes.
I'm the It guru for my friends group and also includes many their friends but with watching your information packed videos makes me feel like the kid eating glue, in the back of the class room Am always entertained and in awe of your informative videos and often refer back to them, when needing a clearer understanding upon a topic
thx i learned something new^^ one note for saving to stl and the modifiers. you dont need to apply them. its enough to check apply modifiers in the export window
This is a great tutorial for a "maker" like myself trying to learn blender from scratch, for 3D printing. Others spew out mind numbing sequences of hot keys, or focus on creating intricate fantasy scenes, or some other of the many applications of this complex software. Thank you
Thank you, so much, for this, Chris. I've found Blender to be very frustrating and most tutorials as well, but I've left yours feeling surprisingly optimistic.
Thanks for the time and effort you put into making this tutorial. It has been perfect for getting me up to speed with hard surface modeling in blender. I bought a 3d printer on cyber week this year, and relearning blender has been a slow but fun project for me. With the aid of this utorial, I know I will be making brackets, plates, and other models for items around the house and my metal/woodworking shop.
Chris, you have done a marvelous job explaining the basics of modeling in Blender in a newbie-friendly manner to the point that more folks should watch your tutorials here. (:
This is an awesome introduction to Blender! I definitely need to install that if I ever get in front of the computer again. I could have endless fun making models of Pokemon, even if my computer would probably blow up in the process. 😅
This i an amazing tutorial. For many years i have tried to get to use Blender. But until now, with no success. I'm 3-D printing a lot, and i use OpenScad, when I'm drawing my objects. Its a pure mathematical discipline - and I'm better at that, than drawing and modelling. But Blender has some features i just envie. You can animate, make skins and so on. So that's the reason I really appreciate this video. And what didn't come as a surprise to me, because you are a master of teaching. You manage to find the most important things in this extremely complex software. You present it in a way, so the recipient can follow along. I can't thank you enough.
Brilliant! This is wonderfully accessible and is the first Blender tutorial that I've actually been able to complete! With others I've just bounced off in confusion. You've made things clear and and understandable and now I can actually do something in Blender!
wonderful video, I use blender for making assets in games and I've never thought or seen anyone use the Boolean function like that. Really amazing time saver rather than modeling things bit by bit.
Thank you! Please continue your Blender tutorials! I'm just now starting my journey and while I have watched quite a few tutorials to date, yours by far has been the easiest to understand and follow!
Thank you for making a great video. I love it when people just give good information in an intuitive order and they don't keep repeating their selves. Very professional! I'm going to watch it again!
You are amazing. You have a great voice, you say very clearly that even I - a man from Poland - understand practically every word. Thank you very much for this material. I've been trying to get into Blender for years. Maybe this will be the moment! :)
omg, I just downloaded Blender a few weeks ago for a specific purpose, and avoided even opening it out of learning curve / laziness so I might have to brave it since I know how well you explain things 😊
Wow, This is the best blender tutorial for beginners I've seen, at least for me. I didn't like that others used only keyboard shortcuts and didn't show where the actual buttons were because even if I will be using shortcuts anyway, it's better to see the actual buttons at least once, otherwise all the functions feel quite abstract.
I like to think of Blender as a Swiss Army knife. It has a LOT of tools for different things. Modeling, sculpting, texturing, rigging, animation, video editing, motion graphics, camera match moving, physics simulations, VFX, compositing, and even 2D drawing and hand drawn animation, etc. So it obviously requires a dense and flexible UI to allow all that. You got a lot of people excited about the possibilities, I look forward to your next video!
Glad I stumbled upon your channel, you've an uncanny knack for teaching! I've been "blendering" for years....and even with your 'beginner' course I learned quite a bit watching your video!
I'd dabbled with Blender over the years as I saw great potential for robust 3D modeling capabilities. I see the application has indeed grown into an excellent tool, especially for joining the paradigms of art vs language in 3D creation. That is... One could illustrate any manner of aesthetic objects and even animate them, or create proper 'CAD' objects to be built from the data itself. Thanks so much for this video Chris. I've been waiting for a program like this for over 40 years, and now you've effectively broken down the 'modes' of Blender, which helps a lot. Great video.
This was honestly the best beginner tutorial I have seen for blender. Thank you. This got me started on blender and I am already halfway into the bracket/pcb thingy. ❤
A year experience and just learned how to make precise 3D modeling for 3D print. That's why I like learning blender everyone knows something the other doesn't 😂😂 Any ways thanks 👍
Yes please, many more instructional videos like this, you make everything so simple, but other instructors make the same process so much more complicated. What would I don't learn from you. I can learn from others with a better understanding. of the main concepts understood.Thank you so much keep up the good work. Your experience video is priceless!
I've learned an awful lot of things on Blender from this single 35 minutes than on countless "tutorials" out there. Thank you very much Chris, you are a _true_ educator; and, please, carry on with this Blender series, because it's going to be very useful to a lot of people (not just me)
I second this. Chris's ability to communicate complex subjects to the everyman who doesn't know where to start is second to none to the point that he deserves applause for this
My respect for Chris & the folks that create art, and videos using Blender has increased 10 fold. Thanks 👍🏻
Agree with every word
Me too! 🥰❤️
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this is not a tutorial.
this is some actual education video on blender.
with a manner of an actual teacher and professor.
giving actual information for actual students...
this is not a "walk with me" type of tutorial, this is "look this is how you walk, now walk" type of material.
awesome...
Chris has exceeded even his usual high level of enthusiasm. Watching him, I can imagine myself getting into Blender and getting lost in what psychologists call a flow state. Bravo!
You should be hired to be an official Blender instructor. Seriously. You have conveyed better instructions on Blender's basic use then I've seen in years on TH-cam.
Without a doubt, one of my favourite Explaining Computers tutorials. I really hope we get a part two. Thank you!
I've watched many blender video's and have learned more from this one than all the others; the intro was very good and pointed out things other tutorials missed out completely. I hope you continue to make these. Thanks for sharing.
I started blender few days ago and I have been watching tutorials on different channels. I can say this is the best tutorial so far I have seen. He explained what he is doing, why is he doing it, and multiple ways to do it. Blender is different from the other 3D modeling software I have been using. Without proper tutorial it is very difficult and will take a long time to progress. Hope to see more tutorials from this channel. Thank you.
Thanks for this. Blender is indeed different from other packages. I've been through that pain! My next Blender tutorial posts on Sunday 2nd April. :)
You have delivered to us a wonderful tutorial on Blender which is arguably the best on TH-cam and maybe on the whole internet. Your tutorial is clear and concise, the way tutorials should be. Your delivery has contagious enthusiasm. You come across friendly and personable without sacrificing a technical explanation (the way tutorials should be). Truly, the comments I have read say it better than I can. I only wish to sum up my comment with the ever famous line from a very popular sci fi show, "May you live long and prosper, " and continue making our lives better with Explaining Computers.
Many thanks for your kind feedback. And thanks for the nice Vulcan sign-off. :)
@@ExplainingComputers The correct Vulcan response to being greeted by "live long and prosper" is to wish them "peace and long life". :)
Peace and long life. :)
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(Yes, there actually is a Vulcan hand gesture amongst the TH-cam emoji.)
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In the early days of my Blender journey, I swear I had the exact same "Ooo, I made a sandcrawler by moving two vectors!!" epiphany you described, EXACTLY as you described it. Get out of my mind!!
I agree with the other commenters below - this is one of the clearest tutorials out there. Thank you!
A brilliant tutorial, thank you so much Chris. I have always struggled with Blender tutorials on TH-cam as they overload you with keyboard shortcuts and try to teach you too many tools at once. I hope this video proves to be very popular, as I am keen to learn more about Blender from you.
The Best tutorial of blender 3d modelling I have ever watched. I watched hours of lecture but this single 35 minutes video has more knowledge than the hours of lecture I watched. Thankyou sir☺
Glad it was helpful!
@@ExplainingComputers It was my lucky day that I landed on your tutorial video😁
This is old school teaching style, discipline with a little humor
@Zodiac_dz It was great stuff...and you noticed that sly dog slid in homework for us without saying it was homework. Now I have to go figure out making those additional pieces, assemble them and then use to cut out those sections from the original material.😊😅
I've been using Blender off and on since about 2015. I'm not even 20 minutes into this video yet, and I've lost track of how many times I've exclaimed aloud "I never knew you could do that!" Thank you so much for making a straightforward Blender tutorial :)
Sometimes it is good to view "step-by-step" tutorials using Blender, but Christopher Barnatt is the real deal. If you want true teaching in Blender that shows you the reasoning behind how to model in Blender, Chris is your man. Great tutorial to say the least. I hope he continues this series.
This is absolutely brilliant, Christopher. You make everything so easy to follow. I am now officially a Blender user, for sure. Thank you very much for this video. Please continue. 👍😊
I am very impressed: Your breadth and depth of knowledge of tools from programming, creating objects to editing video is amazing! And The ability to convey this to us laypeople. In awe, sir! A proud member of 'Chris University' 900K and growing!
Thanks Leslie. You are very kind.
To be honest I deleted the program because I wasn't able to find a good working set of instructions, but now I have and this will help me a lot working with the program again. Why aren't all teachers like you ? Thanks a lot for sharing from Mexico.
This was a really nice intro to blender. Blender does *everyting* and can seem to overwhelming it is nice to pick a specific task and realize that at its core it is not really all that complicated.
This is a really awesome video, please consider doing a series. Your precise almost CAD-like prototyping approach to Blender is much less common on TH-cam, and is a hugely beneficial skill set to have within the program. I am a proficient user, and still found some of the UI elements you covered to be a valuable refresher for doing more precise work.
Thanks for this feedback, most appreciated. :)
The quality difference to the usual "tutorials" out there is insane. I felt pretty comfy around Blender already, but I really wish this would have been my starting point. Could have saved a lot of figuring out myself.
I will take this as positive example of how to make educational content, if I for whatever reason feel like making a tutorial myself some day. Tank you.
Wow, I've used Blender for some time now for some 'simple' objects, but a lot of what you're showing is completely unknown to me. I am definitely going to use these tips to my advantage.
Thanks for sharing!
I've seen a lot of videos about Blender, from basic to advanced, but none of them gave me all the tricks you showed here and explained in such a clear and simple way.
You have great teaching skills!
Thanks for watching!
This was a great introduction, Chris! I would like to see more videos doing more complex modelling as you mentioned at the end of this video. P.s Congratulations on 900k subscribers!
901K ;)
I've watched many Blender videos in order to learn modeling for jewellry, your video is by far the clearest and most concise of all. Thank you! Please keep them coming.
Thank you very much, Christopher. I had been a fan of yours because I was delighted and inspired by your many descriptions of single board computers and your enjoyable "bed-side" manner. I have also been a "Blender-Head" since about 2006, or so. I have ground through many Blender tutorial videos, in the time since then but, I have never experienced a Blender tutorial video as clear and confident as yours. I strongly believe that this is your true calling. You should definitely do some more Blender videos. You have a wonderful sense of humor but, you seem to be thoroughly juiced, in terms of how to use Blender! I hope that you will get more into Blender. Thank you again.
Thanks for your kind feedback.
As a long time Blender user, I can attest to this being one of the best Blender introductions. I learned something as well.
Brilliant choice and very timely as I'm considering a 3D printer and designing 3D objects for printing. This is a great foot up!
Use fusion 360, blender is not for 3D printing
As others have said, your tutorial is exceptional. Well thought out and truly made for the hapless beginner, with concise, easy to follow instructions in a very logical 'baby steps' fashion. You showed and described each step clearly, no confusing jargon, no skipping past salient points, no assuming people will know what you mean, you actually say what you mean. You explain what you're doing, why you're doing it, how to do it and what it does. These four very important steps are so often overlooked but help so much with understanding the process.
I've seen many tutorials completed by people following step-by-step instructions with no explanations, they don't understand why they do each step or how each step even works, which means they cannot use what they did in the tutorial for anything else as they have no understanding of how to implement what they 'learned'. So many beginner tutorials assume an already decent understanding and working knowledge of the programs, which invariably leads to confusion and frustration because the tutorials skip so many of the fundamental basics, which to them seem obvious, but to a noob they're far from obvious.
Thank you, Chris.
The fact that you used this bracket in your previous video and now showed how you created it in Blender is very helpful and interesting. I would like to see a video on what you would see as the next logical step in using Blender. Of course, my interest in Blender would be to use it for making mesh items for the virtual world of Second Life. With that being said, I'm not sure just how many of your viewers are interested in creating virtual items. Personally, I hope there are many. This was, yet again, another excellent video and I'm looking forward to your next one! (EDIT): Oh yes, since I do make a few TH-cam videos each year, I would be interested in how to use Blender for creating video animations!
Greetings Perry. The next logical step with Blender is applying materials (surfacing) and making renders. And meshes with textures are what you would need for Second Life. After that, creating animations is relatively straight-forward third step.
@@ExplainingComputers Thank you for your reply. I hope there is enough interest in Blender for you to make that next video!
I'd definitely be interested in seeing more blender tutorials. While my interests aren't in virtual items, but more for modeling and 3D printing. I'm sure there would be a lot of crossover for both.
This is the first video I should have watched at some point when I started learning Blender, I could have saved myself a lot of time researching and on many occasions confusing myself with add-ons just to test if Blender had practical potential for creating precision models. By far this is the video of the first big step to correctly start in the world of Blender with a focus on engineering modeling. It's not bad to use add-ons if they improve the workflow, but sometimes I felt like I was going outside of Blender's native logic, which is impressive how it has evolved. Thank you very much Christopher for sharing your knowledge in a very objective way.
That was a great, informative and useful video, and I do hope you continue the Blender series!
IDK if I've ever found a video on the internet that is this detailed and understandable. Not what I expected to find when I started this project. He got my like and subscribe less then 20 mins in. You are the hero we needed. lol THANK YOU!
Good luck with Blender, and welcome aboard. :)
The best I could manage in the last few years was to convert a SVG file into a 3D mesh for use elsewhere. Having seen in the two segments of this clip, I now have a better understanding and that it is more mode-based than I was making it out to be. One of the big issues I've had with so many Blender guide videos, is that the one doing it just goes way too fast and often misses key points, giving no time to take information in and to keep up or just losing the viewer completely.
Chris...why aren't there more people like you around!?
there are so many excellent tutorials that do explain it, i do have a video that shows people to go to for Blender and all FLOSS apps, you might find one who is better and there are links in the comments to those same people. but there is Blender Guru, there is people like Kaizen, Derk and Chris P among the many who will walk you through it.
At first I thought this would be a total beginner tutorial but I'm baffled by the concise, well explained and thorough content you have made here. This is to show that there are so many "hidden" functions and ways to do things in Blender. I've saved this video to rewatch it every once in a while to make sure I'm using everything shown here. Thanks for the excellent video!
Fantastic overview of the basics whilst making an actual object. Easy to follow along. Recommended for those seeking to learn Blender. Great for utilizing bevel and boolean subtraction tools.
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This is the best tutorial I have met on TH-cam. It's been years since I began watching blender tutorials, you do it perfect. Thank you so much.
You have 97,563 thousands more to get the golden plate of TH-cam .
I hope you send that award to me in Romania...
Yes, we are counting down now . . .
30 secs into the video, I knew this was my Blender Tutor and mentor....so clear and knowledgeable
Hi Chris, gotta comment to say this is great and I hope you produce more. Despite now working in a 3D design and print job (albeit with software that deals only with the specific objects I have to print - they are personalised medical devices for NHS patients), I have been trying to learn Blender for my home projects ever since the free version of Sketchup became hobbled to the point it really has ceased to be useful. I have tried a couple of ‘courses’ by other youTubers only really to become confused before I started. Watching this quick half hour explanation has given me the confidence to go back and look again.
Fingers crossed for third time lucky! :)
Just wanted to say "Thank you!", because your video has been one of the most helpful videos for a new Blender user like myself. Your pacing is perfect, you clearly narrate what's happening without extra unnecessary dialog, and the quality speaks for itself. Thank you for being a quality content creator!
Thanks for this kind feedback, and good luck with Blender. :) My second video is now uploaded here: th-cam.com/video/srogwyiO2mI/w-d-xo.html
Blender is an amazing tool that I'm going to practice with for my model making work. Thank you Chris for all the hard work that you've put in, an interesting video indeed :)
Greetings Alan.
There are hundreds of tutorials, but only this one is truly helpful and clear to follow
Awesome! I love Blender, even though it is so hard to use! I made a basic animation which had a Mclaren 720s going down a highway. It wasn't too bad, but I know there is room for improvement. Nice to see that you made a video on Blender, I have always been waiting for a video like this!
I have watched several engineering modeling videos for Blender. Most try to mimic other programs and/or use plugins that mimic. This is exactly what I was looking for. A video for native editing.
Hi Christopher. It's been said on and on, including by myself, but you do have a sense of effective pedagogy. Which makes each of your posts particularly helpful and instructive as well. Thank you very much. I used to design models with early Blender versions. I switched to Fusion 360 in its free (and so limited) version. Nevertheless I have to work complex models offline and naturally came back to my first love i.e. Blender. I do need some refresh. You helped me. Thank you Sir. Hope you'll make Blender's additional tutorials. Can't wait.
This intro is way better than the donut dude. Thanks for putting this together.
I love your groundbreaking ability to split very complex things into easy-to-understand pieces so I would really love to see more videos like this from you. I am particularly interested in blender lessons because I want to learn 3D modeling. And, of course, it was really fun to follow your steps while watching this video. Sadly, I wasn't patient enough to make the one-to-one model replica but I managed to replicate the most of the things (I didn't make a VGA hole and reset hole). 👀
time and repeat task and you will get there, if in doubt just create the bit you didn't manage on its own you can always drag the file onto blenders main window and append the object to your other one, and move it into place!
Fantastic tutorial. I've been using Blender in my hobby for a few years & I've learnt a few things here, no other tutorials explain as simply & efficiently as you do. Please continue the series. Many thanks.
Finally, a beginner Blender tutorial that doesn't teach you how to create donuts
Your intro about building something specific is SPOT ON. This is how I operate. I don't need to learn things I may never use. I just want this ONE. THING. DONE!! 😂
Absolutely fantastic video Chris. You should make this into a series of video's, I bought a 3D printer just before Christmas. The only things I have printed are things I downloaded..
Using Blender will open a hole new world of possibility's for me.. Thanks So Much for the video...The only criticism I have is the fast forwarding through building the other objects...
But very much looking forward to more videos like this..
Thanks for this. I totally accept your pint about the fast-forwards. But the video was getting very long, and no new tools were used in those sections. Good luck creating some things to 3D print!
@@ExplainingComputers So much easier to accept a point when its a pint! LOL!
@@michaelstoliker971 Oh yes, my bad! :(
This was a lot of fun to watch. I wish all educators have a gentle attitude like yours. Thanks, Chris.
This one may be actually the first video of yours which is actually going to teach me something, not only to hear some news about products and get my memory exercised.
The Blender workflow is somewhat different than FreeCAD which i am already getting used to. I will install Blender too, and choose one which suits me better. Or use both, depending on the object i want to model.
I've used both. I my opinion FC is better for precision modelling.
In Blender , measurement is too obscure . You can't go back to a specific sketch and easily alter a dimension like you can in FreeCAD
In Blender, you can type numbers for exact measurements. More than that, you can also type Python expressions and it will evaluate them.
Concise, easy to follow and packed with useful information. By far the best Blender tutorial I have come across.
Thanks. :)
This is such a nice video on how to use blender for 3D printing, so many people should learn this as it really helps when you find a STL that is slightly broken or if you just want to modify it slightly. (or in the end create your own objects)
I personally use it for making 3D models for printing and I have recently used it to do video editing (There is better video editors, but its fun).
I found out that SketchUp nearly don't need any knowledge when starting.
I once though I use free at to make something to print. Couldn't do anything and remembered I used SketchUp when this was from Google.
Startet and did this damn object without even looking for a tutorial. I say for casual using its better because you can create something without learning the Programm.
Outstanding. Several years back I was told that Blender was for organic models, not engineering or precisely dimensioned models. A quick search of training videos supported the statement. In one video you clearly proved that Blender can clearly function as the primary modeling software for a 3D printer. Thank you for a fantastic video.
Check out the Maker Tales TH-cam channel, he teaches precision modeling in Blender.
Thank you
I so greatly appreciate you dedicating some of your own life to teaching us things. It matters a lot and just know that you make such a positive impact to our world!
Anyone else get Connections vibes at the beginning?
I don’t typically comment, much less watch a video of this length. In the age where attention spans are growing shorter, I watch most TH-cam videos 2x the speed, but I watched this video at regular speed! My ADHD will have me falling asleep or completely distracted normally.
This video however, everything was straight to the point, and I appreciate how personable you are! I also chuckled at the little quips. 😆🙌
I am so thankful I found this video because I am just starting out. I tried blender a few years ago, was completely overwhelmed and deleted the program afterwards.
However, I went from watching this video, to redownloading Blender. I jumped back in and was able to create a small project, Start to finish. In only a couple of hours!
I have never been able to pick up a new skill so quickly, thank you so much and I am off to watch your other video.🙏💗
PLEASE make more videos for Blender!
Thanks for your positive feedback. I am pleased to hear of your success. I have a second Blender video here: th-cam.com/video/srogwyiO2mI/w-d-xo.html
👏👏👏Thank you, thank you, thank you! You teach so that I get what I need to use Blender without being frustrated.
I teach how to work in SAP as well as other systems for a living and I don't teach in a way that would be suited for me because my audience has so many people from such different backgrounds and I have to make sure I don't lose them.
You teach in a way that is suited for me. It is fast, efficient, covers a lot, and leaves nothing out. I love your sense of humor too. Please keep up the videos. You are incredibly smart and knowledgeable, and I appreciate anything you want to teach in Blender.
I wish this video had been available when I first started using Blender many years ago. You managed to convey an enormous amount of information in a short time in your usual clear and informative way. Having watched many hundreds of Blender tutorials I can honestly say that for anyone starting out you will not find a better introduction to the software than this. Your 1 million subscribers was already guaranteed but I think if you could include Blender tutorials in addition to your other excellent content it would prove hugely popular.
Just a side note for anyone thinking that because it's free it can't be that good, nothing could be further from the truth. Blender has advanced greatly over the years and now rivals other 3d packages like Solidworks, Autocad, Maya etc and the big advantage Blender has of course is that those other softwares cost a great deal of money but Blender is free.
Been a Blender user since v2.44 My most used program over many years and when i finally got hold of a 3d printer, the fun really began :-)
Thank you Chris for your instructional video on Blender. I've learned some excellent basic modelling skills which previously I didn't really understand!!! You are very precise and well organised in your approach. A lot of Blender videos skip over the very important CAD details you have illustrated!
ok, the best vid on Blender for CAD like drawings, thank you!
This man is a natural teacher. Trying to get into Blender and everything was clear! Thank you.
Good luck using Blender!
To every beginner reading this, please be aware that 90% of your troubles in Blender will come from these 3 evils:
1. Uneven scale (Chris covered this at 22:30 and I cannot express how important of a point that is)
2. Flipped normals (Inverted faces)
3. Doubles (multiple vertices, edges or faces on top of one another)
These are the first 3 things you look at when you experience any unexpected behavior. Im sure Chris will cover these in future videos, I just wanted to give everyone a heads up so that they dont gloss over these concepts on their learning journey.
As for the video itself, I watched and enjoyed all of it over a cup of tea! I consider myself fairly experienced in Blender, and learning new things from a video targeted at beginners never gets old! Keep it up Chris, you are way too good at this stuff to stop here :)
Thanks for this. I very much agree with your points. Number 2 and 3 are important in all 3D packages when modelling meshes. Number 1 is a somewhat Blender thing! :)
And, this is why, I love your channel, Christopher you cover everything, from simple (How to's) to the complicated (Blender), there's something for everyone on your channel, I love this computer world, so many possibilities, it's never ending. Have a good rest of your weekend Christopher. As Always, Be Smart and Stay Safe.
Greetings!
Thank you so much for this! I've been trying to go through another tutorial but gave up after getting bored. This one has helped me get into the swing of things and feel I can start doing stuff without tutorials now. Especially loved that you didn't focus too much on the keyboard shortcuts and showed the buttons as well. Made it a lot easier to follow and keep notes.
I'm the It guru for my friends group and also includes many their friends
but with watching your information packed videos
makes me feel like the kid eating glue, in the back of the class room
Am always entertained and in awe of your informative videos
and often refer back to them, when needing a clearer understanding upon a topic
thx i learned something new^^
one note for saving to stl and the modifiers. you dont need to apply them. its enough to check apply modifiers in the export window
This is a great tutorial for a "maker" like myself trying to learn blender from scratch, for 3D printing. Others spew out mind numbing sequences of hot keys, or focus on creating intricate fantasy scenes, or some other of the many applications of this complex software. Thank you
Thanks, I've been working on a VRchat world and I know watching this is going to be so much easier then any guide i've watched so far.
The transform tip really helped me. I was getting stuck when trying to bevel my objects but transforming the scale fixed it.
4th time I've tried getting into Blender. I literally started tearing up during the loop cut/extrude sequence.. Stunning work!
Thanks for the. The follow-up video on materials and rendering posts April 2nd. :)
Thank you, so much, for this, Chris. I've found Blender to be very frustrating and most tutorials as well, but I've left yours feeling surprisingly optimistic.
Thanks for the time and effort you put into making this tutorial. It has been perfect for getting me up to speed with hard surface modeling in blender. I bought a 3d printer on cyber week this year, and relearning blender has been a slow but fun project for me. With the aid of this utorial, I know I will be making brackets, plates, and other models for items around the house and my metal/woodworking shop.
Chris, you have done a marvelous job explaining the basics of modeling in Blender in a newbie-friendly manner to the point that more folks should watch your tutorials here. (:
This is an awesome introduction to Blender! I definitely need to install that if I ever get in front of the computer again. I could have endless fun making models of Pokemon, even if my computer would probably blow up in the process. 😅
Thanks for your support, most appreciated. :)
@@ExplainingComputers You're welcome! If I ever catch a Magnemite in a game, I'll be sure to name it after you. ;)
Finally a good teacher in Blender !!!
This i an amazing tutorial. For many years i have tried to get to use Blender. But until now, with no success.
I'm 3-D printing a lot, and i use OpenScad, when I'm drawing my objects. Its a pure mathematical discipline - and I'm better at that, than drawing and modelling. But Blender has some features i just envie. You can animate, make skins and so on. So that's the reason I really appreciate this video.
And what didn't come as a surprise to me, because you are a master of teaching. You manage to find the most important things in this extremely complex software. You present it in a way, so the recipient can follow along.
I can't thank you enough.
Thanks for this, most appreciated. You may also like Part 2: th-cam.com/video/srogwyiO2mI/w-d-xo.html
@@ExplainingComputers I have seen part 2, It looks really god. I haven't worked through it yet, but i will.
A beautiful and simple way of explaining and useful informations / a wonderful teaching style. It reminded me of my mathematics teacher
Brilliant! This is wonderfully accessible and is the first Blender tutorial that I've actually been able to complete! With others I've just bounced off in confusion. You've made things clear and and understandable and now I can actually do something in Blender!
wonderful video, I use blender for making assets in games and I've never thought or seen anyone use the Boolean function like that. Really amazing time saver rather than modeling things bit by bit.
The information was great but your sense of humor is AWESOME!!!!!
Thank you! Please continue your Blender tutorials! I'm just now starting my journey and while I have watched quite a few tutorials to date, yours by far has been the easiest to understand and follow!
Thanks for this. Part II is now posted here: th-cam.com/video/srogwyiO2mI/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for making a great video. I love it when people just give good information in an intuitive order and they don't keep repeating their selves. Very professional! I'm going to watch it again!
You are amazing. You have a great voice, you say very clearly that even I - a man from Poland - understand practically every word. Thank you very much for this material. I've been trying to get into Blender for years. Maybe this will be the moment! :)
Your direction and dictation is simple and precise. Thank you for taking the fluff out of it.
Impressive. Not touched CAD in 40 years and this is way more powerful than AUTOCAD 1. Well done Chris, looking forward to more in the series
omg, I just downloaded Blender a few weeks ago for a specific purpose, and avoided even opening it out of learning curve / laziness so I might have to brave it since I know how well you explain things 😊
Wow, This is the best blender tutorial for beginners I've seen, at least for me.
I didn't like that others used only keyboard shortcuts and didn't show where the actual buttons were because even if I will be using shortcuts anyway, it's better to see the actual buttons at least once, otherwise all the functions feel quite abstract.
I like to think of Blender as a Swiss Army knife. It has a LOT of tools for different things. Modeling, sculpting, texturing, rigging, animation, video editing, motion graphics, camera match moving, physics simulations, VFX, compositing, and even 2D drawing and hand drawn animation, etc. So it obviously requires a dense and flexible UI to allow all that. You got a lot of people excited about the possibilities, I look forward to your next video!
Glad I stumbled upon your channel, you've an uncanny knack for teaching! I've been "blendering" for years....and even with your 'beginner' course I learned quite a bit watching your video!
I'd dabbled with Blender over the years as I saw great potential for robust 3D modeling capabilities. I see the application has indeed grown into an excellent tool, especially for joining the paradigms of art vs language in 3D creation. That is... One could illustrate any manner of aesthetic objects and even animate them, or create proper 'CAD' objects to be built from the data itself. Thanks so much for this video Chris. I've been waiting for a program like this for over 40 years, and now you've effectively broken down the 'modes' of Blender, which helps a lot. Great video.
Greetings Steve. Good luck with Blender!
Hey man. I appreciate you are teaching 3d modeling. In my whole life, whenever i decided to learn it, I struggled. Again, thanks.
This was honestly the best beginner tutorial I have seen for blender. Thank you. This got me started on blender and I am already halfway into the bracket/pcb thingy. ❤
Long time subscriber of the channel, just started learning 3d modelling and like usual you explained it brilliantly!
Good luck with your 3D modelling. :)
A year experience and just learned how to make precise 3D modeling for 3D print. That's why I like learning blender everyone knows something the other doesn't 😂😂
Any ways thanks 👍
Learnt a lot more in half an hour than I did in the last 3 days
Yes please, many more instructional videos like this, you make everything so simple, but other instructors make the same process so much more complicated. What would I don't learn from you. I can learn from others with a better understanding. of the main concepts understood.Thank you so much keep up the good work. Your experience video is priceless!
I guess this costs too much nerves for one person to keep pace in making learning videos like this.