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Blender 3.0 Beginner Tutorial - Part 1

9.3M views · Dec 3, 2021 · 16:43 · 4 HN recommenders · 4 mentions · discussed 2022–2023

Blender Guru's beginner tutorial series, in which you model, light, texture and render a donut while learning Blender's core features. This is Part 1 of the Blender 3.0 version.

Why Hacker News points people here: Called a rite of passage for new Blender users and the standard first recommendation for learning the program.

“the Donut tutorial is great.”HN comment, 2022

What Hacker News said 4

Strongly recommendsMizzaMar 2022

“Make the donut”

Donut tutorial is a rite of passage for Blender newbies.

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Make the donut: this video It's kind of a right of passage for Blender newbies. I learned (well.. I'm learning) Blender this year and I'm glad I did. It's very intimidating at first, but you get the hang of it, and then you can't imagine a world without it. I now even prefer it to stuff like Photoshop for doing simple graphics work.

Strongly recommendsfranciscopOct 2022

“the Donut tutorial is great.”

Donut tutorial is great; use the updated 3.0 version.

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100% agreed, the Donut tutorial is great. Make sure to use the 3.0 version instead of the 2.8 version, he released an updated tutorial with the improved Blender UI: this video PS, definitely use an external mouse! You cannot really only use the trackpad/keyboard for Blender effectively.

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Recommendsur-whaleNov 2023

“This guy has an extensive collections on both basic and advanced stuff”

Extensive basic and advanced Blender tutorial collection.

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Youtube is your friend: it is a bottomless pit of Blender tutorials from the very basic step-by-step "learn how to use the UI" to super-advanced topics. This guy has an extensive collections on both basic and advanced stuff: this video

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RecommendsfractallyteNov 2023

“there's the famous donut tutorial series”

The famous donut tutorial series.

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I've followed Janine Pauke's work for many years ( link she has produced a very cool introductory course for Blender: link And, of course, there's the famous donut tutorial series: this video