Blender 3.0 Beginner Tutorial - Part 1
Why Hacker News recommends it
Called a rite of passage for new Blender users and the standard first recommendation for learning the program.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 4 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2022 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec Mizza · 2022-03 · on “Blender 3.1”
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.
Strong rec franciscop · 2022-10 · on “Ask HN: Recommend me a Blender course”
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.
Recommends ur-whale · 2023-11 · on “Blender 16yo winner of UK younganimator of the year”
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]
Recommends fractallyte · 2023-11 · on “Blender 4.0”
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]