Workshop Blender

workshop-blender.md

An introduction to blender

According to wikipedia, Blender is a professional, free and open-source 3D computer graphics software toolset used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, interactive 3D applications and video games. Today we will try to modelize some basic objects and familiarize with the software.

A table for three please !

Your objective is to try to modelize a table with some chairs around. You can check the modeling section of the Blender documentation, you can ask questions as well. If you finish ealier than the other, you can even try to apply some texture to your model, maybe even some materials !

Shortcuts cheetsheet

Shortcuts in blender are pretty powerfuls, you can easily combine several of them to improve your workflow.

Get started

• space prompt, you can search in blender's features

View

• z toggle wireframe mode
• 0 camera view
• 1 3 7 Y, X and Z axis aligned views
• 1 3 7 + ctrl same as previous but on the other side
• 5 perspective/orthogonal view
• mouse wheel zoom/rotation
• shift + Z live preview
• F12 render the scene

Selection

• c circle selection
• b box selection
• left mouse select one

Transformations

• G translate/move
• R rotate
• S scale

Axis selection

• x select axis X
• y select axis Y
• z select axis Z
• shift + axis : select all axis but axis
• hold mouse wheel axis selection

Edition

• tab switch between object mode and edit mode
• x delete seletion
• shift + A add an object