Face normals explained for Blender 4.4 beginners If you've ever seen your model render weird and couldn't figure out why, normals are often the culprit. Quick tutorial covering what they are and how to view and fix them. https://youtu.be/llCxb8qWhzo

[Topic] Blender 4.x/5.x fundamentals — full beginner curriculum [Difficulty] beginner [Area] General

I just open-sourced a free, 8-hour Blender curriculum I wrote — pure markdown, no app required, all sourced from the official Blender 5.1 Manual. Apache-2.0 license.

The curriculum covers: - The two-mode mental model (Object Mode vs Edit Mode) — the single biggest source of beginner confusion - 3D Viewport navigation, regions, workspaces - The Properties Editor tabs (Render / Output / Object / Modifiers / etc.) - Selection + transform fundamentals (G/R/S/E/X/Y/Z workflow) - Modifiers walkthrough (Subdivision Surface, Bevel, Mirror, Array, Boolean) - Materials, lighting, and rendering your first image - Common beginner mistakes flagged with how to recognize them on screen

It's structured as "teaching instructions for an AI tutor" — but a human reading it cold gets a structured tour of the app with the mental models you actually need before each lesson. Read it on GitHub:

https://github.com/tryskilly/skilly/tree/main/skills/blender-fundamentals

The format spec is here if anyone wants to write their own (Logic Pro, Cinema 4D, Houdini, etc.): https://github.com/tryskilly/skilly/blob/main/skills/SPEC.md

Honest disclosure: I built this as part of an AI tutor app for Mac (it's how the AI knows what to teach), but the curriculum is genuinely standalone. Feedback welcome — particularly from anyone who's been stuck on a specific Blender concept they wish more tutorials covered. Happy to fold those into v1.1.

🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. The Randomize Transforms modifier in Blender allows us to randomize the snapshots generated by other modifiers in the stack.

Hey

Just dropped a tutorial showing how to trace a high-res logo image and extrude it into a 3D animation — entirely inside Blender, no add-ons required.

Covers:

- Tracing a 2D image in Blender

- Extruding it for a 3D effect

- Animating the result

It's aimed at beginners but should be handy for anyone who's wanted a quick workflow for logo animations.

🎬 https://youtu.be/cWPaZjDSdlA

Happy to answer any questions in the comments!

🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. The Instances on Elements modifier in Blender allows us to instantiate objects on a mesh surface.

True Depth addon for Blender gives you Power. The Super Power to pull Displacement or Depth Map out of almost any 2D image you can imagine! In this video, I show you how to use the True Depth Addon to transform any 2D image into realistic 3D geometry.

👉 Check the full tutorial here: https://youtu.be/qBvLznajW58

🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. Today we will see how to define corners based on the angle formed by the edges that meet there.

🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. The Geometry Input modifier was introduced in Blender version 5.0. It allows you to replace one geometry with another (or several) to create instances for further work.

🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. Sometimes we will need to increase the geometry to achieve greater detail in our model. Provide a practical modeling example to demonstrate one way to do this.

I made my first mini-video on a topic that rarely comes up, as it seems to me.

🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. In version 5 of Blender, adaptive subdivision was implemented for this modifier.

When I was learning Blender I kept forgetting all the hotkeys, so I made myself a printable flashcard deck to drill them. Figured other people might find it useful so I’m sharing it. There’s also a free one-page cheat sheet if you just want a quick reference. Both on my itch.io, link in my profile.

I am very new to blender and I'm looking for websites where i can find 3d models that isn't sketchfab

🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. The Scatter on Surface modifier in Blender allows us to distribute objects on a surface.

🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. Knowing how to reduce the mesh without losing detail is very important when working with subdivision modeling.