Blender 3.0 Beginner Tutorial - Part 1

Why HN readers recommended it

Called a rite of passage for new Blender users and the standard first recommendation for learning the program.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Blender Guru

Topic

blender 3d modeling

Format

tutorial

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2022–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.

• Make the donut: [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 …

• 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: [VIDEO] PS, definitely use an external mouse! You cannot really only use the trackpad/keyboard for Blender …

• 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: [VIDEO]