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The Free Studio: Blender

Blender is free and open source, and it is a complete pipeline — art department, camera, animation and post in one download. This is that pipeline, in the order you would actually use it.

Beginner · 5 modules · 20 lessons · 9h 23m

1. Learn the room

Fundamentals of Lighting in Blender — Blender Guru · 43m · Beginner
10 Easy Ways to Render Faster in Blender — Blender Guru · 9m · Beginner
Beginner Blender 4.0 Tutorial - Part 11: Compositing — Blender Guru · 22m · Beginner
Beginner Blender 4.0 Tutorial - Part 13: Rendering — Blender Guru · 30m · Beginner

2. Build the set

Render like a professional in Blender (ACES, View Layers, Passes) — Robin Squares · 34m · Advanced
How to Texture in Blender — Blender Guru · 113m · Intermediate
Make Short Films in Blender FAST #b3d — CG Boost · 31m · Intermediate
The Secret CGI of Leaves — CGMatter · 11m · Advanced
How I created a Short Film in Blender (Breakdown) — CG Boost · 24m · Intermediate

3. Light it

Beginner Blender 4.0 Tutorial - Part 10: Lighting — Blender Guru · 18m · Beginner
HDRIs are domes, not spheres — CGMatter · 8m · Intermediate
Omniscient Camera Tracking iPhone App and Blender Workflow - Scene Design, Lighting & Rendering — BPS Art (Beaupre Productions) · 31m · Intermediate

4. Make it move

The infinite rig — CGMatter · 14m · Advanced
Charge - Previz Workflow Overview — Blender Studio · 7m · Intermediate
Thousands of objects, without a single intersection — CGMatter · 10m · Intermediate

5. Render and finish

How to use Eevee - Full Blender Course — Blender Guru · 77m · Intermediate
A FULL Blender Compositor Course! — SharpWind · 42m · Intermediate
I made a fluid solver with nodes — CGMatter · 11m · Advanced
I cracked the fluid mixing problem — CGMatter · 13m · Advanced
Flamethrower with Blender Nexus — CGMatter · 15m · Advanced

Other courses

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