Introduction
3D worlds await your touch. Blender, a powerful yet accessible 3D modeling software, empowers you to sculpt, animate, and bring your ideas to life. With intuitive tools and a supportive community, anyone can explore the boundless possibilities of 3D creation. Ready to unleash your inner artist?
Learning objectives
In this project, we will learn the basics of a 3D Modeling Program, “Blender”. We will dive into the unlimitedly possible things you can do in a digital playground.
### Let’s warm up to this digital environment by asking the following questions:
- How can I define the environment I’m working with?
- How will I shape the object as I want?
- What do I need instead of a pencil to create things I imagine?
- What makes my object so special or different?
### These will be our achievements from this tutorial:
- Getting to know the most popular way for 3D modeling.
- How to control the 3D coordinate systems.
- 3D Transformations: Ways to shape and play with our objects.
- Understand boolean operations: Interactions between objects.
TUTORIALS
## The 3D space
- Start by downloading Blender.
- Check this tutorial about coordinates. In 3D Modeling, we use coordinates to figure out the area we are working with. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4o3s5t0n9g -To learn about controlling those coordinates, check out this video.
## Transformations
- To simply transform your objects using coordinates, follow along with this tutorial
## Boolean operations (CSG)
- You’ll need to know about modifiers to work with more than one object. Check this video out and try to give different looks to your creation.
Activities
### Tip:
You can warm up with some cubes or cylinders. Try moving them around and remember your boolean activities to shape your object.
### Idea:
Try making a simple gear to get used to the platform.
Project
Check out this 10 Block Challenge where you have to create a project using exactly 10 cubes/prisms. Think about your goal in this project and what makes it special.