BLENDER BASICS 1 - Introduction to Blender and Welcome to CG Cookie

➤ Stream this course FREE on CG Cookie: ➤ Grab your FREE copy of Press Start - Your first Blender Project: Whether you’re completely new to the world of 3D graphics, switching over from another 3D Software, or a rusty returning hero from the 2.5 days, the Blender Basics will guide you through your first steps in Blender 4x! ➤ Check out the full Fundamentals series to get a jump start on modeling, sculpting, animation, lighting, shading, texturing, and rigging: ➤ Learning Blender Hot Keys? Download our FREE Blender Hot Key Cheat Sheet ➤ Join our Discord 00:00 - Intro to Blender 02:34 - The Learning Curve 03:06 - Intro to CG Cookie 04:53 - Downloading Blender 06:38 - Opening Blender 06:24 - Scaling the UI 06:43 - Screencast Keys Blender is a 3D animation software, and its mission is to get the best computer graphics tools into the hands of artists all over the world, completely for free. That’s a pretty tall order, but it actually can do that thanks to the fact that it’s open source and funded by thousands of people donating every month as well as by grants from some of the biggest tech companies. The fact that you can download and use the cutting edge of graphics technology for free to make whatever creative ideas you have come to life is nothing short of incredible. In this series, I’ll walk you through exactly how to use it! To download Blender 3D, head to While you’re there, you may want to check out the hardware requirements for Blender and donate to the development fund. The only changes that I’ll make to Blender for the rest of this course (which you do not need to do) is increase the UI Scale to 1.5 so that you can see the video better and enable the Screencast Keys add-on so you can follow my keystrokes. Everything else is at the defaults, so I would encourage you to use the defaults too. Ok, now let’s get started! “WHO IS CG COOKIE?“ We are real people! (OK, maybe some of us are cyborgs - we don’t ask.) CG Cookie is a small crew of Blender artists, baking fresh videos for the Blender community. 🍪 If you love what we do, consider enrolling to to stream 100’s of Blender courses with passionate Blender instructors there to answer your questions. “WHERE SHOULD I START LEARNING BLENDER?“ For Blender beginners, we have a free tutorial series “Getting Started with Blender“ “I WANT MORE CG COOKIE IN MY LIFE!“ Got it. Here’s where you can reach us! Want Blender news in your mailbox? Sign up here for spam-free newsletter #CGCookie #blendertutorial #b3d