Intro to 3d Modeling Using Blender (Udemy.com)

The course is awesome. The Instructor is having a good knowledge of the topics. He described the concepts more effectively. He used specialized teaching techniques that made me learn more in detail. The instructor, made me develop technical, quantitative, and analytical skills that can be used to analyze my thinking ability in Animation.

It is a good course only subtitles in english are missing and it would be perfect. It is a usefull working path to apply in real world tasks.

So far, I absolutely love this course. I have watched a lot of blender tutorials and always get confused with all the hot keys. This course showed me how to change the interface to something I remember and I am comfortable with. The instructor goes at just the right pace for me to not get lost so I am not having to pause and rewind a lot. Highly recommended for beginners with Blender.

This is a rehash of a lot of things you can learn for free on Youtube. NO support from the author. Animation section turned out to be worthless - the exporting FBX 6.1 - ACSII is depreciated and no longer supported. Had to redo all the animation in Unity using its dope sheet. Introduces Unity PRO only features (as he did in his own Unity course). Assumes knowledge, that without having taken another Blender course and watching youtube video, I'd have no way of following along.

Well-prepared course that starts at the beginning. In terms of presentation professionalism this is one of the better Udemy classes I've taken. It is very much an intro. It got me to the point where I could make my very own custom rock, but I had to google around for details on getting it to work with Unreal Engine (this class ends talking about importing into Unity). And when I did get it imported, the rock is unrealistically smooth and reflective, which is because this course stops before going into bump maps. It also doesn't cover custom collisions. But it does cover animation rather well, and glides you through and around various pitfalls you would never know about learning on your own. Overall, I wanted this course to help diminish the initial learning curve for Blender, and I think it succeeded at that brilliantly.

I really find this course to be fast paced and punctual. The student learns the process of video game modeling, from the beginning of the modeling process, to the rigging and shipping of the game model to unity. The use of the Blender free 3D modeling software is a plus, as well as the walk-through of the many customization options of blender, its interfaces, and the hotkeys presets (from blender hotkeys to Maya hotkeys, ETC.) this course will fit the needs of even the professional 3D modeler transitioning from Maya to Blender! The only downside for me, is that it is hard to get certain help on specific matters. For one, I wanted to have a printable Blender Maya hotkeys sheet available to make the workflow much easier and getting in contact with the author of this course deems a task a little hard to achieve. Nevertheless, this course is a very great way to learn game modeling using a free 3D modeling software, Blender, and learning to texture, animate, rig and export (ship) the working model into the Unity software. Four Stars!

This course is ok for the absolute beginner, but. The instructor isn't active at all, no responses to posted questions. The instructors use of the maya preset is confusing in that it doesn't teach the flavor of the software. Sure the navigation feels more natural with mouse clicks, but a lot of functionality in editing is removed by not using the default key configurations. I am disappointed with this course. It's the first one I've had any negative feedback about.

This course covers quite a few challenging parts of learning blender very quickly. Handles basic box modelling, UV editing (which baffled me for a long time before this course), animating in blender, and exporting to Unity. Some off screen editing, but the coverage is well enough where you can play catch up. Does not cover organic modelling or rendering in any way, but for someone with basic knowledge of Lightwave, I made the transition into using Blender pretty quickly. One of the best parts was changing the interface from Blender default to something I'm slightly more familiar with during the first section. Made learning controls much easier. Would love to see more defined and longer tutorials as the narrator was easy to understand and explained things without speeding through basic controls. Rarely felt too repetitive when reminding you of keyboard shortcuts or menu locations for certain actions.

This course is a complete walk through of Blender. The instructor is consistent and thorough in his approach and does not skip around. I found this course very helpful for spinning up on Blender (I am a developer, not an artist). I was able to take this course and do a complete level design with doorways with little effort after this course. The only suggestion I have thus far is embedding key board and mouse overlays in the video. There are many times where the in Blender plugin for mouse and keyboard are unclear or inconsistent.

I am taking 4 courses on Udemy currently. This one fits in nicely right in the middle with a perfect pace (one course is way too slow, another way too fast), knowledgeable instructor who doesn't sound like he is reading straight out of a book (that C++ course is going to be a grind), good information in the syllabus (currently on lecture 25). Something about these instructors with this accent are just so easy to listen to and the course is extremely interesting. A great teacher makes learning an enjoyable experience instead of an unpleasant grind. This is a great teacher that is making Blender fun to learn. Thank you for that. Edit - I would use Blender 2.70 like the instructor. I have had a problem with the knife tool snapping new vertices as I cross edges with Blender 2.73 instead of how those verts slide until you hit enter in 2.70. The knife tool is supposedly a "smart knife" now in 2.73 but cannot find documentation of how it works correctly.