Blender Total! From Basic to Advanced 3D! (Udemy.com)
Learn 3D Modeling, Materials, Texturing, Lighting, and 3D Animation With Blender!
Created by: Gustavo Rosa
Last updated March 2025
What you will learn
- Learn From Zero - Understand and use Blender Interface.
- Model Your Objects - Use poligonal modeling tools and model 3D objects.
- Apply different kinds of materials to objects.
- UV Mapping - UV map the objects and apply textures to materials.
- Use lights and render scenes using EEVEE and Cycles render engines.
- Introduction to Animation - Animate objects and create complete projects from scratch.
How it compares
Against the other 100 rated Udemy courses in Blender on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.8 out of 5higher than 87% of them
- Reviews2,407#12 of 101 by number of reviews
- Length21.3 hourslonger than 80% of them
- Last updatedMarch 2025more recently than 55% of them
Course Description
Blender is a free and open source 3D modeling and animation software that is highly versatile. Its lightweight yet powerful nature supports every stage of the 3D animation production process, providing users with a wide range of features and functionalities.
In this comprehensive course, you will have the opportunity to explore not only Blender's intuitive interface, but also to understand the fundamental concepts that underpin this powerful tool. In addition, you will acquire practical skills in several areas, including:
Creating and transforming objects to shape the virtual world according to your creative vision.
Using polygonal modeling tools, enabling you to create your own custom objects.
Mapping, texturing, and creating materials of various types—from simple surfaces to materials with PBR (Physically Based Rendering) textures that accurately reproduce the physical characteristics of real-world materials.
Mastering lighting and scene rendering techniques using both the real-time rendering engine EEVEE and the powerful Cycles, which delivers high-quality results.
Exploring HDR (High Dynamic Range) image-based lighting, which allows you to achieve realistic and atmospheric lighting effects in your scenes.
Setting up hierarchies between objects to establish complex hierarchical relationships and efficiently organize your scene.
Bringing your projects to life with simple animations, allowing your objects to move and interact within the virtual environment.
Learning to set up animation rigs using the Rigify Addon, a powerful tool that simplifies the creation of complex and realistic animations.
Throughout the course, all these topics will be covered from both theoretical and practical perspectives, ensuring you gain a comprehensive understanding of Blender's capabilities and can apply them to your own 3D animation projects.
Instructor Details
- 4.8 Rating
2,407 Reviews
Gustavo Rosa
My name is Gustavo Rosa and I am a 3D Artist.
Over the years I have delivered several jobs as a freelancer for different kinds of clients. I also have been working as a 3D Modeling and Animation teacher for over 15 years.
A few years ago i decided to use all this knowledge to create online courses so that I can help more people learn how to enter the amazing world of 3D Scene Creation.
Formation:
Post Degree in Computer Graphics and Multimedia at the University of the Rio de Janeiro State - UERJ.
Over 10 years of experience teaching in universities.
Over 15 years of experience teaching 3D Modeling and Animation.
Over 15 years of experience working as a freelancer delivering 3D jobs for several clients.
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Reviews
By Winston Cazaubon on 7/20/2023
Ideal course to anyone wanting to learn Blender so this is really a beginners' course. However a few faults, I discovered, is the instructor tends to state the wrong key when reciting a short-cut feature. For example when beveling an edge he was was saying "Ctrl + R" rather than "Ctrl + B".
By Dhananjay khengare on 7/13/2023
I Highly recommend this course to any beginner. The Instructor gives very clear explanation, tips and tricks. By far this course is the quickest way to explore blender compared to YouTube tutorials. The course is based on Blender 2.80 but it can be easily followed along with Latest version of blender, I used Blender 3.6.0 and did not face any difficulties to follow along the course, In fact some parts of the course were very easy and took less time, with the latest version of Blender. The Instructor is very responsive to answer the questions. Thank you very much for your Amazing! course.
By Mel Lodge on 10/1/2021
This course was brilliant!! I have started 4 Blender courses & this is the first one I've finished. 2 of the others are covering different aspects of Blender but 1 other course was a similar sort of course to this one but nowhere near as good. I got way too frustrated with it and have given up for now. Even having covered a lot of the basics already in the other courses I still learnt some really useful tips on the basics in this course too. So I would recommend not to skip any of it even if you already know Blender. Thank you Gustavo for a very enjoyable course. I would highly recommend you to others.
By Bernardo Vieira on 7/9/2020
I loved this tutorial. Gustavo takes you through the basics of Blender in a very concise way. Very easy to follow along and you get to build some cool stuff as well. The tutorial is very well organized and it will be great to revisit it in the future. I'm very glad I bought this and would buy it again!
By Gearreld Sewnundun on 7/4/2020
The pros: This is an excellent beginners course. Gustavo takes you through all the fundamentals of blender and prepares you for the helicopter project as well as the robot project. All the tools you will be using, will be mentioned and explained in the course. I really love that Gustavo knows what he is talking about and the animation section of the robot is truly amazing. This was something I lacked knowledge about and I'm glad that Gustavo covered this in this course. As a beginner/intermediate Blender user, I definitely recommend this course. Cons/tips: Although this is aimed at beginners, Gustavo uses too much the menu's instead of shortcuts. Learning about keyboard shortcuts is just as important as learning to model. But it doesn't get in the way as you learn, it's just something I would prefer. There are also not many exercises as you learn. Most of the time you will be learning the fundamentals to bring it in practise when modelling the helicopter project without many side projects. All in all, this is a great course and every beginner/on your way to intermediate user should follow this course.
By Jan Nauwelaers on 5/24/2020
This is a great course. I really enjoined it and I made a lot of progress by following it. On the basis of 2 fun projects with a nice end result, Gustavo takes his time to explain very clearly all the steps. This course will take you a long way in learning Blender and I'm sure it will remain a guidance in future projects. Well done!
By Sandro De Sarro on 4/6/2020
I have been using Blender for a while and already done a couple of courses here on Udemy however the way Gustavo teaches it is nothing short of impressive, he gives you just the right amount of information you need without digressing or adding personal comment or "cool" "great" which get tiring after a few hours back to back videos. He is straight to the point with some great base material to work upon in each section building up in a smart way towards adding to the main project. I have learnt tips on things I though I knew quite well already and a lot of new concepts, the projects are great, just finished the helicopter ones however seen the quality for the first time I had to write a review immediately before the last section. The structure of the course is brilliant, another good thing that really keeps me coming is the great accent, super clear and at the same time fun to listen to. One of the best training course on Udemy for sure! I hope Gustavo you will make (or better are already working) some other courses perhaps on Modifiers and Physics or on some cool project to learn more on what you covered here. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us in such an engaging way! Edit: I have done the first result course coming up on here with Blender and let me tell you, leave it as the structure is so messy to the point that you would not even been able to go back and pick things up for a refresh, even more happy to give my 6 stars review to Gustavo, so far nothing got closer to the quality of this course and his assistance in the Q&A area!
By Md Naymul Haque on 4/3/2020
This is a perfect tutorial for beginner who wants to learn blender. Gustavo Rosa is an amazing teacher. He design the course layout in a way, that makes the student easier to understand and learn. The course might get a little boring, but students will love it, when they understand they are mastering blender with each video.
By Martin Ackermann on 3/26/2020
The course as an introduction for absolute beginners is excellent. Now I would like to continue more deeply in the individual topics (not at once)- how to prepare a scene, camera and lights for animation, creating different kinds of materials, rigid body and skeleton preparation for different kind of creatures and their animations, etc.
By Bob DC on 12/18/2019
Simply Awesome! Gustavo is a great teacher and supportive, he'll answer all your questions in the D&R section. Lessons are really clear! In the past I used other 3D packages and this was the first time with Blender, I was scared about the interface but now I feel confident with it! Thank you Gustavo, I hope to see new courses with this kind of quality on Blender, because I'll buy them immediately!!!
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