The Blender 2.8 Encyclopedia (Udemy.com)

I have not used Blender before and I have been interested in learning how to use Blender. When I saw this course I thought I would give this course a go. And let me tell you, this is one of the longest comprehensive course that teaches me about everything in Blender. I would like to take the time to thank the instructors for all the lesson videos are interestingly informative that are worth teaching me step by step. If you are interested in learning about Blender then I highly recommend this online course that will be worth your time.

I wanted to finish the course before I provide my comments. This is a very informative course. There is a lot of hands-on knowledge that can be gained from this course. It is a great value for the price I paid. It was well presented and articulated for the most part with an incredible depth of content on the how part particularly in setting up, designing, modeling, texture, UV and more (please refer to the course content). Although, there is still so much more to learn about Blender, I gained great confidence and know-how to get me started and where I can learn more. Best advice is to start modeling something applicable to your work or business (which I did). As for areas for improvement, I would have liked much more content on animation (which was one of the primary reasons why I wanted to learn Blender). The rigging was too advanced and should start with basic concepts first for which I had to refer to other sources to learn some of the basics. More focus on the how (functions, features, etc. was given) was given rather the why and when (when I should use these features and functions) which was initially frustrating and had to resort to other sources. Overall, a great course which is highly recommended.

Edit: It is still very relevant for 3.3, of course there are things that changed slightly but overall, you do get quite a bit of reference material in one place and divided as a "manual". Not just for beginners. I have been using Blender for 3 years now and done over 200 hours of courses, I purchase this as it covered Drivers and overall I thought it would have been nice to have a reference, I was definitely right. It is very easy to navigate so if you need to quick check something for a project you can find it. Lessons are well structured, so far I can see quite some have been reviewed with added examples, again so far I did not find one where examples where not provided, of course if you need an example for anything then you lack of a creative side and should not force yourself into 3D. A secret to learn Blender? Learn from many difference people, do not do one basic course then think you know the basics, I did three basics on learned something new in each one that wasn't covered in another. The project at the end seem quite nice and the video is 4 hours so I expect that is quite in details. Overall a must buy, although you should first do one basic course, at least, so you absorb the more into details aspects (aka each menu) presented in this course. Chris is also super quick in replying and assisting with any issue which for me is key!

I can't recommend this course due to the two instructors- Chris and Lee- having a notable gap in quality. While Chris's content is 5/5, Lee's content doesn't seem as thoughtfully made, warranting a 2/5. I'll easily find myself spending 5x as much time with Lee's content due to all the re watching and pausing. Just off the top of my head, Lee needs to improve in the following areas: 1) Lectures aren't as focused, with side comments that distract from the material. 2) Resource files are often in a different state than his own files at the start of the lecture, making it so the lectures aren't self-contained. You'll have to recreate the blender file he's using to be in sync with his lesson, which takes a lot of time. 3) Hotkeys combinations are rapidly pressed without Lee slowing down to mention what he's doing like 4)He doesn't have a teacher's vocabulary like Chris does. He frequently uses ambiguous and vague language, which leaves you scratching your head and replaying over and over to little avail.

This course is exactly as named. It's a "visual" encyclopedia about Blender and how all the various tools work. Not every tool is included at this time, but that is the aim of this course - to add new sections while simultaneously keeping up with Blender as each new version arrives. In addition, there are a few small projects and one large project (a living room scene) that are easy and fun to learn. Both instructors are putting an immense amount of time and effort into this course, and the quality shows. They are both also very responsive to Q&A and open to feedback from students. Highly recommended.

Having a series of short videos describing very specific things is very useful. There are lots of courses that generally describe the same information, but the details are scattered across hours of video, embedded as parts of creating a larger project, and very difficult to find when you think "I can't quite remember how to do ". Most of the tutorials in this course are very focused. Some wander a bit, but are still useful for figuring out how to perform a particular task. The project lectures do a good job of demonstrating how to combine the ideas in the section, and the full project at the end is worth the price of admission all by itself. I hope the authors are able to add more sections to the course.

I just finished, so here's my final verdict on the Encyclopedia: I think it was pretty good. I am deducting a half star because it doesn't yet cover all areas of the app, but they are working on it and there have been I think two updates in the time it took from purchase to completion, so that is very positive. I would definitely recommend it to anyone new to Blender, or to anyone that has areas of the app they touch infrequently and so it acts like a convenient reference for nearly all features and functions. I look forward to seeing more updates, and I'm glad to have it as a resource.

I was completely new to Blender and while writing this have only watched 7 hours of the course. I am already able to make decent looking scenes combining the knowledge gained from doing the living room project with some other lectures in this course. Some points on why i like this course: - All videos are edited well they don't waste your time and they are also not to fast to comprehend. - The Instructors reply to questions and give great detailed answers - The videos are really detailed so that I think even experienced blender users will find some value in this course. I highly recommend this. Edit: Udemy prompts to update my review as I have watched half of the course now. So let's do this: After checking out what other courses are available on blender I genuinely believe that there is no other course as comprehensive as this one. Especially not for this price. So if you looking to learn blender or are an experienced user and want a reference, this is a must have.

Good course... Covered a lot of features in Blender. With 7+ experience in using Blender, I still found this tutorial very useful. There are a ton of features I learned throughout this course (including some very basic features that I didn't know existed over the years). Explanations are done with the best examples which makes it easy to understand the features. As mentioned in the description of the course, this course is absolutely the most complete and most updated course (with the latest features) I have ever seen.

It is certainly a great reference tutorial. One can easily see the amount of time and effort the authors/instructors have put on these lectures. Great job. I have been going through the lectures on a serialized manner. Even as a beginner I can understand sometimes in order to properly show a functionality one needs to demonstrate it using a more elaborate design. However this makes difficult to absorb much more than appreciating the effect simply as an observer rather than a doer. I can also understand the vast amount of features and options to be covered making some of the sections very long but by the time one gets to the quiz, some things feel far behind and foggy. I would suggest breaking the very longs sections with at least one exercise/project highlighting the most important features of that sub-section.