Hi all,
I really need to add Blender to my tool kit. I’m an experienced 3D artist - C4D, Houdini, plus other poly and nurbs modelling tools, so I’m looking for a learning route that will get me up and running with Blender pretty quickly. The priority for the moment is just model-texture-light-render to generate stills.
Recommendations for a learning course / channel that might suit?
You can look at CG cookie, and eventually blender studio…
Probably there are beginners channel to help get you started, I think you still might need those at least for the bare basics an from there you can move quickly to the advanced stuff !
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I haven’t done this course, and I don’t know how up to date it is, but back when I was making the transition from 3dsMax to Blender I did some of Chris’ modeling tutorials to get up to speed. I would highly recommend you check all the courses on his site.
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I just found this one:
I know nothing about School of Motion, but based on their youtube channel they seem to have a pretty good understanding of both programs, so that might be a good starting point.
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Check out Blender Secrets.
https://www.youtube.com/@BlenderSecrets/videos
He has these very short but compact videos (tons of them) to all sorts of topics.
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Keep in mind that there have been some fundamental changes in 4+ series particularly after 4.4.
Many of them with animation which won’t affect you. But be aware of old tutorials before 4.0.
Definately can not skip the extensions page:
This one is a must if you come from other modeling packages that have non-destructive primitive tools.
And another:
And so many more…
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Thanks guys - I appreciate the suggestions and will give all of these a look! Very helpful.
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For me, I think the practical route would be the quickest. When I took tutorials for blender vs when I started doing projects, the latter was the fastest. Since you know c4d, how about you transcribe a project? like build a c4d project from scratch in blender? I think this could be quicker