Blender 3.0 Beginner Tutorial - Part 1
What it is
Blender Guru's beginner tutorial series, in which you model, light, texture and render a donut while learning Blender's core features. This is Part 1 of the Blender 3.0 version.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Called a rite of passage for new Blender users and the standard first recommendation for learning the program.
- 4 people recommended it
- 3 different months
- 2 strong recommendations
- first 2022, last 2023
What HN commenters said
“Make the donut”
Donut tutorial is a rite of passage for Blender newbies.
Mizza, 2022-03 · Strong recommendation · in “Blender 3.1”
“the Donut tutorial is great.”
Donut tutorial is great; use the updated 3.0 version.
franciscop, 2022-10 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: Recommend me a Blender course”
“This guy has an extensive collections on both basic and advanced stuff”
Extensive basic and advanced Blender tutorial collection.
ur-whale, 2023-11 · Recommendation · in “Blender 16yo winner of UK younganimator of the year”
“there's the famous donut tutorial series”
The famous donut tutorial series.
fractallyte, 2023-11 · Recommendation · in “Blender 4.0”
Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.
Topics: blender, donut tutorial, 3d modeling, beginner, rendering
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