BLENDER BASICS: An Introduction to Blender 3D 4.5 LTS

Thank you for this course. I tried many times to learn how to use Blender but each time i stepped down because i followed courses too cryptic or too superficial to really understand what i was trying to learn or to keep my interest. This introduction is very well balanced, not only i felt that i understanded everything but it made me eager to learn way more.

An excellent introduction to Blender. I highly recommend it.

Thank you to CG Cookie, Paul Caggegi and the team for this course, Paul your presentation was impeccable, and I could see you have been using Blender for a long time. I started this course because I wanted to learn all about making 3D models and how to sculpt them, especially animals. I am a retired Electronics Engineer and built a 3D printer about 4 years ago and decided its time to act on the little voice inside me demanding I step up and activate my own creative artistic expression. But doing this course really opened my mind about the possibilities of what that could be. I had no idea that Blender was packed with so much that now I am a bit overwhelmed about where to start. After much deliberation though I decided to start with the Press Start model, and see where that leads me. I had only a tiny bit of experience in Blender before this course, and that was mainly to repair stl files for 3D printing. I was always a little bit afraid of doing anything artistic, but now I appear to have an interest in many aspects of Computer Graphics including the basic drawing mode, so lets see what happens now hey! Thanks again to the CG Cookie team.

I had some knowledge with blender blender but this course fill the gaps i used to have learning from diferent sources, this give me more confidence to continue with my journey and i already delivery some jobs in blender, thank you!!

Thanks for the course, it's easy to follow and contains a lot of information. Also thanks for updating it, I already watched a previous version of the series. 

To a future viewer: It's worth to watch.

Ciao :3

Loved this course, it was exactly what I was looking for.

A few years ago, I tried to learn Blender from scratch. Even though there’s an incredible amount of content online, I often felt lost about where to begin and what to focus on next. On top of that, I struggled to retain the information from the tutorials I watched, which left me feeling stuck.

This course completely changed that. It’s a perfect introduction to Blender’s many functions: well-structured, easy to follow, and explained in a way that makes the information stick. I was able to follow every example and exercise while actually applying what I learned in different ways. I also really appreciate that it points you toward what to do next, which has been extremely helpful for my learning process.

Thank you so much for this amazing course! I now feel less intimidated by Blender and genuinely excited to keep going on my learning journey.

Great Lesson and Simple to understand!

The 4.0 Basics course was a great and effective introduction to Blender as someone with zero prior experience, and even after having done that course, Press Start and Mesh Modeling Fundamentals before coming to this one just for the sake of drilling the basics in further, I have to say the 4.5 Basics was immensely worth my time, as it actually built further on the bones of the 4.0 Basics and delved into even more detail and little side-things than the 4.0 Basics did.

Both Jonathan in 4.0 and Paul here are amazing at actually explaining what's going on, why and precisely how to follow their footsteps, rather than just narrating their work-flow and expecting you to keep up like some non-CGCookie YouTube tutorials I've tried in the past. Still a bit intimidated about mesh modeling and sculpting, but if Jonathan and Paul's teaching style is the site-wide standard, I have confidence I'll get over the hump eventually.

Honestly. I have been trying to get into 3D in general for maybe over a decade or so. I've tried countless blender tutorials on Youtube over the years and none of them have ever been so thoroughly informative and inspiring for a beginner as this one.

Most other tutorials tend to be akin to just a series of instructions on how to create something specific, (a donut, perhaps?) with the hopes that you can take that and apply it to anything else you'd like to create. Maybe some people can learn that way effectively, but I've always had a hard time with it. This course actually teaches you the fundamentals of not just how the program works, but why. It gave me the tools to actually understand Blender on a deeper level without getting too into the weeds, while giving me some inspiration on what I can do with that new level of knowledge.

I've now watched both this latest version of the course by Paul Caggegi and the previous Blender Basics from Jonathan Lampel and they are both wonderful instructors. I love the playful energy sprinkled throughout the lessons. It really makes me feel inspired to go out and "get myself into trouble" with the program and just make stuff for the sake of it.

As soon as I've had my fun really hammering home what I've learned here with the program and I can set aside the funds, I'll absolutely be back for a subscription to dive even deeper into learning. I've certainly learned enough already to get started with some smaller ideas I want to tackle!