Basic 3D Transformations

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Learn the Blender Basics Tutorial Series

1. Chapter 1: Introducing Blender
Let's get our feet wet with Blender 3D!
- Welcome to the Blender Basics Course!
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- What is Blender 3D?
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- Installing Blender 3D
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2. Chapter 2: Navigating Blender's Interface
Clicking around Blender, what does what.
- Introducing Blender's Interface
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- Customizing Blender's Interface
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- What are Blender Themes?
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3. Chapter 3: Working in 3D within Blender
It's like digital clay.
- Introducing the 3D Viewport
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- Navigating the 3D Viewport
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- Navigating the 3D Viewport (Laptop/2 Button Mouse)
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- Selecting Objects in Blender
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- Left Click Select
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4. Chapter 4: Moving things around in Blender
Rotations, Scaling, and Translations.
- Basic 3D Transformations
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- Single Axis Transformations
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- Advantages of Using Hotkeys
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- Adding and Removing Objects
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- The 3D Cursor
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5. Chapter 5: Practicing 3D Modeling Yourself
Creating your first 3D Model.
- Creating Your First 3D Model
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- Modeling a Planet in Blender
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- Understanding 3D Illusions
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- Independent Modeling Exercise
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6. Chapter 6: Wrapping things up!
Where to go next and continued learning.
- Next Steps From Here
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- Conclusion
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Basic 3D Transformations

3D transformations are the most basic way to manipulate objects in 3D space. In this video, we'll learn about translations, rotations, and scales and how to perform each transformation on objects in Blender.

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Community Discussion

Isn't it bad practice to scale without going into edit mode first?

on Jul 6, 2019

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How do you build the animation with that cube at 0:52?

on Jun 2, 2019

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Cube doesn't rotate

on Feb 15, 2019

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What did you do to show what keys you are pressing?

on Aug 3, 2018

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Cube is rotating only around z axis

on Jul 17, 2018

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