Mini-courseFor beginners
Blender basics
Ten lessons and a little over two hours: the Blender interface, modeling, UV unwrapping, textures and render. You finish with a stylized mushroom house.
- 3 weeks
- of study
- 4
- modules
- 10
- lessons
- 2 hr 14 min
- videos
About the course
Ten lessons in four modules, about two and a quarter hours of video. The first is the interface, navigation and making the main parts out of basic shapes. The second is detailing and UV unwrapping. The third is texturing: installing the add-on, starting to paint, working with masks and a gradient. The fourth is final detailing and render. Blender is free and downloads from blender.org; for hardware you need a computer and a mouse with a wheel.
Unwrapping is where people drop Blender most often: the model is ready, but the seams are placed so that the texture crawls and stretches across the whole surface. Here UV is taken apart before texturing and on a specific object, so you can see why a seam is hidden in a shadowed place and how to check stretching against a checker texture while there’s still time to change something.
With your own hands you’ll put together one whole scene — a stylized mushroom house: from a primitive to a textured model with the light set up and the render saved. For a 2D artist it’s a working tool too: a simple blockout of a scene is handy to spin around later as a base for an illustration instead of guessing at the perspective.
The mini-course comes with the Club plan and isn’t sold separately. The subscription opens all the mini-courses and the archive at once, and your progress is kept and comes back when you subscribe again.
- Format
- Video lessons with practice after each one, your own pace — about 3 weeks
- Materials
- Working files and references for the lessons — yours to download
- Where to watch
- In your account: your progress and the rest of the plan’s courses live there too
What you’ll be able to do
- 01Confident work in Blenderinterface, navigation, the basic modeling tools.
- 02Polygonal modelingbuilding objects from base shapes and detailing them.
- 03UV unwrappingpreparing a model for texturing — a fundamental 3D skill.
- 04Texturingworking with textures, masks, gradients and Blender add-ons.
- 05Final rendersetting up the scene and saving the result for your portfolio.
Program
4 modules · 10 lessons · 2 hr 14 minEvery lesson opens with a plan — you watch them in your account
How it works
Watch the lesson
The walkthrough video and its working files open in your account.
Repeat it
Every lesson ends with practice — you draw right away, step by step.
Show your work
Post it to the shared feed, and Azat reviews the work on stream.
Who it’s for and what you’ll need
Who it suits
- The course suits anyone who wants to learn Blender from scratch, whatever their experience in 3D.
- 2D artists and illustrators get a new tool and a first 3D piece for their portfolio. Complete beginners in 3D get a clear, straightforward start without excess theory. Those who have tried Blender before and got stuck get a structured path from the beginning to the final render.
What you need to have
- A computer or laptop running Windows or macOS
- Blender (free) — the current version is available at blender.org
- A mouse with a scroll wheel (recommended for comfortable navigation in 3D space)
- A computer or laptop with internet access to watch the lessons
SubscriptionClub — $33 a month
The course opens along with the whole studio
286 video lessons
Azat’s archive on drawing and painting
9 mini-courses
all of them, not just this one
4 reference packs
references and working files, yours to download
Streams and work reviews
Azat reviews work on the Sunday stream