Free course · 10 parts · 3h 03m

Blender Beginner Course: Zero to Hero

Free 10-part Blender 4.0 course — from absolute basics to your first finished render. Built for total beginners.

Course curriculum

A complete, structured introduction to Blender 4.0 in 10 self-contained parts. By the end you'll have modelled, lit, textured and rendered a small archviz scene from scratch.

Part 133m 07s

Blender 4.0 for Absolute Beginners: Your First Look at the Interface

Choose the right Blender version (stable vs LTS vs experimental builds)
Navigate the 3D viewport with middle-mouse orbit, Shift+middle pan, and scroll zoom
Recentre the view on a selected object with View → Frame Selected

Part 221m 04s

Blender 4.0 Camera Setup and Your First Staircase Model

Adding a camera in Blender 4.0 and aligning it precisely with the N-panel rotation values
Switching between cameras and setting the active camera with Ctrl+0
Modelling stairs from a plane using repeated inset and extrude at fixed increments

Part 311m 26s

Blender Archway Tutorial: Master the Modifier Stack

Build a parametric Blender archway using a stacked mirror, solidify, bevel and subdivision surface modifier chain
Mirror modifier symmetry around both the object origin and an empty as a pivot
Bisect and Flip options for clean mirror geometry without overlapping faces

Part 411m 20s

Side Arches, Water and Surroundings in Blender 4.0: Course Part 4

Duplicating and rotating a finished modifier-stack object to reuse it elsewhere
Diagnosing and fixing Z-fighting from overlapping faces in Blender
Using Shift+S → Cursor to Selected and Set Origin → 3D Cursor to control the Mirror modifier's pivot

Part 59m 56s

Blender 4.0 Lighting Basics: HDRIs, Sky Texture & Cycles Setup

Add a world background and edit it in the Shader Editor instead of the Properties panel
Load an HDRI via an Environment Texture node and wire it into the Background shader
Build a Texture Coordinate → Mapping → Environment Texture chain to rotate an HDRI on the Z axis

Part 617m 50s

UV Unwrapping and PBR Materials in Blender 4.0

Building a PBR shader in Blender's Shader Editor
Plugging base colour, roughness, and normal maps into Principled BSDF
Switching roughness and normal map images to Non-Color data

Part 75m 04s

Making a Water Material in Blender 4.0 (Transmission + Volume)

Set up a transparent water material using Principled BSDF transmission
Use the Volume socket with a Principled Volume node for depth-driven colour
Tune Anisotropy and Density to control how a volume scatters light

Part 828m 52s

Blender Geometry Nodes: Build a Procedural Grass Scatter System

Separate a face into a new object to use as a Geometry Nodes scatter base
Model grass blades by tracing a foliage reference image
UV unwrap with Project from View to match a planar texture

Part 922m 24s

Blender Finishing Touches: Grass, Plants and Hero Lighting

Append a geometry-node grass system from another .blend with File → Append
Join two meshes with Ctrl+J so a single geometry-node setup drives both
Tune grass scale and density without melting the viewport

Part 1022m 31s

Final Rendering in Blender 4.0: Cycles, Denoising & Compositor

Configuring Cycles render samples, noise threshold, and light-path bounces
Enabling and saving Denoise Data, Mist, and Glossy Indirect passes on the view layer
Setting up camera depth of field with an f-stop and focus object