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Who is this course for?

Have you always found 3D tools to be confusing and scary to learn? Don’t worry, you’re at the same place every 3D designer finds themselves right at the start of their career! If you are interested in graphic, interior and furniture design, and you’ve always wondered how to get into 3D slowly but surely, then we got you!

This first section will be dedicated to downloading Blender and setting it up to make our workflow easier. In the meantime, we’ll talk a little bit about what our end goals will be (producing a 3D scene that you’re proud of), and then we’ll have an overview of the workspaces available in the software, which will serve as an excuse to check out what areas of 3D we’ll be focusing on: modeling, materials, lighting, and rendering.

Section 2 is all about modeling: from understanding what an object’s mesh is composed of and how we can change it, to applying Blender’s Modifiers, a set of filters that are applied to an object and help generating and defining shape. We’ll also see other kinds of objects besides meshes that can help us a lot too, and a couple modeling workflows that I use everyday at my job.

This section covers how to apply surface materials to an object, and how to control the visual look that those materials give. We’ll go over some materials basic notions: roughness, transmission, subsurface scattering, clear coating, normals, etc., in order to understand how objects with a surface material interact with light and with an environment, and how we can get them to look exactly as we want.

This section goes over how we can light our scenes in different ways. Light objects, emission shaders and HDRIs.

You’ll be a little bit more on your own in this one! In this section, you’ll learn some more secret techniques that I’ve picked up over the years. Then you’ll be set free to experiment with these workflows in order to model something to your liking.

Okay, let’s grab our virtual cameras because it’s time to take some photos of the scene that we modeled! Or as the 3D connoisseurs would say, let’s render the scene. And on top of that, We’ll learn some tips to control noise and color output in our renders. In order to do all of that, we need to get to know some more objects and options in Blender: The Camera object, the Output tab, Color Management and the Compositing workspace.

Our Discord communities have become a huge part of the courses at ilovecreatives and they're what sets us apart. It’s like an instant group of digital friends that you can tap for feedback, gigs, support, annnd geek out with.

A handy document with a summary of the most common and useful shortcuts, free add-ons and some of alexwifi’s secret short recipes to get you started in case you need to dust off your Blender skills in the future!

A small set of 3D objects straight from alexwifi’s kitchen, in case you need some inspo. Or have a peek at geometry and material references.

Forever Access

This is a self-paced online video course, and you'll have access to it forever. That’s right, the community, resources, and our 💖… forever.

Meet Your
Instructor

Why this course
is different

Edutainment
100% Fun

We take extra time to make this course as edu-taining as possible by not just taking you from A to B (like most 3D tutorials out there), but also giving you room to get used to the tools, and really experiment with them. You'll design a scene that you’ll actually want to share when you’re finished.

Working Instructor

The digital world is always-a-changing, so who better to teach you about it than a working content creator and 3D professional? Internet tenure for the win! And as soon as we hear of an update to the tools, or discover a new trick to improve your workflow (and ours!), you’ll be the first to hear it. Constantly gathering new intel = new curriculum for you (one of the benefits of forever access).

Tools are not to be confused with craft: This is not only a technical course, or a description of how to operate the software. It is a thorough look at the workflow of a professional 3D designer, with careful explanations of how to deal with the whole process of making an image, from start to finish: modeling, composition, color … and making the whole thing pop!

3D design is a skill you learn by doing — you need to get your hands on the tools to get a grasp on the process. That’s why we support you with assets, examples, cheat sheets, and extra resources. These are all key to making your learning experience as smooth as possible.