The Ultimate Blender Course from Beginner to Pro & Get Paid

People overcomplicate for clicks, they hype up for views. However, as a professional blenderartist you only need to know a few fundamental key-combinations well and the rest are simply footnotes to your workflow.

Do people actually understand topology anymore? Well, let's clear up some myths and problems with topology and how to actually understand it moving forward.

Let's learn how to texture

There isn't that much you need to know when texturing. Just like a painter who only needs 8 colors to mix and get to his desired result. It's the same in Blender. You only need a few nodes to make whatever you like.

I personally didn't understand that this was going on under the hood in blender. That's why I teach it early, because it's incredibly important if you want to learn texturing.

You create a beautiful metalling rust material.

Most people, including me, didn't organize this well from the start. That's why I'm teaching it directly. Saving your assets is saving your time.

Understanding Procedural Texturing at a higher level

Animators found 12 principles of animations almost a century ago and we still use these to this day.

This is one of those foundational videos that a lot of people simply have never heard of, but that will elevate your skills as an artist immediately after knowing about it.

These 3 Laws function well in the day and age of social media. The game has changed a bit and this is the newest META

There really is only one guiding principle necessary going into this

In this section of the course you'll learn everything about Blender. These are the first steps in your blenderjourney where you learn modeling, texturing, lighting, animating and rendering. I hope you're excited!

This is the fast version of the modeling. I figured if you already have some experience, this will be a smoother experience. The other videos are a lot slower to cater to COMPLETE beginners who need to know every button-press and mousemove.

Learn how modifiers work in blender and how to use them to get higher quality models.

You'll make an environment that the lancaster can stand in. This helps with reflections and creating the overall look and branded feel of the shot.

How to texture the Lancaster Bottle Cap in the golden tint and make it look premium.

How to make a professional grade glass material

How to add the branded text on the product

Learn the Fundamentals of Premium Lighting and already beat the competition with high-level knowledge about product images. It's right here where people actually fail to make a good render, even after creating a good model and texture.

Creating the Professional Lighting setup step-by-step. Learning everything about how to place lights and why to place them there.

You will learn the fundamental render settings for creating a beautiful final product image.

You can't simply start animating an object. There are good practises and basics that, once mastered, will aid you in your animation process for all renders to come. Here you learn how to parent an empty to a child and why that's important.

This is the full guide to how the graph editor works. Most people see the graph editor with its colored lines and complex UI and feel like this is a mess they shouldn't touch. Kind of like a room that's filled with an unorganized mess of cables. However, once you understand how it works and how the cables move, it makes a lot more sense.

In this video I'll explain the Graph editor by using simple metaphors.

You will finally make the first animation. I would like for you to create a beautiful first animation and learn some principles about animating and how to manipulate the graph editor to change the look and feel.

This is how you render an animation in Blender. It's slightly different than an image so let's make sure everything is set up correctly!

Here we'll use blender to turn a PNG-sequence into a video in Blenders video editor.

In this animation we're creating a beautique environment with interesting skin-type colors and a premium feel. We'll make sure that this animations flows nicely from the previous one and also into the next one.

In this animation we're simply doing the final shot, showcasing the product. It's a simple animation, but also nice as a final shot for this product animation.

Let's finalize the complete product animation and turn it all into a final video!

Let's get excited about the next part of the course...

This is what we're making next. A beautiful way higher level animation than the previous one. This animation actually looks like it could be sold.

Let's learn how to acquire references in a smarter and more efficiënt manner

Here we are modeling the Estee Lauder Bottle. It's a pretty simple product, but slightly more complex than the previous one.

Become a Master a Procedurally Texturing Products

We'll create texturing in Davinci Resolve so we can use them on our products. Of course they can also be found in the course resources.

Texture the Estee Lauder to it's end so we can start with the real shots.

A short lighting video making a quick render of the product so we have accomplished something. This is always a beautiful moment after doing all the modeling and texturing work.

You'll learn how to use AI to generate voice-overs and generate your own music for free

How do you add sounds and music to blender timeline so you can animate on specific beats or sounds?

Here we're leveling up as we're creating a cute animation where one bottle whips the other one in the air and they fall physically impossible together in love. If you can do this, you can animate.

Nobody shows you how to create Vitamins or blobs that look medically professional and visually appealing. Well here I do exactly that

Creating the vitamin texture is one of the most important parts for getting a beautiful output for this medical internal type render

We have to use Geometry nodes to add a special effect to our vitamin, making it pop even more!

Here we're finalizing the Vitamin C to make it look more premium and ready for use.

Medical Animations are expensive. We're trying to show things that don't really exist. Which means that we need great vision and art direction to get a medical render to work out. Here we're starting with that process.

Texturing is so important for medical renders. It's basically where it becomes 2020 premium or 1980 weird and educational.

Using a modifier to animate in a very specific manner.

Create an evil looking bacteria that is trying to enter the skin.

Finalize this medical animation.

Time for some cream. Once again, a very procedural approach to creating something that's very hard to capture. Yet, we will be succesful by following this formula

Cream, Cream, Cream.

How to make this creamrender actually look premium? Well you'll find out!

This is the type of animation you would see on TV. Not a random social media channel. The setup and beauty of the environment really adds to the experience and premium feel of Estee Lauder. Playing into the orange and blue, but also white aesthetic that gives it a clean and elevated experience.

If you want the camera to work properly, then we need to have proper scale as well. This will help with camera's and lighting and here I'll explain why.

Time to make a simple minimalistic animation

Lighting makes or breaks a render. Here I'm showing Unortodox tricks to Light an environment and product to enhance the premium feel.

Not everybody has a fast computer. So what if you want to render, without the problems? Well, you can mix your own creativity with AI and skip rendering videos. I explain how to do this right here...

A very simple animation highlighting the gold against a dark blue backdrop.

Instead of Only Learning Blender. Let's also become completely multi-skilled by learning Davinci Resolve. It's a free program and can be used to achieve very good results.

Here I explain exactly how the editpage in Davinci Resolve is Structured and how to navigate this.

Sometimes Davinci Resolves playbackspeed can be slow. Luckily I've experienced this a million times and know exactly how to solve this problem

Color Grading Boosts the quality of your render. Whether you like to here it or not. Photographers use lightroom or photoshop. We use a good old color grade in Davinci Resolve to make a beautiful image.

This is how to Add Text in Davinci Resolve using the Text+ node.

How to solve problems if you have them? We can use Davinci Resolve to Fix our Blendermistakes...

This is how you export a video with the best possible settings from Davinci Resolve.

Let's go over what we've learned already and what is to come!

Time to learn everything about simulations in blender. This will level up your skills massively and it's the first project where we use simulations and learn about flow in product animation

Let's collect the references and use them

Here I'll shortly go over my thoughtprocess and techniques to build out my plans for the coming renders

This is how you can create your song in Suno

This is the best way to model a can in blender

This is how to get the UV's right for the can in Blender

Let's create our own textures for the can! It's your drink, so make something yourself or use my Blenderender drinks in the references.

Learn how to combine multiple textures together in a professional manner

This is how you make a procedural Aluminium texture

These are droplets with geometry nodes

Most Ice cubes look weird and blue. After this video you will have professional photorealistic ice cubes that you can use forever!

Making a lemon procedurally and partly with image textures. This lemon looks good.

Well a lemon is not only one single lemon. It can also be sliced up in different ways. So let's make multiple lemons!

Time to do the same, but now for oranges

This is an older video of mine, but yeah it teaches you how to make strawberries

Having good naming conventions is always nice if you need to get back into a project later or when things become messy. You'll always be able to find what you need

In this video you'll learn how to create a simple turntable animation where the can is located on a beautiful icepillar

Boy do I like this render. It has it all: Pure Cinematic shots, powerful animations, Dark elements combined with premium lighting. Let's do this!

This will greatly improve your understanding of Particles in Blender

Let's use Geometry Nodes to do the animating for us. It's re-usable and can be made very easily.

The Ice shots can really shine if you know what to do!

By adding small, almost unnoticible details, the render quality greatly improves. I really like doing the small stuff, because it's just that extra 5% needed to make the render premium

Simple backgrounds save you time!

This is the most in-depth step-by-step lighting you'll get. All the techniques and tricks I use to get beautiful lighting on every single element in the scene.

Did you know you can save yourself some work, simply by adding close-ups? Well I'm here to tell you all about it!

Creating Underwater environments in blender is actually quite easy once you know the tricks. This is a beautiful render though! Let's get started with some amazing tricks for building the environment

Before we do anything else and clog up the scene with heavy assets, let's first make the animation. This helps with the rest of the product and we can really dial in the flow on the product animation without being stopped by computerproblems.

Let's make sure the transition works out nicely to flow into the next shot

The particles will not function correctly if we don't do this. We must make sure everything is setup correct for our simulations.

Bubble time! Instead of doing a liquid simulation for the bubbles, which is very intensive, we can also fake it using a cool particle trick

One bubble? What about three.

How to use force field to create better particle variation

Time to place the lemons in there, but they must move as well since they're in the water. However, we don't want to make it too complex. A simple geometry node setup helps animating all the lemons without us having to do a single thing!

Now comes the sauce. This is how to make it look like an actual underwater scene.

So you want to see some fruits flying eh? Well, how about we do this in a very smart and sneaky manner...

Time to make the can animation. It must flow perfectly from the previous shot into the one. Let's make sure that happens!

We must do the same, but this time for strawberries as well

Once we go back and see the oranges, now we need to transition with a wild trick to the other side. This catches the viewer by surprise and makes the entire render look more premium and attention-grabbing.

This is the full guide to Liquid simulations in Blender. You don't need anything else besides this. You will simply learn everything about liquid simulations there is to know!

Let's now actually set up the liquid simulation for our specific scene to make sure it collapses into the can.

Just a small tip to save you time and headaches

You can render multiple blendfiles overnight without consciously seeing a single render happen

Photogrammetry is so cool! You can take stuff from real life and turn it into 3D. That's why it had to be in this course. It's amazing!

You need to know how to film for photogrammetry. Otherwise things will get messed up, so follow these best practises so you don't make these mistakes!

The program we use for Photogrammetry is completely free. It's called Meshroom. Let's learn how to use it

This animation is so cool! We're finally using out Photogrammetrized model to use in the scene and make it look premium really easy.

How do you even make a video vertical in Davinci as it always starts with a horizontal timeline? Well you're about to find out.

Adding a little bit extra in the Fusion Tab to make your renders look more real and premium

Let's do some higher level color grading. We must make everything look awesome!

So you want to know how to make a beautiful text animation? No problem. I will teach you step-by-step how to get a very good text animation for your renders and beyond.

Wow what a journey! Imagine how many things you've already learned. Now in the next part we're going to ramp things up even more. It will be the hardest part, but it's also very awesome!

This is without a doubt the hardest part of the course. However, it's also the part that teaches you how to create Viral Animations. It's totally worth it if you're looking to get an incredibly valuable skill.

It's not going to be easy and it's less structured than the rest of the course due to the complexity

This is the complete process where you see how I stare in the air and come up with ideas straight from the top of my dome.

This is how I draw my ugly storyboards

Using Pureref keeps everything simple. I added it to the resources

I show you that other artists steal from each other. Even competitors. Nonetheless, I dive deeper into the reference process

Organizing modelnames and materials is very important in such a complex project as this

Texturing is a lot of fun and here you learn how to make the most complex materials from scratch.

You must get your UV's and also make sure that everything is textured perfectly. If you make mistakes here, the rest of the project won't look good.

Nothing is ever right the first time. Make sure to do a thorough quality check every time so you don't become disappointed later.

This is a simple lighting process for lighting products for productpages

You can make objects spin if you like

Learn how to make hero-images. These are the images that do the heavy lifting on the website and are supposed to look extremely beautiful

It may not look like much, but once you understand how it all works, it becomes clear.

This is the Ultimate Guide to Davinci Image Manipulation. Here I show you all the tricks of the trade to make the most beautiful product images in existence.

The next shot is going to be the hardest shot in the entire course. Everything after that is well manageable. But do know that if you want to create an insane shot like this that's mixed in real footage, it's going to take some effort.

Here we make extra assets for the explosion animation

How to film this shot yourself? Well here's a guide on how I did it.

Making a good looking microchip is gruntwork, but once you're done you will have amazing assets I know that for sure.

How to make a simple city in blender in 10 minutes? Well, like this!

This is the geometry nodes part where I'll explain how to turn the transistors of the microchip into an actual city.

Let's make sure we're all up to date!

Before we begin we must set everything up for succes. This video ensures that our preparation is well done.

This is a complete guide to color grading real footage in Davinci Resolve

Learn how to track objects in blender. Very useful skill if you want to mix things with real life.

We must make sure that our render and our real footage align properly.

Now let's do some beautiful animating that seems surreal. Following the insta360 into the air and making crazy movements

This is the hardest part. We must make sure to enter the microchip and have everything timed well to make sure everything works out.

Make sure that the geometry node setup works properly and the timing is perfect to turn the microchip into a city

Always do a Final Quality Check. Unfortunately not everything works out immediately so we need to make adjustments.

Let's make sure this shot looks absolutely awesome in Davinci Resolve!

Now there are things to fix. What if we can't fix them in Blender? Or fixing those issues would simply cost an enormous amount of time? Well, luckily we can do some hacky fixes in Davinci Resolve and nobody will ever notice

I just want to say I'm proud of you for following this part of the course.

This is how you make a complete rainshot in Blender. We're mastering the elements here

This is simply a quick liquid simulation to improve the render quality even further!

Let's add lightning to this shot!

Continuing our process of mastering the elements. The rain decided to go cold and throw us in a snow world. Let's master how to make snow and snow environments completely

This is how you texture snow to make it look photorealistic and high quality.

Learn how to make a freezing frost animation that goes over the product. Applicable in many cases.

Learn how to make snow with particles!

Time to add a misty cold haze to our render using a smoke simulation

Final Quality check before we render. Make sure everything is dialed in.

This is how you export camera movements from Blender to Davinci Resolve. Now we can add elements in Davinci Resolve and it will follow our exact camera movement from Blender. Very important for higher level compositing.

Let's sit in the garden on a bike to use as a reference for the AI. You don't need to do this, but it can make the result look more real!

Learn how to use the most powerful image and videotools out there and fall from a bicycle without getting hurt!

Make extreme AI sports of yourself for the next shot. It's a lot of fun too!

This rockshot makes use of multiple geometry nodes that have collisions or explosions. This is definitely a must-watch if you want to master geometry nodes at a higher level

This geometry node setup is insane and teaches you how to make particles collide with objects using the simulation zone in geometry nodes

Using Geometry nodes again we're making a beautiful explosion animation that can be used in many different instances. This is a good one to have in your backpocket.

Let's make sure this animation comes to life

Adding a smoke simulation helps with selling the effect of movement here. Very short, but very useful.

Finalizing this shot we will have a beautiful rock explosion!

This is how you can make objects do exactly what you want. We'll use shapekeys and an advanced geometry nodes boolean workflow

Make sure the stick looks good!

How to animate the stick without complex rigging setups. Use this simple method.

This one is great. A complete geometry nodes desintegration setup that allows you to remove objects with a sparkling effect.

Use this simple transition trick to make your shots flow over into each other.

Let's make some simple objects that we need later. Make a Battery and a Cable

Simply texture the Battery and the Cable. Resources are in the first video of this part!

Need Motion Graphics to use later in your product? Let's use davinci resolve to create charging animation with spherical gradients and more...

This is how you make an X-ray animation in Blender with a couple of extra steps to make it even more awesome. We're transitioning out of this into a UI completely created in Davinci resolve.

The simple Boolean method for looking through objects

Creating this animation is crucial for the way it looks. We'll make sure to do this professionally.

Some problems are blenderspecific and they need specific solutions. Here we solve some problems that are caused by blender.

If you know how to make UI in davinci resolve it will make your life a lot easier. You can simply add these animations to your advertisements as well and it will save you a lot of time.

Grab the iPhone from the resources and make a cool looking shot with it

This animation was inspired by Chinese Product Animations. They frequently end like this and it looks really cool.

Learn how to transition out of an eye to add to the dramatic effect.

Maybe some parts don't flow. We can fix that without spending insane amounts of time.

Learn how to edit everything in Davinci resolve. We've done this throughout the process so it shouldn't be too hard

This is how you create sound effects with AI instead of searching endlessly online for sound effects without copyright

If you did this part, you must see this.

Why AI is important

This is how you generate images the easiest online for free. If you're a complete beginner to image generation, do this.

Want to know how to make videos without filming? Here it is. The complete guide to using Video Generators to get your videos up and running in no time.

These are all the 3D generators and how well they function. After this you can generate 3D models with textures completely from scratch.

This video was taught by an AI girl. The Blenderender was busy, but she will teach you everything about AI UGC

In this section you'll learn exactly how to get your first paying customer. Most people do it completely wrong which is why they're not working from their computer fulltime. They build portfolios, try to grow on instagram and make terrible marketchoices. I will help you get through this for real and make some actual money with a lot less stress. All of that without extensive salesefforts. Using my system you can get the sales part done in the month from 4 to 12 hours. No endless grinding.

Oef. The list is long, but I distilled it down to the most common problems. Doing the right things you don't have to struggle as much as other artists who don't know what to do.

I will teach you exactly which market is hungry for our services and why this makes a lot of sense. Not only will we escape the one-off deals, we'll ectually stack clients month over month using a retainer formula.

You can't simply sell whatever you like. This is not some type of fairy tale where people give you money because you like to make donuts. This is an actual market with actual needs and desires. Play into them.

Now that we know who to sell to, we must know what to sell. Here it will become clear what the value of an artist actually is.

Please don't spend countless hours trying to build the most beautiful portfolio website from scratch. There are better methods now and I'll show you how to do it. Also, a portfolio isn't nearly as important as you think it is.

As with everything in this course, we're doing everything for free. I don't want a single person left behind. You can make money starting with $0

This is an addendum. You don't have to do this, but you could if you want to spy on potential leads.

This is the old method and it's way too slow. However, it's important to know that people do this and it seems reasonable at first. But you'll soon find it's incredibly ineffciënt and hard to run a business like this.

Using Leadscrapers is the way to go. Automate the boring stuff and actually get leads easily instead of 'scrolling on instagram looking for clients' or hoping that your next post goes viral and brings in 10K clients. It doesn't work like that. We need to make an efficiënt businessmachine that doesn't require us all too much.

This is handsdown the best method to find clients of which you know they have money. We're targeting people spending 10-30K a month so we're sure they can pay us for our service

This excelsheet helps you with creating better numbers. Don't know your numbers? That's a problem

Learn how to actually convert people with emails. So many people do this wrong it's insane. I also have a very special method that converts leads at an even higher percentage.

I made an app which I use all the time to do my outreach. If you got this course it's completely free and will allow you to automate emailsending even more. Spending no more than 4 hours per month.

This is the strategic thinking behind the sales. You can't miss this.

If you don't know the basics of sales you will not succeed. Knowing the most important principles will help you get access to a plethora of opportunities.

You must know what a good advertisement is. If you can make those, you will be profitable.

Here I tell some stories about coke-addicted salespeople I worked with, how to actually sell products and some pitfalls people fall into more often than they like.

This is non-negotiable. Stop working in insecurity and get paid as fast as possible. Protect yourself.

This is how you get more money after you've already sold to a client.

This is a complete case study of how to get a paying customer. I show you every single step, every single message, everything I did to get a client. This way you don't only KNOW how to do it, but you've SEEN how to do it.

Here I will teach you about e-commerce so you can seem like an authority with high-level knowledge in this space. This makes it easier to talk with clients and impress them.

Here are different methods of pricing. You can choose one for yourself.

The final words of this course. I hope you're happy with the final results you achieved!

Here you can get all the other assets I have to offer. This contains all Blender Addons and Assets.

This is the link: https://theblenderender.gumroad.com/l/TheUltimateBlenderCourse