The Blender Secrets e-book
Latest update: February 27th, 2024 (Free update for all customers, as always)
Hi, welcome! Please note, that since making the below video the book has increased in its page count. I mention 1000 pages here, when it's now almost 2000 pages! And it will keep growing... thanks to you!
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Why get this PDF?
Tired of watching hour-long tutorials to find a simple answer?
These tips and mini-tutorials will improve your Blender workflow in no time, with 1957 pages featuring 622 short step-by-step tutorials for Blender.
What you get:
The full 1957-page PDF file, convenient in case you want to search the entire document quickly for an answer. Or just to browse topics at your leasure.
Access to each topic individually on the Teachable platform, so you can read each topic individually online, without having to load a big PDF file. You can also find the video(s) pertaining to that topic there. And sometimes a Blend file, if that's available for that topic.
Underneath each topic is the possibility to ask questions, in case something isn't clear to you. I'll do my best to help you out.
Every update is free! This is very important, since Blender updates so fast. The book is therefore a kind of "living document".
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"Given the title and the price I was skeptical. I've been using Blender for over 15 years, but I learned plenty!"
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"This e-book is a gold mine of short and useful Blender tips, which can help you to speed up your work quite a bit. Highly recommended!"
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The Blender Secrets e-book series is a true treasure chest of small, on-point tips and tricks. Even as a long-time Blender user, you will be in for some surprises.
Why should you get it?
- 95% 5-star ratings from 1600 customers (on Gumroad). ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- All future updates are free for customers! It will only get bigger and better. This is very important, since Blender updates so fast. The book is a kind of "living document". It's meant to be the ultimate resource for Blender users, beginner or advanced.
- ± 95% compatible with Blender 4 - and if you find something outdated, e-mail me & I'll update it asap! I'm always working on updating the book.
- Additional steps and tips that couldn't fit in the short videos.
- Read and learn at your own pace.
- For beginners and pros, there's definitely something you didn't know about yet!
- "I can't believe in all these years I didn't know this" is a reaction the tutorials often get.
- 1957 pages (and more on the way!)
- 622 blender topics / short tutorials (and more on the way!)
- 30-day money back guarantee, so there's no risk for you. Don't like it? Just let me know and I'll refund you.
- You like short, to-the-point tutorials.
- You want to learn efficiently so you can spend more time creating!
- Whether you are a beginner or a professional, you will learn new things for sure.
Which topics are covered?
Below you can find the entire curriculum. Underneath, click on the down-pointing arrow to expand it, and see the rest of the curriculum.
More topics will still be added in the future. Click the down arrow below the last topic to expand the curriculum list.
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- Circular Array of Cubes (0:59)
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- Making welds in two ways (0:49)
- Making a screw the easy way (0:55)
- Math Mesh add-on (0:56)
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- Balloon Text (1:00)
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- Metaball Array (0:55)
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- Basics of Nurbs modeling (1:58)
- Text on a Curve (0:33)
- Modeling with Hard Surface Normal Stamps (0:59)
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- Modeling holes with Quad topology (0:50)
- Perfect topology on Curved surfaces (1:01)
- Do you know all 5 of these Bevel methods? (1:01)
- Turn N-gon pipes into Quad pipes in a couple of clicks! (1:01)
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- Complex Mode for Solidify Modifier (0:49)
- Easy Non-Destructive Panel Cuts (1:18)
- Custom Fonts in Blender (1:01)
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- Surface patch from Curves (0:27)
- Model an airplane wing (0:59)
- Beveling and Tapering Curves (0:59)
- Filling complex N-gon shapes like leaves (1:00)
- Using the remesh modifier on a flat plane (0:48)
- Convert Normal Map to Geometry (for 3D printing) (0:51)
- The default cubes strike back! (easy tank tracks) (0:52)
- Circular Array using Screw modifier (0:58)
- Circular Array using Instancing (0:49)
- Fast Circular Array (0:25)
- Circular Array using Empty (5:45)
- Auto Weld Vertices (0:30)
- Make an arch using the Warp tool (0:55)
- Model shapes with Screw modifier (0:24)
- Find the triangles in a dense mesh (0:32)
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Modeling Clothing
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- Chair modeling: Wireframe backrest (0:59)
- Extruding complex shapes (0:54)
- Align three furniture legs (0:59)
- Easy Pillow using the Cloth modifier (1:01)
- How to make diamond tufting patterns (6:25)
- Modeling folds in cloth (0:59)
- How To Make A Curtain In One Minute (2:00)
- Make a curtain using Shape Keys and a Cloth simulation (2:00)
- Apply Shape keys and Cloth sim (0:34)
- 8 Tips for modeling Decorative Elements (0:58)
- Model a Spiral Staircase (0:59)
- Model a basket using modifiers (0:52)
- Medieval Tower with Wall Factory (0:58)
- Extrude at 90° angles using Shear (0:50)
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- Creating Clouds using Mesh to Volume (0:45)
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- Scatter Add-on (0:48)
- Another Noise Tool (0:48)
- Node-based tree modeling (19:12)
- MTree node-based tree add-on Materials and presets (0:52)
- Easy Tree Wind Animation with free Mtree add-on (0:59)
- Easy tree and leaves wind animation with Sapling (1:00)
- Make a forest (0:57)
- Custom Tree or Plant part 1 - The Trunk (0:39)
- Custom Tree or Plant part 2 - The Twigs (0:57)
- Custom Tree or Plant part 3 - The Leaves (0:43)
- Mixing 3D scanned and node-based Trees (0:59)
- Mixing photogrammetry and hand-made trunks (0:57)
- Selecting lots of tiny things (0:48)
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Cables, Pipes, Ropes
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- Easy Textured Pipes (0:59)
- Start and End Caps (0:53)
- How to add multiple cables at once (0:59)
- Hanging cables (Catenary Curves) (0:47)
- Model a Rope along a Curve (1:01)
- Create Corrugated Pipes (0:55)
- Cable Physics (0:55)
- Cables with collision (0:36)
- Grappling hook and rope physics (0:41)
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- Hard Surface Sculpting: Refining the rough sculpt (1:00)
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- Sculpting Sword Details Using Alpha Textures (1:01)
- Creating Alphas for Sculpting (1:00)
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- Slicing Objects in Sculpt Mode (1:04)
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Retopology
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- Retopology tips - How to retopo (0:54)
- Bevel and Crease Hard Surface Panels (0:59)
- Quick topology fix for ugly edges (0:59)
- Retopology Visibility Tip: Draw Xray (0:59)
- Fixing Shrinkwrap Problems (1:00)
- Copy / Paste Geometry for Faster Modeling (0:51)
- BSurfaces - Drawing Retopology with Annotation (1:01)
- Use BSurfaces with Grease Pencil to sketch geometry (1:01)
- Easy trick to turn N-gons and Triangles into Quads (1:01)
- The Poly Build Tool (0:43)
- Reconstruct Lower Subdivisions from a 3D scan (0:43)
UV Unwrapping
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- Unwrap like a pro using Live Unwrap (0:59)
- UV Unwrapping hard surface panels (0:54)
- UV Unwrapping Transfer and pack UV’s (0:50)
- Solving 3 common texture & UV issues (0:39)
- Stitch UV's (0:54)
- Unwrap a Cup - Follow Active Quads (1:38)
- Exporting the UV Layout (2:32)
- Project from View - avoiding stretched UV’s (0:51)
- Easy Straight Unwrapping (0:47)
- Mirror UV-maps (0:27)
- Combine UVs from Multiple Objects (0:55)
- UDIM - Monster-sized textures (1:00)
- UV Unwrapping Cylindrical Objects like a Cyber Donut (1:01)
- Easily mark seams on complex shapes (0:41)
Rigging
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- Easy rigging of clothes in 30 seconds (0:36)
- Ragdoll Rigging part 1 - The easy method (0:52)
- Ragdoll Rigging part 2 - More Realistic Joints (0:52)
- Ragdoll Rigging part 3 - Connecting it to an Armature (0:39)
- Ragdoll Rigging part 4 - Mixing with Mocap (11:43)
- Install and use Rigid Bodys Generator add-on (0:52)
- Automatic Muscle Deformations (2:02)
- Rigging a simple character with Rigify (1:49)
- Auto-Rigging with Mixamo (0:48)
- Rigify FK to IK Snap (0:57)
- Rigging a paper plane (1:00)
- Adding Props To Your Character (like a stylish hat) (2:19)
- Rigging With Separate Objects Or Not? (1:46)
- Bendy Bones (0:59)
- Bendy Bones part 2 (0:53)
- Reference for animating animals (0:34)
- Better rigging with extra edge loops (0:36)
- Action Bone constraint (0:51)
- Auto IK (Inverse Kinematics) (0:27)
- Manually Rigging Legs (0:59)
- Adding extra bones (1:02)
- Manually fixing weight paint issues (0:54)
- Blending actions (0:25)
- Constraints and Physics (0:59)
- Constraint transfer (0:47)
- The nuts and bolts of Transformation Constraints (0:55)
- Robot Rigging Part 1 - The Armature (1:01)
- Robot Rigging Part 2 Parenting to Bones (1:01)
- Robot Rigging Part 3 Constraints (1:01)
- Adding Objects to a rigged Character (1:01)
- How to have a character interact with Physics Simulations (2:55)
- How to have a character interact with an object (1:01)
- How to change any pose to T-pose for retargeting (1:01)
- Easy Piston Rigging (1:00)
- Adding and rigging a tail for your character (0:53)
Texturing
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- Texture Painting with Quick Edit and Krita (0:50)
- Texture Clone Painting (0:35)
- Texture Clone Painting - Clone from one object to another (0:55)
- Texture Painting Basics (0:54)
- Texture Painting with Custom Brushes (1:01)
- Texture Painting with Gradients (0:45)
- Adding Bump Height to Texture Masks (1:01)
- Texturing a head (2:52)
- Make Seamless Textures Easily In Gimp (0:43)
- My Painting Workflow In Blender (1:37)
- How to use Leaf textures (0:59)
- Texture Painting with Stencils (0:45)
- Texture mixing (0:36)
- Rust Texture that works on any object in Eevee (0:41)
- Texturing a cyberpunk computer with photos (0:57)
- Fixing missing textures (0:52)
- One-click texturing with Dream UV (0:59)
- Turn a Photograph into a Tiling Texture (1:00)
- Create an Albedo texture in Blender (0:59)
- Seamless textures in one click with Anti-Seam (0:55)
- Texture Ripper (0:50)
Materials
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- Blending objects using Rust with the Ambient Occlusion node (1:01)
- Mixing Shader Masks with Displacement Maps (1:01)
- Micro-displacement (1:29)
- Higher realism through imperfections (0:58)
- Procedural bump maps (0:52)
- Texturing wthout UV-Unwrapping (0:34)
- Drag And Drop Materials (1:06)
- Import Images As Planes Add-On (2:53)
- Using Shrink Wrap To Project A Sticker To A Surface (1:49)
- Glass Transparency With Alpha Channel (1:26)
- Double-sided material (0:36)
- Add a decal using only nodes (0:42)
- Glass in Eevee (0:52)
- Quickly Add Material Nodes With Node Wrangler Add-On (0:37)
- Easy PBR Textures With Node Wrangler (1:56)
- Node Presets (0:45)
- Material Basics: Pointiness (1:04)
- Material Basics: Snow (0:46)
- How to use normal maps (0:40)
- Bump maps or Normal maps? (0:40)
- Random colors with the Object Info node (0:30)
- Easy wireframe shader (1:00)
- Select materials from characters (0:53)
- Using Empties to control textures (0:42)
- Single-sided Emission shader (0:37)
- Emission shader in Eevee (0:48)
- Rotate box-mapped textures (0:52)
- Using the Separate RGB Node (0:54)
- Substance Material Add-on for Blender (1:03)
- How to bake Bevel and Occlusion maps (0:59)
- Blur Node (0:59)
- Substance Painter-like Edge Wear Effects (1:01)
- Dirty Metal material (0:41)
- Append free materials (0:35)
- Perfect Displacement maps with low poly models (0:59)
- Low-poly hair cards (1:00)
- Procedural Leather Material (0:51)
- Wireframe Effect using modifiers (0:55)
- Random colors using nodes (0:59)
- The Reroute Node (0:49)
- How to avoid Texture stretching (0:54)
Baking
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- Baking Normal Maps from the Multires Modifier (0:59)
- Baking Displacement maps (0:59)
- Bake 3D scan textures to Low Poly meshes (0:52)
- Baking normal maps (0:59)
- Baking textures with the free TexTools add-on (0:41)
- Make a Normal Map using a Matcap (0:48)
- Baking with a Cage (0:59)
- Baking Displacement from Camera View (0:59)
Characters
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Grease Pencil
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- Grease Pencil Basics (1:58)
- Grease Pencil for Concept Art
- 2D Animation Quick Start (1:18)
- 2D Animation From 3D Animation (1:55)
- Grease Pencil Build Modifier (0:49)
- Grease Pencil Sculpt Stroke Thickness (1:21)
- Curve Tool in Grease Pencil (1:32)
- Grease Pencil Stroke Interpolation (1:19)
- Grease pencil guides (0:50)
- Grease pencil cutter tool (0:48)
- Installing textured brushes (0:59)
- Creating custom textured brushes (0:59)
- Draw Grease Pencil On Surfaces without offset distance issues (1:53)
- How to use the Grease Pencil Drawing Plane Canvas option (1:19)
Modifiers
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- Array modifier with object offset (0:53)
- Corrective smooth modifier (0:48)
- Toggle Subdivision Levels (0:19)
- Apply All Modifiers At Once (0:42)
- Add hooks and Laplacian Deformer (1:47)
- Lattice Deform Modifier (0:57)
- Weird stuff with the Build Modifier (0:59)
- Mesh Deform modifier (0:59)
- Weighted Normals modifier (0:43)
- Editing Normals: Data Transfer (0:59)
- Smooth Edges with Average Normals (0:32)
- Smooth Edges with harden normals (0:35)
- UV Project modifier (0:51)
Animation
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- 3 ways to Bounce a Ball (0:52)
- Animated Flag (0:41)
- Slow-motion Cloth Simulation (0:32)
- Copy Animation From One Object To Another (1:00)
- Perpetual Controlled Speed Tire Rotation (0:54)
- Easily Animate Objects With Lattices (0:59)
- Animate A Fish Without Rigging (0:54)
- Using Empty To Animate Displacement Modifier In A Loop (1:51)
- Dupliverts For Motion Graphics (2:18)
- Shape Keys: Join As Shapes (0:28)
- How To Launch A Cube (1:12)
- Copy animation and Edit separately (0:56)
- Easy animated leaves (0:56)
- Camera rotation without keyframes (0:44)
- Pulsating light without keyframes (0:42)
- Wiggle Expression (0:25)
- Liquid Colorful Text Reveal Motion Graphics (1:00)
- Shoelace animation (0:59)
- Using Sound to animate objects (0:50)
- How to control the speed of image sequences (0:54)
Character Animation
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- Importing Mixamo character animation in Blender (0:39)
- Mixamo walk cycle and how to create an Action from keyframes (0:47)
- Combining Mixamo Animations (0:59)
- Adjusting Mixamo animation in Blender (0:52)
- Cleaning up mocap and adding an adjustment layer (0:59)
- Retargeting with the free Rokoko add-on (0:54)
- Two-handed grip animation using Inverse Kinematics (0:59)
- Shape Keys: Basics (0:59)
- Simple Character Walk Cycle (2:00)
- Character Walking Along a Path (0:59)
- Shape keys for facial expressions (0:46)
- Facial Expressions (0:46)
- Walk cycle markers (0:45)
- Motion Paths (1:44)
- Rotating your character (0:47)
Nature Animation
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Simulations, Hair and Particles
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- OpenVDB Quickstart (0:49)
- Vacuum Packing Objects using Cloth Pressure (0:51)
- Boat Floating on Ocean Waves (0:58)
- Rain with Dynamic Paint (1:42)
- Seamlessly Looping Ocean (0:58)
- Particles Follow A Path (0:51)
- Quick Hair / Fur and How to Comb and Weight Paint (2:17)
- 2 Types Of Quick Fluids (1:38)
- Quickly Fracture Stuff (1:27)
- More Fracture Stuff! (1:36)
- Slow motion particles (0:34)
- How to use the hair shader (1:00)
- Blender Fracture Modifier Build - Quick Start (1:30)
- Fracture Modifier: Use Constraints (1:58)
- Fracture Modifier: Helper Add-on (1:51)
- Fracture Modifier: Splinters (1:13)
- Import Fracture Modifier sim with smoke in Eevee (0:59)
- Tear Cloth With Fracture Modifier (1:27)
- How to set the centre of weight in a rigid body (0:54)
- Volumetric Cloud (0:58)
- Fluid Simulations part 1 (basics) (0:59)
- Fluid Simulations part 2 (finetuning) (0:59)
- Connecting things for simulations (0:39)
- Heroic Default Cube (0:57)
- Reveal a Photo with a Physics sim (0:58)
- Fun with Planks (Rigid Bodies) (0:59)
- Cell Fracture Explosion (1:03)
- Cell Fracture Inner Material (0:24)
- Annotate Cell Fracture (0:56)
- More realistic destruction and collision detection (0:47)
- Exploding Default Cube (0:48)
- Distribute Weight of a Rigid Body (0:54)
- Hide cracks pre-fracture (0:58)
- Cell Fracture Basics (0:59)
- Quick Mantaflow Explosion (0:43)
- How to make chains (0:48)
- Ocean Modifier basics (0:58)
- Ocean shader with Foam (1:00)
- Make a Dancing Hair Monster with Hair Dynamics (0:59)
- Quick Liquid with Spray, Foam and Bubbles (0:59)
- Particles along a curve with random colors in Eevee (1:00)
- Liquid stream following a curve (0:53)
Lighting
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Camera Tips
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- Different cameras per viewport & adjusting lights (0:44)
- 3 Camera Tips (0:42)
- Easily make smooth camera moves (0:59)
- Camera Shift (0:38)
- Camera track to constraint (0:30)
- Camera turnaround (1:03)
- Camera switching while rendering (0:55)
- Camera crane rig add-on (0:54)
- Set Viewport to Camera View (0:37)
- Fly Mode (0:49)
Render Tips
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- Added realism with Textured Lights (0:59)
- More Realistic Renders in Cycles and Eevee using Gobos (1:01)
- Create masks with Holdout collections (0:39)
- Increase Your Render Speed With The Auto Tile Add-on (0:31)
- Shallow Depth of Field in Eevee (0:59)
- Randomize Grain (0:20)
- Faster Render Speeds By Rendering Separate Layers (1:54)
- Bevel Node (0:44)
- Use HDRI only for foregrounds (0:34)
- How to use motion blur (0:50)
- Easy Animated Volumetric Fog in Eevee (1:01)
- Easy animated fog in Cycles (0:56)
- Shadow Catcher in Cycles (0:30)
- Keyframe render visibility (0:53)
- Viewport Animation Render (0:59)
- Cycles Rendering Basics (1:00)
- Quickly open your renders in a browser (0:23)
- Track Billboards to the camera (0:33)
- Particle System Billboards (0:52)
- Optimize Environment Scenes with the LOD add-on (1:00)
- Proxies for Image Sequences on Planes (1:00)
Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR)
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- Basic Toon Shader (0:53)
- Easy Outline with inverted hull (0:53)
- Control outline thickness (0:48)
- Sketchy moving toon outline (0:59)
- Pixelated Renders (0:45)
- Correctly display pixel art textures (0:31)
- Freestyle calligraphy render (0:57)
- Pencil lines with freestyle (0:38)
- Easily Add Camera Movement To A 2D Painting (1:34)
- Cut-out Animation (0:44)
- Anime tree in Krita and Blender (0:48)
- Low poly texture atlas (1:00)
Compositing
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Workflow Tips
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- 2 tips for navigating in a big environment scene (0:39)
- Flip Node (0:37)
- Top 3 solutions to Blender issues (0:47)
- Make linked duplicates unique with one click (0:22)
- Drag and Drop with the Asset Browser (1:01)
- Use Collections and parented objects in the Asset Browser (1:01)
- Asset Browser: How to mark Node Groups as Assets (1:01)
- Drag-and-drop Decals from the Asset Browser (1:01)
- Node Groups (0:46)
- Concept Art Workflow - Trace image to Grease Pencil (0:54)
- Linking Characters (0:55)
- Recover Lost Blend-Files (0:48)
- Purge All Orphan Data (1:09)
- Custom Startup Settings (0:30)
- Import SVG vectors with colors intact (0:50)
- Import Sketchup models (0:39)
- Workflow tip: Linked Libraries (0:57)
- Editing Linked Libraries (0:44)
- Copy Rotation with Copy Attributes Add-On (1:28)
- Get 6000 free assets and an Asset Manager with Blenderkit (1:01)
- Switching between different cameras (0:35)
- Stored Views (0:32)
- Blender in VR with Blender XR Marui and Oculus Quest 2 (1:28)
- Snapping and Origin transform shortcuts (0:45)
- Using Simplify, Camera Culling and Clipping Regions (0:57)
- High Quality Eevee Viewport by Default (0:52)
Interface Tips
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- Quickly Switch Objects While Sculpting and Texture Painting (0:45)
- 3 ways to isolate objects (0:37)
- Hide Everything Except Selected (0:04)
- Isolation Mode (0:58)
- Simplify Setting (0:34)
- Copy Objects From One Blender Window To Another (0:20)
- Hold CTRL To Snap Objects (0:23)
- Viewport Visibility Tips (1:32)
- Blender 2.8/2.9 Keyboard Shortcuts (1:15)
- Quad View Toggle (0:24)
- Zoom To Selected (0:50)
- Toggle Fullscreen or Maximize Area (0:28)
- Quick Favorites (0:51)
- Quickly Find Objects In The Outliner (0:40)
- Snap to orthographic view (0:25)
- Random Object Colors in the viewport (1:39)
- Colorful Wireframes (0:20)
- Incrementing your file names (0:21)
- Retopology visibility tips (0:37)
- Node labels and colors (0:47)
- More Node Tips! (0:48)
- Even more Node Tips! (0:26)
- Set in- and out-points in the timeline (0:22)
- Grid snapping (0:59)
- Draw select and lasso select (0:46)
- Align objects to camera view (0:42)
- Interface scaling (0:55)
- Scaling Tips (4:20)
- Blender UI Value scrolling (0:39)
- Auto smooth all objects at once (1:01)
- Lock to 3D cursor (0:38)
- A Couple of Interface tips (0:26)
- Maximum undo & Picker shortcut (0:22)
- Swap interface windows (0:25)
- How to hide lights in Eevee (0:41)
- Eevee Viewport Color Management (0:58)
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About the author
Hi, I'm Jan van den Hemel, previously a freelance motion graphics and 3D artist, and now working full time on Blender Secrets, sharing everything I know about making awesome 3D art with you. Follow me to see every new tip when it comes out!
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