First Day in Blender 4

1. Introduction to Class: Hello and welcome to your first day in Blender fo the perfect starting point for Bigness in Blender. This course is aimed at Complete Bigness, offering a comprehensive overview of blenders, interface navigation, and essential tools. Whether you are interested in three D, modeling, animation, motion design, or video game development. This course will give you the foundational skills needed to get started. Throughout the course, we will explore blenders, interface, going through each and every step together, from navigating the three D viewpoort to manipulating objects, applying materials and much more. We will also cover the basics of some of the complex topics such as lighting, rendering materials, et cetera. To get you started, we will finish this class by creating a minimalistic and abstract scene in blender. Using the things we learned throughout the class, we'll play with shapes, lighting, and composition to create something visually striking. And end the class by taking some final renders for our project. I hope to see you there in the class. Thank you. 2. Downloading Blender: Hello and welcome guys. So in this lecture, we will be going over how we can download and install Blender in our computers. So let's get started right away. First, you have to open up any of your browser and just search for Lender dog, hit Enter, and this is the official blender website over here. You can go over to download and you will find this button through which you can download Blender. Currently, we are on the Blender 4.0 0.2 but according to when you start the course, you might find a different version over here. You'll also find this button right here through which you can download Blender for all the different platforms, like all the different operating systems that you have if you're working on something else other than Windows. But as I am on Windows only, I will be just selecting this button. Also, if you will scroll down over here, you can see this go experimental, uh, column. You can click on Download Blender Experimental. And over here, you will find the alpha and the beta releases that you can download. As you can see, we have the alpha release. These ones are all the stable ones, but the Alpha one is the one with all the new features. But the risk for that would be that it would be a little bit unstable. If you want to have like all the new features, you can definitely go for this release over here. But I would suggest you guys to go with this one. I think this is the best option for us. So now let's just download this one over here. As soon as you click it, it will automatically start. It will ask where you want to save it, So I will just hit Save over here and wait for the download to finish. All right guys, after you have downloaded the file, you can open it up and it will start with the installation process of Blender. You will see something like this appear up on your screen and you just have to hit next, accept the agreements, hit next, next, everything remains like that. You can also choose the location where you want to save it. Just that, Make sure to keep that in mind. But I will be going with the default location. Only hit Next and hit Install and wait for it to finish. All right guys, so now the blender installation has completed. You can hit Finish. And now just open a blender. All right, so whenever you open a blender for the first time or you download a new version of blender, we will be greeted with this kind of splash screen. At the start, over here you will find this import existing settings, which basically means if you are already working on an older blender version, you can load those settings in the new version as well. Like all your add ons settings, preferences will be loaded from that older version before downloading this new version. As I was already working on Blender 3.4 that's why I have this option load Blender 3.4 settings. So generally, I would suggest you guys to click over here only so that you can load all your old settings. But for this course, as we are learning everything from scratch, I will click on this Save New Settings, so that I don't have any of my old settings already loaded. We also have a couple of these settings over here, like the language. We also have the type of shortcuts that we want to keep. We will be going with Blender. Only select with this. Basically, if you want to select with the right click of your mouse or the left click, then we have the Spacebar command. Play means basically it will start playing the animation, that is the default, so I will be keeping this only. And then we also have the different kind of themes for Blender which you can go for. I definitely will be going with Blender Dark only as that looks the best to me, but you can go with anything you want. And then we can click on Safe New Settings, and we are finally over here. Now we will be greeted every time with this kind of splash screen, and not that old one, because we have saved all those settings so we can create a new file, create animation file, all these things over here. We also have recovered last session, which basically means if, if your blender was closed due to some unexpected reason, like a power outage or a system failure, you can select non recover Last session for creating a simple new file, we can just click on General. And now we will be greeted with a default blender file with the cube, the light, and the camera also. One last thing, if you want to see that splash screen once again, you can click over here and select this splash screen, and it will appear back again if you want to do from something over here. Just a quick little thing that I wanted to tell. All right, so I think this is pretty good for this lecture. We will continue learning more about blender in the next lecture. Thank you guys for watching. I will see in the next one. 3. Learning Blender Interface: Hello and welcome guys. In this lecture, we will be going a little bit over the Blenders interface. Again, let's click on General over here to create a new blender file. And one thing that I want to mention before starting is that I've enabled an add on that is called the screencast, that whenever I use any of the shortcuts, as you can see over here, I'm pressing anything, it is appearing up over here. The reason for this is it will make it a lot easier for you guys to follow me when I'm doing things. I will be mentioning each and every shortcut and the thing I do. But again, it would be really easy to follow along with this appearing up over here whenever I perform like any of the shortcuts. Let's just quickly delete these things and we will go over the blenders interface. Now right away when you open blender like for the first time, it will look something like this, with it being divided into four different windows. The first window is called the three D viewpoint, where we can view our scene. Three D models lights and everything like that. We will be working the most in this window as we will be using it to model different objects. Then over here as you can see, we have the Outliner window, which basically has all the objects that are currently present in your scene right now. As you can see there are three. You can easily click over here and select the particular object in the scene. As you can see, when I click on the camera, we can select the camera, the cube, and the light. Whenever you add a new object, let's say we want to add a sphere over here. The shortcut to add a new object is to press Shift plus A on your keyboard. And you will see this menu pop up where we can add a lot of different things which we will be going over later on. But for now, let's just go into Mesh and add a UV sphere. As you can see, the sphere is currently added over here. It is overlapping with our que, but you can easily selected from the menu. We can select the sphere as well as the que. If you want, you can increase the size of the sphere. You can just select the sphere and press to scale it, and you will see it will start to scale up in your three D viewport. We will be going over all these shortcuts later on when we will be covering the transform of all the objects and everything. Let's just delete this for now. All right, I was going over the outliner. Whenever we add a new object, it will appear over here and we can easily select them. We can also do things like turning them off, like making them invisible if you don't want to work on them currently. We can also create different collections. Collection is basically a group of objects. You can just right click over here and create a new collection. Let's say you want to move the light into the new collection, you can drag and drop it over here. Yeah, this is just to make it a little bit more organized, so I will just undo it. And yeah, basically that was it right now for the outliner. Next we have the Properties window over here. Properties window will change according to the object that you have currently selected. It will have all the properties of the currently selected active object. Let's say I've currently selected the camera. Now if you will go over here in the data, you can see we have all the camera related settings, like the focal length, the type of the camera, perspective, orthographic, and all those things. If you select the light, then we have all the properties specific to the light, like the color of the light, the power of the light, and so on and so forth. Also in the property tab, we have all these small, different tabs, each one dedicated to something different, like this one is for the render engine. Then we have the output, like how we want to output our animation or our render. Yeah, we will be going over these a lot more in detail in the upcoming lectures, but for now just know that the properties window will be having different properties for the selected object. All right, so the last one is a timeline over here, which is not really of that much use to us because over here you can create all the animations and everything. Like you can add different key frames and things like that. Also another thing, you can adjust these windows according to you by hovering over here on the edge and adjusting them however you like. That's pretty handy. Now, a couple of more things that I want to go over. The great thing about blender is you can change any window to whichever one you want. Let's say if you click over here in the top left corner over the editor type. So basically this window is called the editor. And all these are different types of editors, like the outline editor or the three D, Viewport Editor, Properties editor. You can click over here and you'll see that Plender has a lot of different editors for different types of tasks. Currently you can see it is set to three D Viewport. If you click over here, it is set to Outliner, and this is set to Properties. But you can easily click over here and change this to anything you want. Like let's say if I select Outliner once again. Now both of these are basically the same thing. You can easily change your edit type from over here. If I set this to Properties, then we have the property stab over here as well as over here. As you can see, both of them are the same thing. There are a lot of different types of editor, like we have the image editor, then we have the UV editor for editing the UV's. Then we also have the geometry note editor or the shader editor for creating materials and things like that. Yeah, we have a lot of different editors which we will be going over at the later on stage of the course. For now, I just wanted to mention that you can change the editor type from over here. Nothing too much to worry about right now. We will be working the most in these editors only like these three are the main ones for us right now. All right, the next thing that I want to go over is that you can also create Editor Windows on your own. You need to hover over here on the corner of two editors like this over here. And you will see this cursor appear like this, crosshair cursor. And then you need to just click and drag to separate them out. Now you will see that you've successfully created two different three D Viewport editors. And you can do this any number of times to create multiple different editors. And you can see all of them are independent, you might think. What is the use for this? Let's say we are currently in the three D Viewpoort. We can open up like an image editor over here to view the reference image or anything like that. We can also open up the shader editor over here, so we can work on two or three different things simultaneously. This becomes really helpful when you get a little bit advanced with Blender. Now I will just quickly show you how we can collapse them back again. However, over here and click and hold, you will see this arrow appear. And you can easily like collapse them into a single one. Then you can go over here as well. Again, click and hold, and you will see this arrow and I will collapse it to the right side so that I have the complete three D viewpoint. Alternatively, there is another way to do this, and I think that would be a little bit simpler rather than doing this thing over here. For that, what you have to do is you just need to go over here at the edge of this window. Then hit right click, and you will see this menu appear. Let's say we select vertical split. And then we will see this line and we can create a split Anyway we want like this. Then you can hit right click over here and create another split. Let's create a horizontal split this time. Now you can create it anyway you want. And then you can change all the editors to whatever you like. You can also hit right click and then swap them. Now this becomes the image editor and this one becomes the three D Viewport. You can also just hit right click to join them as well. With joining, if you join it like this at the bottom, then this complete window will become the three D viewport like this. If you would have joined the other way, then it would have become the image editor. Pretty simple, let's just collapse them Now This one is also really easy to do. You can do whichever one you like. Let's collapse it like this on the right side so that this complete window becomes the three D viewpoint. Yeah, just keep that in mind. And with that, basically we're done. The last thing that I want to go over is the workspaces over here. Blender already has set defined workspaces already made for you. So let's say you want to sculpt something, you can go into the sculpting workspace and then easily scrubbed over there. You can also go over the UV editing workspace and you'll see that the editors are already set up by letter for you. Over here we have the UV editor, and over here we have the three D viewports, so we can easily create a UV's. We will go over this later on. We also have the texture paint workspace and yeah, so on and so forth. We have all these different workspaces and we will be going over a lot of them in our course later on. Let's just get back to the layout tab, and basically this is pretty much it for this lecture. I will suggest you guys to not get too intimidated by all these commands and options and everything that you see right now in Blender. Because trust me, Blende can do a lot of different things and it has like a lot of different options, commands, and things like that that you can learn. But you don't have to know each one of them to be good at it. Yeah, this is pretty much it for this lecture. Thank you guys for watching. I will see you in the next one. 4. Navigation through the 3D Scene: Hello and welcome guys. So in this lecture, we will be going over how we can navigate around in a three D scene in blender, it is extremely important to get comfortable while navigating around in a three D program like Blender, because it will make it a lot easier for you guys to easily move and navigate around objects. We will be going over how we can do basic navigation stuff like rotate, Pan and zoo. We will also go over different types of views like perspective, orthographic, and how we can switch between them, along with all the related hot keys for this. So let's get started. I will tick on general to create a new Blendafile. All right guys, so now let's go over three of the most basic navigation commands that are the rotate, pan, and zoo. The great thing about Blender is that all three of these commands are connected to your middle mouse button. Only you can do all three of them with your middle mouse button or the scroll wheel. So to rotate your scene, you just need to click or hold down your middle mouse button. And then you can rotate around your scene like this very easily. The next is panning to pan, you need to hold down shift and then click on your middle mouse button. You can pan around like this. You can move your three D view like this, sideways and upwards or downwards as well. The last one is zoom. Zoom is pretty simple, you just need to scroll in or scroll out to zoom in or zoom out like this again, let's quickly go over them. To rotate your scene, just hold down your middle mouse button and then to pan your scene. Hold down shift and then click your middle mouse button. And you can pan around like this. And to zoom in, zoom out. Just use your scroll wheel. You can move your scroll wheel up to zoom in and down to zoom out. There is another way to zoom in or zoom out. You can hold control and then click your middle mouse button. This will make zooming in or zooming out a lot more smoother. Like if you just scroll your wheel. It is zooming in in increments like this. As you can see, it is zooming in in increments. But if you hold down control and then click your middle mouse button, it will zoom in or zoom out a lot more smoother. Yeah, both of them are pretty much the same thing. But I usually do this, I will just use the scroll wheel. It is much simpler and faster. All right. These three were the basic navigation tools. I suggest you guys to get like comfortable with this. Spend some time, like three or 4 minutes, moving around your scene, like just rotating around, then holding shift to pan around. Then zoom in just to get a little more comfortable with navigation in blender. And now we will be covering the different types of views in blender, like the front view, side view, top view. But for that we have to delete this cube. As a cube is equal from all sides. We won't be able to tell the difference between all the views, like the front view side view, because it will look the same from all the sides. Just select this cube by clicking on it. And then press delete on your keyboard. To delete it, I will press Shift plus A to add a new object. And when you go into Mesh, you will find this monkey. This is really helpful for us because this monkey is like unequal. And it is different from all the sides. Like the front view is different, side view is different, back view is different. So we can easily use it for our demonstration purposes. All right, to go into the front view, you need to press one on your number pad, press one on your number pad and you will see instantly blender will switch to the front view. You can also see it over here. Front orthographic is written. We'll go over what is orthographic right in a moment. But for now just focus on this. We are currently in the front orthographic view when you press one. Now if you will press three, you will notice now we are in the right orthographic view. If you will press seven, now we are in the top orthographic view, 13.7 These three are the shortcuts for the front, the right, and the top orthographic view. Let's say I want to see it from the back side. Now press control plus one on your number pack to see the back side. In a similar way, if you press three, it is the right side view. But if you press control plus three, then it is the left side view as you can see over here. If you press seven, it is the top view. And if you press control plus seven, then it is the bottom view. Pretty simple. A lot of these shortcuts are present in the number pad as well, so you need to keep remembering them or I will just suggest you guys to write them down somewhere and then practice them in your free time. One is for the front view, three is for right view, and seven is for top orthographic view. And you can just hold control to flip all of them for control. Plus one is back few control plus seven is bottom view and control plus three. Right Now let's go over some of the other shortcuts in your number pad. You can also rotate around your scene using the number pad. You can press four and you'll see you can rotate around using 4.6 and 8.2 as well. Very handy. Not that useful in my opinion, but yeah, definitely. You can use this if you want to. You can also zoom in or zoom out using plus and the minus con. One of the most important shortcuts is the delete key, period key on your number pad. Let's say if I'm placed somewhere like this and I select this monkey, and then I press the delete key on my number pad or the period key. You will see it will instantly focus over this monkey model. It is really important for us to remember this. Let's say I have a lot of different objects. Press Shift and add a cube and just press G to move it around. I will go over all these transform shortcuts later on, but for now just add them like this. It is really useful when you're working with multiple objects. You can easily focus on whichever one you want. Just select them and then press Delete or the number pad period key to focus on them. Yeah, really helpful. I will just quickly delete these two. Now I will go over another shortcut. Press one for the front view. You will see this front orthographic written over here. If you press five or the number pad, you will see it switches to front perspective view. Basically, there are two different types of view that are the orthographic and the perspective view. Whenever we move around in our sea, normally, like I'm normally rotating around in my seat, we are currently in the user perspective mode. If I press five, we switch to the user orthographic mode. You can notice that the orthographic view looks weird. Over here, you can see this grid when I press five to move to the orthographic view, it looks weird. The main difference between an orthographic and a perspective view is let's press one for the front orthographic view. The most important difference between orthographic and perspective is that there is not really any sense of depth in orthographic. That means you cannot really tell the distance apart in objects. In an orthographic view, for example, if you see the ears of this monkey, they're looking like they're parallel to the eyes. But as soon as you press five to see the perspective, we can very well tell that the ears are a lot far apart from the eyes. But if I press one once again, they look like really flat. If you press 51 to like switch between the orthographic and the perspective view, you can easily see the sense of depth in perspective. It looks like really natural how it could really look, but in orthographic it looks like really flat. To make this even more apparent or to explain you guys, I will just quickly add two cubes. You don't have to follow me for this, I'm just doing this for explanation. I'm just quickly moving them around. And I've placed these cubes like this. One is at the front of the monkey and the other one is behind the monkey. Now if I will press one, you will notice that we cannot really tell the distance apart in both the cues, like all three of them are looking parallel to each other. But in reality, if you press five for the perspective view, we can easily see the sense of depth or the distance between them, the monkey is between these two cues. But we cannot really tell that in the orthographic view as in orthographic view, they all look flat to each other. But in perspective view, we can really tell the difference in all three of these objects. Yeah, now I will just delete them and basically in orthographic, everything will look flat and there is not really any sense of the while in the perspective view, it will just look normal, how it should appear. Yeah, I would suggest you guys, whenever you are like normally modeling and moving around stuff to stay in the perspective view only. And later on in the course, we will also learn how we can model a three D object using different orthographic views. Basically, we will be using a different two D blueprints or two D designs of an object from the front right or the top view and modulate from all three angles. So yeah, that would be really helpful for you guys to understand what is the use of orthographic view. But yeah, for now this much is pretty good. All right guys, the next thing is the camera view. A camera view is basically, if you will notice, we also have a camera in our scene. If you press zero on your number bad, you will notice that we switched to a camera view. Basically, now we are seeing through the eyes of the camera. You might think what is the use for this? Whenever we render our image or render anything in Blender, it will always be rendered through the eyes of the camera and not really whatever you are viewing in the viewpot. Whatever you see through the camera, which you can see after pressing number pad zero, that is the thing that would be rendered. We will learn a lot more about the camera view as to how we can change the view or change the camera settings, like the focal length and things like that in a later onstage in the course. But for now, just know that whenever we press zero on your number pad, it will switch to a camera view to see through the lens of the camera. And whatever you render in your blend of file, it will be rendered through a camera only. All right, now we are done with all the shortcuts on the number pad, if you will. Notice we also have a couple of keys over here. Basically, this icon is for zooming in or zooming out using this button, which I don't think that is of that much use because we can also do it using a scroll wheel. Then this one is the same as panic. As I told you. This is the camera view, you can see table. The camera view is written over here and the shortcut is number pad zero. When you click on it, you will be viewing through the camera. The last one is to basically switch the current view from perspective to orthographic. Basically, this shortcut is the same as number pad five there. These are all the shortcuts that we went over. Also, we have this thing over here. This is the same as switching between different views. If you press one, you will notice that currently we are in the X, Z plane. And if you press X over here, now we are switched to the right side view. If you press Y once again, now we are in the back side view. You can switch between different views over here also. But it is best to learn all the shortcuts rather than switching between this. You can also like rotate around the scene with the help of this gizmo, which is, I think, a nice addition. But yeah, you should be comfortable with moving around with your mouse and switching the views using your number pack. All right. One last thing. You will notice that there is a key just above your tab key, which is also called, I think the grave accent key. If you click on it, you will see this menu appear. And you can also switch between different views using this key over here. This is also pretty helpful. It also has this view selected. And view camera view selected is basically the same as focusing. If I selected this over here, then clicked on the grave accent key and then clicked on View Selected, It will just focus over here, which is the same as the delete key or the period key on your number pad. We also have the view camera, which is the same as the number pad zero, so that we can view through the camera. All right, with that, we have basically covered all the hot keys, the shortcuts, and the things related to navigation in Blender. I will suggest you guys to go through all of them and be comfortable with them so that you can move around them quickly. That's pretty much it for this lecture. Thank you for watching. I will see you next one. 5. Adding Objects: Hello and welcome guys. So in this lecture, we will discuss a little bit more about how we can add objects in Blender. So we have already gone over this a couple of times before. To add an object, you just need to press Shift plus A. And this menu will appear. And you can search through all the different objects that are present over here, and you can easily add them. But there are a couple of more ways to add objects. So I will just select this cue. To select an object, just click on it and you can press delete to remove that. Another way to add objects in your scene is to go over here on this menu. Basically, this is the same menu as a Shift Plus, but this is just a different way to do it. You can see all those options, You can add maybe UV, Sphere or something else. You can also access that menu from over here. Also, we can do it through Shift. And another command you can press three on your keyboard. And basically this is a search menu for Blender, which has all the commands and tools that are presented Blender and you can search over here for anything. Let's say search for add a, Q. You can see add mesh is written and I can easily add that. All right, let's move further Now, I will delete this cube once again. Again, press Shift plus A, and you can see there is a search menu present over here as well. If you click on it, that will bring you to the same menu as the one that we just did by clicking three. Yeah. All right. Now if we add maybe something like a cylinder, press shift and add a cylinder, You will see there is a small little menu that appears up over here that is also really important. You can click on it and over here you will notice that there are a lot of different settings and options that you can edit through which are different according to the thing you have added. For now, let's say we have added a cylinder so we can change the vertices. You will notice if I reduce the vertices, it is like really low poly. And if I increase it, it becomes smoother and smoother. Another thing that you can control is the radius. Basically the radius of this. Then we also have the depth, that is basically the height. We can also change the position of it and all those things. Let's delete this and look at this menu for all these different objects. For Q, we have something else, we just have the size. If we increase the size, it will basically increase in size. That is the only command that we can change besides the position and rotation. Then for maybe a UV sphere, we have the segments. Basically, segments also is how much smooth it will get with each segment. If you increase it too much, it will have a lot of more polygons. As you can see, the rings is basically the same thing, but on the z axis, make sure do not increase it too much because it can lag your computer just like it did mine. I will again set this back to something like 32. We also have the radius over here as well. Let's delete this now. You can try adding different objects and see how they react. Also another thing that I want to mention, if you don't see all these extra options that are present in the mesh and the curve, I've mentioned this in my last lecture as well. We have to enable a special add on for this. Go over to Edit Preferences and search for extra objects. If you enable them both. Let's say if you disable them both, you will see none of those options are not present over here. And we just have a simple mesion curve if you want, you can keep it like this also. But I just like to keep them enabled because they do use a certain objects from these things as well. As soon as I enable them, you can see all these extra options are now present over here. Yeah, we can go through them as well. Yeah, I will just suggest you guys to add some more things and play around with them to see and to get the feel for it. All right. The next thing that I will be going over is that whenever you add a new object, you will notice that it gets added at the center of the uh, five basically it gets added over this three cursor. So we can change the position of this three cursor to add the objects wherever we got to change the position of this three D cursor, you need to shift, then click your right click. And you can see wherever you click, the position of this three cursor will change. It is a little difficult to manage because it will get placed anywhere in the three D space. But yeah, you can basically change the position of this three D cursor like this by holding shift and then using your right click. And now whenever you press Shift plus A, let's say I add a UV sphere. You'll see it will get added over here. Now will shift and right click. Click over here, then let's add maybe a plate. This way you can add all these objects to different positions. Let's click Shift plus right click again over here. Let's add a cone. So you can see basically you can press Shift plus right click and change the location of the three D cursor to add these new objects wherever you want. If you want to reset the position of this three D cursor, the shortcut for that is press Shift plus S. This menu will appear. Basically, this menu is related all to the three cursor itself. All these are different commands for the three D cursor and you just need to select cursor to world origin. This will set it back to the world origin. I will go over this three D cursor a lot more in detail. In the upcoming lectures, we will discuss all of these options. But for now we don't want to get too much confused with all these options, just know this much. Whenever you add a new object, it will be added to the three cursor. And you can change the location of this three de cursor by pressing Shift plus right click. And you can reset it by pressing Shift plus S and then selecting cursor to world origin. All right, let's just delete all these objects. You can select them all like this by making a box. Make sure this tool is selected over here, select box, select them all. Pres, delete and select this sphere and press delete. Also, sometimes when you add object, let's say we add a plane, press shift plus and add a plate. It might get overlapped with other objects and right now we can see the outline of this object. But let's say if I click over here now we don't really know if there are two objects present over here. You can select them from the outliner like this, and you can select it as G and move it right over here. That's why we also, we change the location of the three case so that all the objects don't get spawned in the same position. Only the shift plus cursor to world origin. Another thing about the three D cursor. Whenever you click it on an object, you'll see it will get stick to it. It will get stick on the surface of it. That is also a nice thing to know, but if you click it anywhere on the three D space, it will just get added anywhere like floating around the space only. But if you click over here, it will snap to the surface of the object. A shift and cursor to world origin. All right, till now we were only adding meshes into our scene. You can also see there are a lot of different objects present in plan. Like let's say we also have a curve. We cannot really go too much in detail about them because it might get confusing. But yeah, we also have curves over here. We also have different type of lights, like to light up your scene. Then we have camera and we can also add like different images for our reference and background. Of course, I will discuss all of these options whenever there is like the right time for it. We will also use different reference images to create our models. And obviously we will use lights to light up our scene. Then we also have things like text. If you add a text, you can basically create your own three text just to show you a little bit of example what you can do. I'm not really discussing anything right now, but you can basically create your three text. You can press Tab to edit this and let's say type my name very simply. I've created my name in three D. You can also change the font from over here. And a lot of different things that you can do. Yeah, we will be discussing all those things. Let's just ad for now shift, Let's look at some other things as well. We also have this metabol which is really fun to play with If you go over to Metabol and add a ball. Let's say press Shift once again and let's add a capsule. Now you can press to move it around. And you will see Metabol is like a different type of structure. Or let's say three D model which joins together whenever they are close to each other. You can add like multiple of them to create some weird shape is really fun to play it. I think we might use it to create some type of clouds because it gives it like a fluffy look. Let's just select all of them and press Delete. Yeah, I would just suggest you guys to go through this menu, add different types of objects, get a feel for blender. Yeah, thank you for watching guys. I will see the next one. 6. Selection Tools: Hello and welcome guys. So in this lecture, we will be going over the selection tools in blender. To simply select an object, you just need to hover over it. And left click using your mouse. And as soon as you do that, you will notice that it has this yellow colored outline now, meaning that it is currently the active selection. Now to deselect this object, you just need to click outside, anywhere on the screen. And as soon as you do that, it will be deselected. All right, now to select multiple different objects, you need to hold down Shift and then click on them one by one to select multiple different objects at once. Now you must remember that whichever object you select at last will be your active selection. As you can see, this object has this yellow colored outline, while the rest of them have orange colored. Whichever object you select at last will be the active selection. At any given time, there can be multiple different selected objects, but only one active selection or an active object. This is important as many tools and actions in Blender use active object as the reference. So you should remember this thing now. Let's say I hold Shift and then click on this. Once again, you will see now this is the active selection. While now both of these are just selected. You can still do things like select all of them at once and then press G to move them together. But yeah, you still must remember that this thing is only the active selection. All right. Now, to deselect the objects, when you have selected multiple of them, you need to click on them once or twice. What I mean by that is if it is the active selection, you just need to click on it once and it will be de selected. But if it is not the active selection, you need to click twice on it to make it de selected. Because first you have to make it the active selection and then click on it once again. Basically when you have multiple different objects, you need to hold down Shift and then just double click like this to remove the selection. And if it is the active selection, you just need to click once. All right, with that out of the way, these are some of the basic tools for selection in Blender. We also have this thing over here you can press to bring this tool bar up. By default this is selected, the select box tool. Using this, you can make box selections like this. By dragging your left click and selecting the objects in a box, you can create a box selection. It works similar to Shift. You can just select multiple different objects at once. But let's say I will add a couple of more objects to make it a little more apparent. Let's add a bunch of different objects by pressing Shift plus A and adding them. Whenever you use box select like this, let's say I select these three objects, Now you use once again and select these two. This selection would be removed and a new selection would be created. This is the thing with box selection, but now if you want to add on to the selection, you can select the two, then hold shift and use your box select once again to add on to the selection. You can do that. Also, you can remove from a box select using control. If I hold control and then make a selection, it will be removed from the selection. So hold shift to add to selection and hold control to remove from the selection. While you are using box select, another thing to select all the objects at once. In Blender, you can press a once. Just press a once, and all the objects would be selected. You can press Alt plus A to remove the selection from all of them at once. Another thing that you can do is just press A. Now you've selected all of them to deselect them. You can just press A twice, and now all of them are de selected. I used double a lot more than Alt plus a A to select them all and double to deselect them. All right, with that, we have basically covered all of the selection tools. If you hold down over here on this tool, on the select box, you will see there are two more selection tools, the select circle and the select lasso. Select lasso is pretty simple. Like with the box select tool, you can create boxes with lasso. What you can do is you can create free form shapes like this. And you can select this way. Yeah, you can basically select like this by creating these free form shapes. I've never really used this tool, but yeah, it is there. The last one is select circle, which I will not be going over right now because it is not really useful in this scenario. The select circle tool is really useful when we are in edit mode working with a lot of vertices. When we are modeling and learning to model and we are in the edit mode with a lot of different vertices. I will show you how we can select a circle because it is a really powerful and useful tool. For now, we will keep this out of the way. Also, the select box tool is the default tool that is always selected by default. That's why you can always make box selections without really selecting it. Select box is always the default tool you can press to turn this toolbar off. And yeah, with that, we're done with the selection tools in blender. Thank you. Watching. I will see you the next one. 7. Transform Tools: Hello and welcome guys. In this lecture, we will be going over the basic transform tools in blender, which are move, rotate, and scale. To move an object in Blender, you just need to select it by clicking on it. Then press G on your keyboard to move it around like this. As you move it around, you can use your left click to drop it anywhere you want. You can also press right click to cancel the movement. Let's say if I press to move this object around, then if I hit my right click, it will be back at its original location whenever you are moving it around and you don't really like the movement or for some reason you want to move it back to its original place, you can just hit right click to cancel the entire movement and it will be back at its original location. I will just undo it back to the world origin. And if you will notice over here in the Properties Editor in this object property section, if you move your object around, press G to move it around, you will see the location tab is being updated with values in real time. So you can move it around and you can see the values over here. You can also move the object around easily from these sliders. You can just move them around like this, or you can type in any value you want. It has disappeared because I put in a very large value. Let's just undo it back again. Another way to view this would be if you just press N on your keyboard. You will see this tab will appear on your screen, which basically has all the transform information of your object, like the location, rotation, and the scale. It is basically the same as this thing over here. Now when you press G, you will see the location is being updated. All right, let's press once again to turn this off, and I'll undo this back again. And right now, you just noticed that whenever we press, we are moving our object in all the three different axis, which is not really accurate. So let's say if I just want to move it in a single axis. So how can we do that? If I press, then I press Y. If I want to move it in the Y axis, you can see the location has been locked onto the Y axis, and I can only move it on the Y axis. You can see it over here as well. The location on the Y axis is only being updated, and the rest are at zero. You can also press then Z and move it on the z axis like this. This shortcut is pretty handy. Make sure to remember this first press to move it around, and then press any of the axis, x, y, or z, to lock its movement over there like this. Let's do this back again. Another thing if you want to be really accurate with your movements when you press G. And then let's say if I press Y, you will see the values are being updated. Over here, you can see how much you are actually moving your cube. Currently it is at minus nine, or when you move it over here, then it is at positive of 6.6 You can type in the values in number pads. Let's say I just want to move it by 2 meters, I will type two. And you can see now it is fixed over here at 2 meters. You can see over here, if I press then Y and type in two, it has been locked to 2 meters. This is the way of being really accurate. You can just move it around anywhere and then type in a value on your number pad like three. And it will be locked out 3 meters from the origin or from wherever you have moved it. You can also view this over here as well. As you can see it has been moved by 3 meters on the z axis. You can also make changes over here in this bar as well by typing in values, which is really nice addition. All right, so let's undo this back. And now we can finally move over to the rotation. The shortcut for rotation is R and you can rotate it around like this. You will notice the values are being updated over here as well as over here as well if you press the side bar view. Let's do this back and again, you will notice whenever you press R, the rotations are not really accurate. It is basically rotating anywhere on all three different axis and you cannot really control it. The way to control it would be to press R, then type in any of the axis like let's say Z, and then just rotate it around the z axis. Similarly, over here you can see the values are being written to whichever angle you are currently rotating, the cube. You can also type in let's say 90 or let's type in like 45. It has been rotated by 45 degree angles. You can also change the values over here. It is basically the same. All the things and shortcuts that we just learned for the move command also apply to rotation as well. Another thing that you can do with rotation is you can press R two times and it will give you trackball like rotation, which is a little bit more accurate than just pressing R. If you press R two times, it gives you much better control. And you can rotate it like this as well. You can also rotate it by pressing R then typing any of the axis. Another nice way to move or rotate things would be to just go into the orthographic views that we learned in the earlier video. Let's say if you want to move something from the front view, I will just press one for the front orthographic view. Then when I press first select this object and then press R. And you can see I'm rotating it from the front view only. And we can move it around like this. It will only move in this plane only. That is from the front view. If you press seven for the top view, you can move it around or rotate it around like this. And it will only rotate around the z axis. Because you first aligned it with the top view and then rotated it, that is also a nice way to go about it. All right, The last one is to scale things. The shortcut for scaling in blender is to press S and then you can scale them around like this, basically increase the size of them. And similarly, you can press then z and along the scaling on any of the axis that you want to just scale it on that particular axis. Again, all those things work over here as well. You can move around the values from the slider here. Also, you can just type in the value if you want to press than x and type in like five to scale it five times on the x axis. All right, one last thing that I want to go over is that when you move around or do any transformation on your object, let's say if I press it is moving around pretty quick. Sometimes it gets a little bit difficult to place around objects when you hold shift while moving or rotating or scaling your objects, it will get really slow and you can make precise movements, which is easier to place them around if you move them around like this. As soon as you hold shift, you will see the move around pretty slowly. This works for all the three things. Let's say if I rotate it on the that axis, it is rotating pretty quickly. As soon as I hold shift, it will rotate like really precise and slowly. You can make small, little precise movements. Similarly with scaling as well, you can hold shift to make it slow. Let's just undo it back to the world origin. Now guys, the one last thing that I want to go over is a little bit about this yellow colored origin point. Every object whenever you shift and let's say I add, let's say a UVsphere, it will have this origin point. Every object in Blender will have this origin point. It will be at the center of the object. We can also change this origin point to wherever we want, but more about that later on. Whenever you create a new object, the origin point will always be at the center of them, like this. The use of this origin point is that all the transforms take place from this. Let's say if I press one to go into the front view, then press R to rotate My cue, you will see this line is being connected to your mouse over here, basically showing you that it is being rotated from this origin point like this. Also, if you scale your objects, it will be scaling from the origin point itself. Just to make it clear, I will be changing the location of this origin point. You don't really have to follow me for this because it is a little bit advanced. Let's say I have changed the origin point of the Q Two. Overheare again, as I said, I'm doing this just for demonstration purposes. We will learn about this later on. But now if I press harder than Z, you can see it is being rotated over from this point. That is basically the use of origin point. It is used as a reference point for rotation, scale, and movement. If I rotated on the X axis like this, you can see the cube is now rotating in a completely different way as it was earlier. Because now the location of the origin point has been changed. Make sure you understand this concept, Don't worry. We will learn about all these things a lot more in detail. How we can change the location of the origin points to, however we want to control the transform of the object and all these other things. Thank you guys, watching. I will see you in the next one. 8. Global and Local Axis Transform: Hello and welcome guys. So in this lecture we will be discussing about global and local axis and how we can transform our objects along those axis. In the last lecture, we already discussed a little bit about global axis. So basically, whenever you select an object and let's say you move it around. And now if I press Z, then I'm moving it along the global z. So I'm currently moving it along the global z axis. Similarly, if I press G, then y and move it like this, then I'm moving it around the global y axis. So basically this is global axis. It is same for all of the objects, but when you have a local axis, it can be different or it will be different for all the different objects. Like every single object in your scene, we'll have a different local axis. Let's say I delete this and press Shift and add a cube currently for this object. The global and the local axis are the same because we haven't made any changes yet. Well, let's say if I press R, then x. Now the global and local axis of this object are different. The global axis will always remain the same. That is the x, y, and the z that we all know. But to visualize the local axis a little bit better, you can select this object. Go over here in object properties and in the viewpoint display enable access. You can see this x, y, z is written over here. And you can see as we have rotated this a little bit, whenever we rotate this, the axis of this particular object are changing accordingly. This is like the local axis of this object. All right, before we move over to local axis, first what I will do is we will go over a little bit more about global axis. Let's add a be once again. All right, so now we know that when we press just to move this object around, we are currently moving it on all three axis, right at once. If we press then x, then we are just moving it on the x axis. We know how we can move an object on all three axis at once, and only on one axis at once. But we can also do it in a plane, so that means we can move it around two axis at once. So let's say I just want to move this object in the xy plane and not in the z axis. The xy plane is basically our ground, the x and the Y plane. If I press, then press shift plus z, because I want to exclude z axis, shift plus z. And now you can see I'm moving it along two axis, that is the X and Y axis. It is the xy plane. Similarly, you can place then shift plus x and now you are moving in the y axis like this. Similarly, you can do it for all different things. Let's say if you press to scale it up, you are currently scaling it on all three axes. But if you press shift plus z, now you are just scaling it in the x, y plane. This shortcut is also really handy. So make sure you remember this. All right, now we can move over to local axis, press shift plus A. Let's add a cube. For this, I will enable the axis from over here. Let's press then Y and move this one over here. Press shift A, and let's add another cube. I will enable the axis for this as well. All right, you can select them both at once by holding shift and select them like this. Then press then Z. Let's scale them up by three times. Currently, I'm scaling on the global z axis. I will just type three on my number pad, and I've scaled them up by three times. I will just show you how we can now scale along the local axis. Currently the local axis of them is same as the global axis. Now what I will do is I will just rotate them a little bit differently so that the local and the global axis are different. I will press R, then X, and rotate like this. Let's move it over here. Then I can select this one, press R, then Y, and rotate this one like this. All right, so now you will see the difference between the global and the local axis. Earlier when we used to scale along the z axis, it worked really well because the local and the global axis were same. But now as they are different, you can press than z and you will see it will scale very weirdly and not how you want it. You want to scale it like this along the z axis of the object. If you zoom out a little bit, press then, and you can see it is scaling up very weirdly to scale along the local axis. You can press S, then z, and z once again, and you will see it will align it with the z axis of the object. That is the local local z axis of the object. And scale it this way. This is really helpful. You can do it over here as well. Press S, then z, and z once again. Now you can scale along the local z axis. I have hit right click to undo my operation. All right. Another thing is you can also rotate very easily, press R, then currently you're rotating along the z axis or the global z axis to be precise. Now if you press R, then Z and Z once again, now you're rotating along the local z axis. This is really handy. You should always keep this in mind that the global axis and the local axis of an object would be different. All the objects in the scene would have different local axis. Yeah, it's really helpful for us that we can scale, rotate, and move them around their local axis as well. Press S, then z and z. To scale it like this, press z and z to move it along the local z axis, or pres, then x and x to move it along the local x axis. With this, you now know two different ways to transform your objects. One is along the global axis and the other one is the local axis. It's really useful to know both of them as according to the situations, you have to use both of them. Sometimes you have to move the object along the local axis because you have to keep the rotation like this or you have to rotate it along the global axis like this. And sometimes you also have to move or rotate it along the global axis as well. Yeah, definitely make sure to keep this concept in mind. Also, another thing, you can enable x ray from over here, so this is like togal x ray. When you enable this, you can see through your objects and you will be better able to visualize the axis as you can see. They now appear properly when you enable x ray from over here. So you can enable or disable x ray to see through your objects. And yeah, when you enable this, you can properly see the local axis of the object. Let's say if I press Shift and add maybe some other objects like a UV spare enable access for this or like a cone. You will see all of them have their own local axis. You can rotate and move them around to see them properly with the cone. Like you can visualize even better when you move or rotate along the z axis. Let's say if I press G, then Z and Z. Once again, you can see I'm now currently moving along the local z axis of the cone. If I just press and z one time, I'm moving currently along the global axis. Yeah, same thing you can do with all three transforms. I have gone over this a lot of times now. All right guys. So with this, I have discussed everything that I wanted to about global and local access. For now, I will go over them a little bit more in detail in the future lectures. Thank you as watching. I will see you in the next one. 9. Edit Mode: Hello and welcome guys. So in this lecture we will be discussing about the edit mode, where we can actually model our objects and change the shape of them. Till now, we were only working in the object mode where we can just select all these objects and move them around and basically do all sorts of transform operations. Like we can scale them, rotate them, but we cannot actually model them. All right, so to go into the edit mode, it's really simple. You can just select any object and then press Tab on your keyboard to go into the edit. You can then again press Tab to come out of it and go back into the object mode as you can see over here as well. Currently we are in the object mode. As soon as we press Tab, we are now in the edit mode. And you can also change it from over here as well. From here you can change between all the different modes. In Blender, earlier we were in object mode, we can move it around, and now we can just press Tab to go into the edit mode. As soon as you do that, you will see all the toolbars and the menus over here change. They will have basically added functionality and options for the edit mode. If you cannot see this tool bar, you can just press to bring this up. So we have added tools over here for edit mode which will help us in modeling our object better. All right, the next thing is, as soon as you go into the edit mode, you will see that your cube is n divided into different vertices, which you can select individually as well. The great thing about this is you can select all these vertices and do the transform operations that we just learned in the last lectures. Basically, you can select them and you can see you can move them around. You can change the shape of the cube however you want. A shortcuts we learned like pressing G and then pressing to lock it on the z axis, all those things we can do. You will notice that when you select a vertice and try to rotate it around or scale, it nothing will really happen. And that's because it's just a single vertice. You can, you can scale or rotate it. You can move it around, but you cannot really scale just a single vertice. Hold shift. And by holding shift you can select multiple vertices at once. As you can see, if I just select these two vertices and then press to scale them up, you can now scale this edge. Basically the line connecting between two vertices is a edge. This thing, if you select four vertices like this, now basically you've selected a complete phase. I will press Tab to come out of the edit mode, and you can see you have edited the object. And you can now again scale it or move it around. In the object mode, I will delete this cube. So press delete on your keyboard and press Shift and let Sadden, new as I was mentioning, you can press Air and then you can just hold Shift and select multiple vertices at once. Now you have selected an entire phase. You can now easily rotate it around and you can press R then X to just rotate it on the X axis. All those shortcuts would definitely work. Press to scale it up. Or scale it down? Yeah. As I was going over earlier, you can basically select a single vertice and if you select two of them, you have basically selected an edge. As you can see, the vertices are not connected to show that the edge is selected. And if you select all four of them, you selected. Now a complete face as the whole face is highlighted. Similar way you can select two faces at a time. This is difficult to select the faces by selecting all four of vertices. That's why you will see over here we have three different modes for the edit mode. Currently we are in the vertice select mode where we can just select single vertices. If you go over here and select this one, this is the edge selection mode. Now you can select complete edges as I was selecting earlier. So basically selecting an edge is the equal to selecting two vertices. Like if you go back in the vertice mode, you will see now the two vertices are selected if I go over here, now this edge is selected. If you go over here in the last mode, that is the face selection mode, where you can basically select entire phases like this. You can also hold shift to select multiple phases at a time. Similarly, you can go into the edge mode and select multiple edges while holding shift. We will also learn some shortcuts later on in the next lecture, where we can efficiently select faces and edges. Also, another thing that I want to mention is, let's say if you have selected two faces like this while holding shift. If you change into the edge mode, you will notice now all of the edges that were corresponding to those two faces are selected. If you go into the vertice select mode, all of those vertices will be selected. Yeah, just a nice little thing to know. All right, so basically you can also switch between these like selection modes. You don't have to go up over here. You can press 12 or three on your keyboard. Number, not the number pad, but the ones that are at the top. You can just press one for the word select, two for the select, and three for the face select. All right guys, Now I will just suggest you guys to practice this a little bit. Press 12 or three and go through all the selection modes and select all different vertices. Try to move them around and try to like scale them up, create some shape. Then you can press Tab to come out of the edit mode. And now you can easily move around this object that you've just scale it up or rotate it however you like. But to actually change the shape of the object, you have to press Tab and then go into the edit mode to move the individual faces, edges or vertices. Let's press Delete. Press Shift, and let's add something else. Let's say you can add a cylinder as well. Another thing, you can adjust the settings of the cylinder from over here. So let's reduce the vertices to maybe 16. Now you can press Tab. You can see it has these individual faces. We have these two faces at the top. At the bottom, we have all these faces on the side. You can select them like this, scale them up, do whatever you want to create, all sorts of shapes. Similarly, all these different objects will have different geometries. You can press tab to go inside them, just try them out a little bit, move things around and play around with it. To get the feel of the edit mode, I will delete everything. And let's press shift A once again and add a simple cube. All right, so now one another thing that I want to discuss is let's say if I select this cube, press R and then rotate it on the y axis. A little bit like this. Then I press Tab, and let's press Three to go into the phase select mode. I select this phase, press G, then z. You will see again it will move in the global axis, global z axis. To make it move in the local z axis, you need to press Z and Z. Once again, all these transform operations work on the individual faces and even the vertices as well. If you press and Z, it will only move on the global z axis. If you press Z once again, now it will move on the local axis. All right, let's undo this. Next thing is in the last lecture, we learned about the X ray modes. Here X ray modes would be really helpful as when you're working, let's say like this, you cannot really see the vertices behind. You can enable either the wireframe mode so that you can select all of the vertices at once, or you can just select the x ray mode as well, because that also works pretty good. So this way you can select the vertices over here and over here as well. This object is really simple, that's why it is not looking that much. But when you have a very complex object with a lot of different vertices, these modes come like, really in handy when you can look at the back of it also and just select these vertices. Another thing is like when, let's say make a box select. When you make a selection like this, you will notice that all of the vertices are being selected, that are currently in the selection. The ones at the behind as well. But let's say if I turn this off and try to select it like this, you will see only the ones at the front would be selected and these two would be not selected. This might be useful sometimes, but again, if you want to select all of the vertices at once, make sure you have always x ray or wireframe enabled. Then only you can select all of these vertices at once, at the ones at the behind as well. Also like when you're working in let's say orthographic modes 13 or seven, anything, if I press one and disable x ray and then select this, only the front two vertices would be selected. This can sometimes mess up your modeling. Make sure if you want to select all of the vertices, the ones at the behind as well enable x ray and then select them. And now you will see this works in orthographic as well. All of the vertices would be selected. Let's say if I was in the top mode, press seven for the top mode. Now if I select like this, everything would be selected because I'm in the top mode and I'm selecting like this, everything would be selected. You can select like this to only select this side of the faces. Yeah, you get my point. Basically, whenever you have to select everything, the vertices at the behind as well just enable x ray or wire frame. When you don't have to select them, you can just turn them off. All right, with this, basically these were all the things that I want to discuss about the edit mode right now. Obviously there are a lot more things that you can do in the edit mode, but we will get into them slowly, step by step for the basics of it. This was pretty good. Thank you guys watching. I will see you in the next one. 10. Types of Shading in Blender: Hello and welcome guys. So in this lecture we will be discussing smooth shading, flat shading, and auto smooth shading. By default, whenever we add a new object in blender, it is flat. Shaded means that all of the edges would look sharp, making it look very faceted, and giving it a flat look. Basically, if you add a U sphere, it would be much more visible. Yeah, as you can see, all of the edges on this U sphere of the faces are very much visible. Basically, that is flat shading. If you just hit right click now and shade smooth this, you can see now the U sphere looks completely smooth as all of the edges are now even out. Whereas if we do shade flat to it, all of the faces are individually visible and all of the edges are like sharp. That is basically shade flat. And you can right click and hit shade smooth and that is smooth shading. And now let's learn about auto smooth, which we will be using most of the times because it is the most applicable. So basically, when you want your object to have both flat shading and smooth shading, we can use auto smooth shading. It is in cases like, let's say we have a cylinder. You can see all the edges are visible over here. And we can just hit right click and shade smooth this. But as soon as we do that, now the objects look really weird. Because the edges over here on the top face do not really need to be smooth shaded. If we hit shade smooth once again, you can see the shading of the object looks very weird. We can now hit right click and select shade auto smooth. You can see as soon as we use shade auto smooth, it fixed all of the shading. And now you can see that all of the faces that were over here look smooth shaded while the faces over the top and the bottom are flat shaded. Basically that happened because we used auto smooth. We can also do this one another way. If we just right way can shade flat. This we first can right click and hit Shade Smooth. And now the shading is again all weird. We can go over here in the object data. Properties under the normal section enable auto smooth. This was the old way to do this. You first need to hit Shade Smooth and then select auto smooth. But now with blender, like I think four point only, we can just hit right click and select Shade Auto Smooth directly from over here only. Which is really nice I think. But yeah, you need to make sure that before you use auto smooth, you first need to shade, smooth it and then enable it from here. I'm talking about whenever you enable it from over here. If you just directly use it from over here, then it does not matter. You can directly do it on a new object as well. Let's say if I add a monkey and you want to auto smooth, shade this right click and just select shade Auto Smooth, and everything would be fine. As you can see, auto smooth was automatically enabled over here. I was just talking about the old method in which we used to first like add an object and then we had to hit shade Smooth and then enable to smooth from over here. There were two steps now we can just directly hit shade or smooth from here. Yeah, we will be mainly using auto smooth only because it works the best. As it can incorporate both smooth shading as well as flat shading. Basically, you can see this 30 degrees written over here. What auto smooth is doing is that it is smoothing the faces that have an angle of 30 degrees or below. You can see over here, some of the faces are flat shaded. And now if you just increase this value, you will see all of those faces that were greater than 30 degree angles slowly get to smooth out as well. If you keep on increasing it slowly, all the faces would be smooth out like this. But yeah, I never really had to change this value. I think the default 30 value works pretty good. Another thing that I want to show you is let's just delete this. We can press Shift. Let's add a U's fare, let's say. Let's press one for the front view and we can go into the edit mode. Let's enable x ray. Now let's just select the vertices over here on the right side. And then press three for face select. You can just hit right click and select Shade Smooth. When you press Tab, now you'll see that half of the sphere is smooth shaded while the other half is flat shaded. You can do that as well, like individually selecting the faces and choosing them to be smooth shaded or flat shaded if you want to. Yeah, this is all the things that I wanted to discuss about smooth shading, flat shading, and to smooth. Thank you guys watching. I will see you in the next one. 11. Lights: Hello and welcome guys. So in this lecture, we will be going over the lights in Blender. So if you will, notice whenever you create a new pleno file, there is a light and a camera, by default, added into your scene. But you will notice that this light does not really do anything you can like move it around, pres G, move it around, and you will see nothing really happens when you move it around. It is not casting any light. And the reason for that is because we are not in currently the right mode of viewpoint shading. So you can change viewpoint shading from over here, and we are right now in the solid viewpoint shading, which is normally used for light modeling and stuff which we were doing until now. To view the lights working, you need to go into the rendered view mode. If you will click over here, you can do that. As soon as you click over here, you can see the view changes a little bit. And this light, which was not really reacting earlier, if you select it and press to move it around, you can see it is reacting with a Q and it is like casting light wherever we move it. So this is the rendered view mode. You can understand of this mode as where everything finally comes to action. You will see your final product over here. Like all the lights, materials, everything, you will see overheam. Whereas in the solid view mode, you will only see the model. Not the material or the lights, anything. You will just see the model. So the rendered view mode is for viewing your final product. Now let's learn about the light a little bit more. You can access the properties of a light by clicking over this object data property. And now you will see you have all the properties related to it over here. First what I will do is I'll press Shift it and add a plane. Through this plane, we can see the effect of the light a little bit more. Let's press S to scale it up, and then we can press the Z to move it downwards. As you can see, this light is casting the shadow of this cube onto the plane. And the effect of the light is much more apparent this way. All right, so let's go over the properties now. The first one is very simple. We can change the color of the light. So click on the color value and you can change it around very easily. Like this. Pretty simple. We have this color wheel over here and we can play around with the light. I will just undo this now. Next is the power. Power is again the intensity of the light. You can increase it, let's say we said this to a big number, like 5,000 You will see the power of the light increases now, Discsting much more light, and everything in our scene is much more brighter. Let's again turn it back down. Now, the next three properties I don't think are that important right now. For the bignerfhase, the last one, that is radius, that is also pretty nice. If you increase it, you will see the radius of this light increases and the size of it will increase the effect that it creates on your light. If decrease it back to 0.1 you can see that your shadow over here is like really sharp. Because it is being cast it from a small point. If decrease it even more, you can see it is even sharper now. But if I keep increasing it, you can see now the shadow is much smoother. That is, the effect your light creates on your shadows, the size of the light. If you increase the radius, basically it will have this smooth shadow instead of having like a sharp one. If you set this back to 0.1 you can see we have this sharp shadow. All right, now you must have noticed that we have these four types of lights over here, like point, sun, spot, and area. If you press Shift, you can also add the lights from over this menu. In the light section, you can add point, sun, spot, area, and you can change it from over here. Also, it is pretty much the same. The point light is basically pretty simple. It is like an omnidirectional light. What it means is it will cast the light in all directions. It is a point source of light. And it will cast the light in all of the directions. If you select Sun, you will notice that it is really bright. You can decrease the strength to maybe 100 or even less like one. Yeah, now it is much better. The sunlight is a little bit different from all of the light sources at It will cast constant light on all of the area at once. What it means is, let's say I change my light back to point light. And increase the power to maybe back to 1,000 Let's place it over here. Increase the size of this. And we can select the cube pressure plus, due to duplicate it, press Y. Let's move it around. Over here you can see because the point light is close to this cube, it is only casting the light over here. And the light is not really reaching to this cube because it is far away. If I move the point light over here, it will start to cast the light on this cube. But it won't cast on this cube now. But the thing is if I change my point light to Sun, it will basically cast light in constant intensity on all of your scene. From one single direction like this, you can change that direction from over here, you can change the angle or you can just press R and you can move it around. And you can see the shadow is moving with your like rotation of the sunlight. That is basically the sunlight. You can also change the color and the strength for this. Also, next spot, light. Spot light is similar to a torch. You can see the effect of this. The difference between point and the spotlight is that point will cast the light in all directions. As you can see, it is casting light in all directions. But a spotlight will cast it in a form of a spot. And you can see that spot, it is pointing in this direction. Therefore, we can see the light over here. Obviously, you can change the power color for this. Also, you can increase the radius of the spotlight. And now you will notice that the shadow is much more smoother. You can also increase the size of the spot like this. You can increase or decrease the blend, which is quite self explanatory. You can see the falloff over here. If you increase the blend, that falloff will basically increase. You can move the angle of the spot by just rotating the light. You can press R once and you can rotate it. You can press R two times to rotate it a little bit freely like this. The last is area light. And basically area light will cast light in the form of a square if you press N to bring up the side of our view and set the rotation on all the axis to zero so that we can see it properly. Now what I will do is I will increase the size of the x and the y to 5 meters, 5 meters. Now, because the size of the light is quite large, you can see it in the form of a rectangle. And that is basically the area light. It will cast this light in form of this rectangle. You can increase or degrees the size of this rectangle and you can change the size of the x or the y independently. Like you can make the x axis bigger or the y bigger. That is up to you. You can change the shape from rectangle to square to keep the all sides equal. Basically, when you have a square, only one size will be there, that would be the size of the side. Then we have disc and we also have ellipse. The shape of the light is totally up to you. Whatever is the requirement for your scene. And that is basically for the lights. Thank you as watching. I will see the next one. 12. Rendering: Hello and welcome guys. So in the last lecture we learned about lights, and in this lecture we will learn a little bit about rendering inplender. You know by now that to view the lights properly, we need to go into the rendered view mode of the Viewport shading. So you can click over here and we are in the rendered view mode. So basically what rendering is that it will take all of your models, material, lights, everything, and it will compile it into a scene and show you how it is. So that would be your final output, or final result, or whatever you have done. We already discussed this. So you can go over to the rendered property stab. So the first thing that you will see over here is Render Engine. Render Engine is basically the one that is responsible behind all the rendering that is done. Blender, it will take all the calculations, lightings, and everything, and compile everything, and then show you the final output. So Blender has three types of render engines, Eve, work bench, and cycles. But the two important ones are Eve and cycles only that you will be using the most. Work bench is really not that important. I've never used it in my life, so yeah, it is there. Like it has some specific use case, but I've only used Eve and cycles only. All right. So rendered engines can be of different types as you've just seen. So what is the difference between them? You can think of it this way, that some of the render engines like let's say are like very slow, but they will give you like really realistic results which are physically accurate and would look like real life. But whereas some of them would be not as fast, would be like really quick, but won't give you as good of results visually. They would be really fast like they would give you real time results as is Evie in Blender. Eve is the real time renderer which will give you basically real time results. What it means by that is that you can move around this slide and you're instantly seeing it update over here in the scene. Like anything you do, everything is like instantaneous. All of the thing is real time, It is really fast. But the drawback is that it is not as physically accurate as cycles. And it won't give you, like realistic results. You can just press Shift and let's add a plane again. I will scale it up and you can see when I move around the light, it gives me instantaneous results. But let's say I will once again select the light and increase the radius of it. Let's set this to five. And you can see the shadow over here. It is not really calculated properly and it is looking like really weird. What we can do now is let's see how we can improve this a little bit. If we will come back to the render properties, you will see that we have sampling tab over here. It is the number of samples that your render engine is taking per pixel for rendering. Basically, the more the number of samples, the better your renders will look. So it is divided into two values, the Render and Viewpoint. Viewport is currently what we see in our viewpoint in the three D. Viewport and Render is the final output that we will be building from over here. Like we go to Render and select Render Image, that would be the samples that could be taken at that time. Right now we are just seeing the viewpot. If I decrease it even more, you can see now the shadows look even better because now we just have three samples. Basically, it's calculating only three times in a sense. If we decrease it like to one, maybe, then it is just a single shadow only because it is calculating only one time. As we keep on increasing it, now you can see it's 23 and we keep on increasing it. The calculations will increase as the number of samples increase. And it would look better and better if I keep increasing it. Let's set this to maybe 54. And you can see now the shadows look much, much better compared to what we had earlier. But compared to all these, cycles would still look better. Let's try cycles. Now we can select this and set cycles, and you will instantly notice that everything is a little bit slower when we move around or see everything is like buffering, because cycles is a physically accurate render engine. But you can see how accurate and how realistic everything looks. But you will notice that we have this noisiness going on over here. The reason for that is because it is like not being able to calculate everything properly in the viewpoint, that's why it is so noisy over here. Let's see how we can fix this first. If you have a P, you can select GP and now everything would be a lot more faster as compared to CP. Another thing you can do is you can go to Edit Preferences in the system. You can select optics from over here. If you have a Nvidia graphics card and enable both of these options, this will basically make your renders a lot faster. But if you have maybe a AMD card, you can select the Hip, and if you have Intel, then you can select one API. Just enable everything you have under over here. But as I have NVDia card, I will just enable these two options. Next is, as you can see, it is a little bit noisy over here in the viewport. So you can enable noise, you do not need to do anything else. You can just enable noise from over here. And you can see it is a lot better if you move around your scene. It will be still like very laggy compared to V, like it is still laggy and choppy. But it looks a lot better. Obviously, the main thing is with the shadows. If you decrease the size of the light now to maybe two, you can see how good the shadows mesh with your scene. If you quickly set this back to V, we can just see the difference between these two. Obviously V is a lot faster, but with cycles, we have this realisticnessh. The basic getaway from this is that if you want your renders to look as realistic as possible, use cycles. But if you're doing a large animation, very long animation with a lot of different frames, then obviously go for V because it will be a lot quicker with cycles. Also, you can play around with the samples. This is for the Viewpoints, so currently Viewpoint has 1024 samples for render. The max samples are 4096. You can definitely decrease it to a lot lower number, like maybe 500,000 if you want the renders to be quicker. Obviously, there are lots and lots of settings in both cycles and V, which will take a lot of time if you go over all of them. But yeah, I think this is a good start for knowing about the render engines in Blender. I will just tell you one little setting in EV that I really like a lot. And you might also, if you enable Bloom from over here. Open this setting up, you will see when you bring your light close to this cube of yours and you can maybe like increase the intensity of blue. Also increase the light intensity, light power to 1,500 You will see with Bloom activated, your light is now glowing up a little bit. If you disable it, you can see the difference it adds. It is nice. It looks visually nice when you have bloom enabled in your lighting. Definitely, there are a lot of settings which you can do to make even look really good. Like it won't look as good as cycles. But there are a lot of different things that we can do over here. Maybe that is for some another time. Thank you as watching. I will see the next one. 13. Materials: Hello and welcome guys. In this lecture, we will be discussing about materials in Blender. Materials define how your object would appear visually in your render. And if you now go over into the rendered cube, you can see that your cube is appearing in this default gray color. And you can click on this Material tab over here, and you will see that the default material is already added. So if you want to remove this material, we can just select the material like this. And then click on this minus icon to remove the Material slot. Then we can click on this plus icon to add a new Material slot. And right now, the Material Slot is empty, so we can create a new material in this material slot. We can rename this material to cube. And then we can go over some of the settings. First, I will just shift and let's add a plane. By adding a plane, we can just see the shadow and it reflects light much better. So it's a little bit better to look at. I will select the cube once again, and the first property is the base color. You can just click on that and it can change the color of your material to whatever you like. Next we have is metallic. I will be going over some of the properties only and I won't be covering all of them as some of them are eligible at once. I will just be going over some of the basic ones. Metallic is basically when you set metallic to one, your cube would start to appear like a metal. If you set this to zero, it would appear non metal. It would look a little bit better when you have selected cycles because it is much more realistic. So we can change this to cycles. Also, I will switch to GP, compute and enable Noise All right guys, let's come back to the material tab now. And if we now increase the metallic value to one, you can see how your material reacts to the light and behaves like a metal now, while if you set zero, it behaves like a not metal, this property would be much more visible when we are using the roughness as well with it. I will also select this light. Let's say we just duplicate this and place, it may like this over here just so we have two lights. And then we can just select this cube. And now let's try the roughness value. What roughness does is it will basically decide how much light your object is reflecting. If you set this to one, it is basically reflecting no light right now, if you set this to zero, it is basically completely reflective. If you now add a cube to it, we scale this cube down, you can clearly see the reflection of this cube, like this small cube appear over here in this pink colored cube. Because right now, the roughness is set to zero, all the light is being reflected. Therefore, we can see this white cube appear in the reflection of this pink cube. Deprecate this, and see how it works as it is reflecting everything around it. Let's delete this now. And we can also see how metallic is reacting to roughness, because right now metallic is set to one. If you set this zero, roughness looks a lot different. If you will go close, it is still reflecting this cube, but we cannot really see it. It is really faint. If you want to see it properly, you can select this cube and maybe set the color to black. Then you can still see that it's still very reflective and reflecting the cube over here. But because the metallic value is set to zero, we cannot really see it if you set the color to black. If you set the color back to like what it was earlier, like this pinkish color, I will undo this instead of yeah, this was the earlier color. And you can see, we cannot see the reflection of the small cube even though it is there. We can see it like very faint. But if we increase the metallic value, it is much more visible as you can see. Yeah, now you can see the metallic value properly. If you said this to one, it looks like a metal. If you said this to zero, it looks like a non metal. Next we also have is alpha over here. Basically, alpha decides the transparency of your object. If you decrease the alpha, you will see slowly, your object will become see through. As you can see, we can see through the plane over here. This plane through this cube. If you keep decreasing it and set this zero, it will be completely invisible. But basically the alpha values for transparency, it's used to create stuff like glass and things like that. You can select this and maybe set the color to white, make it look more like glass. Or maybe even if we set the color completely to black, it would still look like glass in my opinion. Yeah, The alpha values used to create things like that, that have like translucent or transparent properties. Let's undo this back to the pink color only. Yeah. Next what we have is first I will set the alpha value to one, and we also have emission over here. If you increase emission, basically your cube will start to emit light. If I select the two lights over here and delete them from our scene, you can still see our cube is emitting light because we have given it emission. If you set to zero, right now, there is no light in our scene. But if we keep increasing the emission strength from over here, we can now use this cube as a light source. It is really cool. Emission can be used when there is like some material which you want to emit light, like maybe a lamp material or something like that. You can also change the color for it. As you can see, it will change the color of the light. Basically, emission is a type of light only. Let's undo this. The next thing to discuss is that right now we only have a single material in our object, but it can also give one object multiple materials. Let's see how we can do that. First, I will set the emission back to zero quick. Let's add the light so that we can see our things. We can set the power 2000 maybe duplicated over here. Also, I will just quickly switch back to V because it is a lot faster and it won't like lag or chop up the audio. Let's set the metallic to zero. Now to basically add multiple materials to your object. You can select the object, click on this plus icon over here, and we have created a new material slot. In that slot we can add a new material. And let's rename this two cube two. We can now give this a different color. Let's see, blue right now. As you can see, the whole object has this pink cube material. But we can go into the edit mode, if you remember, by pressing Tab to go into the edit mode, we can press three for face select. And we can select any of the faces to give the blue material to, let's select this side face or the top face. And we can select the blue material and click on a sign While this is selected, as you can see, as soon as we did that. Now this top phase has a different material from the rest of the cube. This way we can maybe add a new material. Hit on this new, and now let's a cube three. Maybe give it a green color. And now we can press staff to go into edit mode. Select this face, this time, select cube three and hit a sign. This is like really powerful, that you can add multiple materials to a single object and give them according to the faces or the geometry in that object. You can select whatever geometry you want to and then assign a particular material to it. You can also now once again, like select the blue material face, go back to the cube material and hit a sign once again. And now once again it will have that pink material again, pretty simple, can give this back the blue material. This way you can add any number of materials to your object and you can give them different properties like make one of the metallic, make another non metallic. You can make some like very tough and another one can be like not very tough. So yeah, so yeah, this much was pretty much it for materials in Blenda. Thank you guys, watching. I will see the next one. 14. Camera: Hello and welcome guys. In this lecture, we will be going over Camera in Blender and how we can use it to take our final renders. Now when we create a new Blender file, we are given a camera and a light. As you all know, you need to understand that whatever the camera sees through its lens is what will be rendered in your final render. To see what the camera view is, you need to press zero on your number pad, we already know this. Press zero on your number pad and you can see this is currently the camera view if we go over here in the rendered view and press zero. So we can see, we see something like this. Now if I go over to red and render this image, right now, I'm creating the final output of our project. In a sense, I render this out and you can see we have something like this, because this is what the camera sees right now. If let's say I select the camera, and let's say I press you to move it around and I rotate it like this on the z axis, press zero once again to view the camera view. Now we have something like this over here. Now if I will press Render and render an image you can see, now we have something like this. Because this is what the camera sees right now. You need to understand that whatever you like move around in your scene does not matter. You need to place your camera where you want the final render to look like. We will learn how we can move around the camera properly and place it like how we want. What you can do is instead of like pressing G to move the camera around the rotate it, there is a very nice way to do it. You can just set up your view like how you want it, like let's say I want the camera to look over here like this. Also, let's add a material to it. Or we can just create a new material for this cube. We name this to Fume and change the color of it like this. Maybe we can create another object just so we know. We place it over here like this is a material is a green color. Let's say we can right click and shade or to smooth this. All right guys, Now let's say I want my camera to look over here. I can set the three Dvi to however I like by moving around normally, like I move. Then you need to press control Alt and zero. As soon as you do that, you can see the camera will automatically line itself up with this view. Now for the fine tuning like you have to move it a little bit around. You can press N to open up the sidebar view and select view from over here. And then enable lock camera to view like now if you move around normally how you would navigate in Blender, like using your middle bounce button to move around, you can see the camera is logged to the view. Wherever I move my view, the camera will move with it. That is also pretty cool, and now I can properly place it however I like. Then when it is done, I can just disable this so that now it does not move when I move my view. Now if I press zero, you can see this is the camera view and I can move it around, perfect. If I press 12 now, which is the shortcut for rendering, then you will see that we are rendering like this. Once again. To go over this, if you want to change this once again, you can just enable this. Now press zero and then move around however you like. Let's say place it over here. Disable this, and then press F 12. This is what will be rendered. The shortcut to move your camera around is to press Control all 100. This will also move your camera to whatever your current view is. Then you can enable this camera to view and move it around to perfection. Perfect. Now we know how we can move our camera around. You can also select the camera. And there are a couple of more things that you can do. You can go in the object data properties and you can change things like the focal length. You can increase or decrease the focal length of the camera. You can also change it from perspective to orthographic. But orthographic looks like really weird, everything looks really flat. I will change it back to perspective. Only another thing that you can do is you can set the depth of field. Basically, whatever you set in focus will stay in focus and rest of the things will get slightly blurry to keep the thing you selected in focus, let's try that. You can enable this. Let's select the focus object as the cube. We can duplicate this cube and place this one behind over here, so that we can see if the depth of field is working or not. And then if you select the camera and decrease the F stop slightly, you'll see as you do that, you can see if you set it to completely like 0.1 everything gets a little bit blurry. But as you keep on increasing it, uh, the thing you selected in focus will stay in focus, while the thing that is like far behind in your camera, we'll get a little bit blurry. We can set this to maybe 0.4 and if you press 12 now to render it out, you can see these two things are in focus while the camera behind over here is blurry. All right, that is depth of field. And with that, we are pretty much done with this. In this lecture, we learned how we can set up our cameras to take our render. In the next video, we will be creating our final project for this C. Thank you. As watching. I'll see in the next one. 15. Final Project: Hello, I'm welcome guys. So in this lecture, we will be creating our final project for discourse. So we will be going with something minimalistic and simple so that everyone can follow and replicate it. I will start by just pressing A and then delete to start fresh and delete everything. Then we can press Shift plus A. And let's add a simple plane so that we can, again, set up our background. I will press N for the sidebar view so that you can see my dimensions over here. And I will press to scale up my plane. And I will scale it up around 15 meters like this. You can also type in the values over here that it is accurate, but we can just scale it roughly as well. Then I will select this plane, Press Shift plus D to duplicate it. And then press X to lock it on the X axis. Like this. We can just press R, then Y to rotate it like this. On the Y axis, I will type in 90 in my number pad, so that it is exactly rotated by 90 degrees. And you can type in here as well. Press then X and move it a little bit forwards. Something like this. All right, now in the last lecture, we learned how we can set up our camera. Let's just do that quickly. If you press shift A now and let's add a camera, you will see that the camera is like added in a beard rotation. What you can do is you can just delete this. You can press three for the right side orthographic view, so that we have this thing in the front. Because we want to set up the camera like this. If we press three, this thing is in the front of us like this. Then we can just press shift A and add a camera. Now you will see it is added exactly in that direction. Now just press then X and move it backwards like this. Over here, I will just press seven for top view. And place it right about here roughly. You can press zero on your number pad to see the camera view. Right now it is a little weird, so you can just press in Ad and move it a little bit upwards like this. Perfect. Now it is exactly straight and at the center of our screen. Obviously what we learned in the last lecture by setting up our view, then pressing control Alt and zero. You can do that as well, but we will be setting up a little bit more precisely like this. Now you can just press N, enable camera to view and you can zoom in or zoom out like however you like into your scene. Then we can just disable this. I think this is pretty good to start off. I will go into the rendered view now obviously we cannot really see anything because there are no lights. We will start by pressing shifting. And let's just add a simple area light you can press and Z, move this area light over here at the top above our camera. Go into the object data properties of the light. And obviously we want to increase the power of this. We can set this to something like 1,000 And as you can see now we have a very simple basic set up with a background and our lighting as well. You can quickly just go into cycles to see how everything looks over there. Obviously, it will look a little bit better in cycles. You guys, I'll come back to V because it is a little bit more snappy and fast. And we can just work quickly in that the final render would be in cycles only. So we'll just switch it at the last moment. We can press zero for a camera view. And let's just select our background now. And we can add a new material to this and rename this to Background. Select this one as well and give this the background material as well. I will be going with something like light bluish, something like this. I think you can just place it over here. Then you can click and play around with the hue, saturation and value. Basically, if you increase the saturation, you will see it moves over there, it will have more blue color in this. As you keep increasing the saturation, you will change the color completely. You can see it will rotate around the color wheel and the saturation will increase the amount of color in that particular color. Currently, we are at blue. If I keep increasing the saturation, now it is very much blue and it is now completely white value. If you decrease the value, your color will get darker. And if you increase the value, it will get brighter. You can control the value from over here. We can keep the value at full only. I think we can decrease it a little bit. Saturation. Obviously, I don't want it too saturated because then it would look weird. Yeah, obviously you can go for any color you like. I'm just trying to get something nice and I think this is pretty good. I'm happy with this. Yeah, let's just go ahead with this and we can later on change it. I will now let's at a cube. As I said, I will be going with somewhat like minimalistic scene. We can just basically add a couple of objects here and there, scale them up a little bit and create like a basic set up for our scene. I will just press then x, scale this cube down on the x axis. You can constantly press zero to check your camera view and how everything looks in your camera and you can just switch back to your normal view. This is how it works so that you can see how is everything looking in your final vendor zero. Once again, I will scale it up on the set axis a little bit. Yeah, that's particular, I think. Then I will just duplicate this cube. Bring it out over here in the front. Scale it down a lot. Scale it down on the art axis like this. And create like a smaller version of this. Then we can just select them both. Duplicate them. Press then Y, lock on the Y axis and place them over here like this. Now over here you can switch up the size, you can make this one. All I'm doing is I'm just pressing then scaling them up on different axes. We can also weekly just check between cycles. Another thing that we can do is we can select our area light. And you can see these shadows over here if you feel like they're too harsh. There are a couple of ways you can counter this. You can increase the power of the light to maybe like 15 so that they are lighter. Or you can make them a little bit softer by increasing the size of your area. Light like this, 3 meters. And you'll see now it is a lot more softer than earlier. If you undo this quickly, you can see there really harsh over here. If you increase it even more like five now, they are really, really soft. In minimalistic scenes, we definitely go for like softer shadows. We don't want like anything harsh like this. I will be going with somewhere around 5 meters for the size of the elite. Then, uh, now we can maybe add a sphere on top of these. Let's come back to the layout over here. One little trick I will show you. I think I've already mentioned this, but whenever you add a new object, it is added to this three D cursor. If whatever is added over here, you can change the location of this to make your life a little bit easier. Let's say select this and you can press Shift plus And cursor to select this will bring the cursor over here. Then you can press Shift and just add a UV sphere, so that it is exactly added over here. You can easily now place it at the center of this que. This is like to make your task a little bit easier. Right click and shade outer smooth. I will just duplicate this. Press G, then Y, and place it over here as well. Now to reset back this position of the three cursor, you can again press Shift plus and cursor to bold origin. And it will again come back to the bold origin. What I will do is I will give these two spheres the same background material. Again, select them both and Tss join them. Suppress control J to join them. Then go over here and give the background material to them like this. I will also go over here in the output region. In the output section of our properties enable render region that it only renders this part. Basically what this will do is it will help us focus on what we are rending currently and not anything else. Let's come back over here. This is like very simple set up. Now we can add like a couple more things. Let's say we can add a cylinder ten. Scale this cylinder down. Seven for top view. Let's place it over here. Scale it up a little bit. You can create like a simple podium like thing if you like, go on to Google and search for like minimalistic scenes. You can just type in minimalistic scenes. In Google search, you'll find like loads and loads of different minimalistic scenes will like different color compositions and objects with this type of look only. And you can try creating some of them on your own. You can also create a new material and give this a little bit like light beach color. Now I want to copy this material to all of these objects. Again, you can just select them all one by one and select from here. But there is like a nice shortcut to do it. You can select all of the objects that you want to add, The material to hold shift and Cleepon. Clicking on them, select them all. Then at last, you can select this one, because this one has the material that we want to copy. Then you can press Control plus L and it will open the link. Transfer data, Basically, you can link materials like this. If you select it, you can see all of the materials are now linked like this. We can now control them however we want. As I said, a light beach type of color. We can definitely decrease the saturation on it a little bit. I want it to be like really faint and decrease a little bit of value as well. Something like this. If you want, you can select your area, light, and decrease the power of it a little bit that you're seeing a little bit contrasty. Not too much though. Let's go with 850. Now we can just try rendering it. A couple of things that you want to go over before rendering. Go into the render property section and you can check the samples over here. Currently, the samples are 4096. Basically, it will calculate 4096 samples before rendering it. Sometimes it might take a long while. You can decrease this 1,000 and also make sure to enable noise from over here. You don't need to do anything else with the settings just enable denoise. Basically, if you enable it all the noisiness that you basically see in your renders, it would be removed at the end of it. That's a pretty good feature, you can just enable this. Another thing that you need to check is the output properties. Over here we have the resolution. Resolution is currently 1920 by 108, which is like TenTP. If you want, you can increase it from over here and you can decrease it also. You can also give the weird resolutions like this as you can see. But yeah, I will just keep it 1920 by ten ATP only. And then you can go over to render and render image. You can see guys, the render has started at the start. It will be like really noisy but slowly. It will fix as the samples increase. Over here you can see it will calculate all 1,000 samples that we had entered earlier. It was 4096, so you can guess it will take a long while to get 4096 samples, but you can just reduce the number of samples because after a while, it gets pretty redundant. All right guys, the render is done now you can see it from over here. You can go to Image and hit Save, and you can save the render as well. You can choose the file format like Jpeg or PNG. Make sure to increase the quality of 200. And you can save it wherever you want. Let's cancel this, close this up. Also go back to layout. Yeah, as I said, I will be creating something very simple. This is really, really simple stuff. You can definitely experiment around with this. You can change the things like material, like all of the objects, add different objects as well to create something of your own, a different composition. You can also like switch up to the materials, like making them like reflective or maybe metallic. You can see. You can make them reflective by reducing the roughness to zero. This thing that you see over here is basically the reflection of your area light. It is being reflected as like this white square. You can make the metallic like this. You can see how that reacts. Obviously you can switch up the colors as well. This color is a little bit better as it is, like really light. Yeah, it looks like a little bit more minimalistic in my opinion. As I said, you can keep on at different objects, play around with them, play with different compositions. You can maybe like add a cube, place it over here, Let's see, scale it down like this. *** back into the layout. We can just create something like this. Press S, then X. Then we can just duplicate it. Press G, then Y. Move it over here. Shift press Pain, shift D. Place it over here. Let's select all four of them. Press control J. We join them together. Psht plus D, and again, press Y and place this over here. Yeah, I think that's pretty good. As I said, you can play around with the composition, colors, lighting lighting. You can switch, just for an example, you can change the color of the lighting as well. And you can see it gives totally different results. You can also play around with the positioning of the lighting. If you just select the lighting to rotate it, you can play around with the angle of the lighting. And you can see even this gives us different looks. You can also create like multiple different lights. Create a set up. Rotate, this one. Press our, then Z and rotate on the z axis. Yeah, you can press seven for top view. Come back over here and this way it is easier to place around the lightings. You can create like a set up. You can create two different lightings with different colors. You can see how this gives you a totally different result. You can play around with the power of them. You can also add like multiple types of lighting like we have definitely not sun, but point spot in area will do pretty good in these type of scenes. I will undo this so that I have my basic lighting back. But I just want you to mention that you can play around with this. Yeah, that would be the project for discourse like experiment with this. To change up the lighting, to change up the composition of the scene, add more objects, you can play around with the materials and play around with the colors. Yeah, basically, get creative with it and post your renders onto the project panel for this class. Let's give this a final render. You can check the samples from over here for your final renders, you can maybe increase the samples if you want to and then just hit 12. All right guys, once again the render is done. You can go to the image and save your render if you want to from over here. And yeah, with this, we are basically done with this course. Thank you guys for watching. I will see you in the next one.