Blender Basics
From installing Blender through modeling, materials, texture, lighting, and rendering.
Build a single coffee cup and follow the steps through to a finished image.
The articles are in workflow order, covering the basics of Blender from start to finish.
Articles
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2026.07.11
What Is Blender? The Free 3D Creation Suite Worth Learning in the AI Era
Blender is free 3D software for building models, illustration backgrounds, animation, and video — and for finishing the work yourself.
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2026.07.18
How to Install Blender and Change the Interface Language
Download, install, and switch the interface language in about 15 minutes, with the common pitfalls flagged as you go.
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2026.07.25
Blender Modeling Basics: Move, Rotate, Scale, Extrude, and Modifiers
From viewport navigation to move, rotate, scale, and modifiers — learn the core modeling operations by building a coffee cup.
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2026.08.01
Blender Material Basics: Base Color, Roughness, and Metallic
Give a coffee cup a ceramic surface, and learn what Base Color, Roughness, and Metallic each control.
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2026.08.08
Blender Material Nodes Explained: Building a Glass Material in EEVEE
Build a glass tumbler in EEVEE and see how material nodes handle color, roughness, and transmission.
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2026.08.15
Blender Texture Basics: Base Color, Roughness, and Normal Maps
Build a worn wooden table under a coffee cup, and see why a Base Color image alone only gets you a photo on a board.