Tutorials

Three point lighting is a classic lighting technique in photography and filmmaking. Here’s how to set it up in Blender for free…

HDRIs in Blender are great for backgrounds and lighting, but sometimes we need to rotate them and here’s how to do it…

Blender can be tough to learn but these Blender tutorial channels on YouTube are my favorite places to learn for free…

Material shading in Blender can be intimidating. This is an introduction to shading concepts for the absolute beginner.

Light groups in Blender are a way to adjust light from individual lamps after we render. It’s all done in the compositor. Light groups are awesome and here’s how to use them.

The Real Snow add-on comes pre-installed with Blender and adds procedural snow to the top of objects.

A complete guide to keyframe animation in Blender 3D. How to add a keyframe, the graph editor and dope sheet, auto-keying and much more.

Bloom is the technical name for a glowing effect in imagery. It creates a feathered light glowing around an object. Bloom can be accomplished in Blender. The process for adding Bloom and Glare in Blender differs in Eevee and Cycles. We will start with Eevee, but click here to jump to the Cycles part. For…

Dynamic Sky is a free add-on that comes pre-installed in Blender. It just needs to be activated in the user preferences. The add-on allows us to create custom, procedural sky textures for our world – right inside Blender. Skies created with Dynamic Sky aren’t going to be as realistic as an HDRI. I have another…

Texture baking in Blender is complicated but here’s a detailed step-by-step guide on how to bake PBR textures.