Getting started - Blender Tutorial

(upbeat music) - Welcome to the class. Thank you so much for being here. I'm excited to get started. And we are just going to take a little bit of time going over your workspace, things you might need. So Blender is an open source 3D creation tool for rendering, animating, lighting, modeling, doing basically anything you might need to bring a 3D scene to life, Blender has that capability. Beyond that, you can even do video editing, 2D animation. The possibilities are really almost endless. So in this class, we're going to go beyond the basic cube that you start off with in blender and start editing it. Being able to control how rough a material is, or how shiny it is, being able to adjust the color of that object, and being able to duplicate that object, modify it, so you can really start to fill a shelf out. And then at the end, we will also add some lighting and you'll have a realistic image that you can start sharing around as your first Blender project. So when you're ready to get…