#Free blender models donut and coffee series#
#Free blender models donut and coffee free#

The tutorial series took me about four days, working two to four hours each day. It really is a full-fledged introductory course to Blender. In the course, you’ll also model a glass coffee cup.īecause of this, you’ll want to set aside a few days to complete the course.

Aside from creating the donut, you’ll also get to create a glass cup filled with coffee, creating some nice contrast with the organic styling of the donut, compared to the more rigid design of the glass cup. You’ll learn about many of Blender’s features, such as using nodes to create textures, keyframing animation, rendering settings, and more. The donut tutorial series covers a lot more than just modeling a donut from scratch. Recognizing the 80/20 Rule to help make Blender less intimidating. This helped me take a step back and breakdown the intimidation that comes with learning a new program, such as Blender. This was immediately something I could relate to from my work in programs like After Effects. He mentions the 80/20 Rule, which states that you’re going to use 20% of the features 80% of the time. One of the first things Andrew explains in the series is about what aspects of Blender you’ll use the most. Tabs and panels appear much more cohesive, and it’s easier for a beginner to get their bearings. Now the UI has a more natural structure and feel, and looks right on par with other 3D programs-like Cinema 4D and 3DS Max. However, in 2018, Blender totally revamped the UI with version 2.80. In the past, Blender’s UI always looked overwhelming for new users like myself. Your first impression will likely come from Blender’s user interface. I would highly recommend the tutorial by Andrew Price, it’s easy to follow and covers a lot of basics you will need to start modeling your own pieces once you’re finished.Ĭlick below to be directed to the Andrews Blender Donut tutorial.Trailer for the Blender Guru’s Donut tutorial series. I’m already planning my list of designs I want to use, I think first up will be my take on a lightsaber or something else…… Blender – Donut & Cup progress As a CAD user, I have found it to be quite a challenge to learn Blender, but I can now see that the possibilities are endless for design, rendering, and animation. Blender TutorialsĪlongside the printing of the shield, I have been making good progress on the Blender tutorial for the Donut and Cup of coffee. Over the weekend ill be sanding and assembling the pieces together, making sure everything fits, and updating any parts of the model I think need it. I have to be sure all the pieces can fit together properly before I make the file available, hence why it’s taking so long. ill sand down the already printed pieces so they can slot in too, but the updated model should allow for easy assembly. After printing the first two Captain America pieces, the tabs that get inserted need a little bit more space to allow the pieces to be slotted together. I had to bust open fusion 360 to make some slight changes to the star piece model.

#Free blender models donut and coffee free#

Thankfully I have both printers free to complete it, this will take around 3 days to do. So this week, I have five-star parts to print and they roughly take 8 hours each to print. The outside ring took a long time to finish as I was completing some Etsy orders for some new customers. The Blender donut has been a bit challenging too, but I’m impressed with the progress made this week. At the moment everything is going according to plan.

Captain America -So this week I have been making serious progress on the centre star piece of the shield.