From Student to Showrunner: Best Tips to Learn Blender Fast

Sharing is caring: I am excited to share my favorite sources of Blender knowledge that helped me switch to Blender (after years of animating in Maya), boost my skills fast, and create the most flexible rigs for my Funny Legs animation show. ANIMATION ✨ ‪@BrianKouhi‬ will teach you how to switch from Maya to Blender:    • Blender for Maya Animators | Full Guide   ✨ ‪@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN‬ shows how to create an animation scene from linking a character to the final compositing:    • Full animation tutorial in Blender   ✨ Best explanation of the power of pivot by ‪@lucianomunoz‬ :    • Using Pivots for Animation in Blender!   GREASE PENCIL ✨ ‪@kdsketch‬ created a great guide into the world of GP:    • EVERYTHING You Need to Animate with Blende...   ✨ Go to ‪@SophieJantak‬ for beautiful GP brushes and more GP tutorials:    • Getting a watercolour style with grease pe...   ✨ ⁨‪@SketchySquirrel‬ made a great series of tutorials on rigging a GP character:    • Blender Grease Pencil Head-Turn Part 1: Dr...   DARK OUTLINE FOR 3D CHARACTERS ✨ Several people asked me about it, but I didn't mention it in my BCon presentation. For the dark outline on my 3D characters I use the technique that I've learned from ‪@GAKUTADA‬:    • Water Color Look in Blender with Grease Pe...   ❤️ There are many more nice tutorials out there, but it's my short list for you to start without feeling overwhelmed. I collected these and some other videos that might help you dive into Blender in one playlist that I will update over time:    • Study Blender   RIGGING 🔥 Amazing rigging course by ‪@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGN‬ ⁨- https://www.p2design-academy.com/p/th... RIG THE COLOR ❤️ My tutorials on how to rig mesh and Grease Pencil color change - two YouTube shorts and a text instruction in my Blender Artists blog: ✍️ https://blenderartists.org/t/how-i-ri... 🎦    • How to rig the color change? Easy #blender...   🎦    • Want to rig grease pencil color change? Ea...   FUNNY LEGS SHOW 🐶 If you are new here: hi, I am absolutely excited to meet you! I am Yana, a 3D animator and a creator of the Funny Legs animation show. You can watch all the episodes here:    • Magic Tricks for Dog | Funny Legs Episode ...   ⚡️ And if you want to learn more about the project, I was honored to present Funny Legs show and tell about my journey at Blender Conference. You can watch my talk here:    • Funny Legs: a 2D show by a 3D animator — B...   Follow and\or reach out here: Instagram:   / cg_hitchhiker   LinkedIn:   / yana-zavialova-ab0b3a244   TikTok:   / cg_hitchhiker   0:00 - Intro 0:27 - My favorite Blender tutorials 0:59 - Best rigging course 1:41 - My first color rig tutorials 1:58 - 6th episode sneak peek 2:14 - Flashback to 2018 2:53 - My student short film The Robbery #animation #blender #study