#Donut in blender for free#
#Donut in blender how to#

The donuts are a little better without the UV map I’d experimented with on the icing, and I rotated the icing round on one of them so the fact it’s duplicated is less obvious in the shot. I forgot to increase the thickness modifier on the plate though, so it still isn’t quite convincing.

I reduced the gloss inside it too but increased the gloss on the plate.

I decided to switch the black mug for a blue one, in the hope of brightening up the image overall. The inside of the mug seems a little too glossy as well. Also, the plate is unrealistically thin and feels quite papery, and the overall lighting is kind of gloomy. The handle of the cup is too heavily creased at the seam, the mug itself is too matte a texture, there are wrinkles in the icing on the donuts (I was trying to be clever with a UV map there, but let’s scrap that for now), and the repetition of the sprinkles is quite evident right in the centre of the image. Working through the tutorial, this is the first render I didn’t immediately throw on the fire, but it still has its problems. And I was right: I learned a lot!Īnyway, here are some of the renders I took as I worked my way through it:

BlenderGuru is largely regarded as the authority when it comes to teaching this stuff, so I suspected I could learn a few things from going through this “beginner” tutorial. So… I figured it’s about time to complete the famous “Donut Tutorial”.Īlthough I already knew enough (enough to get by at least) about 3D modelling, materials, lighting, rendering and so on, I’m still something of a student when it comes to the Cycles rendering engine. A lot of my learning was with resources published by Andrew Price, also known as BlenderGuru, but until recently I had never actually followed his Blender Beginner Tutorial Series. I'm currently creating lot of donuts, and will post my progress here.I have been using Blender 3D for around eight or nine years now, following a bunch of tutorials as well as working unassisted. The playlist is really fun to follow, Andrew is a fantastic teacher.

#Donut in blender for free#

Blender as a software was already overwhelming because of its strange and complicated interface and concepts, and the learning material was making it worse.Īnyway, this week when Youtube's algorithm decided I should care about Blender, I quickly found out that a lot of high quality learning material is now available for free and if very high resolution! I decided to go with Blender Guru's playlist 'Blender Beginner Tutorial Series'. I can still remember how confusing video tutorials (or written tutorials) where at the time, with terrible audio, low resolution, and in general instructions that were confusing and difficult to follow.

#Donut in blender how to#

At the time seeing what they were doing piqued my interest and I tried to learn how to use Blender as a past time activity, though I never got to the point of creating something interesting. I've first learned about Blender more than 10 years ago from friends who were quite serious at making 3D content. That was enough to convince me to look for Blender tutorals as I was failing to get any good results by my own. Hendy's progress as seen in the video is very impressive to say the least, and the scene he created and showcase at the end talks to me. Such as this really cool progress report from Hendy August: I had decided to do a simple logo in 3D using Blender for a side project, and somehow the suggestion algorithm picked that fact and decided to list videos of people documenting their progress creatin 3D content. A few days ago Youtube's algorithm had a small surprise for me.