Blender Beginner’s Guide

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Kael Mahnken, Xingchen Huang

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Arts and Humanities, Information and Communication Technologies

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Digital Learning, Other

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Blender is a free and open-source 3D creation suite that supports Windows, macOS, Linux, and other platforms. It is widely used for creating animated films, visual effects, 3D models for printing, motion graphics, video games, and virtual reality content. This guide acts as an introduction to becoming familiar with Blender.

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This is a beginner’s guide to using Blender and introduces the interface, basic operations, edit mode, and provides a practical, step-by-step example for the process of creating a 3D object in Blender.

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Mahnken, K., & Huang, X. (28/08/2025). Blender beginner’s guide. National Resource Hub (Ireland). Retrieved from: https://hub.teachingandlearning.ie/resource/blender-beginners-guide/ License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).

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