Reply To: Learning Blender – starting with 2.8

[Jonathan Gonzalez]

For someone brand new to Blender the differences between 2.79 and 2.8 may confuse people at first, especially since 2.8 isn’t a full release yet and things can change between new versions. That said I would still recommend going through the flows here. The concepts and everything you’d learn are still the same, the only hurdle you’d come across is trying to find those same tools and shortcuts within 2.8 but it shouldn’t be too difficult. 

I started with older versions of Blender but didn’t start getting more serious about it until 2.8 came out and while I did struggle at times it gets easier the more you use it. You could also start off with our 2.8 content to help bridge that gap quicker. Here are a few I found:

https://cgcookie.com/course/production-design-in-eevee 

https://cgcookie.com/course/creating-procedural-sand-dunes-with-blender-2-8 

https://cgcookie.com/course/creating-mini-tanks-for-a-mobile-game 

https://cgcookie.com/course/creating-animated-sci-fi-game-assets 

The first two are fairly short and should be relatively easy to follow and will teach you different things between the two. The two after that are more in-depth and cover a project based workflow to create a specific asset. Even if you feel you’re not experienced enough, you can watch them to get passive information from it. Sometimes just watching a tutorial or course can give you a good overview of how something would be created even if you don’t fully understand everything being taught.