Blender

Keys

• j - cut face between two selected vertices
• p - separate
• Ctrl-Shift-Click - select all on shortest path
• k, c, a, 45 - knife, cut through whole model, angle, 45 degrees.
• f3 - search
  • f3, shear - shear without distorting
• i, b - inset, boundary - retains the mirror merge line
• o - proportional toggle
• alt-g - move object to world origin
• alt-z - make object transparent

Tools

• Lattice Tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHgT7VU5mD4&t=387s
  • frame distort a whole object

Surface Deformation

• Flatten something onto a surface (Shrink Wrap): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YksPYPa05LM
• Distort detailed geometry to a surface (Shrink Wrap + Surface Deform): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XYuno3DgAo
• Lattice Modifier + Shrink Wrap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hq92JvHq2g
• Blender Displacement Modifier for applying a texture map onto a surface.

Modeling Cars / Spaceships

• Mapping a mesh to plan views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHj8mzQnTx8
• Refining a mesh from reference images: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12WWXcRcPtQ
  • Steps 4, 5: Retopology, Subdivision Surface, Smooth, Decimate: https://youtu.be/12WWXcRcPtQ?si=M6FrFaRC5PJ2zx5F&t=170
• Low Poly Range Rover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n_lmuEQyZM
• Speed Model Spaceship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVXuPJuAMJ4

Low Poly Modeling

• Low Poly Techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ-XW5xLNsw
• Low Poly Mistakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igCWKwdxlug
• Low Poly Modular Spaceships: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZe00W_WDq0
• 20 Tips for Low Poly Modeling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HLMmaQM8Pg
• Low Poly Building: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d03dJUlIeWU
• 7 Topology Tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSLELihVi6I
  • #7 is Loop Tools
• Tire Model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ETftqoV7H0
• Quad Topology Car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL_CQNHoWe0

Geometry Nodes

• Blender Guru Tutorial #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V10GBrmYIDM

Filters

• Cloth Filter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPlI-U2FJhU

Materials

Transparency

• Material -> Settings -> Blend Mode -> Alpha Blend -> Set Alpha in Surface Settings

Business

• Selling Assets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VzcEuZDpME