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20 Aluminum Pergola Design Ideas

A pergola is an ideal for creating beautiful environments in your garden and terrace. Pergolas are usually custom-built and made of wood, but aluminum and vinyl pergolas are growing in popularity because they last a long time and need almost no maintenance to continue looking good. Since aluminum and vinyl require special tools and techniques to work with, these materials are most commonly available as pre-manufactured kits. Add beauty and shade without the maintenance of wood with an Aluminum Pergola. Aluminum pergola is the right choice to be applied in a place that experiences the changing climates very often. Aluminum is a lightweight material and arguably cheap. Besides, this is also stainless. This material is suitable to be applied at home with a variety of themes even if you apply a modern theme in your home.  Basically, garden will always fit combined with any theme. This also applies for the pergola. Therefore in this article we will show some examples of pergola that use aluminum as the primary material. Enjoy our beautiful collection of 20 Aluminum Pergola Design Ideas. Check this out.

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29 Bathrooms with Stylish Floating Sinks

 A gallery of a wide variety of stylish bathrooms designed to include floating sinks, showcasing the design styles of many different bathrooms.

Welcome to our gallery featuring a wide variety of Bathrooms with Floating Sinks.

Welcome to our gallery featuring a wide variety of bathroom designs with floating sinks and vanities.

There are so many different ways to design a bathroom space, and you will see a large variety of these designs in our gallery.

While some bathrooms are a grand space full of golden accents and seemingly fit for a king, many times the bathroom must be confined to a smaller area.

Floating sinks are a great way to take up less space for these smaller bathrooms. Even if the sink is still a large one, since they are mounted to a wall and do not extend to the floor, they always create the illusion that they are taking up less space.

While these sinks are useful in small spaces, they are not restricted for use when space conservation is important. You will notice that there are many floating sinks with a “trough” style design.

These large sinks make it possible for multiple people to be able to use the sink at the same time. They also eliminate the need for  extra plumbing for additional units.

We wanted to feature a wide range of bathrooms that feature these floating sinks to give you a better idea of how to incorporate them into a design. We love the look of the sinks and we know that you will too once you see them in these finished bathrooms!

In many of the images shown below, you will notice that there are drawers or cabinet spaces below the floating sinks. The fact that they do not extend to the floor allows for this extra storage space and can be perfect bathrooms.

Not only are the sinks a great feature in these rooms, but the design styles are all unique and appealing. Whether you have a budget without a ceiling, or just some spare cash to work renovations into your bathroom, there is something for you here.

Please enjoy our gallery and be sure to pay attention to the floating sinks featured, as well as the incredible designs in these bathrooms!

This bathroom is covered in large tile from the floors to the top of the walls. Less than halfway up the wall, the tile changes to a lighter shade of grey, which gives the room some depth. The utilities are clean and white, with chrome faucets and piping. The stained wood door frame and window frame are accented as they are the only variation of color in the space.

This bathroom is covered in large tile from the floors to the top of the walls. Less than halfway up the wall, the tile changes to a lighter shade of grey, which gives the room some depth. The utilities are clean and white, with chrome faucets and piping. The stained wood door frame and window frame are accented as they are the only variation of color in the space.

The angled ceiling makes this bathroom a cozy small space. The tub is tucked in the smallest corner of the room with tiles running along the perimeter of the bath and faucet, serving as a backsplash. A window with frosted glass panes on both the top and bottom sides allow for natural light to fill the room. Two small floating sinks are featured.

The angled ceiling makes this bathroom a cozy small space. The tub is tucked in the smallest corner of the room with tiles running along the perimeter of the bath and faucet, serving as a backsplash. A window with frosted glass panes on both the top and bottom sides allow for natural light to fill the room. Two small floating sinks are featured.

This large floating sink is accommodated by a white wooden bench beneath it. This allows for little people to sit next to one another while washing up. The floor is covered in square white tile, and the walls are covered with vertical white wood panels running two thirds up the wall. The outer surface of both the bath and floating sink are sky blue, which helps to accent the space.

This large floating sink is accommodated by a white wooden bench beneath it. This allows for little people to sit next to one another while washing up. The floor is covered in square white tile, and the walls are covered with vertical white wood panels running two thirds up the wall. The outer surface of both the bath and floating sink are sky blue, which helps to accent the space.

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This is a fairly large bathroom with a beige colored floor and wall behind the toilet. The opposite wall is white, and features a glass wall shower, as well as a floating sink. The room is well lit by both natural light and artificial lighting around the mirror.

This is a fairly large bathroom with a beige colored floor and wall behind the toilet. The opposite wall is white, and features a glass wall shower, as well as a floating sink. The room is well lit by both natural light and artificial lighting around the mirror.

Brown tile covers the walls of this bathroom, with a lighter beige accent tiles around the floating sinks and mirrors. The lighter tiles divide the darker, giving this room a high sense of style. The floor features brown tile as well, however the pattern is different from the walls, so the color and style is not overwhelming.

Brown tile covers the walls of this bathroom, with a lighter beige accent tiles around the floating sinks and mirrors. The lighter tiles divide the darker, giving this room a high sense of style. The floor features brown tile as well, however the pattern is different from the walls, so the color and style is not overwhelming.

See more of this collection here. Designed by FAP Ceramiche.

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This bathroom features a section of large dark tile behind the sink and in the lower half of the shower. The small square tile backsplash runs along the wall behind the tub, as well as above the sink and in a vein through the middle of the shower. A slanted ceiling features a skylight, which helps to keep the space bright.

This bathroom features a section of large dark tile behind the sink and in the lower half of the shower. The small square tile backsplash runs along the wall behind the tub, as well as above the sink and in a vein through the middle of the shower. A slanted ceiling features a skylight, which helps to keep the space bright.

This bathroom has a stylish design with black wood paneling in a unique pattern on the floor. White walls and cabinetry contrast the dark floor, and a low hanging pendant light works with the circular mirror to add to the modern atmosphere in the room.

This bathroom has a stylish design with black wood paneling in a unique pattern on the floor. White walls and cabinetry contrast the dark floor, and a low hanging pendant light works with the circular mirror to add to the modern atmosphere in the room.

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A corner bath sits directly beneath a large skylight in this bathroom, with a toilet and bidet in the adjacent corner. The ceiling is angled and there is a vein of square tile acting as a defining line between the walls and ceiling. A floating sink sits to the right of the toilet area and features a wooden stained shelf below for storage.

A corner bath sits directly beneath a large skylight in this bathroom, with a toilet and bidet in the adjacent corner. The ceiling is angled and there is a vein of square tile acting as a defining line between the walls and ceiling. A floating sink sits to the right of the toilet area and features a wooden stained shelf below for storage.

This unique space is accented by the thin birch trees standing to the side of the sink and opposite of the shower, These limbs act as both accents for the room as well as hangers for towels and clothing. Adjacent to these is a floating sink and large mirror, with a toilet directly next to the sink.

This unique space is accented by the thin birch trees standing to the side of the sink and opposite of the shower, These limbs act as both accents for the room as well as hangers for towels and clothing. Adjacent to these is a floating sink and large mirror, with a toilet directly next to the sink.

See more of this home here. Designed by BERLINRODEO.

A section of wall protrudes from the surrounding wall, and features a floating sink, a toilet, and a cabinet below the sink for storage. The ceiling contrasts the white tile with its golden wood tones, and the large window lets in plenty of natural light to illuminate the room.

A section of wall protrudes from the surrounding wall, and features a floating sink, a toilet, and a cabinet below the sink for storage. The ceiling contrasts the white tile with its golden wood tones, and the large window lets in plenty of natural light to illuminate the room.

This bathroom features a wall covered in tile that forms a unique pattern. The blues and brown color works together to contribute to a calming atmosphere, white the clawfoot tub and floating sink add classical appeal. There is a large window near the head of the tub, which lets in light for the room.

This bathroom features a wall covered in tile that forms a unique pattern. The blues and brown color works together to contribute to a calming atmosphere, white the clawfoot tub and floating sink add classical appeal. There is a large window near the head of the tub, which lets in light for the room.

Source: Zillow Digs™

A large luxurious jet tub takes up a good amount of space in this room, and sits upon a light tile floor. You can see from the walls that this space sits on a loft in the upper section of the home. There is a floating vanity on the far end of the room. A large bed sits on a natural wood frame, matching the hardwood floor in the rest of the space.

A large luxurious jet tub takes up a good amount of space in this room, and sits upon a light tile floor. You can see from the walls that this space sits on a loft in the upper section of the home. There is a floating vanity on the far end of the room. A large bed sits on a natural wood frame, matching the hardwood floor in the rest of the space.

A modern style bathroom, this space features a light hardwood floor, which runs halfway up the wall and ends just below the mirrored cabinets. A long floating sink is featured just below the cabinetry, while a glass wall shower is featured on the opposite side of the room.

A modern style bathroom, this space features a light hardwood floor, which runs halfway up the wall and ends just below the mirrored cabinets. A long floating sink is featured just below the cabinetry, while a glass wall shower is featured on the opposite side of the room.

See more of this home here. Designed by Burnazzi Feltrin Architetti.

This bathroom has a very calming atmosphere, established by the rich wood panel walls and the large rectangular tub in the center of the room. A small table sits to the side of the tub and holds various toiletry items as well as decorative flowers, which also help to accent the room.

This bathroom has a very calming atmosphere, established by the rich wood panel walls and the large rectangular tub in the center of the room. A small table sits to the side of the tub and holds various toiletry items as well as decorative flowers, which also help to accent the room.

A small space holds a toilet, and floating sink, and corner mounted mirror. An accent wall takes up the corner space, and features a steering wheel decoration that doubles as a place to hang hand towels. The dark walls help to contrast the white utilities and white accent wall.

A small space holds a toilet, and floating sink, and corner mounted mirror. An accent wall takes up the corner space, and features a steering wheel decoration that doubles as a place to hang hand towels. The dark walls help to contrast the white utilities and white accent wall.

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This bathroom features a light blue textured tile floor, and the tile runs up the entirety of the wall up to just below the ceiling. A floating sink hangs below a mirror with a small shelf for toiletries. There is a large corner tub, with a shelf just above the tub for storing toiletries and other decoration.

This bathroom features a light blue textured tile floor, and the tile runs up the entirety of the wall up to just below the ceiling. A floating sink hangs below a mirror with a small shelf for toiletries. There is a large corner tub, with a shelf just above the tub for storing toiletries and other decoration.

This bathroom shares a space with a washer and dryer, but there is still plenty of room to move around comfortably. Large grey tiles cover the walls and create a futuristic feel for the room. Notice the corner of a stylish carpet covering the floor. The bath and shower are taking up a large space, but their positioning helps to conserve area in the bathroom.

This bathroom shares a space with a washer and dryer, but there is still plenty of room to move around comfortably. Large grey tiles cover the walls and create a futuristic feel for the room. Notice the corner of a stylish carpet covering the floor. The bath and shower are taking up a large space, but their positioning helps to conserve area in the bathroom.

See more of this home here. Designed by Neopolis.

Natural wood fills this bathroom, covering the floor, the walls, and the ceiling. A clawfoot tub is featured in the corner between two windows. Directly to the left of the tub and window are two floating sinks sharing one large mirror.

Natural wood fills this bathroom, covering the floor, the walls, and the ceiling. A clawfoot tub is featured in the corner between two windows. Directly to the left of the tub and window are two floating sinks sharing one large mirror.

Source: Zillow Digs™

This bathroom has a bright and vibrant color scheme, with a checkered pattern on the wall behind the sink and counter. The unique counter space has various openings that reveal commodities like toilet paper, but they can also be hidden if necessary. The floating sink has a unique transparent glass structure.

This bathroom has a bright and vibrant color scheme, with a checkered pattern on the wall behind the sink and counter. The unique counter space has various openings that reveal commodities like toilet paper, but they can also be hidden if necessary. The floating sink has a unique transparent glass structure.

This angle reveals a view from inside the shower. You will notice a wavy pattern on the interior of the shower, while outside of this space the material transitions into grey tile. There is a floating sink located on the left, and a small doorway on the right of the far wall.

This angle reveals a view from inside the shower. You will notice a wavy pattern on the interior of the shower, while outside of this space the material transitions into grey tile. There is a floating sink located on the left, and a small doorway on the right of the far wall.

See more of this home here. Designed by Neopolis.

This bathroom is spacious and actually is separated into two different levels. The lower level holds the toilet, as well as a floating sink and mirror. The upper level to the left features the tub and windows looking out over the city. The green hand towels and faux green flowers help to accent the space.

This bathroom is spacious and actually is separated into two different levels. The lower level holds the toilet, as well as a floating sink and mirror. The upper level to the left features the tub and windows looking out over the city. The green hand towels and faux green flowers help to accent the space.

Source: Zillow Digs™

This bathroom features a light tile floor, with sections of tile that run up the wall behind the sink, and around the corners of the room. The floating sink is very wide, and is suspended just below a mirror. Artificial lighting provides most of the light for this space.

This bathroom features a light tile floor, with sections of tile that run up the wall behind the sink, and around the corners of the room. The floating sink is very wide, and is suspended just below a mirror. Artificial lighting provides most of the light for this space.

Large tile covers the floor and wall behind the sink in this bathroom, while in the shower smaller square tiles show some variation of color. Across from the sink and toilet area, there is a towel rack and a window, which allows natural light to flow into the room.1

Large tile covers the floor and wall behind the sink in this bathroom, while in the shower smaller square tiles show some variation of color. Across from the sink and toilet area, there is a towel rack and a window, which allows natural light to flow into the room.

See more of this home here. Designed by Villa Chic.

This angle focuses on the floating sink and the shelving unit just below. Still, you can see the transition from large tiles on the bottom of the walls, moving up to long vertically oriented tiles just above. The shower has a glass surround with convenient soap dispensers within.

This angle focuses on the floating sink and the shelving unit just below. Still, you can see the transition from large tiles on the bottom of the walls, moving up to long vertically oriented tiles just above. The shower has a glass surround with convenient soap dispensers within.

Artistic appeal is flourishing in this bathroom. The paintings on the wall are abstract, but suggest flowers or roses. The mirror reflects the design on the wall and adds to the effect. Just below the mirror, the large floating sink holds a small elegant vase with blue flowers to help accent the space.

Artistic appeal is flourishing in this bathroom. The paintings on the wall are abstract, but suggest flowers or roses. The mirror reflects the design on the wall and adds to the effect. Just below the mirror, the large floating sink holds a small elegant vase with blue flowers to help accent the space.

Source: Zillow Digs™

Small square blue tiles cover the interior of the shower, while the walls transition to a solid baby blue behind the sinks and mirror. Beneath the floating sinks there is a set of white drawers that provide plenty of storage space. In the reflection of the mirror, you can see a chrome towel rack on the opposite wall.

Small square blue tiles cover the interior of the shower, while the walls transition to a solid baby blue behind the sinks and mirror. Beneath the floating sinks there is a set of white drawers that provide plenty of storage space. In the reflection of the mirror, you can see a chrome towel rack on the opposite wall.

This bathroom takes up a large space, with a large white wall separating the bathroom area from the bedroom. While the walls consist of a traditional red brick, the floors and separating wall are stark white, providing a healthy balance for the space. A trough style floating sink is featured on the inside of the separation wall, as well as a glass walled shower on the far end.

This bathroom takes up a large space, with a large white wall separating the bathroom area from the bedroom. While the walls consist of a traditional red brick, the floors and separating wall are stark white, providing a healthy balance for the space. A trough style floating sink is featured on the inside of the separation wall, as well as a glass walled shower on the far end.

See more of this home here. Designed by Robert Konieczny — KWK Promes.

This bathroom has dark tile walls with reflective surfaces. This makes the space seem very modern. A glass walled walk in shower is featured at the far end of the room, while a floating sink is mounted on the wall to the left.

This bathroom has dark tile walls with reflective surfaces. This makes the space seem very modern. A glass walled walk in shower is featured at the far end of the room, while a floating sink is mounted on the wall to the left.

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Vincent Callebaut’s Hyperions Eco-Neighborhood Produces Energy in India

Vincent Callebaut’s Hyperions Eco-Neighborhood Produces Energy in India

Vincent Callebaut’s Hyperions Eco-Neighborhood Produces Energy in India, Courtesy of Vincent Callebaut Architectures
Courtesy of Vincent Callebaut Architectures

Agroecologist Amlankusum, together with Paris-based Vincent Callebaut Architectures, has created Hyperions, a vertical, energy positive eco-neighborhood proposed for Jaypee Green Sports City in theDelhi National Capital Region (NCR) in India. Aiming to “reconcile urban renaturation and small-scale farming with environment protection and biodiversity,” the project combines low-tech and high-tech elements with the “objective of energy decentralization and food deindustrialization.”

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Hyperions is comprised of six, 36-story garden towers, each of which houses a combination of residential and office spaces. The towers are built with Delhi-farmed cross-laminated timber (CLT), and are covered with orchard gardens. Wood was chosen as the project’s base “because it is the material that provides the best environmental footprint during its lifecycle—from harvesting to recycling, through transportation, processing, implementation, maintenance, and reuse.” Thus, by utilizing wood instead of materials like steel or concrete, the emission of 1.1 tons of CO2 per cubic meter can be avoided.

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In order to optimize the buildings, “steel and concrete substructures for earthquake-resistant foundations, parking areas, and vertical core bases,” as well as a “superstructure made of solid wood columns, beams, and walls reinforced with steel blades where columns and beams meet” are added to the wood framework. “This mixed structure is reputed for its strong mechanical resistance, including in the event of earthquakes, for its high resistance to fire, and for its high acoustic and thermal performance.”

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Operational energy—energy for lighting, climate control, water heating, et cetera—is produced on-site, for example through wind lampposts that produce their own electricity through magnetic-levitation vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) integrated into their poles.

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Climate control throughout the buildings mimics that of a termite mound through vertical circulation cores of wind chimneys. “The system takes advantage of the earth’s thermal inertia, which remains stable at 18 degrees Celsius all year round. Through natural airflow, the external air—which can reach 45 degrees Celsius and fall to 3 degrees Celsius in the winter—is therefore naturally cooled or heated in contact with the earth, and so without using a single kilowatt of electricity.”

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A network of suspended footbridges connects the towers, converging under a large orchard roof that serves as a community meeting place.

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Learn more about Hyperions here.

 

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How to learn Blender 3D in under 24 hours

How to learn Blender 3D in under 24 hours

Until the day when desktop holography becomes a reality, 3D will remain the wholly grail of the graphics world. But 3D can be a very technical craft. And each 3D program has its own idiosyncrasies, making it all a bit daunting.

I cut my 3D chops on many programs that are now long dead and forgotten. Blender is one program I’ve wanted to learn for many years. I’ve even downloaded and installed it a few times, but fell short on the follow-through to learn it. Writing this article is my personal impetus to finally get to learning it. Perhaps it can be your impetus as well. Let’s see where we can take this in just 24 hours.

Why choose Blender?

Blender has many qualities that include years of steady development, a prized commodity in either commercial or open source projects. This has netted a broad range of capabilities, beyond even its full range of 3D modeling and animation tools.

For example, Blender has video editing, camera tracking, compositing, and even game creation tools all built right in. The fact that it’s open source and completely free is also an unbeatable perk! (Though donations to the Blender Foundation are a good idea.) With all this power, Blender’s toolset is often directly compared to top programs in the 3D field costing thousands, like Mayaor 3ds Max.

Naysayers may complain it lacks centralized support, since there is no commercial publisher with a help staff. However there is ample support onlineon many sites, and even a real time IRC chat option. This means nights and weekend support too! Plus, the Blender community can be uniquely generous with its help.

The other knock is Blender’s much smaller market share, which means there are perhaps fewer companies looking to hire Blender artists. Having said that, know that this is changing and there are sites like the Blender Network that specialize in matching Blender artists with employers. And even mainstream job sites are getting more Blender savvy every day.

None of this is even an issue if you run your own shop or are just doing your own thing. Then all that matters are the final renderings. And few clients know or care about all this techno-geek talk.

Blender’s own jobs website, and it’s gaining ground on other job boards as well

My first hour with Blender: installing and learning the interface

I went up to Blender’s website , clicked on the ‘Download’ link, and chose between the installers available for Mac, Windows, Linux and even FreeBSD. (And made a small donation while there!) Installation was almost crazy-easy, and fast. Which is common for most open source programs.

Blender splash page

Once installed, I booted it up like a kid on Christmas morning. The splash page had a number of links, including one to the official Blender manual online. The manual is an excellent resource, but perhaps a bit better suited to those that already have an introduction to both 3D and Blender.

Blender’s official online manual

Upon first viewing, Blender’s interface can be overwhelming. But it isn’t as complicated as it first looks. Once you understand the logical thought process it becomes much less daunting. Logic-wise it’s rather similar to Adobe programs like Photoshop or InDesign.

Blender’s default user interface. See the text for a quick explanation of its UI

The default Blender interface is made up of four areas. (A) in the image above is called the Toolbar, a collection of the most commonly used tools. (B) is the 3D Viewport, or work window. (C) is a vertical stacking of many control/preference/properties interfaces, which again, is just like Adobe products you know. (D) is the timeline, for animation work. You might be familiar with this from programs like After Effects.

Understanding these basics makes Blender all the more approachable. Although not necessarily more useable. Before looking at any instructions, I felt compelled to muck about with the buttons, doodads and doohickeys, and hoped to find my way around. But I’ll admit that I wasn’t too successful. I began to realize that Blender wasn’t quite as intuitive – at least for me – as I had hoped.

So I started to explore what alternative ways I could go about learning it, beyond the button-poking. I quickly found out there are quite a few learning options out there.

An extreme example of multi-monitor support

Hours two-four: organizing my education

Starting my second hour with Blender, I began hunting for ways to learn it. I started out the way many of you would, by looking online for books. A quick search turned up dozens of books which included titles such as ‘Blender 3D Cookbook’ and ‘Blender Basics’ (both from PACKT Publishing), and ‘Blender for Dummies’ (John Wiley & Sons), all recently published as print and Kindle editions.

I ordered a few of these books for download. Which books best fit your learning style is up to you. As might be expected by the title, the ‘Dummies’ books take extra pains to make easing into a new subject as painless as possible, so are a good place to start. But they also tend to not go as deep as other offerings. All the books were well written and took me step by step.

And while I began learning from these books, I had to acknowledge that whether it’s our cultural evolution, or just me getting older, I found it harder to read this tech material than I used to. So I began looking for other ways to learn.

Hours four-10: video education, part one

Again, I didn’t do anything different here than most of you, I went trolling around YouTube with search phrases like ‘learn blender’, which gave a return of 157,000 videos. I’m sure most had more to do with making a good smoothie, but still, there were hundreds on Blender 3D.

An advanced subject: creating a city in Blender

Some of the most popular Blender tutorial channels included Blender for Noobswith over 27k subscribers, Blender Guru with over 153k subscribers (see the amazing architecture video!), and tutor4u with over 172k subscribers.

Pure fun: Minions in Blender!

Jacob Lewis offers a 2014 updated 10-part video series called ‘Blender Absolute Beginner Tutorial’ with about 380k subscribers. One video that is seriously worth a look is Max Coulfield’s great Blender sculpture timelapse.

‘Sculpting’ a young female head and shoulders

I spent time finding and then watching many videos, and at this point I had clocked in roughly 10 hours of working on the Blender project, across two or three days. Trying to do it all in one day would surely have exploded my tiny head.

Hours 10-15: video education, part two

After viewing YouTube tutorials for a bit, I will admit to a bias against any that begin with “Yo-yo fellas… wassup?” An experience that can leave you wanting more formally prepared material.

So I finally did something that many of you might not actually do. I contacted Ton Roosendaal, the original creator of Blender, and now the Chairman of the Blender Foundation. He was gracious and we exchanged a number of emails. At his suggestion, I got in touch with Jonathan Williamson, a co-founder and instructor at CG Cookie, an online computer graphics video education resource. CG Cookie has courseware for Blender, as well as other subjects like creative concepting and Unity game development.

CG Cookie offers online video courseware on Blender

CG Cookie offers what they call ‘Learning Flows’ for Blender, which contains 141 separate video installments. These are broken down into 9 sections, with topics like modeling, lighting, etc. The first module in the series is ‘Blender Basics’, which they make available at no cost. It contains six videos that run about a half hour total. Over the next few days I watched the intro videos, and as many of the follow-up sections as I could. All the while popping back to Blender to try things out.

Hour 15 and beyond…

I also touched base with Anja, who runs the Blender Shop on blender.org. She provided a long list of Blender learning resources, which we have reprinted at the end of the article.

So by the time I was nearing my 18th hour with all of this, I was feeling like I was in a fairly good place. By that I mean I could navigate around the interface with aplomb, I could create, modify, and texture map models (with limits on complexity), light them, and render out basic animations. In other words, I could knock out basic day-to-day 3D work. No character modeling, video editing or compositing, I’ll leave that for another day.

If this was for myself instead of an article it would have gone faster. One book and one video series would have been fine. I’m sure you’ll keep things simpler.

So what are you waiting for? Download it now, and let us know how your learning curve goes!

Resources (from Anja at Blender Shop)

A good way to learn Blender if you don’t have experience with 3D
programs is to start with Blender’s own tutorials and manual.

You can find lots of free tutorials on the internet about learning Blender.

  • Here are some links with lots of information:
    http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Tutorials

    Links


    http://wiki.blender.org/
    http://cgcookie.com/blender/
    http://www.blenderguru.com/

  • Free book link: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Books
  • The Blender Art Magazine, free for download.
  • Free Blender Basics – Introduction for Beginners (video tutoiral)
  • Free Blender Basics Book for version 2.5/2.6 and 2.49
  • An Introduction to Blender 2.59 free eBook
  • Free Blender 3D Tutorials/e-books in PDF format
  • Free: A Blender Quickstart course, a tour of Blender’s modeling, uv mapping, rigging, animating, and rendering
  • Free Blender 3D Design Course
  • Free Blender tutorials & training
  • Free video tutorials 2.5
  • Free video tutorials
  • Blender hotkeys:
    http://www.foreverblender.com/2010/02/blender-25-all-hotkeys.html
    http://www.katsbits.com/tutorials/blender/useful-keyboard-shortcuts.php
    http://blendertips.com/hotkeys.html

If you have questions about using Blender you can always place them on the forums.

Words: Lance Evans

Lance Evans is creative director of Graphlink Media.

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