Blender for Beginners

Overview

“Cycles is the advanced lifelike imaging engine that comes built-in out of the box. During this unit, I will show you how to use it to make animations. You will also learn all the necessary tricks to render with Eevee.”

In this video lesson Carlos Sifuentes Haro addresses the topic: Cycles 101, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 6: Cycles and Eevee. Learn about rendering and previsualization tools.

Partial transcription of the video

“INTRODUCTION TO BLENDER / COURSE 6 LESSON 2 Cycles 101 Cycles is an advanced render engine to create realistic, high-quality images. In this unit, we’ll look at how it works. To render something, whether in Cycles or Eevee, we need a camera. If we don't have a camera, it won’t know what angle to render, so we always need a camera. I have a small scene, a monkey, a plane with a curved background to use as a base, and two lights. Cycles allows us to preview the render in real time. To do that, we just have to go to Overlays, Viewport Shading, and select the last option and it will calculate t...”

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Course summary for: Course 6: Cycles and Eevee

• Level: Beginner
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