artificialLimbson Hacker News • Recommends
On “Apple Joins Blender Development Fund”
I uncomfortably poked at blender a few times over the years until this tut by Imphenzia, which made me comfortable in under 2 hours: link to this video
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Learn Low Poly Modeling in Blender 2.9 / 2.8
Imphenzia
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- A classic. People kept recommending it from 2020 to 2025.
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Beginner. No background in the topic needed.
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Imphenzia teaches low poly 3D modeling techniques in Blender, covering navigation, extrusion, and UV coloring.
Expand description for timestamp shortcuts! This is a long video but it goes through all the techniques that I've learned about low poly modeling in my 5 years of using Blender. I use Blender 2.83 with default keys: TIMESTAMPS: Intro Basics (navigation, viewport) UV Coloring Technique Shiny Edges - Cavity in Viewport Object vs Edit mode Move Move Gizmo Slide Scale Pivot Point Extrude Extrude along Face Normals Extrude Individual Faces Extrude with Ctrl Right Click Rotate Lock Move/Rotate/Scale on axis Inset Inset Individual Faces Inset with Boundary On/Off (remove center face) Proportional Editing Making a Low Poly Crate Bevel Shrink/Flatten Create Mesh Place 3D Cursor Snap Center 3D Cursor Making a Low Poly Tree Select Linked Duplicate Connected Proportional Editing SELECTION METHODS Loop Select Circle Select Ring Select Select Shortest Path Box Select Xray Lasso Select Grow Selection Shrink Selection Select Random Select Similar Snow capped trees Checker Deselect Hide/Show Selection MESH EDITING Loop Cut Scale on Axis Knife Tool Colorizing Crate Knife Tool Snap to Center Knife Tool Angle Constraint Making a Low Poly Rock Subdivision Modifier Flatten Orientation Vertex Snapping with Ctrl Auto Merge Vertices Merge by Distance (used to be Remove Doubles) Fill / Create Faces Triangulate Recalculate Outside - Flip Normals Bridge Edge Loops (connect meshes) Making a Low Poly Computer Table (using face duplication) Separate meshes into objects Merge meshes into single object MODIFIERS Mirror Modifier Auto Mirror Modifier Displace Modifier Skin Modifier TIPS AND TRICKS Vertex Snapping on Axis to align ADDONS (FREE, INCLUDED WITH BLENDER) Loop Tools / Circle Bool Tools F2 FIXING PROBLEMS Parallel Faces Duplicate Vertices Faces facing the wrong way Misaligned vertices Insetting is not uniformed Viewport not rotating around selection Subdividing object is too round Inset creates a center face on mirrored objects Boundary for inset is not working Summary / Outro Palettes: dropbox.com/s/c5olic38j8fopet/ImphenziaPalette01.png?dl=0 dropbox.com/s/1w98xiksiwaywqx/ImphenziaPalette01-256-Gradien… You can support me on Patreon: patreon.com/imphenzia Imphenzia Merch is available: teespring.com/stores/imphenzia Blender settings video (shiny borders): youtube.com/watch?v=BlxiCd0Upg4 If you want to use tWhy it's here
4 people recommend thisWhat people say. Highly recommended as the best tutorial for beginners to get comfortable with Blender and low poly modeling quickly.
jolexxaon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Blender 3.5”
hey me too!! The video that finally helped me get going was this one from Imphenzia on YT: link to this video all his other stuff is great, like building and rigging a low-poly character. Instead of having to follow tutorials and make stuff I didn’t want to, he shows you how to use the tools to make what’s in your imagination!
juanuyson Hacker News • Recommends
On “Ask HN: Best Tutorials for Blender?”
For Blender, I've really liked this video, and others by the same chap: link to this video For game dev, I'd start with something with a UI and general-purpose like Godot or Unity, or if you're not a coder, maybe GameMaker and its ilk.
Etherlord87on Hacker News • Recommends
On “LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers”
…e e.g. extrusion (which is literally: select faces, press E, drag mouse). Some shapes are smoothed/subdivided with Catmul-Clark Subdivision Surface modifier, which you can add simply by pressing CTRL+2 in "Object Mode" (the digit is the number of subdivisions, basically use 1 to 3, you may set more for renders). Here's a good, albeit old tutorial: link to this video Yes I made some assumptions when estimating it takes about a day to learn to make models like this: you have a free day to spend it in its entirety to learn, and as a hackernews user your IQ is over average and you're technically savvy. And last assumption: you learn skills required evenly, rather than going deep into the rabbit hole of e.g…