An Introduction To 3D Art With Blender

It can be a fun hobby and a lucrative business — And it doesn’t cost a thing to get started

Kevin Buddaeus
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Blender’s Animation Movie “Spring” — (CC) Blender Foundation | cloud.blender.org/spring

My community here on Medium knows that I’ve been absent over the past 2 to 3 weeks. Most of this is due to the big writing projects I got issued by my clients. But another reason for me not writing much, or anything at all, on Medium, has to do with 3D digital art.

I got back into it and started doing more and more there, using my spare time to create different things and exploring the possibilities.

3D digital art is a huge industry. Animation movies from Disney and Pixar, every single 3D game out there since the dawn of the first Playstation, modern architecture and planning, fashion designers, and many more rely heavily on the use of 3D art.

Did you know that the furniture and room mock-ups in IKEA catalogs are entirely made up of digital 3D graphics? It’s just much cheaper to design these shots digitally and mix, move and replace furniture on the fly than to have a real set with real photographers and all that.

If you ever wanted to create something impressive, 3D art can be a great skill to develop.

And here’s the good news: If you can’t draw or sketch anything worth showing, that’s okay! You…

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Kevin Buddaeus
ILLUMINATION

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