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Learn to create.

Model, sculpt, paint, rig, animate and render. Start in the viewport, and every move you make is there in the graph.

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Tutorials

Pick something to make.

Make things you can turn around and admire: a creature sculpted from a ball, a hut cut from a box, a twisted vase, a logo, a gold ring and a scanned statue in warm light, all made in the viewport. Pick any of them, in any order.

The finished creature: teal, with cream horns and feet, dark eyes and a snout.
First stepsFirst hour12 min

Sculpt a little horned creature

A round teal critter with horns, pointy ears, stubby feet, a snout and dark eyes, sculpted and painted from a plain ball.

  1. Start from a ball
  2. Pull out horns and ears
  3. Puff up eyes and a snout
  4. Paint it
Starts from a new projectRead the tutorial →
The finished hut: terracotta walls, a pointed roof, a door and a window.
First stepsFirst hour10 min

Model a little hut

A little terracotta hut with a pointed roof, a front door and a window, modeled from one box.

  1. Start from a box
  2. Raise a pointed roof
  3. Cut a door and a window
  4. Color it
Starts from a new projectRead the tutorial →
The finished vase: six sides, twisted, with a deep opening at the top.
Getting going10 min

Make a twisted vase

A six-sided blue vase with a deep opening, narrowed at the top and twisted a third of a turn.

  1. Start from a cylinder
  2. Hollow out the top
  3. Taper and twist
  4. Color it
Starts from a new projectRead the tutorial →
The gold ring seen from a little above, against a blue sky, with warm highlights.
Getting going8 min

Turn a chrome ring into gold

A polished gold ring floating in a real sky, seen from a little above, with the sky turned so the light falls the way you want.

  1. Open the chrome ring
  2. Make the metal gold
  3. Turn the sky
  4. Look from above
Starts from the Torus Hdr Ibl demoRead the tutorial →
The scanned lizard statue and its path, graded to a warm golden light.
Getting going10 min

Give a 3D scan a golden glow

A real carved lizard statue, captured as a 3D scan, bathed in warm late afternoon light.

  1. Open the scanned statue
  2. Pick the capture
  3. Add a color grade
  4. Warm it up
Starts from the Object Turntable demoRead the tutorial →
Demos

Pull these apart.

Open any of them from Help > Browse Demos in the app, watch it run, and change whatever you like.

PBR textured planetRig playbackSplat probe relightInstanced spheres 10kNURBS twisted vaseTwisted torusMotion arcs
Spotlight shadow cast
See every demo
Go deeper

Guides and ideas.

Guides, under Help in the app

Geometryin the app
Scene and lightingin the app
Riggingin the app
Motion capturein the app
Keyframe editorin the app
Splatsin the app
SVGin the app
NURBSin the app

Things to make

Model→Sculpt→Retopo & UV→Texture→Rig→Animate→Render→Vector→Scans→

Elsewhere

The Create page→Your first hour→The reference→Get help→

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