Manifisto posted:

lol, "lazy tutorials" speaks to me

you need a bit of knowledge to understand what he's doing but despite his slapdash approach it's actually quite a neat effect (or would be with actual care/attention)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWq-ZPMhai8

Manifisto posted:

hell,

but some people like learning that way

imo the secret is just to look around at the resources out there and find one that grabs you. doesn't even matter if it's too advanced for you, if it holds your interest you'll learn.

now that there is a lot of blender 2.8 tutorial content out there, I agree with the video's advice that it's better to start with one of these than to try to muddle through an older tutorial

the exception being if you really really want to achieve a specific effect and there's not a 2.8 video out yet on how to do it

e: did you make the spinny icosahedron? I dig it

Manifisto posted:

the best primitive is the round cube, which you need to activate an (included) add-on to even see as a primitive

if you're looking for a constant speed animation rather than speeding up / slowing down, you'll need to mess with the way the animation interpolates between keyframes.

I think for many people, a good idea is to go to the the Preferences and in the "Animation" tab, under "F-Curves", set the "Default Interpolation" to "Linear." the bezier style easing in and out is good for certain types of animations but often I don't want it.

Manifisto posted:

in the Animation tab, change the "dope sheet" area to the "graph editor" (or change one of the 3d viewport panes). make sure the animated object is selected, then in the graph editor select the relevant keyframe control points (either shift-click or click and drag). right click-->handle type-->vector, or Key menu-->handle type-->vector.

Manifisto posted:

Manifisto posted:

the material itself is dead simple:



the secret to getting that glow is to tick the "bloom" box in the Render tab of the Properties window. you'll get more noticeable bloom with emission strengths above 1.

glowy effects like this is one of the areas in which eevee really shines, it's quite challenging to get this kind of thing looking good in cycles.

Manifisto posted:

sorry to hear that . uh, did you try turning it off and then on again?

Manifisto posted:

whos ready for some mothafuckin DONUTS

TVsVeryOwn posted:

i want more! give me more!

bee eater posted:

what flavour is that let me guess honey grayzed lol

Manifisto posted:

excellent!

may I have a cup of coffee to go with that?

Manifisto posted:

yeah I don't actually watch those things, altho at the point where I am now I would actually benefit from all of the little tidbits they provide. seriously blender has such a profusion of incredibly satisfying niche features that you can't appreciate until you've slogged through life without them, then you find out how to do it with a single keystroke and you're like ARE YOU loving KIDDING ME

one example among many: / on the num pad will isolate the selected item so you see it and only it and can edit it without everything else in the way, it's spectacular

also even within a given mesh you can hide vertices and whatnot that are in the way so you're editing only the stuff you care about (H to hide, Alt-H to unhide)

have you watched any of the Ducky3D tutorials? I feel like they might suit your style

Manifisto posted:

parts 3 and 4 of the "Level 1" donut tutorial are up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2qjqqfkH6E

ice ur donut baby

Manifisto posted:

nice! I'd venture to say it is the most delicious-looking completely gray donut I've ever seen. well done, take a sip from your empty gray cup to celebrate.

hope that doesn't come out as snarky, I'm honestly thrilled that you and for that matter anyone is giving blender a try