Beginner ~3 hFree
Blender Fundamentals (official)
by Blender Foundation
The official first course. Short lessons on the interface, navigation, modeling, materials and rendering. Start here if you have never opened Blender.
Start this free courseFree Blender courses: 15 complete trainings
You do not need to pay to learn Blender properly. These free Blender courses are complete trainings, not five-minute clips: each one takes you from an empty scene to a finished result. They are ordered so you can follow them as a real curriculum, from your first cube to geometry nodes and animation.
Which free Blender course should you start with?
- Never opened Blender: Blender Fundamentals, then the Donut tutorial.
- You know the interface: Low Poly Landscapes or the CG Cookie exercises to build real projects.
- You want a speciality: jump straight to sculpting, character, archviz, animation or geometry nodes below.
Beginner ~5 hFree
Donut Tutorial (Blender 4.x)
by Blender Guru
The most famous free Blender course ever made. You model, texture, light and render a full scene while learning the whole pipeline.
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Blender for Complete Beginners
by Grant Abbitt
A calm, structured alternative to the donut, with small exercises after each concept. Great if you prefer step-by-step practice.
Start this free courseBeginner ~2 hFree
Low Poly Landscapes
by Grant Abbitt
Build finished stylised scenes quickly. Perfect second project once the basics of modeling feel comfortable.
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Blender Launch Pad (free chapters)
by CGBoost
Professional-grade production quality. The free chapters cover navigation and the modeling workflow in depth.
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Free Blender courses & exercises
by CG Cookie
A rotating library of free courses and graded exercises, from mesh modeling basics to shading and animation.
Start this free courseIntermediate VariesFree
Blender Studio training (free tier)
by Blender Studio
Production workflows from the team behind the open movies. Several chapters and all the production files are free.
Start this free courseBeginner ~3 hFree
Sculpting for Beginners
by YanSculpts
Everything about brushes, dyntopo, remeshing and multiresolution to sculpt your first character bust.
Start this free courseIntermediate ~4 hFree
Character Modeling & Rigging
by Joey Carlino
Modern topology, retopology and rigging explained clearly. One of the best free character pipelines available today.
Start this free courseAdvanced ~6 hFree
Geometry Nodes from scratch
by Erindale
Procedural modeling explained node by node, from scattering to full generative systems.
Start this free courseIntermediate ~5 hFree
Animation Fundamentals
by Pierrick Picaut (P2Design)
Rigging and keyframe animation with the 12 principles applied directly in Blender's graph editor.
Start this free courseIntermediate ~3 hFree
Architectural visualisation basics
by The Blender Essentials
Interior scenes, realistic lighting and Cycles render settings for architecture projects.
Start this free courseIntermediate ~2 hFree
Blender for game assets
by GameDev.tv (free lessons)
Low-poly modeling, UV unwrapping and export to Unity or Unreal, with free preview sections in each course.
Start this free courseIntermediate ~2 hFree
Grease Pencil 2D animation
by Blender Studio
Draw and animate in 2D inside a 3D space. Free chapters cover the drawing tools and the animation workflow.
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Simulation & physics crash course
by Blender Foundation channel
Cloth, rigid bodies, fluids and the simulation nodes, straight from official demos and conference talks.
Start this free courseWhen a free Blender course is not enough
Free courses teach tools. What they rarely give you is order, feedback and a finished portfolio. If you keep restarting tutorials without progressing, a structured program is usually what unlocks it.