Blender Intermediate Modelling Tutorial - Part 1 

A video that is UNDER TWO HOURS? Who are you and what have you done to Andrew?

These tutorials have helped me no end with my Donuts vs Anvils unity game.

I think it's fair to say that half the skill in modelling is understanding the software enough to utilise its features, and the other half is maintaining the knowledge of when and how to use each of them.

My first model was a cube.

who's here after finishing the donut tutorial?

honestly, despite recently following a bunch of tutorials about blender and modelling, proportional editing is something new to me and I'm blown away by just how much I've learned from you in a single video. Great work mate, clear, consice and easy to follow. Thanks a ton for your efforts!

I remember last year starting this series and actually having trouble following along. I kept having to rewind the video and then watch it again, rewind it and then watch it again in order to understand what was going on. Today I started watching the entire series again just to kind of gauge my personal development as far as my own skill set and knowledge set in regards to blender. I noticed a funny thing or maybe I should say an interesting thing. In almost every part of the video other than texturing, I knew exactly what was going to happen next and how to do it. 95% of the video was common knowledge to me. But 8 months ago, I felt like a steamboat engineer working on a warp engine. I just thought that was interesting and thought I would share that tidbit of information. By the way, I'm still not that good at modeling. But perhaps I have moved up to an internal combustion engine engineer.

Blender guru should to do a updated version of this tutorial series

NOTE: 1) In Blender 3.0 Toggle X-Ray replaces Limit selection to visible and is now a global effect rather than being selection-specific to Edit Mode. That's why Andrew selects the face/vertices he needs to extrude in one shot (his hint at 11:23) but you cannot in solid view 2) to squash the base of the anvil using scale, you need to use the mouse wheel

This guy is great because he did it all himself to start with. He made all the mistakes possible, which means he knows exactly what beginners need. Thank you Andrew!

I've been working in Blender for years and NEVER knew all of the little hiding and loop cut locking tricks. So helpful!

These videos have helped me greatly! 2 weeks ago i was so lost with Blender. I knew Fusion360, solid space stuff, and a touch of z-brush before really sitting down and learning Blender. The donut tutorial and the Anvil tutorial basically teach you the main things you need to know to get started. Andrew is also easy to listen to and follow along with. Only thing id love to happen is a new Anvil tutorial with blender 3.0 as some features are different now. But i owe a lot to Andrew, donuts and anvils! lol! Thanks a ton for putting these videos out for free!!

Andrew, I have been messing with Blender as a hobby for about 10 months now and most things I have needed so far I have figured out on my own. However, my biggest weak point is modeling. I can tinker with the mesh and usually get close to where I need it to be on rather simple objects. But my workflow and thought process has always been sloppy and a time waster. This video showed me a lot and I am starting to understand modeling in a total different way that makes so much more sense. Moving on to episode 2... Thanks for these videos.

Mate, you're a champion. Thank you for such ridiculously amazing and inspirational tutorials!

Really enjoy and appreciate this video! What makes it so useful is how you actually explain how the mechanics work, rather than just giving straight forward instructions. I not only learned how to start making an Anvil through this video, but I've learned a few new technique in Blender that'll help me with the rest of my future projects. Looking forward to the rest of this tutorial series!

I love your videos because that's what exactly you do in any course, you learn techniques to make your job easier, all the tools applied, and everything shown in these video series explains in detail what a beginner should really do, how to make the application/program work for you, and you're doing in for free. this is seriously highly ppreciated

0:59 I've seen this video several times and just now noticed the Blender Guru logo on the anvil. Nice touch.

Pun in the first ten seconds. This'll be good

I love how you have so many simple solutions to what to me seems like maddening problems. You have great tutorials!

You're the best Andrew! Not only do you teach how to execute one project but also give something to take away and use for another project. I love these kind of tutorials. It would be very nice of you to make more of these. And, thank you! - Mark.

Been using Blender for ~11 years now and I still plan to watch all your tutorials! Really want to make some of my own now too. Keep up all the great work on BGuru and Poliigon!

Although I know a fair bit about modelling, I'm going to watch this series and see what I can pick up.

I’m a musician, a photographer, an illustrator truly anything artsy I love. I love being able to learn new things and processes on how to achieve and translate a never ending flow of imagination. I just wanted to reach out and say thank you for these videos and education you’ve provided. I understand the time it must take to record as ive done video editing and a little journalism so I understand what goes into it. That doing multiple takes of yourself trying to accurately deliver information while not being dry takes some grit and some strong tea lol. I think you’re very informative and a great teacher while being so unassuming in your own level of humour which has had me smiling while learning. Your efforts are greatly appreciated and while we’ve never met I will say it does feel so spending hours with a stranger talking to you like a friend showing you new things. I lucked out finding these videos so thanks again great job I hope to get good at this at some point. Now if you could let me know one question to something that’s making me mad I’d be very happy. I’m starting into the VR as I really like tiltbrush and upcoming apps with their very intuitive use. That being said I’m learning blender to model then import those creations into the Vr world to film and create artistic music videos. I’m struggling at figuring out how to import my models from blender into Tilltbrush specifically while maintaining its texture and or colour. They have associated .mtl files I’m stumped. I know it can do it as I’ve seen success on other imports. The feeling of juggling around that donut we created in blender in VR was so cool. I’m looking to create my own scenes ( eventually ) without relying on other people’s models and having the education moving forward. Sorry for the chapter lol any help would be greatly appreciated. Loving the vids I’ll be learning a lot this weekend thanks again Andrew.

Having your inputs shown at the bottom left is amazing, thank you!

Thank you for dropping this video, this is going to help me in the long run

hey man, first i want to say thank you for making these tutorials. i havent been this excited to create in a long time. i know its a tall order, but id ask that you consider remaking these like you did the original donut series. im finding it hard to follow along because the UI is so different now, and many of the features have been merged/changed. Im going to finish regardless, but it would definitely be valuable for people down the road to have a fresh take. thanks again! :)

Thank you for these tutorials. Just finished your beginner tutorials like you suggested and now I am following these ones. After this I plan to move onto your lightbulb tutorial. I have learnt a lot and love working with blender. Thank you !!!

I wish I had seen this before I start modeling in Blender (a helmet, 1 time in 3d virtual art, 2 weeks ago), now I'm watching all your tutorials, and others, everyday I learn something new, this software is amazing. Thanks a lot Andrew.

4:46 I was blowing my nose very hard, I nearly had an heart attack xD You're awsome Andrew, nice tutorials!! :D

Did the donut and the chair. Thought I was ready for a character. Chose between that or a motorcycle. Failed miserably and here I am. So true what you said in the intro, and thanks for providing these awesome tutorials so beginners like me have a way to progress when we inevitably fail at too advanced stuff ;)

Andrew, thanks a million times for your tutorial vids!!! They're incredibly helpful and motivating, not mentioning the fact that they're also very entertaining ;-). Please keep up the good work!

just found this tutorial, and I'm not sure a comment here will be read, but I wanted to say that this is such a helpful video! The tutorials on blender's website are far too slow, assume the viewer knows too little, and learns too slowly. This video is a perfect pace, packs tons of information in without making it incomprehensible, and the commentary is upbeat and engaging. Honestly excited to keep watching the series, an effect no tutorial video has had on me before. Thanks for making these!

I would die to see a tutorial series for Shading and Lighting!

Yes! Right after I finished the donut tutorial about two weeks ago and dabbled since then, you've begun yet another tutorial series. You are a god amongst men.

I've used blender for years and hardly used tutorials. But now, I'm actually starting to watch to tutorials (in my day, most of them were written tutorials anyway), to see what skills I can pick up (that I might have missed) and learn the things I completely glossed over. This is very useful even for the "advanced/expert/experienced" users out there.

Andrew, you have a phenomenal gift for explaining things. I've learned so much from watching your Blender tutorial videos, they are very well thought through. And it's amazing that you can do these in one take (at least that's what they look like)! Well done, and much appreciated! Best regards, Martin

Now we need new series after beginner series please Little advance

This lesson is so worthy it looks it makes sense to release the same for Blender 3, as UI changed, don't you think so, 3D crew?

YES!!! I'm so happy he's gonna make a series like this because after watching the beginners guide that he made a while ago I've been looking for more tutorials so this will be really helpful for me

@ 6:00 Even tho I'm using Blender for some years now, but when I watch your Beginner tutorials to freshen up my basics, I always learn these kind of small things.

Blender guru plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz make the intermediate level again on the newest version of blender

Nuu I forgot this was part 1! I was expecting one video modelling the anvil itself. So this is what it feels like to be watching a series as it's being uploaded. :/

Wow. This is really awesome! Last time I did some (very basic) modelling was two years ago. I basically forgot everything in that time (I only did it for maybe two weeks for a small school project). Now in only 2 or so hours I already have something resembling an anvil. This feels really good! Thanks!

Wow, Ive never seen anybody smile during a whole video!! Especially for a Blender tutorial!!

Yes, Christmas has come early 😃

Could you please redo this tutorial for blender 3? It's so different and it's hard to follow along cuz a lot of things have changed. Even my tools don't behave like yours. It would be much appreciated!

it's so cool when you're learnin modelling and you find a video and you're like "should i watch it?" thinking that it'll end up being something you already would've known how to do but with more or less clever approaches (which is worthy enough for me) but end up actually learning new things that either taught you how to create some objects that you otherwise wouldn't have known how to create or at the very least taught you how to create them in much simpler ways

After years of programming in c++ finally, I can play with matrices the tutorial is as good as udemy course thanks blender guru!

its funny that 500k finished the beginner series and 1.3m are watching intermediate

Yes, I can now place an half finished anvil on my "donuts tutorial" table!

Honestly, quality of your instruction is leagues above all others I've come across. You explain what you're doing, why you're doing it, and most importantly *how* you're doing it. Your videos are designed to teach, instead of others that are just kinda talking as they make something for themselves. The others require a foundation, whereas yours teaches the foundation.

even that I don't model anymore, I still watch your videos, it has something special about it that I love to watch

0:05 took a while, but I finally get it. I thought "What!? is creating selfie scenes in blender now trending? Damn those are some high quality renders o.O" XD

"Making that cylinder inbred" - Blender Guru, 2017

I'm coming back years later to thank you for this tutorial series. It helped me grow with Blender.

Thank you for these videos! I've used modelers in the past that had a very user-friendly interface and I learned how to model in minutes, but I was totally lost with Blender.

If @12:20 anyone is having trouble with proportional editing only effecting the closest edges/vertices then you'll have to adjust your "Sphere of Influence". Select + G + scroll mouse to expand or shrink the circle that pops up. Thanks to this vid: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fuddZUv7MzA.html

Will you still make a video on how to model a character or car as well

I just downloaded Blender and didn't know what I was doing. I have lots of experience with CAD programs, but this is so different. Just this one video has so much small and simple, but really helpful tips in it that I really want to watch all the other videos. It also really helps pausing every now and then and trying to replicate your actions. Thanks man, you're helping me out a lot here :)

Andrew, like everyone else here your tutorials are the best. Had to do the donut like 4 times to get it right but it came out beautifully in the end. Have tried loads of other tutorials but am so happy to be back with you making an anvil. When I'm done I want to make a sword and a hammer and put it all in a medieval blacksmith scene as final render, so excited! i am using 3.0 so things like selection are still giving me a hard time, I get through it but I know there is an easier way!

how do you choose like a whole 'cut' in one hit? i have to shift click every cornor

It's looking like this would be the ideal next step in tutorials after the Donut, but I'm finding that the controls are substantially different from Blender 4.0 now. Not sure the chances you'll see this or if you have recommendations for up-to-date next-step tutorials, but please make a new one or share some ideas if you can. Love the content!

First Blender Beginners Tut. i´ve seen that does not sculpt characters or difficult sculpts, just the basics and shaping.... thank you mate!

i don't mind if this guy bombs his tutorials with lots of ads, i'd still watch it, it's his bread and butter. helped me through the hell hole self-learning stuffs and this guy had a lot of patience to do that, basically learned how to do basics but not the advanced stuff and i'd still be hoping i could learning more from the guru himself. more power

i'm late perhaps, but here i go again. starting this right after i just completed beginner tutorial.

I came here to see an anvil. I am satisfied

1:47 The "Do not begin here" tutorial? Really thankful for the tutorials! Finished the donut one and ready to take on this series!

Thank you for filling in some of the blanks. This is what I'm struggling with now, easier editing techniques like this.

13:18 Cheers for the tutorial bro. Moving on to the inbred tutorial now

I can speak English for about 18 years... but only now I learned the new word - ANVIL :D

ive attempted this like 10 times nd kept giving up with this whole game dev shit but i finally got to the end appreciate this video struggled my way through nd feel alot more confident with blender now !!

FINALLY ! ive always wanted to learn more about Modelling... LOVE IT !!

Is there a modern version of this material in Blender 3.3 or above ?

2:18 UV image editor shift+fn10

Thanks! I was wanting to get into 3D Modeling recently, and now i found a good tutorial

When ever I feel am not doing any thing right this video gives me the light up.. Thanks to you Andrew am becoming better

at 6:56 ALT right-click to select the whole thing. prob solved. ;) KEEP GOING!

I’m trying to do this, but i’m having trouble trying to select the whole surface at 10:10

DUDE, thank you so much for these, my eyes have been opened!

I really enjoyed this modeling series. Although it was below my skill level, it taught me that there are some fundamentals that I really need to learn more about. Will recommend.

Him: Okay lets start! *Opens a menu to make parts* Me: *what how*

5:48 Does anyone know how to turn off 'Limit Selection to Visible' in the 2.8 version?

Thank you for enabling the key thing where it shows what button you pressed it helped me a lot.

That's what I needed! Thank you. I need to make only some buildings for my project for now which are much more easier than characters or weapons.

I'm new , hope you don't mind stupid questions. At around 6:40 you grab the line in one click. I have to go around and select. Please explain your settings.

how did he do the sqish at the end without deforming the whole thing? i keep rewatching maybe im missing something

Found this in my recommended videos and was searching for part 2. Oh well, this is a brand new video! :D Waiting ^^

The intro is even more relevant this time around. A year ago i picked up blender for the first time and of course for my firar object i chose to model this complex demon character. 2 days and a couple ulcers later i quit and gave up. Started again today !wish me luck!

i would watch the texturing part though cuz i love texturing

I have no clue how you're able to do this. Right Clicking does nothing and the select keys dont seem to work for me :/

Great tutorial! Thanks. Funnily enough there were so many 3d modelled versions of anvils on google that it was getting hard to find real ones for reference!

Fun stuff, tried blender a few times before, but now i even made the effort to save my work!

CTRL+R to Refresh the page, CTRL+R to loopcut. I can't even say how many times I've reset the video. Oops!

Can you make a tutorial on proper UV unwrapping? Not so much how to unwrap, but how to do it in a way that is easy to texture (where to put the seams and whatnot)

I think you are making me love Blender. Thank you, Andrew.

Wow your tutorials are so clear and you do great on explaining the steps. It is not just a follow me thing like some other channels😊

I've been interested in 3D modelling ( as a hobby ) since a long time ago and Andrew was one of the first ones that I watched. After that, I stopped watching basically any other tutorials and only stick to his. Don't know why. I think it's the hair.

Wait....When was this posted?XD

These videos are the best. They have helped me so much. easy to follow and casual delivery.

great tutorial. great simple way of teaching