Jump right in the middle and sculpt this banana from scratch. Be warned: very fast intro, rushes through the all of it in two and a half minutes. It may take a tad longer for you to follow. Try and figure out the nooks and cranks he does go into in detail. It’s always better to do this sort of fast tutorials 3 or 4 times over again imperfectly – maybe missing out parts or sculpting outrageously ugly pears instead of nice bananas -, than spending a lot of time doing it once perfectly.
If you don’t have it yet, you can download and use Blender totally free – actually free forever – here:
blender.org – Home of the Blender project – Free and Open 3D Creation Software.
Download, install and start enjoying it.
If you succeed a couple of times, CONGRATULATIONS.
If you – however – want to pace more slowly, and you can’t find out intuitively how to move around in a 3D space with the help of the 3 mouse buttons and the Ctrl – Shift – Alt keys, just select Tutorials under the Blender Help menu,
and it will bring you to Blender’s very own tutorial page.
Don’t forget: first and most enjoy it. Don’t push it, don’t try too hard. Move quick and dirty, if something does not click in soon, leave it. At this level do not ever try to correct your mistakes. This is a small project, discard it and start over.
CHEAT SHEET:
1> mouse MB + move the mouse -- rotate the whole scene around a central point
2> Alt + 1> -- snap the rotation to 45° angles
3> Shift + 1> -- move the scene sideways ('panning', a term in cinematography)
4> mouse MB roll (if it is a wheel) or Ctrl + 1> -- zoom in and out
You may want to look up these other topics:
— Degrees of Freedom – How do we measure, record, control and simulate the movement of ships, airplanes, cars, fluids, pendulums and other curious things?
— The world we see – What do our eyes catch and how our brain puts together from those clumsy stimuli, that are often contradictory and always just partial, an image that we feel as whole and seamless?
— The world we hear – coming soon.
— All the tools in the garden shed – How do we put it all together from a small brain teaser game to a huge cinematic show using mainly free or budget priced programs, code blocks and online tools? Working with moving and still images, 3D objects, sounds, control and code physics, interaction, storyline and game logic in Blender, Unity, da Vinci Resolve, asset stores, GitHub, find public domain artworks at hardly navigable places.
— More Media tools
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