Blender 2.8 selection techniques

In this video, we take a look at various selection techniques in Blender 2.8

[Quantumspace]

There can never be enough tutorials as we all learn differently and even when watching someone go over the basics again there's a chance we might see something we didn't know before so my hope is that you'll continue documenting your journey into Blender.

[jessepender]

I've watched several tutorials on section methods and none of them mentioned that you can click on different areas of a face to control the direction of the face loop selection. It's super simple and very useful! Thanks for the tip!

[unknownuser]

I've been using blender as a supplemental tool to other 3d softwares for over a year and this is one of the best tutorials I've seen. I actually learned several new skills here and am very grateful for this video and your style of teaching. Thank you.

[Grinder-one]

Thanks, this is a great tutorial. There's so many video's out there that claim to be for beginners that are almost impossible to understand when they're just realing off their morse code of 'left click, ctrl A, press S, drag out, ctrl important when learning to understand what the short cut keys are actually short cutting to and the majority of the time, they totally leave out the multi and path selections. I had no idea how they were selecting a ton of edges together to apply a bevel, now I know thanks to you.
ps, you have the ideal voice and articulations for tutorials.

[SW-lwmt]

There's also Select Linked which is neat. Select a face/edge/vert and hit L on the keyboard - it selects all the attached faces/edges/verts. Or you can hover the cursor over a face, hit L and it'll select the linked faces. Also, you can set constraints to select link materials, uvs etc

[brucemarshall]

Wow!!! I downloaded Blender 2.93.5 about seven and a half weeks ago. Lately I've been having difficulty selecting face loops to go in the correct direction. You can probably imagine how much time I've spent following the most intricate of loops to make sure I get every last face!!! Just WOW, thank you much for this simple explanation!! You have a new subscriber on this alone, thanks again :-)

[bohdan_lvov]

1:10 also you can press Alt+G and it'll reset all coordinates of the selected objects. Same works with R for rotation and S for scale.

[Drippy.Mickey]

I was stuck in brush selection mode. Using the “W” key not only helped me out of it but im saving so much time on my models. 🙏🏾🙏🏾thank you

[TheBryancrochet]

CRTL SHIRT + is such a time saver. Wish I had known this years ago!
THANKS!

[damienthc]

1:39 its when he actually start explaining.

[mlabash]

Super clear! Thanks so much for this. It's not easy to make Blender tutorials that are so easy to follow and understand.

[simfreaks]

Thank you so much! I was struggling to select backfaces! and got the bonus of learning all the little tricks.

[ilustradsn]

SUPER clear and practical, you don't play with the viewers :) thank you!!!

[Define_Insane]

Quick, clear and precise! Great video! Thank you so much, exactly what I was looking for!

[sidewaysdesign]

Thank you! As a former Modonaut making the leap into Blender, this video is a perfect starting point.

[paulosfajardo]

Wow. You explained everything well and they're very easy to follow. Subscribed! Thank you.

[djpj]

Great, you saved my day! This loop selection was exactly what I was looking for!

[kevgames]

Thank you so much for this video!, this really helped me in modelling better! very quick, informative and straight to the point.

[fearthesmeag]

I've been looking for the Cntl & + for ages as this defo speeds up the workflow - thanks dude!

[ChristinaMcKay]

So great to see you using Blender. Welcome to the club.
I know the many shortkeys are a challenge but you will get there.
I have one more for you, to reset the 3D cursor press Shift+C
That resets the cursor to the world origin and also brings all the objects in the view.