200+ Helpful Blender 3D Hacks in Under 1 Hour

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Well, here it is after all this time. 200 Blender tips. Who would have thought? I have put out so many Blender 3D tips I don't even know how I remember any of them. Viewport tips, compositor tips, modeling tips, they're all here. If you have any questions about Blender feel free to leave a comment below or reach out on Discord/Instagram. Looking forward to maybe some people being helped by the video. See ya later team

Video by Daniel Krafft

[midorifox]

Timestamps - may be slightly off because I tried to pinpoint the exact moment the tip started.

0:00 intro
0:22 Tip 1: Absolute snap
0:38 Tip 2: Properties presets
0:47 Tip 3: Select heirarchy
0:56 Tip 4: Alt + Middle click
1:05 Tip 5: Shift + Alt + Z
1:15 Tip 6: Track light to subject
1:34 Tip 7: Pdf for free (thank me later)
1:49 Tip 8: Toggle cyclic curve
1:59 Tip 9: Shift + O (the vowel)
2:17 Tip 10: Denoise data pass
2:50 Tip 11: Link
3:00 Tip 12: Ctrl+.
3:10 Tip 13: Convex hull
3:21 Tip 14: Ctrl+Click Color ramp
3:29 Tip 15: Fix volume flickering (eevee)
3:42 Tip 16: Animate noise pattern
4:10 Tip 17: Adaptive subdivision
4:36 Tip 18: Adaptive sampling
4:15 Tip 19: Quick softbody sim
5:34 Tip 20: Material library (addon)
6:00 Tip 21: Lily surface scaper (s tier)
7:00 Tip 22: Blender Api
7:17 Tip 23: Adobe Color
7:31 Tip 24: Shift + T
7:37 Tip 25: Select pattern
7:55 Tip 26: Cryptomatte
8:26 Tip 27: New sculptin brushes
8:46 Tip 28: Dimensions.com
9:04 Tip 29: Change similar node settings
9:16 Tip 30: Alt + E for Color ramp
9:33 Tip 31: Extreme Color ramp sampling
9:41 Tip 32: Poliigon Uber mapping node
10:07 Tip 33: Use external photo editor
10:31 Tip 34: Ctrl+Num0
10:37 Tip 35: Camera shift
10:47 Tip 36: Pause render
10:55 Tip 37: Extra lights addon
11:00 Tip 38: False color space
11:14 Tip 39: Use blackbody for natural light
11:28 Tip 40: Custom emissive surfaces
11:40 Tip 41: Temporary windows
11:52 Tip 42: Multiple new themes
12:08 Tip 43: Repeat history
12:21 Tip 44: Delta transform
12:34 Tip 45: Center loop cut
12:49 Tip 46: Alt selection
13:01 Tip 47: Ctrl selection
13:07 Tip 48: Shift selection
13:14 Tip 49: Overscan
13:38 Tip 50: Standing desks are great
13:49 Tip 51: Hard-surface handbook
14:04 Tip 52: CG Patrick
14:12 Tip 53: More people worth watching
14:16 Tip 54: Quixel megascans (free)
14:29 Tip 55: Free music sites (for reels)
14:33 Tip 56: Free image editors
14:36 Tip 57: Selection widgets
14:52 Tip 58: Time remapping
15:34 Tip 59: Normalize f-curve
15:50 Tip 60: Keep goals to yourself (Curtis Holt)
16:01 Tip 61: Shift+c
16:09 Tip 62: Edit linked library (addon)
16:24 Tip 63: Stepped interpolation
16:41 Tip 64: Snap to playhead
16:50 Tip 65: Apply to delta
17:10 Tip 66: Roll view
17:16 Tip 67: Safe areas
17:24 Tip 68: Viewport render animation
17:40 Tip 69: Replace image
17:53 Tip 70: Blender VR
18:10 Tip 71: Pivot/orientation pie menus
18:18 Tip 72: Remove header content
18:26 Tip 73: Instant manual support
18:34 Tip 74: Shift+b
18:40 Tip 75: 51 great animation exercises
18:53 Tip 76: Billboards
19:10 Tip 77: Extract palette from image
19:23 Tip 78: Symmetrize
19:38 Tip 79: Custom orientations
19:53 Tip 80: Alt+scroll
20:03 Tip 81: Multiple UV maps
20:23 Tip 82: Outline display mode
20:32 Tip 83: Extrusion dusing inset
20:42 Tip 84: 3D model haven
20:53 Tip 85: Outset
21:01 Tip 86: Activate pen pressure
21:12 Tip 87: Inset against boundary
21:22 Tip 88: Full transform gizmo
21:30 Tip 89: OpenVDB
21:37 Tip 90: BTracer (addon)
21:49 Tip 91: Split faces
21:54 Tip 92: Split viewer node
22:10 Tip 93: Substance (free for students)
22:16 Tip 94: Substance (perpetual)
22:25 Tip 95: Mute nodes
22:34 Tip 96: Blender guru lightning series
22:44 Tip 97: Pin tabs
22:59 Tip 98: Simplify
23:07 Tip 99: Select island
23:18 Tip 100: Default cube did nothing wrong
24:17 Tip 101: Link materials
24:32 Tip 102: Link object data quickly
24:56 Tip 103: Auto Mirror (addon)
25:14 Tip 104: Convert image to grease pencil
25:19 Tip 105: Alt+b clipping range
25:28 Tip 106: Object bounds
25:42 Tip 107: All blending modes
25:49 Tip 108: Surface deform
26:20 Tip 109: Keying sets
26:51 Tip 110: Select active camera
27:01 Tip 111: Bake sound to f-curve
27:28 Tip 112: Animation>bake action
27:46 Tip 113: Floor constraint
27:59 Tip 114: Mesh filters
28:15 Tip 115: IES lamps
28:29 Tip 116: ieslibrary.com
28:39 Tip 117: Weighted normal modifier
29:11 Tip 118: Loop cut smoothness
29:21 Tip 119: Knife angle constraints
29:33 Tip 120: View layers
29:56 Tip 121: Shift+w (node wrangler)
30:18 Tip 122: Remove unused materials
30:33 Tip 123: Viewport render keyframes
30:49 Tip 124: Batch rename ctrl+f2
31:08 Tip 125: Stitch UVs
31:24 Tip 126: Blender tip (wikihow)
31:44 Tip 127: Development addons
31:55 Tip 128: Preview modifier in edit mode
32:02 Tip 129: Keying node (compositor)
32:23 Tip 130: Collapse nodes
32:39 Tip 131: Hide status bar
32:48 Tip 132: Get minecraft textures
32:56 Tip 133: Render single layer
33:07 Tip 134: Node arrange (addon)
33:32 Tip 135: Collections
33:43 Tip 136: UV sync selection
33:52 Tip 137: Drivers!
34:05 Tip 138: Copy as new driver
34:28 Tip 139: Material utilities
34:45 Tip 140: Resources for creading HDRIs
35:05 Tip 141: Face>wireframe
35:13 Tip 142: Luminance key
35:28 Tip 143: Shader to RGB
35:37 Tip 144: magicavoxel
35:42 Tip 145: Constrain UVs to bounds
35:50 Tip 146: Flip matcap
36:00 Tip 147: Select ungrouped vertices
36:13 Tip 148: Limit playhead to frame range
36:23 Tip 149: Ctrl+r voxel remesh (rerecord)
36:39 Tip 150: Lack of sleep
36:56 Tip 151: Normalize ranges
37:07 Tip 152: Depth pass
37:32 Tip 153: Mist pass
37:57 Tip 154: Limited dissolve
38:14 Tip 155: Normal shader masking
38:59 Tip 156: Instant meshes
39:08 Tip 157: Snap to edge center
39:15 Tip 158: Eevee render passes
39:33 Tip 159: File output node
39:52 Tip 160: blendernation.com
40:10 Tip 161: Wavelenght node
40:22 Tip 162: Rearrange menu items
40:40 Tip 163: Viewport render passes
40:53 Tip 164: Rotate normals
41:06 Tip 165: Instagram as an inspiration source
41:14 Tip 166: Modifier tools (addon)
41:31 Tip 167: Vertex parenting
41:46 Tip 168: Sheepit farm/teams
42:15 Tip 169: Unsubdivide
42:32 Tip 170: Link objects to save memory
43:07 Tip 171: 3d.si.edu
43:32 Tip 172: texturebox.com
43:44 Tip 173: 3db3.com
44:05 Tip 174: architonic.com
44:33 Tip 175: Mirror selection
44:54 Tip 176: Morph between objects
45:32 Tip 177: GLTF file format
45:51 Tip 178: Face sets
46:15 Tip 179: Toggle snap shift+tab
46:32 Tip 180: ID masking
47:14 Tip 181: Select linked nodes
47:32 Tip 182: Animate light sources
47:43 Tip 183: Adjust lookdev background
47:57 Tip 184: Make instances real
48:14 Tip 185: Select linked UVs
48:28 Tip 186: stud.io
48:52 Tip 187: Sky texture
48:59 Tip 188: Mesh outline (mesh)
49:34 Tip 189: Mesh outline (modifier)
49:55 Tip 190: Materialize
50:09 Tip 191: Edit mirroring, auto merge
50:39 Tip 192: Holdout node
50:46 Tip 193: Productivity apps
50:54 Tip 194: Vertex proximity etc.
51:31 Tip 195: Community links for further research
51:43 Tip 196: Pixelate node
52:23 Tip 197: UV display mode
52:32 Tip 198: Blender's roadmap
52:45 Tip 199: Contact
52:57 Tip 200: Bye bye
53:25 Outro


BTW Tip 8's curve reminds me a lot of the Nod's logo from Command & Conquer. And on tip 56: Krita is also a good free image editor, I use it all the time and I made my avatar with it (hue shift and color correction)

[thecgpatrick]

Im gonna seriously friendly HUG you when I see you in person. Thank you for the kind words man!! Appreciate it a lot. You are so unique!

[Camingxz]

Thank you for staying uplate and making this.

[joepeezly]

There are so many "obscure" or "not obvious" features in blender, that it makes it disheartening for beginners sometimes. This video and the others have made it soooo much easier to get a handle on Blender! Thank you for putting so much info into one place! Crazy!

[tartpop]

A great watch. I watched it on my tablet in my car while my clothes were washing and drying at the laundromat. It got me VERY excited to jump into Blender as soon as i was back at a computer. I love it!

[harsh]

As a new user to blender, this was like a holy grail for me

[MissInformationAcademy]

"Pain is temporary, but lily surface scraper is eternal."

[cold_static]

#9 2:13 You can also cycle through proportional edit modes by pressing Shift+O while you are grabbing/rotating/etc. stuff, as long as proportional editing is turned on

[blendjams]

25:00 Auto mirror actually cuts the object in half in the specified axis and direction and then applies the mirror modifier. I find it really helpful

[stevenrogerfineart]

I love you. The light tracking one is so simple and for some reason it was a massive annoyance that I never felt was bad enough to fix :P

[brayan]

25:42 Tip 107: All blending modes
25:49 Tip 108: Surface deform
33:52 Tip 137: Drivers!

[sirleidesigner]

You are not a Blender Guru, you are a Blender god!!

[stefiii]

imagine Daniel makes a Video where he showns every single shortkey.
Edit: Thank you for making the Tipps!

[pierreducos]

14:51 This timestamp shows you how to change the framerate of an animation!
18:52 This timestamp shows you how to lock a flat object to your camera's angle, regardless of its movements!

[MMT--Games]

Hey man, i know that you have more than a million subs and your last videos are doing a good job but you are very underrated. This toturail deserves *at least* 6x more wiews :) also all of the tip videos too. it kinda sucks how, in YouTube the quality of your video doesnt matter, your video only get wiews only when you add the name of someone famous in your title. These golden videos, like i said, are pretty underrated. Love your work, i hope you get what you deserve soon

[TheCGEssentials]

You are an absolute machine! I would go completely insane compiling all of this into a single video ;p

[proksenospapias]

Hey dude. My grandma had a stroke which led to a sudden onset of dementia. I've been caring for her for 3 days and I have literally 2 hours of sleep all in all. I've also discovered your channel during these 3 days. You're making me laugh when I need it the most, plus I'm learning about blender so that's always a plus. Sorry if this a bit of a downer. I just wanted to say thanks ^_^

[kineas]

I can't thank you enough for this amazing work!!! Learned a lot, like with all of your other tips videos. Take care!

[TomGeewhiskeytangometerDX]

Didn't know about tip 41 until now... Never liked the second window opening when render tab is built in! thank you sir!

[bluetongue]

I haven't even started to watch the video, but having watched the ones before I just KNOW it's going to be good