How to Learn Hard Surface Modelling in Blender

In this detail i give some information about the best places to learn hard surface modelling in blender 2.8 and beyond

***Creative Shrimps Course***

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CG Cookie

***Free channels***
CG Cookie on youtube
Arrimus 3d
Josh Gambrell
Chris Prenninger
Jayanam
top channel 101

Learn the basics of Blender 2.8 :

Recommended paid for beginners course from CG boost:

recommended graphics tablet:
I use a graphics tablet to paint with and my recommendations are written below:

Normal Graphics Tablets
Normal Graphics Tablets
*Cheapest + FAVOURITE:*
Veikk a15

Veikk a30 - great alternative is a15 not available

*Most sturdy and with tilt:*
Huion h610 pro v2

Display Tablets
*My Favourite*
VEIKK VK1560

Heard good things:
Huion Kamvas GT

*Money no object :)*
Cintique 22”HD

*What I use*
Mobile studio pro

[davidmichaelprice]

I've just finished all 13 of the lessons and now have a bunch of strange and mostly useless but shiny Blender objects in my folder. But I have learned a lot, watching these at 6:00 every morning as a quiet way to start each day, with Grant's gentle voice guiding me onward. I just want to say...BEST. TEACHER. EVER. And thank you.

[ahmedhisham]

Hello Grant,

Thank you so much man, I started blender almost a year ago and found it really hard to understand the basics of 3d modelling which led to me having no confidence whatsoever that I can get good at blender until I found this series. You have helped me a lot man I appreciate it.

[grayjackgaming]

I love when ppl i trust recommend other people Its a great way to expand my list of tutors. :D

[LeonIsLate]

Thank you grant for these modeling lessons. I started these exercises just to have some fun but halfway through I started learning some really good topology fundamentals and hard surface fundamentals that I never thought I needed. You are a really good teacher and I am really happy that I get to be your student

[kevin-tui]

I've really been thinking about how to improve my modeling workflow lately. So, thank you for making this video, it was just what I needed right now!

[Argyll]

Aramis 3D is brilliant with Max and I'm sure he's going to be just as good with blender.

[andrejburaz]

You should run for president, your voice is so relaxing

[arnabmukherjee]

Exact video I was looking for! Grant you're the best!! Love from India!

[Dach]

Grabbed that creative shrimp course from your link, glad to give a little back to you Grant for all the hard work, thanks!

[CreativeSteve]

Hey Grant for the very first time I had this past week. Finally learned how to sculpt in Belnder. Gotta admit I didn't do to bad of a job for a first timer and it looks fun and neat abstracty. Also thanks for giving me new people to follow for tutorials.

[Outmind]

I am amazed and appalled that there are so few hard surface modeling tutorials out there compared to stuff like sculpting and low-poly work.



That being said, I'm grateful that you've decided to dive deeper into hard surface modeling recently with your exercise series. it's also nice of you to do a roundup of what's out there, Grant, some of these channels are news to me.


I know you aren't particularly into HSM yourself, but are you looking forward to 2.90's Extrude, Dissolve and Intersect feature?

[Unprogress]

Glebs tutorials on blendermarket are soo good! Especially that robot one

[BeheadedKamikaze]

Thanks for publicising this. Just bought it!

[WataPita-nq]

Thanks you for these awesome lesson series.

[AidyBurrowsD]

For helping spread the good word of modeling gremlin squashing - many thanks!!!! :D

[RayStudio]

Nice!! I wonder why there's 2 video of this? Where its actually the same. Along with the spaceship.

[BelidosD]

Some interesting recommendations there, Arrimus and Chris Prenninger i haven't come across before, but the others i've watched, Jayanam is brilliant, but he's moved away from modelling lately and makes more videos about Unity, Josh is one of the best hard surface modellers out there, but i have difficulty learning from him because he uses paid add-ons and keeping up with his workflow when you don't know what he's doing with Booleans etc is hard, although he has done some videos recently with vanilla blender which are great. CG Cookiee is pretty good, but top channel 101, i don't even class his videos as tutorials, they're all speed modelling to music, he doesn't even have screencast keys turned on, pretty much useless for learning from for me.

[adameskoo]

Hey, how about Hard Surface Modelling course from Creative Shrimp, is it still worth it or is it enough to buy just the latest course from them (50 modelling issues)?

[Streamcatcher]

Nice, do you know or have an example of how to hard surface model according to a technical drawing with exact measurements?

[young.zacarias]

Hi grant, I am wondering if the creative shrimp modeling course is still worth buying in 2024? Currently it is listed lower than its initial release price because the blender version, used for the course, is several updates behind. I am very interested in the course and it is affordable but I thought I would ask prior to purchasing the course. Thanks!