WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.800 Hi and welcome to How to Install Blender! 2 00:00:03.800 --> 00:00:07.800 So in this particular video, we'll be going to where to download Blender 3 00:00:07.800 --> 00:00:11.800 from, so you get the official copy. We'll be installing Blender 4 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:15.800 to the computer. We'll be checking which version you have as well, 5 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:19.800 so if you've already got it installed, we'll be able to see which version that 6 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:23.800 is and see whether you need to get the latest version. Now, the latest version at the moment, 7 00:00:23.800 --> 00:00:27.800 at the recording time of this video, is 2.77. So you're going to need 8 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:31.800 version 2.77 or later, to make sure that what I'm doing and what 9 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:35.800 you're doing are going to match up and correlate. Now, it's very important, 10 00:00:35.800 --> 00:00:39.800 as I go through these, that you're focused on what I am 11 00:00:39.800 --> 00:00:43.800 doing. That can be very difficult to follow a screen and 12 00:00:43.800 --> 00:00:47.800 not having to pause the video every 2 seconds. I tend to talk quite 13 00:00:47.800 --> 00:00:51.800 slowly, especially in these early lectures you so guys can follow what's going 14 00:00:51.800 --> 00:00:55.800 on clearly. But it is a great idea to watch the video, and 15 00:00:55.800 --> 00:00:59.800 then, I'm going to give you a challenge. And when I give you the challenge, then of course 16 00:00:59.800 --> 00:01:03.800 if necessary, you can go back and pause and come back and forth and back and forth. That's 17 00:01:03.800 --> 00:01:07.800 absolutely fine! But I would recommend actually just watching these first 18 00:01:07.800 --> 00:01:11.800 few minutes, so that you guys can see what's going to happen, and then, when the 19 00:01:11.800 --> 00:01:15.800 challenge comes, of course, go ahead and do it! So let's go ahead, 20 00:01:15.800 --> 00:01:19.133 first of all, and see where to download Blender from. OK, 21 00:01:19.700 --> 00:01:23.700 so I have opened up a browser and gone to 22 00:01:23.700 --> 00:01:27.700 www.blender.org. And here, there are a couple of places 23 00:01:27.700 --> 00:01:31.700 you could go to. You could go to the Download link at the top or the big blue Download 24 00:01:31.700 --> 00:01:35.700 button down here. Blender 2.77! So if I go ahead 25 00:01:35.700 --> 00:01:39.700 and click on that, it takes us to the Download page. So we've got www.blender.org 26 00:01:39.700 --> 00:01:43.700 /download. If I scroll down this page, 27 00:01:43.700 --> 00:01:47.700 we can see that the latest was released only a few days ago. Well, 28 00:01:47.700 --> 00:01:51.700 it's now the 22nd and it was March 19th, so brilliant! This is a new version for me as 29 00:01:51.700 --> 00:01:55.700 well, so we get to do a live install! Nothing can go wrong here, hey guys! 30 00:01:55.700 --> 00:01:59.700 So if we scroll down, we can see the versions for Windows 31 00:01:59.700 --> 00:02:03.700 there, and we can see the version for Mac. And if we scroll down a little more, 32 00:02:03.700 --> 00:02:07.700 we've got Mm for Linux as well. So you'll need to pick the version 33 00:02:07.700 --> 00:02:11.700 that's applicable to your platform. I'm running a Mac, as you'll probably notice 34 00:02:11.700 --> 00:02:15.700 here, and I'll be going through soon the similarities and differences between these 35 00:02:15.700 --> 00:02:19.700 particular platforms. Most of the time there are no differences, 36 00:02:19.700 --> 00:02:23.700 just a different keyboard layout basically. OK, so I'm going to go 37 00:02:23.700 --> 00:02:27.700 ahead and click on one of these links, and that's going to start downloading! 38 00:02:27.700 --> 00:02:31.700 Now, it's great that this says it right in front of us, what I was going to say! 39 00:02:31.700 --> 00:02:35.700 Blender is free software and it's free to use for any purposes. 40 00:02:35.700 --> 00:02:39.700 Now the great thing about it is, it' really just a, it is a suit 41 00:02:39.700 --> 00:02:43.700 of packages. It's a 3D modeling package, it's a sculpting package, it's 42 00:02:43.700 --> 00:02:47.700 a compositor, it's a renderer! It does so much! It does VFX, it does 43 00:02:47.700 --> 00:02:51.700 animation! There's pretty much nothing it can't do. So it's wonderful 44 00:02:51.700 --> 00:02:55.700 and it's a great tool to use, and I'm really excited and really looking forward to seeing 45 00:02:55.700 --> 00:02:59.700 what you guys can create with it, as well. So let's just have a look and 46 00:02:59.700 --> 00:03:03.700 see at the features, while we're just waiting for this to download here. Now, 47 00:03:03.700 --> 00:03:07.700 it's going to take you a while to get to this level here, even with this orange, lemon, and 48 00:03:07.700 --> 00:03:11.700 lime on there. This photorealistic rendering, fast modeling, realistic 49 00:03:11.700 --> 00:03:15.700 materials, fast rigging, animation, all of these things are absolutely 50 00:03:15.700 --> 00:03:19.700 wonderful! And I must hammer it home, at this point, that you 51 00:03:19.700 --> 00:03:23.700 guys are going to get the most out of this course, when you put the most in. 52 00:03:23.700 --> 00:03:27.700 Now, I'm not going to be able to teach you every little nitty gritty thing, but I will be 53 00:03:27.700 --> 00:03:31.700 teaching you the basics, all the way up to some more advanced stuff. But I would 54 00:03:31.700 --> 00:03:35.700 really like it if you guys would take it upon yourselves to, 55 00:03:35.700 --> 00:03:39.700 after a particular section has finished or even after a particular lecture has 56 00:03:39.700 --> 00:03:43.700 finished, you practice that skill that we've just learned because that is really 57 00:03:43.700 --> 00:03:47.700 important. There is no substitution for repetition. The mother 58 00:03:47.700 --> 00:03:51.700 of all skill is repetition. So if after I asked 59 00:03:51.700 --> 00:03:55.700 you to model, let's say a kitchen cup, we'll go out and make 60 00:03:55.700 --> 00:03:59.700 a plate and a bowl, you know nice simple things. Don't go out of your way to go make 61 00:03:59.700 --> 00:04:03.700 a car or a plane. I mean those are great things to model, 62 00:04:03.700 --> 00:04:07.700 but a cup may be one or two parts, a plane or a car might be 63 00:04:07.700 --> 00:04:11.700 hundreds of parts to make that. So let's make things nice and simple 64 00:04:11.700 --> 00:04:15.700 for ourselves and make sure we can win. If we set ourselves a challenge, let's make sure we 65 00:04:15.700 --> 00:04:19.700 can win that challenge. OK, I've noticed so now that the download has finished. 66 00:04:19.700 --> 00:04:23.700 I'm going to go ahead and click on that download, and it's going 67 00:04:23.700 --> 00:04:27.700 to extract, which is absolutely fine. And then, I'm going to go ahead 68 00:04:27.700 --> 00:04:31.700 and drag the folder to my 69 00:04:31.700 --> 00:04:35.700 Applications. It will be slightly different on a 70 00:04:35.700 --> 00:04:39.700 PC or a Linux Box. I can't see Applications. There it is! OK, 71 00:04:39.700 --> 00:04:43.700 so now that's in my Applications. I'm going to go find it and just create a shortcut on 72 00:04:43.700 --> 00:04:47.700 my computer for it, so I can come back to it at any time. 73 00:04:47.700 --> 00:04:51.700 OK, so let's go ahead and open that! Oh, it appears I already have an 74 00:04:51.700 --> 00:04:55.700 instance of it open! So let's go ahead and open! 75 00:04:56.666 --> 00:04:59.600 Now, of course, you may get a security warning 76 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:03.600 on any platform, when you first open up a file. Of course, if we've downloaded 77 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:07.600 it from Blender.org, I'm absolutely happy with that, so I'm going to Open 78 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:11.600 that up. And we're presented with this splash screen in front of us, which quite 79 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:15.600 clearly says Blender 2.77! However, if you're a bit click 80 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:19.600 happy, I tend to be occasionally, you may have that disappear, 81 00:05:19.733 --> 00:05:23.100 but that's not to worry, because we can still see the version number. It's 82 00:05:23.100 --> 00:05:27.100 right in front of us. If we look at the very top of Blender, we 83 00:05:27.100 --> 00:05:31.100 have this particular bar here that's called the Info 84 00:05:31.100 --> 00:05:35.100 Window. We'll use that in a future lecture, or lots of future lectures, because 85 00:05:35.100 --> 00:05:39.100 it's where you have File, new, open, open recent, all those sort 86 00:05:39.100 --> 00:05:43.100 of familiar things you're used to. You'll notice that you don't have a 87 00:05:43.100 --> 00:05:47.100 File, Edit, Tools menu and all those other things that you would generally have with 88 00:05:47.100 --> 00:05:51.100 a program. Now this is the same across all platforms, so 89 00:05:51.100 --> 00:05:55.100 this is great! It means you can switch from a Mac to a PC, and have to learn nothing 90 00:05:55.100 --> 00:05:59.100 new. It's great! Now, if we go all the way along this bar, 91 00:05:59.100 --> 00:06:03.100 we can see it says version 2.77, which is great! 92 00:06:03.100 --> 00:06:07.100 And we can go ahead and click on the little Blender icon there and it'll open up this splash 93 00:06:07.100 --> 00:06:11.100 screen again. So there we go, we've got the version. We've got it 94 00:06:11.100 --> 00:06:15.066 installed on the computer, and of course, I've got a challenge for you! 95 00:06:15.066 --> 00:06:17.800 OK, I'd like you to go ahead and install 96 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:21.800 Blender. So go to www.glender.org 97 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:25.800 /download/ Download the latest version of Blender. 98 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:29.800 Now, of course, I'm using 2.77 in this particular video, 99 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:33.800 but the versions of Blender tend to iterate relatively quickly, so 100 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:37.800 you might be on 2.8 by the time you've watched this video. Don't worry, 101 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:41.800 that will be the latest version of Blender. Install it 102 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:45.800 on your computer. So this is going to be one of these lectures now where I'm not 103 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:49.800 going to ask you to pause the video. I will simply let you go ahead and 104 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:53.800 install it on your computer, and I will see you guys in the next lecture.