The first of a five part series introducing absolute beginners to Blender's workspace, navigation, basic modeling, materials, HDRIs, Images as Planes, rendering and basic camera animation.
Tutorial #1 Tour the viewport and navigation
0:48 Intro to the workspace
1:20 Render views
2:22 Outliner
2:56 Properties Editor
4:40 Moving and navigation
6:58 N Side Panel
8:00 Adjustment Window
Tutorial #2 Basic modeling as we make the stone lantern.
Tutorial #3 More detail in vertex modeling as we make the beach and the stones.
Tutorial #4 Introduction to Materials, how to make basic PBR image texture materials, import an HDRI to light the scene, and use Images as Planes to add the figure.
Tutorial #5 Very brief introduction to animation as we create a camera fly-through of the scene.