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Beginning with Blender

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Blender is a free tool you can download that lets you make 3D models. It also lets you animate them and work in 2D. With Blender, we can take the character model we've drawn and create a 3D object out of it, then create animations for it to use in any video game project we might be making. Blender is often the place game devs make the models they're going to use in their games. Seeing how I'm a complete novice with this kind of thing, I've started off by just learning to navigate around the scene and using some basic modelling tools. Open Blender and this is the first thing that will show up. "General" is highlighted, which is just the basic default template for making 3D models, so we'll just select that mode for now. The Blender layout will look quite familiar to those who've used Unity or Godot. It too has four main segments in its workspace: The viewport is the big screen in the middle with the cube in, and is where you'll do most of your model