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Hold the shift key to move up and down.
Hold control key to move left and right.
Left mouse button, click and drag would give you a 3-d view of the object.

You can use three views. You can see side, top and front.

Viewport shading can use wire frame.

Use tab key to use the edit command.

Hold shift if you want to select more than one object.

B=band to drag mouse and select many.

Render farm translate what you have done into a movie.

3d modeling like a sculpting.

keyframe animation...similar to flash.

All the different properties of a model can be keyframed e.g. the size of the model, if you want it to grow overtime, you can actually have a size property to determine how it is to move.

You could have a keyframe for colors and textures.

Lighting and shading.
Can manage fog or stars to change the environment.

Character Animation in 3D is actually faster. The computer puts moves into places that you have left put.

I watched this video and it helped a little. Unfortunately, the continuation of the videos have been cancelled. I dunno why.




If you draw a vertical line, you can move the mouse up and down and you would be able to move the screen up and down. The same occurs when drawing a horizontal line.

NB: Can do video and audio editing in Blender.

To zoom in and out, you the scroll wheel.

Shift+scroll wheel= up and down
Control+command+scroll wheel= left and right
Click and hold middle mouse=can rotate around

Tab jumps between object mode and edit mode.

Three most important keyboard shortcuts.
Grab=g
Scale=s
Rotate=r