How to Make Your First Short Film in Blender

This course teaches a filmmaker-focused workflow for making a 3D animated short in Blender, emphasizing storytelling, production discipline, and iterative improvement rather than isolated technical tricks. It’s aimed at users who already know the basics of Blender and want a structured, practical path to finish a short film from concept to release.

What You'll Learn

How to run a full pre-production process: idea development, references, storyboards and production planning.

How to produce and iterate on shots in Blender, with a live walkthrough of making 25 shots and multiple drafts.

How to use AI model and texture generators as practical tools in a Blender film pipeline.

Post-production techniques including color grading, sound design, post-processing and final assembly.

How to structure feedback, run additional drafts, and prepare a short film for release.

Practical habits and project discipline to take a long-term creative project from start to finish.

Who This Is For

Blender users with basic familiarity who have made a few renders and want to scale up to a complete film.

Aspiring 3D directors or solo filmmakers who prioritize storytelling and project delivery over pure technical detail.

People who want a realistic, practice-focused course that shows failures and revisions as part of the learning process.

Not for absolute beginners or those expecting bundled source files; the course does not include downloadable scene files.

Course Details

Total runtime ~20 hours 44 minutes across 63 videos and 7 chapters, led by the creator "stache." The course includes a custom course player with note-taking, progress tracking and optional background music; it emphasizes live demonstrations of the filmmaking process rather than step-by-step modelling tutorials.

Category: Filmmaking

Pricing model: free