Blender course Udemy: the 10 best in 2026

Best for beginners who want to earn money with 3D product animation. It teaches Blender from beginner to pro through four complete product animations, plus free AI tools, DaVinci Resolve fundamentals for editing and color grading renders, and a client acquisition system with a case study on getting your first customer.

It has 4.7 stars, but from only 347 reviews and more than 2,200 students. It runs about 47 hours, the longest course here, and was updated in August 2026. AI was used in producing the course.

Best for learners who can model and now want to animate. Grant covers the principles of rigging and animation, basic and automated advanced rigs, expressive animations, run cycles and attack animations, and exporting characters to game engines, acting out the movements himself as reference.

It has 4.7 stars from more than 1,800 reviews and more than 16,000 students. It runs about eight hours and was last updated in July 2025. We lowered it slightly because it is a specialist course.

Best for beginners who want modeling and materials in one course. It covers Blender fundamentals, organic subdivision modeling, hard-surface modeling, modifiers, digital sculpting and stylized materials in the Shader Editor, ending with a final project: a complete stylized fantasy character.

It has 4.7 stars from 899 reviews and more than 11,000 students. It runs about 11 hours and was updated in April 2026.

Best for absolute beginners who learn through constant mini-challenges. It covers viewport navigation, objects, the 3D cursor, edit mode tools such as extrude, inset, bevel, loop cut and knife, and modifiers including subdivision, mirror, array and boolean, through mini projects like a dagger, sword, treasure chest and lantern, ending with a full weapon asset.

It has 4.8 stars from 838 reviews and more than 5,500 students. It runs about nine and a half hours with a PDF cheat sheet and was updated in February 2026.

Best for busy beginners who want to make characters quickly. Grant teaches Blender navigation and modeling fundamentals while you create fun, stylized low poly characters with different styles, hair and clothing, then adds simple animation for games or graphics.

It has 4.8 stars from more than 1,400 reviews and more than 10,000 students. At about five hours it is the shortest course here, and it was last updated in July 2025.

Best for beginners who want to make game-ready environments. Remastered in Blender 5.1, it starts with the interface and builds up methodically through modeling a range of modular environment assets, sculpting, texturing, lighting and rendering, ending with a detailed scene for your portfolio.

It has 4.7 stars from more than 4,500 reviews and more than 48,000 students. It runs about 14 hours with 95 resources and was updated in July 2026.

Best for learners who want to sculpt characters and creatures. Alex starts with Blender basics, then works through four complete projects: a fish, a four-legged creature, a demon minotaur and a character bust, covering sculpting, anatomy, retopology, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging and animation.

It has 4.8 stars from more than 3,900 reviews, the highest rating here, and more than 29,000 students. It runs about 37 hours and was updated in March 2026. It is compatible with Blender 5.1.

Best for beginners who want to create a full game character for their portfolio. It covers modeling, sculpting, painting textures and rigging, following an Orc model or your own design, with a challenge for each concept and all project files included.

It has 4.7 stars from more than 9,100 reviews and more than 64,000 students. It runs about 34 hours with 118 resources and was updated in March 2026. Made in Blender 4.2 and compatible with Blender 5.

Best for beginners who want to build one realistic scene in Blender 5. Rob Tuytel starts with the interface, navigation, materials and lighting, then has you build a factory hall from blueprints, with geometry nodes presets for debris, materials for puddles, dirt and graffiti, cloth simulation and compositor effects, plus a library of 150+ photo-scanned assets.

It has 4.7 stars from more than 14,000 reviews and more than 117,000 students. It runs about 38 hours and was last updated in November 2025. A computer with at least 16 GB of RAM is recommended.