Why Blender Secrets?

Hi! Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jan and you may know me from my “Blender Secrets” on Instagram, YouTube or elsewhere. The reason I started making these tips is because even as a professional Blender user, I still sometimes need to look things up (“what was that shortcut again?”) and could not find a good source of efficient, short tutorials.

For things you only do once in a while (like baking normal maps), even the professionals will sometimes go to Youtube to patiently endure a 40-minute tutorial, where the actual explanation comes at the 37-minute mark. Wouldn’t it be great if these topics were addressed in under 1 minute?

I couldn’t find any channel with short, one-minute video tutorials for Blender, so I decided to make them myself. Of course, not everything can be shown in 1 minute, but a surprising amount of things can! The Blender Secrets e-book collects these Blender tips in written form, so you can learn them at your own pace.