This videocourse, in only7 lesson is very basic,will allowyou to learn enough features to use Blender from thebeginning.

This video course can be considered as an introduction to the 5 volumes of "BLENDER 2.79 - THE ULTIMATE GUIDE", which can be downloaded asattachmentsinthe second lesson of the video course.
This work is the most complete manual on Blender and addresses in a very detailed way all the topics and all the software workspaces, with the help of numerous practical exercises and explanatory images.
Over 2500 color pages, where every function, every menu, every tool is described in depth.
The version of Blender to which these books refer is 2.79b, while in the fifth volume there is a chapter on the main features of 2.8 (actually just a test build version).

TOPICS IN THE 5 BOOKS:

Volume 1
Introduction and interface
Basic operations
Insert objects
Object Mode and Edit Mode
Base modeling
Advanced modeling: modifiers

Volume 2
Blender Render (materials and illumination)
Cycles Render (nodes,materials and illumination)
Texture and Paint Mode
Framing
Relationships and Constraints
Information and object settings

Volume 3
Rigid body dynamics
Soft body
Physics and simulations (Cloth, Fluid, Smoke, Explode, Ocean...)
Force Field
Fracture
Vertex Paint and Weight Paint
Particle System (Emitter and Hair)
Compositing and Render Layers

Volume 4
Animation
Keyframes, Dope Sheet, Graph Editor and NLAEditor
Character Modeling
Rigging and Inverse kinematics
Sculpting Mode
Motion Tracking and Videoediting

Volume 5
Freestyle Render
Grease pencil Sculpting Render
PBRTheory
Volumetric Illumination
Advanced Compositing
Realizing a seamless texture in Blender
Photogrammetry and Blender
360° Render
Motion Capture (MOCAP)
Addons
Blender Game Engine (BGE)
Blender 2.8 Features
Archviz and Unreal Engine 4
Blend4Web
Blender Open Movies

(NOTE: the full price of the 5 books in pdf format is 75 euros!)

The videocourse does not focus on the details of this complex software, but addresses the topics that you need to get you working right away:
- understanding the interface
- modeling
- main modifiers and tools
- materials and textures
- lighting, framing and rendering
- compositing and post production

The books and the video course arerealized by Andrea Coppola, one of the 6 ItalianBlender Foundation certified Trainers (sorry for his English pronunciation in the videos...)

For FREE, included in the pack, the BHSSMARTPBRPRO 2.0, the best material tool, witch you can use to build ANYPOSSIBLEphoto-realistic material in Blender Cycles! The full value of the tool is 19,00 euros!