A mechanical Blender course

Design, rig, model, animate, light, and render 3D robots from start to finish.

Bring your robot ideas to life!

Take a simple idea and bring it to life with a high level of detail!

Create powerful rigs

Learn beginner friendly tips and tricks for Bone Constraints and how to work with Inverse Kinematics.

Learn powerful volumetric lighting in Cycles

The final rendering lesson from the Hexapod Camera project teaches valuable cinematic volumetric lighting techniques in Cycles.

What you will learn in this course:

• A powerful armature-first robot building mindset
• How to make a Quadruped Light Bulb Robot from start to finish
• How to make an advanced Hexapod Camera Robot from start to finish
• Cinematic lighting, glass, volumetric fog, camera movement, and compositing
• How to build a tracked drive system
• How to build and animate a robot arm
• How to pick up objects with a mechanical rig

Check out the course trailer

See what these robots look like in action!

Watch the introduction video

Here's a 13 minute video where I take you through everything you need to know about the course!

What the course contains

• 14+ hours of step-by-step video lessons
• 100% Blender workflow
• CC0 assets, safe for personal and commercial work
• Subtitles in 6 languages
• 72-page Course Companion PDF
• 20+ separate .blend files

I’ll be your teacher!

Hello! My name is Asbjørn Lote, also known as @Polyfjord. I am a Norwegian digital artist with a passion for Blender and finding new workflows. I have been making Blender tutorials on YouTube as my full time job since 2021, and I care deeply about 3D animation, lighting and hard-surface animation. I am very much looking forward to having you as my student!

Build a tracked drive system

Learn how to rig your robot with a useful vehicle locomotion system.

Learn how to pick up objects

Build, rig and animate your own hard-surface robot arm, and pick up objects with it.