Introduction to 3D and the Blender User Interface

Welcome to the wonderful world of 3D graphics! This section of this book will help you jump-start your knowledge with some terminology and the basics of working in 3D. We'll keep this brief and try to get through the boring stuff as quickly as possible so you can get right into creating amazing 3D projects in Blender 2.8!

Blender 2.8 is a series of releases. There is usually an update for the software every 3 to 4 months. The first release in the series was 2.80, then 2.81, 2.82, and so on. The projects in this book can be completed with version 2.80 onward, with some optional features requiring 2.81 onward. You can read more about Blender's release cycle here:
blender.org/download/releases.

First, we will take a look at the fundamentals of a 3D scene. We will learn how the 3D coordinate system uses three dimensional...