Can you move an object in Blender, but never quite where you want it? You select something, hit a key, and it shoots off at a weird angle, scales unevenly, or rotates around the wrong point entirely. Moving, rotating and scaling are the things you do constantly in Blender — and until they feel precise and predictable, every project is a fight. This course makes them second nature.
Blender Essentials: Transform and Gizmo Basics is a hands-on, beginner-friendly course that takes you from fumbling with the gizmo to controlling objects with total precision. Across 17 focused lessons you’ll master the Move, Rotate and Scale tools, axis and plane constraints, the combined Transform gizmo, and the lightning-fast G / R / S shortcuts with numeric input.
But precise transforms are about more than tools — they’re about origins, pivots and orientations. You’ll finally understand object origins (and how to set them with the 3D Cursor, Center of Mass, and Affect Only Origins), the difference between Scale and Dimensions, when to apply transforms with Ctrl A, and how Global, Local, Normal, Cursor and Parent orientations change everything. You’ll choose the right Transform Pivot Point every time, and you’ll learn to diagnose and fix the transform problems that trip up every beginner — offset origins, negative scale, broken mirrors and parenting gone wrong.
