Hello everybody! My name is Advay. I’m 14 year old Blender enthusiast. I have been learning Blender from when I was 11 years old, and from early this year I started giving workshops and talks on it as well. I have hosted four workshops and one talk, of which one of the workshops and the talk has been at FOSSUnited events.
In October, I applied for a grant to build a 6-episode tutorial series on Blender Basics in Kannada. After a few weeks, the grant was approved, and I have received the first tranche already. This will be my first ever sponsored content on YouTube!!!
In this post, I want to share the plan I had proposed and also the current status.
Overall Plan
The entire Blender Kannada Tutorial Course will comprise 6 episodes, plus one introduction, one BTS, and one conclusion video. That makes it a total of 9 videos.
Episode Structure
As described in the introduction video, each episode will cover one aspect of Blender modeling as showcased in the visual below.
Team
My friend Aarav, another 14-year-old from Chennai, is also with me on this project. He helps me with putting together certain elements (animation, models etc) that will go into the videos.
Here is how we are splitting the work between us.
- I plan and script the visuals and dialogues.
- Aarav creates the visuals
- I record my video, which comes towards the end of the video.
- I make a Blender animation as a title card.
- I edit them all together, with Aarav and I both looking up appropriate royalty-free BGM.
Status Update
A draft of the first episode is done. In the first episode, I cover:
- Blender installation
- Overview of Blender’s interface
- Navigating the 3D viewport
- Understanding the coordinate system and basic transformations (move, rotate, scale)
While the narration/voice-over is mostly in Kannada, I have mixed English text for pointing out on-screen elements of Blender.
The second episode is in the works, and it should be complete by the end of this month. The goal is to complete all episodes by April 2026.
I am also yet to create a repository into which I will upload all the Blender files and other documents created and referenced in the videos. While making videos public, I will be inserting a link to the repository in the description against all the videos.
Reflections
- Since this is the first time I am making such a series, I have a feeling that with each episode I will discover a better way of communicating something, and that will give me an opportunity to go back and rework earlier episodes.
- It’s best if I upload all episodes at once and make them public.
- I am going to record different shoutouts for each of the episodes, and then finalize on a standard one for use in all the episodes
- Kannada is my mother tongue, but recording in Kannada is hard
In the first few trials I discovered that I speak so much informal Kannada that it won’t look good on screen. - Text overlays in Kannada is not as complicated as I thought
- I think that I may re-record, re-edit, or otherwise change a few aspects of each of the videos once all six episodes are done.
- My current focus is to get a reasonably good draft done for all six episodes first, before fine-tuning them.
- Once a working draft of the entire series is ready, I will share it here and seek feedback. But if you get a chance to watch a draft of the first episode, please do share any feedback you may have.