BlackmagicDesign Fusion Tutorials by Helge Maus / pixeltrain
1. December 2025

Reworking my DaVinci Resolve & Fusion tutorials collection

1. December 2025 By admin

Hi folks,
At the moment I’m reworking the DaVinci Resolve & Fusion tutorials collection on my pixeltrain Patreon. So you now can watch all my tutorials there without YouTube’s advertising bombardment.

https://www.patreon.com/collection/533543

The introductory tutorials for BlackmagicDesign Fusion and Fusion in BlackmagicDesign DaVinci Resolve are now relinked and therefore available to all Patreons.

This software package is simply fantastic for anyone who wants to edit videos, composite animations and renderings, and create HUDs. I hope you enjoy it.

Let me know if you’d like to delve deeper into BlackmagicDesign Fusion.
Then we can plan more for the future.

Cheers,
Helge

22. October 2024

[Tutorial] Blender 4.2 for Production – Bookmark multiple views & switching camera with the Stored Views add-on

22. October 2024 By admin

I’ve released a new “Blender for Production” tutorial. Today I talk about ways to bookmark the Blender 3D view, generate cameras from the current view and how to animate camera switches easily.

Have fun!

Helge

P.S. You can also get this and many more Blender tutorials on my Patreon page:
https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d

18. September 2024

[Tutorial] Blender 4.2 – Normals & Smooth Shading

18. September 2024 By admin

Just added a new lesson to my “Blender Fundamentals” publication about the changes in the Blender 4.2+ Auto Smooth / Normals workflow.

I also made this lesson free for everyone on my free Patreon here:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/tutorial-blender-112301874?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Have fun!

P.S. Keep in mind, it’s a lesson from a beginners publication 😉

patreon Page of Helge Maus / pixeltrain - Blender - Godot - Fusion
17. July 2024

Patreon – Learn Blender Fundamentals & more

17. July 2024 By admin

I’m not sure if you all have seen it, but I started to upload all the tutorial videos of my “Blender Fundamentals” publication to my Patreon for the $5 tier. At the end it will be around 25 hours of content 😉

I plan for the future, that following publications about Blender and Godot will be published as a buyable product and as Patreon videos at the same time. The reason is, that I believe, that Patreons should have all my publication stuff for free as a “Thank you 💖 ” for their support.

https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d/posts

I also published more technical articles and news about Blender and Godot in the last weeks with the goal that you find my free Patreon also a good resource of industry news. And, most important, ad-free. I will invest even more time in that in the future.

Thank you all for your support, have a great day.

Helge

P.S. These tutorials can be found in the Collections Tab under “Blender Fast Forward”. Still many to upload in the next weeks 😉https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d/collections

Tutorial Blender 4.1 - New Features - Keyframes & Keying Sets by Helge Maus / pixeltrain
15. May 2024

Blender 4.1 Tutorial – New Keyframe- and Keying Set Workflow

15. May 2024 By admin

Just published a short Blender tutorial on YouTube. It’s about the changes and improvements of the keyframing workflow in Blender 4.1 .

This video was recorded some time ago for my Patreon page (👉 https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d ) and thanks to my supporters it’s now also on YouTube:

👉 https://youtu.be/v9ZjkkUVVr8?si=2VgKLISXoMI44RSe

Have fun!

Helge

Blender for Production - Production Helpers - Faster Management with the Modifier Tools Add-on
30. June 2023

[Tutorial] Blender for Production – Production Helpers – Faster Management with the Modifier Tools Add-on

30. June 2023 By admin

This series „Blender for Production“ focuses on Blender as a full Production Suite for (Indie) 3D- & VFX Productions. I will explain how to work with the different Modules of Blender and how they are connected.

Also, I will give you an introduction to the specific functionalities, but also the production context and workflows, which can help you to use Blender in your productions. 

In this tutorial we will talk about the built-in Modifier Tools add-on, which helps you to manage larger modifier stacks on objects more elegant. We also look into some best practice workflows with and without this add-on, when it some to modifiers.

These topics are covered in this tutorial:

00:00 Overview of the tutorial

00:32 Modifiers in Blender Workflow

00:51 Tips for fast opening the modifier stack

01:12 Understanding Modifier Flags

02:23 See Modifier result in Edit Mode

03:00 Applying Modifiers correctly

03:33 Using the Apply Menu

04:19 Activate the Modifier Tools Add-on

04:51 UI of Modifier Tools

05:11 Explanation Toggle Stack and Tips

05:56 Drag activation of multiple Modifiers

06:56 Switching Viewport Visibility of a Modifier stack

07:20 Delete all Modifiers on an object

07:30 Working with multiple Modifier stacks at the same time

09:03 Apply the Modifier stack

09:49 Addition in the Apply Menu

10:14 Outro

As a Senior 3D & VFX Trainer, Helge Maus teaches 3D- & VFX Applications for over 20 years.

His focus lies on Generalist work for VFX and Games. He works with studios, agencies and freelancers from different visualization areas and from the games industry.

Meanwhile he focuses on Blender, Unity, Godot & Fusion for his daily work and training. His strong industry background in teaching Houdini FX, Nuke, and Maya over many years helps him to train artists from the industry within a wide production context.

If you have questions or topics, which should be added, please let me know.

If you want to support me for publishing more free tutorials you could join my Patreons:

https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d

or give me a fast Coffee time Tip on
PayPal: https://paypal.me/pixeltrain

Find more information on www.pixeltrain.net

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/pixeltrain3DVFXTrainings

Mastodon: https://mastodon.art/web/@pixeltrain3d

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pixeltrain3d/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pixeltrain/

Blender for Production - Production Helpers - Using Your Favorite Tools from Quick Favorites Tutorial by Helge Maus / pixeltrain
15. June 2023

[Tutorial] Blender for Production – Production Helpers – Using Your Favorite Tools from Quick Favorites

15. June 2023 By admin

Published another free “Blender for Production” tutorial:

“Production Helpers – Using Your Favorite Tools from Quick Favorites”

👉 https://youtu.be/rdqAm_px-oI

In this tutorial we will talk about setting up a Quick Favorites menu for the different working modes inside of Blender. Often used functions and options can be added there by the artist to work faster and more efficient. While explaining the process we will look into several clever helpers like switching edit meshes with keyboard shortcuts, fading inactive objects, configure often used overlays and much more.

Have fun!

Helge

Tutorial Blender for Production - Production Helpers - Modeling with Booleans & Bool Tools Add-on by Helge Maus
12. June 2023

[Tutorial] Blender for Production – Production Helpers – Modeling with Booleans & Bool Tools Add-on

12. June 2023 By admin

This series „Blender for Production“ focuses on Blender as a full Production Suite for (Indie) 3D- & VFX Productions. 

I will explain how to work with the different Modules of Blender and how they are connected.

Also, I will give you an introduction to the specific functionalities, but also the production context and workflows, which can help you to use Blender in your productions. 

In this tutorial we will talk about the basic principles of making hard surface models inside of Blender and how modifiers like booleans, solidify, array and mirror can help you with that. You will see the default Blender workflow and get a lot of workflow insights and tricks how to work with object visibilities, collections, and transformations. They are the basics for a procedural modeling approach for your models. Then we will see, how the free built-in Blender Bool Tools add-on can help you with this workflow to make less clicks and have a faster result.

As a Senior 3D & VFX Trainer, Helge Maus teaches 3D- & VFX Applications for 20 years. His focus lies on VFX, but he also works with many studios/ agencies from different visualization areas and clients from the games industry. He focuses on Blender, Unity, Fusion & Godot for his daily work and training. He has a strong industry background in teaching Houdini FX, Nuke, and Maya over many years.

If you have questions or topics, which should be added, please let me know.

If you want to support me for publishing more free tutorials you could join my Patreons:

https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d

or give me a fast Coffee time Tip on
PayPal: https://paypal.me/pixeltrain

Find more information on www.pixeltrain.net

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/pixeltrain3DVFXTrainings

Mastodon: https://mastodon.art/web/@pixeltrain3d

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pixeltrain3d/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pixeltrain/

9. March 2023

[Tutorial] Blender Fundamentals – Multiple Materials on one object & Slots (Demo Lesson)

9. March 2023 By admin

This tutorial is a demo lesson from my Publication „pixeltrain Blender Fundamentals >> Fast Forward“.

Blender Fundamentals – Multiple Materials on one object & Slots (Demo lesson)

In this tutorial, you will learn how to assign Materials through the slot system of Blender to mesh parts. You will understand what a. slot is, how to make effective selections and assignment and how to assign multiple Materials to one mesh.

Here are the links for my Blender Fundamentals publication. In over 120 lessons with a duration of 20+ hours, I will take you through the complete fundamentals of Blender and the basic workflows you need to know to get started with this amazing free software.

👉 YouTube Trailer

👉 Blender Market
https://blendermarket.com/products/pixeltrain-blender-fundamentals-fast-forward

👉 VIMEO Video-on-Demand 
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/blenderfundamentals

👉 GUMROAD
https://pixeltrain3d.gumroad.com/l/BlenderFundamentals

00:00 Overview of the series and the lesson

01:06 Slots & Multiple Materials

01:26 Working with the local Mode

02:00 Basic Material assignment

02:15 Adding an additional Material slot

02:30 Understanding Slots in the Properties & Shader Editor

03:28 Assigning Faces to a slot

04:43 Selecting faces from an assignment

06:07 Selection faces more effectively

07:06 Re-assign a Material

07:34 Going out of Local mode

08:00 Assigning Slots without Materials

08:33 Changing the Material of a slot

If you have questions or topics, which should be added, please let me know.

If you want to support me for publishing more free tutorials you could

join my Patreons: 👉 https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d

or give me a fast Coffee time Tip: 👉 PayPal: https://paypal.me/pixeltrain

Blender Fundamentals - Loop Cut & Offset Loop Cut Tool (Demo lesson)
20. February 2023

[Tutorial] Blender Fundamentals – Loop Cut & Offset Loop Cut Tool (Demo lesson)

20. February 2023 By admin

This tutorial is a demo lesson from my Publication „pixeltrain Blender Fundamentals >> Fast Forward“.

[Tutorial] Blender Fundamentals – Loop Cut & Offset Loop Cut Tool (Demo lesson)

In over 120 lessons with a duration of 20+ hours, I will take you through the complete fundamentals of Blender and the basic workflows you need to know to get started with this amazing free software.

In this tutorial, you will learn the use of the LoopCut tool and the Offset Edge Loop Cut tool. First you will see how to work with these tools from the Quick tools menu and all the options, then we will look into the keyboard shortcuts and options keys for faster access. At the end, Helge shows how to double edges with the Bevel shortcut as an alternative.

Here are the links for my Blender Fundamentals publication:

👉 YouTube Trailer

👉 Blender Market
https://blendermarket.com/products/pixeltrain-blender-fundamentals-fast-forward

👉 VIMEO Video-on-Demand 
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/blenderfundamentals

👉 GUMROAD
https://pixeltrain3d.gumroad.com/l/BlenderFundamentals

00:00 Overview of the series and the lesson

01:06 LoopCut tool & Offset Loopcut tool

01:30 Using Loop Cut from the Quick tools

01:50 Making a loop cut

02:30 Options of the loop cut

04:00 Sliding the cut

04:45 Working with referenced edges

05:20 Options Even and Flip

06:20 Adding loop cuts with shortcuts

07:30 Options Even and Flip with shortcuts

08:30 Offset Edge Loop Cut tool

10:09 Working with the shortcut

10:37 Working with edge bevel as an alternative

If you have questions or topics, which should be added, please let me know.

If you want to support me for publishing more free tutorials you could join my Patreons:

👉 https://www.patreon.com/pixeltrain3d

or give me a fast Coffee time Tip:
👉 PayPal: https://paypal.me/pixeltrain