The recent Blender 2.80 release has finally come with a much needed UI overhaul that makes it easier to work through the different stages of 3D modeling and animation and access the various tools Blender has. And with Blender’s growing popularity in industry, I finally got around to investing some time into learning it. While I’ve worked with 3D modeling and animation tools years ago, I never really did much beyond merging basic shapes together.