Learning Blender: A Hands-On Guide to Creating 3D Animated Characters

Managing Areas

As you’ve seen already, Blender’s UI is made of areas or frames. Let’s master them! First, you’ll learn how to split and join them: the key to performing these operations is in the bottom-left and top-right corners. Each area will have little diagonal lines in those corners that you can click and drag. When you hover the mouse over them, your cursor will turn into a cross.

You can work with those corners in the following ways:

Split: Click LMB and drag inside an area to split it. Dragging vertically will create a horizontal split, while dragging horizontally will create a vertical split. Right click before releasing LMB to cancel ...