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

Creating Objects

As you open Blender, you’ll find the familiar “default cube” sitting in the middle of the scene. You can use that cube to build your model or you can delete it. To delete objects in Blender, just select them and press X or Del and click Delete in the dialog box that will appear to confirm the deletion.

First, you want to create an object and there are different ways to do it.

In the 3D View, in the Tools Region (press T if the Tools Region is hidden), on the Create tab, click the object type you want to create.

In the 3D View ...