Videotutorials

How to Make a Mineshaft Ride in Blender

Bart ·
Man screaming in a dark tunnel with tracks, possibly from a stylized graphic or 3D render.

Oldtimers may still remember my ‘Ride Through the Mines’ tutorial that I wrote back in 1997 or 98 . It taught procedural modeling and animation based on a curves system. Andrew Price just created the 2025 version of this and the production quality is STAGGERING. This is an absolute must watch – enjoy!

Just as a little throwback, here’s the image of my final result (check out the old tutorial here):

Now compare that to Andrew’s!

Author Bart
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.
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