Blender Introduction


Course Facts

  • 3 day course
  • Our Trainers are Authorised Professionals
  • Live Online or Classroom-based
  • Certificate of completion
  • Maximum class size of 6 for scheduled courses
  • Unlimited support after your course
  • Courses at all levels: Introduction, Intermediate, Advanced and Masterclasses

Course Outline

  • Introduction to the Interface
  • Modelling in 3D
  • Modifiers and Deformation
  • Lights
  • Materials
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Overview

Blender is the free, open-source and comprehensive 3D graphics software tool. With a strong foundation in modelling, Blender also offers robust texturing, rigging and skinning, animation, lighting, UV mapping, texturing, digital drawing, rendering, motion graphics, video editing, and compositing. On our 3D course, users will gain a comprehensive introduction to the features and capabilities of Blender that will allow them to create effects such as real and stylised objects and scenes, fluid and smoke simulation, particle simulation, soft body simulation, sculpting, animation, match moving, rendering, motion graphics, video editing, and compositing.
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Course Outline

Introduction to the Interface

  • The Blender workspace
  • Viewports and navigation
  • 3D space and 3D objects
  • Tools
  • Creating, moving, scaling, and rotating objects

Modelling in 3D

  • Objects
  • Mesh Objects
  • Curves
  • Surfaces
  • Text Objects
  • Meta Objects
  • Objects with parent/child relationships
  • Group Objects

Modifiers and Deformation

  • Modify
  • Generate
  • Deform
  • Simulate

Lights

  • Lamps
  • Shadows
  • Volumetric lights
  • Scene lights
  • 3 point lighting set-ups

Materials

  • Material Usage
  • Material Properties
  • Node materials
  • Vertex Paint

Textures

  • Texture Types
  • Texture Painting
  • Texture Mapping
  • Influence (bump maps and displacement maps)

Rigging

  • Armatures
  • Creating animation Bones
  • Posing and key positioning

Animation

  • Frames and Key frames
  • Animation Techniques
  • Bouncing balls
  • Animation Editors
  • Human movement techniques

Physical Simulation

  • Dynamics (force field and collision)
  • Particles
  • Fluids
  • Smoke

Cameras

  • Setting a camera in the scene
  • Lenses and perspective
  • Real life camera limitations
  • Animating the camera in 3D space

Rendering

  • Rendering a Still image
  • Rendering Animations
  • Camera Depth of Field
  • Render Properties
  • Render final passes (for compositing, e.g. After Effects)

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