3D Animation with Blender
Single Workshop to Get Started with Blender
This workshop covers the history of Blender, installing and configuring the workspace and some basic modeling techniques. Great for beginners as well as experienced CG artists that just need to get the basics to be up and going.
Complete Blender Training - 8 Part Course
Part 1: Configuring the Workspace
- Software Basics - installing program, setting up the workspace, saving and understanding file formats, basic actions.
- Tools and Menus - Exploring the basic functions of Blender.
Part 2: Modeling
- booleans and extrusions
- complex geometries (multiply)
- characters - (mechanical vs. organic)
Part 3: Materials/Texturing
- procedural
- UV map
- mixed media
Part 4: Lighting
- scene for accuracy
- space lighting
- special effects
Part 5: Rigging
- for characters
Part 6: Animation
- scene set up and action
Part 7: Dynamic/Simulation (fluids, particles, softbodies, etc.)
- environment
Part 8: Pipeline Integration > Rendering (internal/external)
- subversion
- linked libraries and groups