Animation

Blender Basics Class

Saturdays from 9 am to 5 pm

Next Class, to be announced soon!

Blender is a powerful 3D modeling, and animation suite. It is free and open source and can be obtained by going to the Blender Foundation's site at www.blender.org. (To see what it is capable of watch Big Buck Bunny the Blender Foundation's second open movie.) During this series of classes, students will learn:

How to use the interface
Basic modeling of 3D objects
Creating and assigning materials and textures
Animating objects
Character Modeling
Rigging and skinning the character, (armatures)
Relative Vertex Keys (Shapes)
Actions, short behaviors that can be repeated and reused
The NLA editor.
Particle System Basics, for creating many effects such as fire smoke and swarms of butterflies
Curves
UV Texturing
Basics of the Game Engine

This video is the last project of the first day of the Blender Class.

Castle Animation in Blender from Byron Kindig on Vimeo.

The classes will be held at the Kingsport Renaissance Center, Room number to be announced.

1200 East Center Street Kingsport, Tennessee 37660

The price of this class is $138 for all 3 days and includes all files necessary for the class, plus extra files for appending materials and objects. A minimum of 6 participants are required for the class with a maximum of 12. Bring your own computer.

Pre registration and payment are required.

Mail check made payable to Byron R. Kindig along with Registration form, to :

Byron Kindig

5121 Red Robin Lane

Kingsport, TN 37664

To see what Blender can do watch Big Buck Bunny, the world's second open movie produced by the Blender Foundation's Peach team.

To be on the mailing list for classes in NE Tennessee, go to the contact page and send a note including your email and request to be notified of the next class.