Blender Basics Class

Blender Basics Class 3 Saturday Class

Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. February 13, 20, and 27, 2010

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 the following:

Day 1

How to use the interface
Basic modeling of 3D objects
Creating and assigning materials and textures
Animating objects and materials

Day 2

Character Modeling
Rigging and skinning the character, (armatures)
Relative Vertex Keys (Shapes)
Actions, short behaviors that can be repeated and reused
The NLA editor

Day 3

Particle System Basics, for creating many effects such as fire smoke and swarms of butterflies
Curves for modeling and animation paths
UV Texturing
Basics of the Game Engine

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

Castle Animation in Blender from Byron Kindig on Vimeo.

The classes will be held at the Kingsport Renaissance Center, 1200 East Center Street Kingsport, Tennessee 37660 Room number to be announced.

The price of this class is $150 for all 3 Saturdays. Registration is by mail only. Click here to find the printable registration form. The price 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 with 3 button mouse and numeric keypad.

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

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