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Introduction to Blender
Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.
An introduction to the fundamental concepts and skills in 3D Design.
Blender Learning Targets:
Students will be able to use, split, join and extend the user interface.
Student will be able to use Blender to create 3D models using standard tools including
extrusion modeling
mesh deformation of points, edges, and faces
removing and adding mesh elements
Student will be able to use and understand modifiers (e.g. subdivision surface, solidify & particles)
Students will be able to create, add and adjust lighting and materials
Student will be able to create scenes using layers
Student will be able to import/export models
Student will be able to create basic animations and renderings
⚠️ Turn on Raytracing for a better Material Preview.
Beginner Tutorial - Part 1 (YouTube)
or
Beginner Tutorial - Part 1 (Google Drive)
⚠️ Turn on Raytracing for a better Material Preview.
⚠️ Missing Ambient Occlusion, Bloom, 4.2 TLS (Minecraft Building)
🚨 Textures Download zip (What do I do with a ZIP file?)
Go to Frame 1 Render Image. Place in Portfolio.
⚠️🚨 Render and Post a video/animation to your portfolio.
Beginner Tutorial - Part 2 (YouTube)
or
Beginner Tutorial - Part 2 (Google Drive)
🚨 swordInTheStone4_downloadFiles_part2.zip
🚨 Lazy Viewport Addon (Extract file, then install addon from Preferences)
⚠️ Turn on Raytracing for a better Material Preview.
⚠️ Missing Ambient Occlusion, Bloom, 4.2 TLS part2 (Sword)
Blender Viewport Navigation and Tools Quiz
Beginner Tutorial - Part 3 (YouTube)
or
Beginner Tutorial - Part 3 (Google Drive)
🚨 swordInTheStone4_downloadFiles_part3.zip (Stone)
Tie Fighter Animation Tutorial (Google Drive)
⚠️ Turn on Raytracing for a better Material Preview.
Join and Export your Tie Fighter to a STL file
Slice and 3D print your Tie Fighter
⚠️🚨Take a photo of your 3D printed Tie Fighter and post to your Portfolio
Click here for your Tie Fighter image
⚠️🚨Download and post the the Time-lapse video of the 3D printed Tie Fighter
Bambu Labs Printers
Laser Loop Animation (Google Drive)
X-Wing 3D Modeling & Animation ( Google Drive)
⚠️🚨****Note: Turn off Lazy Viewport in Edit>Preferences>Add-ons. Click link for more information.
Blender 3D Beginner Tutorial Part1 (YouTube)
Blender 3D Beginner Tutorial Part2 (YouTube)
Blender 3D Beginner Tutorial Part3 (YouTube)
How to install Add-ons (Click on the link and follow the instruction on installing Add-ons.)
Lazy Viewport Addon (Extract file, then install addon from Preferences)
Video to the right or follow the directions below.