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Program: Blender
Discipline: 3D Modelling, Rigging, Rendering
Course: TGJ4M
Background
Background
Blender is the industry standard open-source 3D modelling software. Blender's features include 3D modelling, UV mapping, texturing, digital drawing, raster graphics editing, rigging and skinning, fluid and smoke simulation, particle simulation, soft body simulation, sculpting, animation, match moving, rendering, motion graphics, video editing, and compositing. It's a great tool for a lot of reasons, but it's got quite the learning curve!
In this assignment, you'll create every Blender learner's first project... A pink frosted sprinkled donut! Along the way you'll learn how the software creates shapes using polygons, how modifiers are used to change how these shapes are rendered, and additional tools to render (output) a final shape.
You will hand in a .blend file and a fully rendered image (.png) of your completed donut.
Once you're finished, you have the opportunity to push your learning farther and learn some advanced techniques to make your donut render more lifelike and realistic.
If you're using your own computer (i.e. not a school computer), you'll need to download and install Blender. School computers already have it pre-installed!
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Getting Started
Getting Started
In this introduction, you'll learn how to navigate the Blender interface, move the camera, and perform basic tasks on the default shape that comes loaded on to every new Blender project.
2:45 Moving objects4:04 Axis snapping5:08 Rotate and Scale6:20 Orbiting7:18 Scaling the interface8:31 Panning9:01 Zooming9:24 Focus on object10:14 Align View to Axis11:21 Orthographic/Perspective View13:00 Properties
Here, you'll learn the basics of manipulating shapes using the 3 main edit parameters, based on simple 3D geometry. You'll want to recall what a vertex, edge, and face are!
0:30 Adding objects1:40 Object parameters5:38 Real-world measurements7:24 Applying scale8:15 Flat & Smooth shading9:42 Subsurf modifier11:52 Edit mode14:44 Proportional editing17:55 Shrink/Fatten (Move along normals)
Shapes in blender gain additional visual properties using something called "Modifiers". These allow you to create (and stack) effects to change the appearance of the basic shapes you work with.
1:45 X-Ray mode2:21 Duplicating a mesh3:00 Making duplicate own mesh4:06 Selecting connected vertices5:06 Making meshes thicker6:30 Subtle value changes7:26 Changing the order of modifiers
Here you'll learn how to make subtle adjustments to create a more believable look and feel for your shapes. Note that at: 3:47, the snapping options are now different. For Blender v3.3 onwards, select "Face Nearest" then the "Snap to same target" checkbox.
1:41 Proportional Editing2:18 Snapping Tool2:44 Snap during Transform8:17 Hiding shapes10:07 Extruding (again)14:30 Subsurf Modifier15:21 Shrink Wrap Modifier17:13 Sculpting Tools
The final touches are applied in a process called Sculpting, which allows you to "paint" your shapes to make them less uniform and robotic looking!
0:40 Apply all modifiers in correct order1:36 Sculpt mode 2:21 Draw tool3:00 Brush size 3:22 Brush strength4:12 Smooth tool 4:58 Inflate tool5:48 Stroke method of inflate tool6:23 Switching stroke method to space7:18 Stylus8:50 Make depth on top of icing layer10:47 Make depth at bottom of donut13:22 Back to layout mode
This tutorial tells you how to "bake" your donut and compile something that looks complete! You can finish here after you've saved a rendered image of your work or you can continue on using the advanced techniques below.
2:57 Render3:48 Rendered View4:00 Wireframe View4:48 Using different render engines10:45 Lighting and Shadow settings13:30 Ambient Occlusion13:49 Applying materials (texture and colour)15:01 Roughness16:30 Shine and Reflections17:00 Bloom23:06 Noise and Denoising
Advanced Techniques
Advanced Techniques
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