Blender Training

Blender Intro is an online learning course which shows you all the basics you need to get started with the Blender 3D animation package. It is ideally suited to those who are new to 3D animation and have not previously used Blender.

Availability & Price
This course will be publicly available from Dec 08 and will be priced at £55

Prerequisites
In order to take the Blender Intro training course, you will require basic computer skills such as a basic understanding of a computer's operating system, launching an application, creating & saving files, and copying files from CDs & other media.

Course Overview
The interface

  • Windows
  • Mouse control
  • Left mouse button, Right Mouse Button, and Middle Mouse Button
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • The number keyboard
  • Controlling your view
  • Layers
  • 3D manipulator
  • Preferences

Files

  • Naming and numbering your blender files
  • Saving files
  • Opening files

Moving objects

  • Scaling objects
  • Roating objects
  • Selecting objects
  • Clearing transformations
  • Global vs Local
  • Origin and pivot points

Manipulating objects

  • Drawing types
  • Adding objects
  • Deleting objects
  • Basic smoothing and subsurfing

Creating simple shapes

  • Creating a simple house
  • Creating a simple wall
  • Creating a star
  • Creating a pill
  • Creating some mountains

Creating a Gingerbread man

  • Box modelling
  • Adding details
  • Basic materials
  • Basic lighting

Basic architecture

  • A simple window
  • A curved wall

Basic materials and textures

  • Simple colour
  • Specular colour
  • Diffuse colour

Simple rigging

  • Animating a gingerbread man
  • Armatures
  • Adding bones
  • Skinning
  • Deforming
  • Animating

Blender objects to Actionscript 3

  • Installing the right script
  • Creating a simple shape
  • Exporting the shape for Actionscript 3, papervision3D
  • using Flex to create a papervision3D project
  • Using the Blender shape in Flex
  • Animating the Blender shape in Flex

 

System Requirements for the course (nb: other settings may work, but we have tested these)

  • Computer: minimum 1.5GHz processor, 512MB memory, sound card and speakers
  • Monitor: minimum resolution of 1024x768 and 16 bit colour (at least)
  • Operating system: Microsoft Windows, 2000, XP, Vista, Apple OSX, Linux, and various other.
  • Internet connection: Broadband is recommended as a minimum for watching the videos
  • Web browser: Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Apple Safari, with JavaScript & Cookies enabled
  • Web browser plug-in: Adobe Flash
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