Blender 3D entrylevel live workshop

Our Blender course for all those who want to dive into the fascinating world of 3D visualization and 3D animation.

Blender 3 is a complete free and open-source Software Suite, that allows you to produce everything which is 3D (2D as well). It has been used for many great open animation projects and is meanwhile adapted in the industry even for impressive commercial work.

We from Visualisation Academy want to provide you with the best possible training.

Therefore, we brought the well-known and very experienced trainer Helge Maus on board. To make sure you learn this great software from one of the best in the field.

Helge Maus is a Senior VFX Trainer | Houdini FX Generalist | NUKE Compositor with more than 20 years of experience in training. His focus lies in teaching tools from the ground up in a structured and practice-proven way with the whole workflow in mind. He is a strong believer of the importance of understanding the fundamentals and building on them to make artists life more fun and efficient.

Thanks to his many years of experience, you will learn everything you need to know to get started with Blender in this two-day live training online course.

Course content:

• Introduction of the Blender 3 ecosystem
• Installation, add-ons and configuration
• User interface and navigation
• Scene organization, Outliner, Collections
• Polygon-Modelling techniques
• Working with curves & surfaces
• How to use Modifiers
• SubDivision Surfaces
• UV Editor and UV Workflow
• Lighting your scenes with lights and GI
• Cameras & physical settings
• Materials & Shaders
• Using the Shading workspace
• Use of textures
• Photorealism & PBR
• Preview with EEVEE (Realtime)
• Render settings for Cycles and EEVEE
• Final Rendering & Postproduction
• Simple compositing in Compositing Workspace
• Introduction of the Sculpting Workspace
• First keyframes and animations

The goal of this workshop:

After this basic course in Blender you will be able to tackle your own 3D projects from 3D model to the final rendering.

Of course, you must not forget: Practice makes perfect. This is a live introduction training in a small group. After the Blender training, it is important that you continue to enjoy using and repeating what you have learned.

Prerequisites:

• None, except basic knowledge of Windows, macOS or Linux
• Please use your own computer with Blender 3 (it’s free on Blender.org)

Group size:

• Minimum of attendees: 4
• Maximum of attendees: 9

If the minimum is not reached, the training would be postponed to a later date. Refunds possible.

About the organizer:

This event is oranized by Visualisation Academy Switzerland in cooperation with Helge Maus from Pixeltrain.