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Blender Intro Class

Instructor

• Pelle Johnsen (pjoe)

Getting Blender

• Latest official Blender 2.5
• Recent mac build (r40311 - 64bit)
• Mac New Cycles Renderer build (r49332 - 64bit)

Blender Manual

• Gingerbread man 1 - As Video Tutorial
• Gingerbread man 2
• Full Manual
• Blender 2.5 Keymap
• Also try clicking SPACE and searching for commands!

Useful Links

• Blender Nation (news)
• Blender Cookie (tutorials)
• Blendtuts (tutorials)
• Blend Swap (models)
• CGTextures (textures)

Specific Tutorials

• Sculpting brushes and settings
• Cycles: new render engine

Online 3D Viewer

• 3dviewr.com

Class Schedule

• Mon 19-sep, 9-17: Up and running with Blender
  • Blender in 30 min. (Gingerbread man)
  • Modeling
    • Simple character, from ref. photos
    • Text
    • Array modifier
    • Curves
    • Simple sculpting
  • Basic materials
  • UV unwrap
  • Textures
  • Lighting
    • 3 point lighting setup
  • Rendering

• Wed 21-sep, 9-12: Basic animation
  • Key frames
  • Graph editor
  • Bouncing ball exercise

• Fri 23-sep, 9-12: Particles & Physics
  • Particles
  • Rigid body physics

• Mon 26-sep, 13-15
  • General help with identity exercise
  • More rendering?

• Wed 28-sep, 13-15
  • General help with identity exercise
  • Rigify intro

• Fri 30-sep, 13-16
  • General help with identity exercise
  • Presentations with critiques and comments