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Blender 2.91 Essential Training

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Course Description

Overview

Get up and running with Blender 2.91, the powerful open-source tool for 2D and 3D modeling, animation, compositing, and post-production.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Introducing Blender 2.91 for beginners
  • How to install and things to know
  • How to use the exercise files
1. Learn Blender in Under an Hour
  • First steps, navigating the interface
  • Menus, search, and shortcuts
  • Create your first objects
  • Modifying objects
  • Make a scene, add lights
  • Render your scene
  • Challenge: Add more objects
  • Solution: Add more objects
2. Modeling and Sculpting
  • Overview of modeling and sculpting
  • Create your first sculpture
  • Common sculpting tools and settings
  • Deep dive: Dynamic topology
  • Optimizing your model for animation
  • Edit Mode
  • Common modeling tools
  • Challenge: Create an aquarium rock
  • Solution: Create an aquarium rock
3. Textures and Shading
  • Overview of texturing
  • Creating your first materials
  • The Shader Editor
  • Unwrapping
  • UV tools
  • Paint your first texture
  • Deep dive: Preserving normal detail
  • Challenge: Make your fish look wet
  • Solution: Make your fish look wet
4. Create Animations
  • Overview of animation
  • Create your first rig
  • Weight painting
  • Shape keys
  • Set your first keyframe
  • Common animation tools
  • Challenge: Animate the fish
  • Solution: Animate the fish
5. Particles, Forces, and Fire
  • Overview of particles and physics
  • Particle magic in blender
  • Forces simulation in Blender
  • Filling up with fluid simulations
  • Light it on fire
  • Dynamic painting
  • Deep dive: Caching
  • Challenge: Filling the fish tank
  • Solution: Filling the fish tank
6. Putting It All Together
  • Collections, scenes, and view layers
  • Lighting
  • Eevee vs. cycles
  • Deep dive: Eevee tips
  • Deep dive: Cycles tips
  • Challenge: Render your first animation
  • Solution: Render your first animation
7. Advanced Techniques
  • Compositing and video editing
  • Grease Pencil overview
  • Commonly used add-ons
  • Exporting to game engines
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

David Andrade

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