Blender - Basics and Mesh Modeling

Blender - Basics and Mesh Modeling

Learn the basics of Blender, a multi-purpose, free, open-source program for 3D modeling, rendering, animation and more!

By MakeIt Labs

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Tuesday, June 17 · 7 - 10pm EDT

Location

MakeIt Labs

25 Crown Street Nashua, NH 03060

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

Agenda

GUI Basics

Navigating the GUI, panes, window layout and manipluating the 3D view

Working in 3D

Moving, Rotating scaling and translating objects in the 3D viewport. Creating and manipulating objects

Basic Materials

Adding color, roughness reflectivity and more to create shiny, glossy, glassy and metallic objects. Basics of automatic smoothing of polygons/meshes

Mesh Editing

Creating, editing and manipulating your own 3D mesh designs. Learning about vertices and faces, using tools like extrusion to make more complex shapes

Sculpting

Using tools to take low resolution meshes, and derive higher resolution, rounded organic ones - which can then be edited like molding digital clay

Time permitting: Animation

If time permits, we will get a bit into some of the fundamentals and basics of keyframe animation

About this event

This is a beginners course for Blender, a free, 3D, open-source program which is superb for a variety of uses including Mesh modeling (organic shapes), scuplting, animation, rendering, simulation, video editing and more!

We will cover the basics - with an eye on using Inscape to create basic 3D models for 3D printing - with some rendering and animation.

I MPORTANT - Attendees are required to:

  • Bring their own laptop
  • Should have a mouse with a mouse wheel (no trackpads)
  • Blender 4.0 (or later) installed ahead of class (and make sure it works!)

(If you do not have a laptop, one can be provided for you for the class - but you must arrange this ahead of time with the instructor).

Blender can be downloaded for free for a variety of platforms and operating systems at:

https://www.blender.org/download/

I f you have problems with download or installation, please reach out ahead of the class to resolve.

A cheat-sheet/preview of the class contents can be found here:
https://wiki.makeitlabs.com/education/blender

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MakeIt Labs
MakeIt Labs is an open-access workshop in Nashua, NH. It is a place where anyone can come to dream, learn and create with like-minded people. MakeIt Labs is run by people passionate about helping others build cool things. Come hang out with and learn from a community of students, hobbyists, engineers, artists and more.
 
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