Blender: Lights, Camera, Action!
(in under 60 mintues)
What is it, How do I use it, What do all of these buttons do???
Blender is a 3D Modeling, Animation, and Media Production Suite. It can be used to make films, images, games, 3D Printable objects, and much more.
It's also Free and Open Source! (GPL!)
What is it, How do I use it, What do all of these buttons do???
Who am I?
Elijah Voigt (pop on irc.freenode.net)
OSU Open Source Lab Student Dev
OSU Linux Users Group President
Blender user since ~2008
Credentials
I am not a professional. I don't get paid to do this. I don't contribute to the code, I just use the heck out of it and have been for a long dang time.
A Thing I Did
Another Thing I Did
More things I do can be found my website (links at the end)
What Will be Covered
- Polygonal Modeling
- Materials
- Modifiers
- Animation
- The Basics
What Won't be Covered
- Animation
- Rigging
- Bezier Curves
- Game Engine
- Python Scripting in Blender
- Textures
- Sculpting
- Physics Engine
- Nodes
- Compositing
The Demo!*
* With some slides
Don't forget to ask questions!
Let's Get Started
Object
Objects
Vertex
Edge
Face
Objects
Manipulators
Modifiers
Animation
Rendering
Materials | Unrendered
Materials | Rendered
Further Reading & Links
- http://blender.org
- http://wiki.blender.org
- http://cgcookie.com/blender
- http://blenderartists.org/forum/
- http://www.blenderguru.com/
- http://slides.elijahcaine.me/scale2015
- http://elijahcaine.me
These slides are available under Creative Commons on Github. Share, Fork, Enjoy!