Modelling in Blender
- Pre-workshop activities: 20 min
- Introductory presentation: 25 min
- Hands-on activities: 65 min
Why Blender?
Blender is a free, open source application that supports the ability to create high quality 3D models and animation. Blender, while not entirely intuitive at first, is powerful and has an incredibly active community surrounding it with tons of online tutorials. There is no limit to your imagination in Blender. Blender’s capabilities and interface is comparitive to the 3D animation industry standard Maya Autodesk so a lot of the skills you learn in Blender may be easily transferred over.
Learning objectives
At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
- Add shapes into the Blender viewport
- Move around the workspace by panning, zooming, and rotating
- Use the orthographic views (gizmo)
- Resize, rotate, and move objects
- Edit the mesh of an object
- Group objects together
- Add materials and colours to your object
- Save and export your file into an .STL or .OBJ file