Blender 3D Intro | Create a Surreal Floating Island | Step Into Digital Art |

🔺 Are you ready to experience the power of Blender 3D? This free, user-friendly software is used to create animated films, visual effects, motion graphics, virtual reality and computer games. This is a perfect starting point in your exploration in the world of 3D. Understand the basic principles and discover your potential in this exciting field. 🧒 Students of all ages can enroll depending on their computer literacy and interest.

🎨 In this 4-week SELF-PACED (pre-recorded) course, students will create of an artistic piece with surreal elements: a floating island. They will use the low-poly technique which is distinctively appealing yet simple to work with. Students will leave the course with the tools they need to start creating their own worlds and applying their creative vision.

📅 TOPICS:

Class 1: Introduction & Navigation

Create a basic house comprised of a pyramid and a cube

Class 2: Positioning, Object Transformation & Applying Color

Build a multi-level house with premade elements

Class 3: Modeling

Design a tree

Class 4: Composing a Finished Product & Working with Realistic Lighting

Complete the floating Island, apply color to object faces

🏰 Please note: Some 3D elements are premade and will be provided to the students, namely the large floating island. Students will be taught to model and create the smaller elements to add to the final piece.

👉 PARTICIPATION & COLLABORATION: There are no live meetings. Advance at your own pace! Students access video lessons and follow the step-by-step instructions. Should questions arise, they can reach out via email. The class will culminate in the creation of an artistic floating island.

💻 COMPUTER SPECS: Blender 3D requires a graphics card with at least 1 GB of memory. This is not available on Chromebooks or some computers. A mouse will also facilitate commands and navigations.

👓LEVEL: No prior experience in Blender is required. This class is geared towards absolute beginners who are curious to express their creativity through digital art. Basic computer literacy is expected: downloading and saving files, uploading files and messaging on the OS Classroom page.

⏰ SELF-PACED CLASS: No live meetings. All communication is done via Google classroom. Please ensure you have a gmail account.