Come learn to use Blender's open source 3-D modeling program!

This is a 2 Part Class on Friday February 20th 7-9:30PM and Saturday February 21st 9AM-5PM

This class is designed for those interested in learning to use the program Blender with no prior knowledge required. The class will start on February 20th Friday evening 7-9:30PM and continue February 21st Saturday from 9AM-5PM with an hour lunch break.

You will learn the the basics of Blender including:

• Setting up Blender's User Preferences to make your work flow and learning easier.

• The concepts of 3-D and vocabulary of Blender terms.

• How to model objects for 3-D printing and for rendering as images or animations.

• The basics of Materials and Textures for your 3-D Objects and Scenes in Blender.

• The basics of Rigging, Shape Keys and Key Frames to Animate Objects.

• Lighting your scenes.

• How to Render both still images and animations.

• Exporting files for 3-D Printing.

This Class is open to the public for $50 or Free to Members of the Inventor Center.

What you need for the class: A laptop and 3 button mouse. Please download Blender 5.0 for Free at the website www.blender.org to be ready for the class. A 3 button mouse is mandatory for the class. Your mouse must include a left and right button as well as a scroll wheel (the third button).

Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software tool set that runs on Windows, MacOS, BSD, Haiku, and Linux. Blender is used in Hollywood for special effects, animation, architectural pre-visualization, motion graphics and for creating 3-D files for printing.