Blender 3D design

This Tufts OpenCourseWare offers details of projects with examples of student work, general notes and Flash videos from each of the learning units, and links to supplementary materials which includes PDF tutorials [beginning and intermediate], Blender video tutorials, and a PDF Blender Hot Keys cheat sheet taken from the Blender 3D Design undergraduate course taught in the spring of 2008.

The Blender 3D Design course is intended to offer students an introduction to the world of computer generated 3-D modeling and animation. As an introductory course, it provides a basic understanding of the skills and techniques employed by 3-D designers in a wide range of applications. The course will explore basic mesh modeling, applying textures and materials to 3-D objects, lighting, animation and rendering. It should provide a good basis for further independent study in architectural, engineering, and theatrical modeling and game design. It is self-paced, meaning that you can pick and choose the Learning Units, Video Tutorials or PDF tutorials as you see fit. The sequence of Learning Units are a suggested path of learning Blender but users are welcome to use this material in any way that suits theirr purposes. There are 2 progressive levels of study in this course: Beginning Level and Intermediate Level. Learning Units 1 through 12 comprise the Beginning Level Course and Learning Units 13 through 24 comprise the Intermediate Level Course (Note: The Intermediate level Course is currently under development.)

To take this course, you must have access to a personal computer on which you can download all of the required software (free) and execute all of the required assignments. Please note that the course as presented here does not contain the full content of the course as taught at Tufts. The included content is based on material the Tufts faculty and instructors choose to include, as well as factors such as content preparation, software compatibility, and intellectual property and copyright restrictions. Tufts are working on a replacement OCW Blender course, which will reflect the new 2.5x version of Blender. It will include additional learning units, new video and PDF tutorials, and different projects.

[Description and screenshot taken from Tufts OCW page for this course. (c) Tufts University used under the terms of their CC-NC-SA license.]

Link: http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/57/
Author: Neal Hirsig
Publication Date: 2008-05
Source: http://ocw.tufts.edu/
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Rights: Tufts OCW material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.