blender_2017 - Training
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Date: | 23.11.2017 9:00 - 23.11.2017 16:30 |
Location details: | The event is organised at the CSC Training Facilities located in the premises of CSC at Keilaranta 14, Espoo, Finland. The best way to reach us is by public transportation; more detailed travel tips are available. |
Language: | english-language |
lecturers: |
Jyrki Hokkanen |
Price: |
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The fee covers all materials, lunches as well as morning and afternoon coffees. |
Payment can be made with electronic invoicing, credit card, or direct bank transfer. Note that for electronic invoicing you need the operator and e-invoicing address (OVT code) of your organization. Please also note that invoice reference is needed for electronic invoicing in your organization, so please have this available when registering.
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Description
Blender is free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline - modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, and also video editing and game creation. This course focuses on rendering meshes exported from scientific applications, Blender's mesh creating capabilities, and automating tasks by scripting. Also other features will be demoed. The course consists of lectures and hands-on exercises.
Participants are encouraged to communicate their particular Blender interests and use cases to the organizers beforehand.
Learning outcome
After the course the participants should be able to import and render meshes from other applications, create meshes with Blender, and write simple scripts to automate Blender tasks.
Prerequisities
Basic knowledge about Blender's interface is needed to participate the hands-on sessions.
09:00 - 09:15 Introduction
09:15 - 09:45 Mesh export/import
09:45 - 10:00 Coffee break
10:00 - 10:30 Rendering techniques, different renderers
10:30 - 12:00 Creating materials, lights, camera animations
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00 CAD like features
14:00 - 14:15 Coffee break
14:15 - 15:15 Simple scripting
15:15 - 16:30 Fun/serious stuff as requested