Workshop: Basic Shading in Blender (Session 1)

Date: 8 Feb 2023 (Wed)

Time: 18:30 - 20:00

Venue: Online via MS Teams & On-site at Student Computer Centre M401

Target Audience: All Students

Medium of Instruction: English

Course Description:

• Blender is an open source, free and powerful 3D modeling software. It provides a series of animation short film production solutions from modeling, animation, material, rendering, to audio processing, video editing, etc. Blender is designed for media workers and artists around the world and can be used to visualize in three dimensions. High quality 3D architecture leads to a fast and efficient creation process. This blender workshop focuses on photo-grade rendering and cartoon-style rendering.

• Two identical sessions will be provided in February, students can join the session that is convenient to you.
  

Course Outline:

1. Shading nodes explanation
2. UV editing
3. Texture download
4. Photo-level Rendering (Create a simple scenario)
5. Cartoon-style rendering (By using the monkey head)