Week 15 2025 Animated Textured Text

Nov. 24 - 25, 2025 

Objective: Create 3D text with texture on it.
Assignment: Animated Textured Text.
Details: Create text. Add two textures to your text. Create a scene with three more textures in it.
Links: https://www.1001freefonts.com/ or  http://www.dafont.com/

Save As: 00_Text.blend
Export As: 00_Text1.png, 00_Text2.png

Example:

Objective: Use key frames to animate text.
Assignment: Animate Text.
Details: Add Key frames to lights, camera, text or background to create animation.

Objective: Create 3D text with texture on it.
Assignment: Textured Text.
Details: Create text. Add two textures to your text. Create a scene with three more textures in it. Links: http://www.dafont.com/

Video Tutorial:

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Week 12 2025 Solar System

 November 3 - 7, 2025 

Objective: Applying textures to objects.
Assignment: Solar System

Details: Download 10 textures to use for your solar system. Apply textures to UV spheres cresting planets, moons, stars and other items in space. Use a background texture.

Links: https://www.solarsystemscope.com/textures/

Save As: 01_Solar System_XX.blend

Video Tutorials:

Blender 2.90: 025 Solar System Part 1 Texturing

Blender 2.90: 026 Solar System Part 2 Lighting Environment Image

Blender 2.90: 027 Solar System Part 3 Path Animation

Week 11 2025 Pumpkin Carving

Oct. 28 - 31, 2025 

Objective: Learn how to solidify and cutout holes using Boolean.
Assignment:  Pumpkin Carving (50 pts)
Details: Using Modifiers to solidify and cutout holes to carve a pumpkin.

 

Video Tutorial: Carving a pumpkin.

Week 10 2025 Creature Landscape

October 20 - 23, 2025 

Objective: Modeling objects by sculpting.

Assignment: Creature Landscape

Details: Create a landscape for your creature. Use the sculpt tool to manipulate a plane.

Save As: 01_Creature_Landscape_XX.blend

Video Tutorials:

Blender 2.83: 017 Creating a Creature

Blender 2.83: 018 Sculpting Landscape

Blender 2.83: 020 Trees Add On

Week 9 2025 Creature Sculpting

October 13 - 17, 2025 

Objective: Modeling objects by sculpting.
Assignment: Create a creature using meatball & sculpting modeling.
Save As: 01_Creature_XX.blend

Video Tutorial: Metaball & Sculpt Modeling

Texture Painting in Blender for Beginners (Tutorial)

Texture Painting - Quick Start Guide - Blender

Week 7 2025 Breakfast Layout

September 30 - October 3, 2025 

Objective: Creating an Image Texture
Assignment: Cereal Cover Design
Details: Using Photoshop create a new cereal company.

Save As: 01_Cover_XX.psd

Render As: 01_Cover_XX.jpg

Photoshop Design:

Creating a Cereal Cover in Photoshop

Objective: Adding Image Texture
Assignment: Create a Breakfast Table Layout. (50 pts. Cereal Design)
Details: Add your Cereal cover to a box. Model a bowl, spoon, Glass or cup, Fruit. Include a second texture on one of your objects.

Save As: 01_Cover_XX.psd

Render As: 01_Cover_XX.jpg

3D Layout:

Video Tutorial: Blender: Applying a texture to a face.

Video Tutorial: Blender: Creating other models.

Week 6 2025 Animate Simple Objects

 September 22 - 25, 2025 

Objective: Spin Objects.
Assignment: Animate Simple Objects (50pts)
Description: Open your simple objects or landscape project. Import from other blender files and create a scene to animate your objects.

Save As: 02_Animate Simple Objects_XX.blend

Links: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0b3HfFSFaFg