Objective: Create 3D text with texture on it. Assignment: Blender Tips Details: Pick a tutorial and learn something new and create something from what you have seen.
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: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/
Objective: Use 3 point lighting to light a scene Assignment: Lighting a scene Details: Create a scene with at least one light source object. Use 4 or more textures then manipulate your lighting to get 4 different light scenarios.
Save As: 01_Lighting.blend Export As: 01_Lighting1.jpg, 01_Lighting2.jpg, 01_Lighting3.jpg, 01_Lighting4.jpg
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.
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.
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.
Objective: Selecting Faces. Assignment: Create Mountains and a building structure. (Landscape.blend)
Details: Subdivide a plain and create a landscape. Then Create a building on the landscape. Use color Save As: 01_Landscape_XX.blend Render As: 01_Landscape_XX.png
Tools
Subdivide
Selection: Circle Selection: (C), Block Selection: (B).
Video Tutorial: Blender: Subdivide, creating mountain landscape.
Objective: Basic Modeling. Assignment: Simple Objects 1-2 (50pts) Description: Details: Each week you will create a new model. Add color and take two pictures of each model you create. Upload to your portfolio.
Objective: Create a Google Doc Assignment: About Me Details: Open a new document. take a picture of yourself. Write two sentences about yourself. List two goals you have for this class. List clubs, sports your are in. Example
Welcome to 3D
graphics. This semester you will be learning how to use two or more 3D
programs. 3D takes lots of patience and practice but can be very
rewarding. Each week you will be given an assignment and also be
required to model a simple object on your own. Each model you create you
will be required to take 3 different angels and place it into an
electronic portfolio.
Assignment: Backgrounds Details: Set up a background for your digital short.
Project Details: Create a Digital Short that will be 30 second long. Minimum of 2
characters, and use 5 different angles. Use a minimum of 5 textures for
this project.
Objective: Modeling Objects Assignment: Characters Details: Model your first character for your Digital Short
Project Details: Create a Digital Short that will be 30 second long. Minimum of 2
characters, and use 5 different angles. Use a minimum of 5 textures for
this project.
Assignment: Storyboard
Details: Create a Digital Short that will be 30 second long. Minimum of 2 characters, and use 5 different angles. Use a minimum of 5 textures for this project.
Assignment: Digital Short Project Details:
Create a Digital Short that will be 30 second long. Minimum of 2
characters, and use 5 different angles. Use a minimum of 5 textures for
this project.
Objective: Explore Physics and Modifiers in Blender. Assignment: Physics Details: Explore the Modifiers in Blender and create a project using three different effects.
Objective: Squash & Stretch Assignment: Ball Bounce Details: Create a ball and a flat plan. Use the principles of squash & stretch and animate a ball bouncing across the screen.
Assignment: Create a vehicle. Drawing: Start this project by drawing on paper. Sketch out your vehicle on paper first. Once you get back to school we will start modeling your vehicle in Blender. Description:
Create a vehicle that will navigate through a
course. Car, truck, train, snowmobile, motorcycle. Video Tutorials: Blender 3D: Creating a Toy Truck with Loop Cuts
Objective: Key frame Animation Assignment: Animate Camera through you building. (50 pts) Description: Set the position of the the camera then animate it through your building for 10 seconds. About 250 frames.
Objective: Block & Circle selections. Assignment: House walk through Description: Create a floor plan by extruding faces up. Select the floor plan first, then extrude all walls up at the same time in three different segments. Add color for different parts of the floor plan. Skills: Subdividing, Extruding, Block and Circle Selecting.
Objective: Basic Modeling. Assignment: Simple Objects 1-2 (50pts) Description: Details: Each week you will create a new model. Add color and take two pictures of each model you create. Upload to your portfolio.