Introduction to Blender: A Workshop By Debbie Ding
Event Information
Description
Introduction to Blender
In this 3 hour workshop, you'll learn the basics of Blender - the Interface, Shortcuts, Selecting Objects, Transforming Objects, Moving Objects, Adding and Removing Objects, Adding Modifiers, Creating Diffuse/Specular materials, UV Unwrapping, Lighting, Camera Positioning, and how to render with Cycles (Blender's ray-trace based production render engine).
We will build and light a simple scene in Blender 2.7x, and then use Cycles Render to produce an equirectangular panorama which can be used to produce a 3D scene (three.js) that can be viewed in Google Cardboard, and edited (exiftool) into a Facebook 360-degree photograph.
This class was designed for people with no prior experience in 3D modelling and Blender.
Venue: FabCafe, lobby of ArtScience Museum
Date: Sunday, 27 November 2016
Time:
2pm - 5pm
Ages: 15 - 100+
Fee: $80 per participant
Includes 20% off all cafe items
About Blender
Blender is a free and open source software for 3D graphics and animation - allowing you to create 3D models, do rigging and skinning, uv unwrapping, particle simulation, fluid simulation, smoke simulation, sculpting, HDR lighting, animation, camera tracking, rendering amongst other things. The functionality of Blender can even be extended with Python scripts.
Note for Participants:
Please bring a photograph of a real life scene you would like to recreate in 3D.
Bring your own laptop and mouse and please download the following to your computer before the workshop:
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Blender - https://www.blender.org/download/
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three.js - https://threejs.org/
Please make sure you bring a mouse + laptop charger. Blender will be much easier to navigate if you have a mouse with 3 buttons.
Tutor Bio:
Debbie Ding is a visual artist and technologist working between Singapore and London. She received an MA in Design Interactions from Royal College of Art in 2015. Other ongoing exhibitions of her work include "Shelter" (2016), a live-sized model of a HDB Household Shelter (commissioned for the Singapore Biennale 2016), and "The Library of Pulau Saigon" (2015), a computer-aided exploration of archaeological ambiguities at the site of a former island in the Singapore River (at NUS Museum's exhibition "Radio Malaya").
URL: http://dbbd.sg
Organiser FabCafe Singapore
Organiser of Introduction to Blender: A Workshop By Debbie Ding
FabCafe Singapore brings together art, creativity and technology in a bespoke café experience. It combines hand-crafted food and exceptional coffee, with state-of-the-art new fabrication technology, such as 3D printing and laser cutting.
FabCafe is a place for creatives, artists, designers and the maker community. With a variety of programmes, lectures, workshops and informal meet-ups, our regular programmes inspires students, young entrepreneurs, designers, and families to come together, make things, and have fun together.
At FabCafe Singapore at ArtScience Museum, visitors can sample laser-cut macarons, experiment with 3D printing, and learn about the fabrication revolution that is taking the world by storm - all whilst enjoying a fine cup of coffee.
FabCafe started in Tokyo and has since expanded its presence around the world in cities such as Barcelona, Bangkok and Taipei. It makes its debut in Singapore at ArtScience Museum. The founding team of FabCafe Singapore, Brandon Berry Edwards, Wouter van Hest, Adeline Setiawan, and Chris Drury, are four unique talents in the fields of creativity, technology and coffee.
The 'Fab' in FabCafe stands for both 'Fabulous' and 'Fabrication', with the café aiming to be a vibrant destination for people who want to learn about how technology is changing the way we make things, and creating new design, manufacturing, as well as economic possibilities.
