[Bf-education] short intro to blender

Peter Kemp peterejkemp at gmail.com
Tue Dec 29 18:31:31 CET 2015


Hi All,

Over at 3Dami.org we have been putting together a 2-3 hour introduction to
blender aimed at 11-16+ year olds (
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NOQLNcJpay-PKgRJHdkiBRhqqNFz9Z0peX8kcn3N5X0/edit#).
The aim is to take students through the basics of:


   1.

   Loading Blender and *moving *and *adding *objects to make a monkey going
   to a party
   2.

   *Resizing *objects and making trees
   3.

   *Rotating *objects and making a snowman
   4.

   *Colouring *your snowman in
   5.

   *Modelling *(pick either a or b, or both!)
   1.

      Modelling a house (simple)
      2.

      Modelling a rocket (advanced)
      6.

   *Animating *a winter scene
   7. Making your animation into a film by using *rendering*


We've tested it with several hundred students in the UK and you can see
some of the results here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEmkCkft8fU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2NMZqL8WfA

All instruction videos use simple English and are aimed to be less than 5
minutes long.

I've also been working on a 30 minute intro, output here:

https://twitter.com/peterejkemp/status/671674794929225728

We're working on a 6 week course. All open source.

All the best
Pete



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> So I'd be interested in feedback and collaboration on my tutorials. I
> have a few up online at
> https://youtu.be/ltYU968KtHc?list=PLRjMVdQC-k0451QnOfRhb_PCZ7D48z4nL for
> anyone who wants to see.  Let me know what you think.  I'd like to trim
> these down to just about 5 minutes, but haven't had time to work on them
> recently.
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> When I teach, I generally lead off with the first two topics, then move
> into either animation (03) or modelling (04) depending on what activity
> the students will do.  If we are doing 3D printing I head to 04.  If we
> are doing CGI I do 03.  Right now I am working on a set of videos that
> will let the kids do CGI so they can "throw fireballs".  We're tracking
> hands and using the particle system to create the "magic fire".
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> Lee
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> On 12/22/2015 12:06 PM, Alyssa Stevensen wrote:
> > I teach Blender to High school students, and I agree with you with the
> need for bite sized informational pieces.  Our school does not block
> Youtube, so I can gather the project based ones from there or directly from
> the Blender site, but oftentimes they are too complex even for the high
> school students.  I went to school for computer animation, so I can usually
> get by with the small stuff, but it would be great to have access to
> chunked lessons that I can have my student's review.
> >
> > As for a common "marketplace" for things of this nature, I haven't a
> clue, but if you happen to get them downloaded somewhere, please let me
> know.
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> > Thanks,
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> > Alyssa Stevensen
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> bf-education-bounces at blender.org] On Behalf Of Lee Butler
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> > Howdy,
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> > I thougth I'd introduce myself.  I've using Blender for a decade and for
> the past 5 years teaching middle school kids to use Blender.  Is anyone
> else working with kids and Blender?
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> > I've created a number of video tutorials and I'm thinking of putting
> them online to share.  I'm thinking youtube but I'd like to have someplace
> that we can download from easily so we can put them on local machines.
> Most schools seem to block youtube so the download is necessary.  What are
> people using?
> >
> > My feeling is that most existing online tutorials are project oriented
> and a little too long (> 5 minutes).  The students need bite-sized tasks
> that have a payoff.  They seem to be pretty good at using different skills
> to create a final project.  For example, I start them out with a
> > 5 minute video on the Blender interface.  Then I have a number of short
> ones on modeling, animation, tracking, etc.
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