Blender for 3D Printing - Sculpting & Product Design (104)

This course you'll be learning the basics of Blender's powerful sculpting tools by crafting your best digital snowman. With our Phone Amp exercise you'll learn Adaptive Design Techniques that will allow for rapid design changes without compromising your design. And because it's always fun to render out your work we've also thrown in a bonus lesson on Eevee Basics.

Intro to Sculpting

Let's get aware of 3D Sculpting by creating a 3D Snowman. Playing with various sculpt brushes and settings to maximize sculpting manipulations.

• What You'll Learn: The start of our Beginner 104 Series, this course is an introductory course into Blender's dynamic and vast Sculpting tools.

• Goal: This course dives into introductory awareness of 3D Sculpting and offers a challenge to sculpt a 3D Snowman. Playing with various sculpt brushes and settings to maximize sculpting manipulations.

• Watch Time: 2.15 hrs
  Design Estimate: 5 hrs

• Intro to Sculpting Tools

• Intro to Multi-resolution

• Intro to Sculpt Workflows

• Practice w/ Bool Tools for Sculpting

• Access to Lesson & File Download

• Access to the Designer's Discord

Flexible Product Design

Let's learn Adaptive Design Techniques that will allow for rapid design changes without compromising your design. You'll go through the steps of planning for practical accessories that can be used regularly by clients or customers.

• What You'll Learn: Part of our Beginner 104 Series this the course that really compounds on everything you've learned from Beginner 101, Beginner 102, and Beginner 103. We'll be using practical measurements of your cellphone to create a 3D Printable phone amp.

• Goal: With our Phone Amp exercise you'll learn Adaptive Design Techniques that will allow for rapid design changes without compromising your design. You'll go through the steps of planning for practical accessories that can be used regularly by clients or customers.

• Watch Time: 40.5min
  Design Estimate: 1 hrs

• Intro to Adaptive Design Workflows

• Practice w/ Real World Design Measurements

• Practice Blender Sculpting Tools

• Access to Lesson & File Download

• Access to the Designer's Discord

EEVEE Renders

Let's introduce you to basic 3D Lighting, Basic 3D Materials, Basic 3D Camera manipulations, and a quick trick to animating 360 rotations of objects.

• What You'll Learn: Final course in our Beginner 104 Series. This course will allow you to show off the work you've done in Beginner 101, Beginner 102, and Beginner 103. With a simple introduction to Blender's EEVEE render engine you'll be able to rapidly proof designs with clients and show them off on social media before the print is final.

• Goal: The goal of this course is to introduce you to basic 3D Lighting, Basic 3D Materials, Basic 3D Camera manipulations, and a quick trick to animating 360 rotations of objects.

• Watch Time: 34min
  Design Estimate: 1 hrs

• Intro to EEVEE Lighting

• Intro to EEVEE Camera

• Intro to Rendering

• Intro to EEVEE 360 Animation

• Access to Lesson & File Downloads

• Access to the Designer's Discord

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