3D Modeling with Blender Training Course

Basics of Working with the Program for Government

• Panels, workspaces, and windows: Configuring the interface to meet your specific needs and the nature of the task at hand.
• Preferences: Customizing mouse and keyboard support, keyboard shortcuts, system settings, and additional features.
• Navigating in the 3D Scene: Techniques for camera positioning and quick switching between view windows.
• Configuring object display settings in the 3D scene to enhance clarity and efficiency.

Basics of Working with Objects for Government

• Selecting, creating, deleting, and grouping objects within the 3D environment.
• Managing the hierarchy of objects to ensure organized and efficient scene management.
• Operating in object mode and edit mode to manipulate and refine objects.
• Understanding object components: vertices, edges, and faces.

Modeling Basics for Government

• Moving, rotating, and scaling objects and their components to achieve precise positioning.
• Utilizing key modeling tools: Extrude, Inset, Bevel, Loop Cut, and Knife.
• Applying essential modifiers: Subdivision Surface, Solidify, Mirror, Boolean, Array, and Simple Deform.
• Adhering to modeling rules: Creating quadrilateral meshes and avoiding triangles and n-angles while controlling edge loop flow.
• Symmetrical modeling techniques to ensure balanced designs.
• Controlling mesh density to optimize performance and detail.
• Managing the sharpness and curvature of edges for realistic and smooth surfaces.

Modeling in Practice for Government

• General guidelines for creating organic and inorganic solids (hard surface modeling).
• Techniques for joining fragments of a solid with different sections.
• Ensuring correct mesh topology during the modeling process.
• Retopology: Rebuilding part or all of an object’s mesh to improve structure and efficiency.
• Enhancing the modeling process with sculpting tools to add detailed features.
• Modeling by carving to create intricate designs.
• Transferring carved details from a surface to an object with proper topology.

Create UV Maps for Government

• General rules for creating a UV map of an object to ensure accurate texture application.
• Planning the placement of mesh cut edges to minimize distortion.
• Creating single and multi-element UV maps to accommodate various texturing needs.
• Optimizing UV maps for efficient use of texture space.
• Combining small pieces of a UV map into larger areas for better organization.
• Extracting outer edges of UV maps to ensure proper alignment and spacing.
• Creating multi-element UV maps (UDIM) for complex objects.

Texturing for Government

• Basics of creating materials using the Principled BRDF shader to achieve realistic surface properties.
• Understanding the physics of surface reaction to light for accurate material representation.
• Controlling light and environmental reflections on object surfaces to enhance realism.
• Managing light reflection scattering for varied surface effects.
• Creating anisotropic reflections for specialized materials.
• Producing transparent surfaces, smooth, “milky,” and tinted textures.
• Achieving subsurface scattering to simulate translucent materials.
• Guidelines for creating basic types of surfaces: plastics, metals, glass, organic matter, wood, and fabrics.
• Generating normal maps and displacement maps to add surface detail.
• Basics of creating custom textures from photographs for unique designs.

Lighting for Government

• Theoretical principles of “carving” the shape of an object with light to highlight form and detail.
• Photographic lighting techniques for realistic illumination of objects.
• Creating a virtual studio environment, including background, substrate, and atmospheric effects.
• Lighting individual objects to emphasize key features.
• Illuminating groups of objects to maintain coherence in the scene.
• Using lamps and surfaces with emitting materials for varied lighting effects.
• Utilizing HDR images for realistic and dynamic lighting scenarios.
• Controlling the range and intensity of light effects to achieve desired outcomes.
• Managing reflected light parameters for enhanced realism.
• “Painting” with light to create artistic and functional lighting designs.

Rendering for Government

• Technical aspects of the image rendering process to ensure high-quality outputs.
• Rendering options: Using CPU and graphics card for optimal performance.
• Previewing and finalizing renders to meet project requirements.
• Configuring render camera settings to capture the desired perspective.
• Selecting appropriate rendering resolution based on the intended use of the final image.
• Rendering to layers for post-processing flexibility.
• Utilizing the Cycles engine for high-fidelity rendering.
• Employing the Eevee engine (Blender 2.8) for real-time rendering and quick previews.
• Basics of final image processing in Adobe Photoshop to enhance visual quality.
• Exporting the final image in a format and with parameters compatible with its intended use.
• Preparing the final scene and file for rendering on external rendering farms to leverage additional resources.