Mike Bailey's Blender Page

http://cs.oregonstate.edu/~mjb/blender

Latest update: August 21, 2023

2023 Blender Campers:

We would like you all to fill out the Blender Camp Survey! Click here to get into it.
Then, click on 19. Virtual "Blender" Camp, August 14-18, 2023
Then, enter your first and last names at the bottom of the screen (note: your responses will not be attached to your name -- we just want to be sure everyone filled the survey out)
Then, click on the black Next button and continue into the questions

Welcome to the 2023 Online Blender Camp! We're excited to have you here.

• Online Blender Camp is Monday August 14 - Friday August 18, 9:00 AM - 12:00 noon PDT. We start on time!

• Our Zoom link will be: https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/8340727662?pwd=b01tZ0hJUzdHNUtrdTRqSkdwbG4zdz09

• Important to Know: You need to have a recent version of Blender downloaded and tested on your own machine before camp starts. The current version of Blender is 3.6, but if you have 3.0 or higher, that will be fine. Go to: https://www.blender.org/download/ You don't have to do anything with Blender yet, just make sure you can get it running.
  We won't be taking time at the start of class to get your Blender up and working - we will dive right into using it. If you try this ahead of time and can't get it to install or run, email me at: mjb@cs.oregonstate.edu

• We have two teaching assistants for the Blender Camp! They are Emma Ball and Nicholas Alves. They are both super Computer Science students here at Oregon State University. We are lucky to have them!

• If you don't have one already, we strongly recommend that you get a 3-button mouse for use with Blender at home. (The middle button being both a push-button and a scroll wheel.) Blender makes liberal use of all 3/4 buttons. You can get by without one, but your life will be considerably easier with one.

• We will be following the notes below. Go ahead and take a peek if you want a head start.

• Also, there are some files below that would be handy for you to pre-load on your memory stick and/or your own system.

• Blender is a lot of things. We won't have time to cover them all. If there are parts of Blender that you are especially interested in learning, let me know at: mjb@cs.oregonstate.edu so that I can attempt to cover them.

• Any questions or concerns about the camp? Send me an email at mjb@cs.oregonstate.edu

Daily Challenges for Blender Campers:

Monday Challenge:

• At least 5 different objects
• Each with a different color
• Each with some edits

• Use at least 4 Modifiers
• Try at least one of the pairs of Modifiers in reversed order
• Create at least 3 light sources
• Do a render

• Create a scene with textures and shadows
• Perform sculpting on one object
• Animate a particle system with bouncing

• Create a scene with colliding objects
• Create a scene with a cloth draping on a solid object
• Create a simple keyframe animation

• Presentations
• Survey Forms

The Notes:

Blender is a free program. You can load it on your own system. Go to http://blender.org Click on the blue Download Blender button.

Our notes are based on Blender version 3.6, but any version that you have that is 3.0 or greater should be fine.

These are the notes:

• One slide per page
• Two slides per page
• Four slides per page
• Six slides per page

Latest update of these notes: August 21, 2023

Blender Files:

These are Blender example files from the notes.
Blender Campers: please pre-load these on your memory stick!

anim1.blend	One-character animation
anim2.blend	Two-character animation
balltubes.blend	Physics: ball rolls down tubes
blowing.blend	Blowing particles (see particles.blend below)
cloth.blend	Cloth animation
cloth.pinned.blend	Pinned-cloth animation
cornhole.blend	Using physics to get a cube to bounce into a hole
cycles.blend	Cycles-rendering scene
cycles_stereo.blend	Spherical Stereo for a VR Headset
cycles_stereo_spherical.jpg	Spherical Stereo image for a VR Headset
dominos.blend	Rigid body dominos animation
fluidmonkeycone.blend	Monkey-fluid falling over a cone
fluttering.blend	A flag fluttering in the breeze
freestyle.blend	Freestyle rendering
golf.blend	Physics: ball rolls into a hole
hinge.blend	Rigid body joint
lattice.blend	Modeling with lattices
meshes.blend	The Blender set of mesh objects
mist.blend	Shows use of the mist option
model.blend	Human-ish model
modelmoved.blend	Human-ish model posed
parent-child.blend	Parent-child relationship
particles.blend	Non-blowing particle system (see blowing.blend above)
reflrefr.blend	A scene with reflection and refraction
rigid.blend	Rigid body motion
scene.blend	A scene we will use to talk about rendering
stereo.blend	Stereographics
textures.blend	Both procedural and image textures
wireframe.blend	Using the wireframe modifier
worldtex.bmp	A texture file of the world

And, if you want textures for other planets, visit one of NASA's sites at: https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/images

Also check out: https://www.solarsystemscope.com/textures/

and: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4720

Obj Files:

Pre-created files that can be imported into Blender:

cat.obj	Cat
bunny010n.obj	The Stanford Bunny
cow.obj	Cow
dino.obj	Triceratops
dog.obj	Dog
skeleton.obj	Human skeleton
shapeship.obj	Spaceship
teapot.obj	Teapot

Blender Videos:

anim2,mp4	Two-character animation
cloth,mp4	Cloth animation
dominos,mp4	Falling-dominos physical simulation
fluttering.mkv	A flag fluttering in the breeze.
lattice,mp4	Lattice sculpting
particles,mp4	Particle simulation

Good Blender Web References:

• Main Blender Site (includes the Download link) http://www.blender.org/

• Andrew Price's Blender Guru site http://www.blenderguru.com/

• Blender Tutorials https://www.blender.org/support/tutorials/

• 3D Models (some free, some not) http://turbosquid.com/

• 3D Models (some free, some not) http://tf3dm.com/

• Swapping Blender Assets (one membership level is free, one costs money) http://www.blendswap.com/

Good Printed Blender References:

• John Blain, The Complete Guide to Blender Graphics: Computer Modeling and Animation, Seventh Edition, CRC Press, 2022.

Did you like these notes? Want to try some other fun K-12 stuff from Oregon State University?

• Scratch notes -- drag and drop programmiung with animation and sound, and even some game development

• SketchUp notes -- who would have ever guessed it was so easy to draw in 3D?

• TinkerCAD notes -- this is really good if you want to make models that can be 3D-printed

• Processing notes -- serious graphics programming

• A Whirlwind Introduction to Computer Graphics

Related college courses at Oregon State University:

• Intro to Computer Graphics

• Computer Graphics Shaders

• ParaView -- Interactive 3D Visualization

• Vulkan

• Parallel Programming (includes GPU programming)

• Computer Science Skills for Simulation and Game Programming

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