Blender Institute Courses
The Blender Institute has started offering Blender courses. The teachers are selected from the artists who are working on Peach and Apricot, and the trainings are held in the Blender Institute training room in downtown, Amsterdam.
This course is for 3D artists who are already familiar with another 3D creation package such as Maya or 3ds Max. Within a single day you will be guided through all main aspects of the Blender software.
Special attention will be paid to the overall design concepts behind Blender, insight in this area will help you to more easily grasp Blender interface concepts, mental models and data structures.The course will also offer you clues and methods for how to configure Blender, to make it fit better in the workflow and existing habits.
Length: 1 day. Price: E250,-
Blender Essential course
This course is for everyone who wants to get seriously started with Blender, it?s a course designed for artists or teachers who are already familiar with basic 3D concepts, but new to Blender or to 3D animation and rendering software. This course will guide you step by step through every phase you need to know how to create and deliver a computer graphics project with Blender.
This course has an emphasis on learning how to deploy Blender as a tool, but for each course day aspects of general 3D skills will be discussed as well, such as mesh topology, animation principles and efficient usage of light on 3d sets.
Length: 5 days, Price: E1000,-
Sounds like a great opportunity!
Will there be a DVD of the courses?
yeh, noticed it on the blemder.org, quite cool for getting started in blender either if your new to 3d or just blender as the tool. \o/
Great – but is there some plan to do it also online with some certification? That would EXCELLENT!!!!!!
Kinda off topic to everything, but… I noticed that 3 of the computers on that table there are macbooks. They cant possibly be all running Leopard because Blender on a macbook with Leopard is pretty non-functional…
has the Blender Institute fixed this issue?
I agree with Miroslav … this belongs in some online environment. Meatspace is soooo 20th century.
psion. no it isn’t, that’s just flash-obsessiveness, there are tutorials for online stuff, but actual interaction and real-time discussion between people who are both looking at the same thing is still very hard to do online with any great practicality.
Awesome! I can’t wait until there’s either a course offered in my area, or more likely an online and/or DVD release.
I love that one of the courses is for people switching over from other apps. Proof that the same professional results can be achieved in Blender that can be achieved in commercial software.
Regarding Leopard: I strongly agree, Apple and The Blender Foundation need to work it out. I’m (obviously) a big fan of Blender and a Mac user, and I will not be buying a new computer until I know I can run blender on it without issues.
Regarding certification: There’s a great site called vtc.com that is basically a video tutorial library for many applications, everything from MS Office to ProTools, and last I checked, there was no course offered for Blender. Somebody with a bit more Blender knowledge than myself should make one. The site is subscription-based and offers a certificate once you’ve viewed every video in a course.
Regarding Black Boe’s comment: So true, no matter how many video tutorials you watch, there’s still a benefit to having a teacher who can answer specific questions as they arise. Vid tutorials have their own merits too in that you can re-watch something as many times as you need until you get it, without holding up the class. When we approach learning from every angle we become well-rounded.
Miroslav Karpis, Psion, Black Boe, check this link:
http://www.blender.org/education-help/certified-trainer/
Igor, that is for blender trainers. ;)
i think Miroslav meant more of a certificate for a blender user. :)
Felix_Kütt, yeah, that’s why, i’ll give him latter for 50 bucks…
yes,…I mean online certification/institute…
Will those courses be available in dutch too?
@carrot.nl: I doubt it, as the majority of the Peach/Apricot team members don’t speak Dutch..
Pretty darn expensive IMO
Maybe filming the courses and making them available online for those of us who can’t afford it? :P