After presenting two courses in Cape Town, Allan Liddle (AnyMation on the BlenderArtists forum) will be presenting an “Introduction to Blender” course in Johannesburg, South Africa. This course will cover all the basics of Blender and will enable a person to do modeling, materials and texturing, lighting, rendering, animation and basic compositing. The idea would be to get a person skilled up in Blender to the point where he/she can generate their own animation material, which they can then composite with video footage.
The course starts on 14 April and runs for a week. Its duration is 20 hours and will be run in weekday evenings and one Saturday. The starting time of 19:00 should enable even people from Pretoria to attend. The venue is a new, top class campus in Randburg.
Allan only uses Open Source software and specialises in Blender. He is about to submit his material to apply for Blender Foundation Certified Trainer status, which he hopes to achieve by the time the course is run.
His quality animations can be viewed at DNA Pixels (http://www.dnapixels.com). You can also download a sample (http://www.dnapixels.com/Training/Lesson_06-Blender_Materials.pdf) of one of his lessons, which he distributes before every lesson, as well as the course curriculum (http://www.dnapixels.com/Training/CourseContentNBG.pdf).
If you stay in that vicinity and are interested, make sure you contact him at [email protected] for more info.
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