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Robotic Planet Course | Release Date + Overview Trailer 🤖🌏
Hey Reader,
Zach here,
today I'm thrilled to announce that we will release our upcoming Blender hard-surface course in one week, on July 19th, 2023.
To get a brief overview about what the course has to offer, check out the new trailer below, or continue reading. 👇
In this comprehensive course (10+ hrs of content), you will learn how to create two robots from the ground up.
This course is created for intermediate Blender artists, that want to dive into the world of hard-surface designs.
In this course, you can expect to...
- Master non-destructive modeling workflows, allowing you to effortlessly tweak shapes at any stage of your project.
- Discover techniques to achieve flawless, smooth and polished surfaces.
- Unlock the power of procedural shading, eliminating the need for UV unwrapping or extensive image sets.
- Create easily reusable materials and masks, revolutionizing your workflow in Eevee and Cylces.
- Delve into the world of hard-surface rigging and automating animation tasks by using constraints, drivers, custom properties, and even geometry nodes.
- Dive into animation theory and practice, where you'll learn to infuse life into your robots.
- Discover shader animation techniques that won't strain your graphics card.
- Illuminate your hard-surface models as we explore lighting beyond simply dropping in an HDRI.
- Uncover the secrets to achieving a seamless animated loop.
- Refine your renders with Blender's built-in compositor by adding film-like effects, and explore real-time compositing in Blender's 3D viewport.
- Harness the power of Geometry Nodes to speed up the process of scattering rocks, plants, and other elements in your environment.
- Learn techniques to foster your own creativity and develop unique robot designs.
As you can see, we're not only covering hard-surface modeling, but the whole pipeline of creating fun robots from scratch, and ending up with two polished animations, perfect for sharing online.
Mark your calendars on July 19th, 2023.
We can't wait to see your robot designs coming to life!
Stay tuned!
~Zach
P.S. If you haven't seen them yet, check out the other two fun teasers for the course (teaser 1 and teaser 2).
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