One of the reasons that I elected to mentor these Blender classes was because I felt it was good. for personal transformation. That’s one reason. Everyone can benefit from that. By the way, here’s a bit of good news. Even a very beginning total noob level of building skills with Blender can provide the context for the spiritual transformation.

The second reason is that with practice some people will learn Blender well enough to make objects, to use in the SL Virtual Ashram and to use in our Kitely building project. In addition those objects can be used in the games that EJ is creating. Not everyone will get
to this level. But many of you will.

Official Blender Links

Blender.org Homepage — This is the place to download blender and access news, updates and background information related to Blender.

Blender Official youtube page — Here you will find a few introductory tutorials, lots of news, a bunch of movies made with Blender, and other Blender Org related video uploads. Some of the movies are fun. The tutorials were worth watching. But, for myself, the rest of the videos were not as yet relevant.

Tutorial Channels

These are some of the channels that I have found useful. It is not all the channels. I will be adding links for additional channels as we progress with the tutorials.

Chocofur — youtube channel — This is the channel for chocofur. He’s the fellow doing the 20 part Blender 2.8 tutorial we are using.

First Homework Assignment

Installation and Interface – Blender 2.8 Beginner Tutorial [Part 1/20]

Object Selection and Transformation Gizmo – Blender 2.8 Beginner Tutorial [Part 2/20]

Moving, Rotating, Scaling – Blender 2.8 Beginner Tutorial [Part 3/10]

What is Blender?

Blender is a 3D modeling program — and much, much more.

This description comes from the Blender website: “Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.”

For examples of the above mentioned functions check out Blender’s Features page.

What Blender Can Do For You?

Possible Employment