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Blender 3 The Ultimate Medieval Scene Course

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About Blender 3 The Ultimate Medieval Scene Course

Blender 3 The Ultimate Medieval Scene Course

Learning the Basics of Blender

Setting up Blender Asset Manager

Setting up References within Blender

Creating the Walkway Greybox

Working with Planks of Wood

The Powerful Bisect Tool

Learning about Textures and Materials

Applying Materials & Textures

Working with Nodes Hue & Saturation

Creating HDRI Assets

Creating the Barn Greybox

The Art of Creating Roofs

Adding Realism to our Models

Filling in the Barn Frame

Working with Dissplacement

Creating the Barn House Roof Entrance

Applying Materials to the Barn

Creating the Ladder & Fork Models

Building the Water Pump Greybox

Preparing the Water Pump for Rigging

Blender Extras Pipes

Weighting & Animating the Water Pump

The Water Pump Asset Completed

Scene Collections & Starting the Windmill

The Right & Wrong Way to use Array

Creating the Windmill Turbine

Finishing the Windmill Model

Applying Materials to our Windmill

Animating the Windmill

Starting the Main Farm House Greybox

Blocking out the Farm House

Establishing a Professional Workflow

Notching up the Modeling Difficulty

Working with Ambient Occlusion

Creating the Chimney Greybox

Working with Booleans

Planning out the House Shelter

Creating Realistic Tree Stumps

Creating Logs with Curves

Texturing Logs for Realism

Planning out the Windows

Finishing the Windows & Glass

Planning out the Staircase

Finishing the Staircase Asset

Creating Realistic Doors

Handles with Curves

Creating the Large Fence

Pumpkin Patch Fence Greybox

Fine Line Between Realism & Polygons

Finishing Modeling the Base Structures

New Pastures Starting the Scene

Problems with Creating the Land

Populating the Scene with Asset Manager

Working with Multiple Texture Maps

Vertex Painting with Multiple Textures

Sculpting Within Blender

Rendering with Blender Cycles

Creating the Grass & Plants

Blenders Particle System Setup

The Weight Painting System Explained

Dealing with Transparent Materials

Creating the Straw base Mesh

Particle Systems Based on Collections

Fixing Problems with Particle Systems

Creating Trees with Sapling Generator

Tree Branches Created the Easy Way

Weight Painting the Trees

Creating the Geometry Node Leaf

Introduction to Blenders Geometry Nodes

Working with Geometry Nodes

Complexities of Geometry Nodes

Finishing the Crop Geometry Node

Laying out & Animating our Crops

Working with Liquid Simulations

Creating a Water Shader with Nodes

Creating the Water Bucker

Animating with Shape Keys

Shrinkwrapping Pumpkins

Pumpkin Growth Animation

Animating Pumpkin Textures

Creating the Pumpkin Leaves

Populating our Pumpkin Patch

Creating Wind & Turbulence

The Particle Edit Comb

Smoke Simulation Creating Smoke Shader

Our First Scene Render

Refining the Scene

Setting up a Turntable Camera

Outro & Critiquing our Own Work

What You Will Learn?

  • Blender 3 The Ultimate Medieval Scene Course.
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  • Course Description.
  •  An upgrade to Blender 3.0 won’t cost you anything..
  •  How can a Blender 3.0 course improve your life?.
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  • I used to be apprehensive about new Blender updates. They made me feel like I had fallen behind..
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  • The key to deciphering new software updates is practice. You need to relieve this anxiety you’re feeling with a medieval themed project filled with challenges super-useful solutions!.
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  • What are the top 5 things you can get out of this course?.
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  • Start learning with ‘Blender 3 The Ultimate Medieval Scene Course’!.
  • I can imagine this going very well with your medieval well and medieval castle keep with or without slight modifications to your existing scene..
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  • ‘Blender 3 The Ultimate Medieval Scene Course’ will see you creating a medieval farmstead. Your medieval farmstead will feature farmhouses, grass, mud, plants, trees, a water pump, and a windmill.  .
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  • IT WILL BE ALIVE because of all the exciting plant growing animations it will feature..
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  • This course will give you access to just over 16 hours of 3D art. .
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  • This course will see you learn all the techniques pros use and how they use them. Learning how to achieve realism through ageing your 3D game environments will be a central part of this course's learning objectives!.
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  •  Through reading this course description you will find out: .
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  • - What you want to learn about 3D modelling;.
  • - What you are going to get through ‘Blender 3 The Ultimate Medieval Scene Course’, and;.
  • - How the course will take your 3D modelling, and animation skills to the next level..
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  • Modeling .
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  • I enjoy creating little props that can bring a scene to life.  One of the things you can do to add to realism within your scenes is to create plenty of small props to make the scene look busy. .
  • Our ‘Blender 3 The Ultimate Medieval Scene Course’ will focus on adding little details to enhance a 3D environment. Among other character-boosting assets, you will find out how to make a pitchfork and ladders, and where to place them. Learning about correct placement will allow you to make your 3D modelling skills stand out more than before..
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  • Texturing and Materials.
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  • ‘Blender 3 The Ultimate Medieval Scene Course’ will provide you with intensive learning all in one place, giving you access to over 16 textures, and 80 texture maps at 2 k resolution. Most importantly, I will be sharing techniques of how to use vertex painting to use multiple materials to paint on a single mesh..
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  • The node wrangler is one of the best free built-in addons within Blender but most users are not even aware of it.  This course will teach you how to create your materials,  find out how to take all of those beautiful texture maps and make use of them..
  • Creating your materials or altering textures on the fly is something you will want to learn about.  Maximising your knowledge of Blender’s node system will raise the level of your textures and skill up your skill in working with materials..
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  • Animation .
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  • As part of this ‘Blender 3 The Ultimate Medieval Scene Course’ course, you will learn how to use keyframes to key in different animations to the parts we want to animate. We will be growing plants and vegetables in the two small designated growing areas..
  • A key part of our new course will involve learning how to use geo nodes in Blender 3.0. We will use them to make these plant animations..
  • Designing node groups is different in Blender 3.0 and you will unlock just how to achieve these effects with my guidance..
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  • Lighting & Rendering.
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  • When we look at renders of 3D models on social media, we can see a huge difference between models of different artists. Most of this can be normally attributed to not only the skills of the artist but part of it can be attributed to how they achieve realism in their models. .
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  • By joining ‘Blender 3 The Ultimate Medieval Scene Course’, you will learn about specific types of in-built Blender lighting functionalities that will enhance the rainy weather atmosphere of your medieval farmstead..
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  • We will be going through the many pitfalls and some technical details of what Cycles render options to use for the specific machine you are using.  I will also be introducing you to the all-new Cycles X Blender renderer..
  • Together, we will be creating a portfolio render for any multimedia site you wish to upload your completed model to. .
  • ‘Blender 3 The Ultimate Medieval Scene Course’ is a complete guide into using Cycles, and Cycles X for lighting, rendering, shadow. .
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  • Course Resources & Freebies.
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  • The ‘Blender 3 The Ultimate Medieval Scene Course’ resource pack includes 16 textures, and 80 texture maps at 2 k resolution, 13 references, 4 HDRI maps, 1 HDRI portfolio gradient map. blend file, and 1 human reference..
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  • Join this course and come be part of a 3D modelling journey of over 16 hours of learning that will see you go away with a game-ready AAA medieval game environment full of life and animation..
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  • Check out the free introduction and I am sure you won’t be able to put this course down!.
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  • Still unsure? Then, let me tell you what's unique about this course:.
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  • Let’s create something history-inspired and full of life this February! To get you pumped, imagine how well this prop fits in with your other 3D Tudor projects..
  • You can include your medieval farmstead environment model outside your castle keep as part of our ‘Creating a Modular Kitbash in Blender’ course, nearby to your medieval in or tavern based on ‘Blender 2.8 Complete Beginners Guide to 3D Modelling a Scene’, or next to your medieval well or windmill using ‘Blender 2.8 Creating your First 3D Game Model’ and ‘Blender to Unreal Engine 5’ respectively..
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  • Until next time, happy modelling everyone!.
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  • This class will go very well with:.