Overview#

Have you ever wanted to try your hand at animations? With the indie revolution in full swing, maybe you want to make your own video games? Do you have ideas for products, but you don’t know where to even start making prototypes? Do you play tabletop games, and want to make your own sculpts come to life? Maybe you already know about blender, but you’ve been intimidated by it in the past. It may seem like a difficult thing when you first try it for yourself, I understand completely. But you can learn it.

The internet is full of tutorials for just about everything. These can kind of, sort of work if you’re an absolute beginner - they can be a great way to get your feet wet at the very least. But, watching youtube tutorials, you may quickly find yourself hitting the main problem - you’re not really learning. Online tutorials tend to be targetted at absolute beginners - you will keep learning the same beginning steps over and over again. They are also usually poorly suited to getting you to build intuition - for the video maker, it is easier to teach you to simply follow a series of steps: click this button, then click this button, then click this button. You may find, after watching several videos, you are completely lost without step-by-step guidance, because you have not been taught the how or why behind whatever it is you are attempting to do. And of course, you will find the pool of tutorials drops off sharply once you have graduated out of the very, very early beginner stages. It is much more click-worthy to keep making beginner suitable videos forever, after all, as there will always be more people at the very first step of the road, than any other distance along the path.

Trust me, after going through tutorial hell myself, I understand the need to have someone who can answer your questions, direct you to what you need to know, and give you personal guidance. I can explain to you what you need in order to accomplish your specific goals, I can guide you away from dead ends before you start down them. I guarentee you that you will be infinitely faster with a tutor at your beck and call - I have trained students within a few days to reach levels that took me months.

3D can be an intimidating road, combining engineering principals, artistic intuition, technical skill, and practice. But I guarentee you, whoever you are, you can learn to make anything you can imagine.

What can I teach you#

I teach anywhere from absolute beginner level up to intermediate to advanced - by the time I’m finished, I want you to be good enough that you can teach yourself and set down your own path.

I have a wide body of knowledge- depending on just what it is that you want to do, we’ll learn some or all of:

Basic modeling principals
Sculpting techniques
Methods for Retopology
Rigging
UV unwrapping
Texturing
Material design
Animation
Hard Surface modeling
Curve based organic modelling
Cleaning models to make them manifold and suitable for 3D printing
Optimising models for use in game engines
Advanced custom procedural generation through geometry nodes
Compositing techniques
In depth understanding of rendering engines

What you’ll need#

A copy of Blender#

Blender itself is completely free and open source. There are a number of additional optional paid add-ons made by the blender community that I could recommend, depending on what you want to do - but it is unlikely to cost very much at all, and vanilla blender can really do pretty much everything on its own. Blender works on Windows, Mac and Linux - it’s versatile and widespread.

A half decent PC or Laptop#

For running blender, basically any computer from the last 10 years will do- the more recent your specs, the better. Blender can make use of every bit of juice you throw at it. However, you don’t need an ultra-modern system to get going with blender - there are workarounds and solutions if your specs really truly are terrible, but more likely than not, the worst case scenario if your specs aren’t completely ultr is that you’ll actually need to be diligent and create things properly, rather than wastefully.

If you’re at all unsure, you can grab CPU-Z to get a profile of your computer’s specs - then send me an email with what it lists for your CPU, GPU and RAM. But you probably shouldn’t need to- chances are, you’ll be fine.

Cost#

Price	Duration
$30	Per half hour
$50	Per hour
$400	For a package of 10 hours (2 free lessons)

NOTE
I may be able to discount depending on your circumstances - email me and let me know if you absolutely cannot afford.
Semi-private tutoring is also available - if you have one or two friends who may be interested in learning as well, I can give a cheaper rate by splitting for a small group. Contact me for details.