3D Modeling and Animation with Blender
11 Week Class | Registration opens 2025-07-03 12:00 PM
This hands-on course provides students with the skills to create basic 3D models and animations using the free and open source software, Blender. Through in-class tutorials, this course will cover Hard-Surface modelling, typology, texturing, lighting, rigging and rendering. We will also look at how to apply these tools creatively by looking at examples of contemporary artists and designers who push the boundaries of 3D graphics.
Base Tuition: $505 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
• Use hard-surface modelling to create basic objects like a hammer or a coffee cup
• Texture, light and render a scene in realistic and expressive ways
• Create basic animations by changing the position, rotations, opacity, and scale of different objects
• Create more complex animations using basic rigging
- • You must supply your own laptop with at least 32GB of RAM (a decent graphics card will also help)
• Blender, download here ttps://www.blender.org/download/
• A three-button mouse
• Access to image editing tools like photoshop helps, but is not required
Luke Siemens
Luke Siemens is an artist and educator currently based in Toronto. He received an MFA from York University and a BFA in visual art from the University of Saskatchewan. Siemens’s practice uses graphite drawings and 3D rendered images to explore the fractured and often contradictory perceptions of reality under late capitalism. His work is visually influenced by illustrated maps and architectural renderings, from artists like Stanley Tigerman, Archigram, and Madelon Vriesendorp. This influence is most notable in Siemens’s Boomtown series, which he has been working on since 2010. Boomtown is made up of a number of drawings that blend retro-futurist aesthetics with contemporary anxieties to reflect the disorienting tension of living between Silicon Valley’s techno-utopian promises and the ever-present spectre of ecological and social collapse. Siemens has taught at institutions such as York University, Sheridan College, and OCAD University, where he currently works in the Experimental Animation department. His courses have spanned a broad range of disciplines—including drawing, 3D modeling, collage, digital painting, narrative development, and animation processes—through which he aims to equip emerging artists with both technically proficient skills and a critical insight into visual culture.