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Blender Intro Course

Take your first steps into the world of 3D design with Blender, the industry's leading free software.

Learn modelling, materials, lighting and animation to showcase your ideas with stunning visuals.

Take your first steps into the world of 3D design with Blender, the industry's leading free software. Learn modelling, materials, lighting and animation to showcase your ideas with stunning visuals.

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Blender Intro training course

Blender Intro Course

Build 3D models, animations and renders from scratch using Blender on this beginner-friendly two-day introduction course.

Expert-led and hands-on throughout, you'll learn to navigate the interface and viewport, work in object and edit mode, create and manipulate 3D objects using Blender's core modelling tools, apply materials and textures for realistic surfaces, set up lights and cameras for any scene, animate objects using keyframes, explore geometry nodes for procedural modelling effects, and render your finished scenes to a professional standard.

No prior 3D experience required.

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Course Dates

Course Dates Days Location Places RRP Discount You Pay
28-29th Sep 26 Mon-Tue Online Available £549.00 £100.00 £449.00 + VAT
7-8th Jan 27 Thu-Fri Online Available £549.00 £549.00 + VAT
8-9th Mar 27 Mon-Tue Online Available £549.00 £549.00 + VAT
10-11th May 27 Mon-Tue Online Available £549.00 £549.00 + VAT
7-8th Jul 27 Wed-Thu Online Available £549.00 £549.00 + VAT
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Course Dates Days Location Places RRP Discount You Pay
28-29th Sep 26 Mon-Tue Online Available £549.00 £100.00 £449.00 + VAT
7-8th Jan 27 Thu-Fri Online Available £549.00 £549.00 + VAT
8-9th Mar 27 Mon-Tue Online Available £549.00 £549.00 + VAT
10-11th May 27 Mon-Tue Online Available £549.00 £549.00 + VAT
7-8th Jul 27 Wed-Thu Online Available £549.00 £549.00 + VAT

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Available as private, bespoke or team training at our centre, live online, or at your venue. Customise the outline, train as a group, or book a one-to-one with an expert.

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28-29th Sep 26

Mon-Tue

Location
Online
Places
Available
RRP
£549.00
Discount
£100.00
You pay
£449.00 + VAT

7-8th Jan 27

Thu-Fri

Location
Online
Places
Available
RRP
£549.00
Discount
You pay
£549.00 + VAT

8-9th Mar 27

Mon-Tue

Location
Online
Places
Available
RRP
£549.00
Discount
You pay
£549.00 + VAT

10-11th May 27

Mon-Tue

Location
Online
Places
Available
RRP
£549.00
Discount
You pay
£549.00 + VAT

7-8th Jul 27

Wed-Thu

Location
Online
Places
Available
RRP
£549.00
Discount
You pay
£549.00 + VAT

Course Outline

1

The Blender interface

Configuring the Workspace and Editors

Navigating the viewport

Understanding the Outliner

Functions of the Properties Panel

2

Basics of modelling

Creating basic objects

Manipulating objects in the viewport

Object mode vs Editing mode

Using Hotkeys for speed

Points, Edges and Polygons, the building blocks of 3D

Transformation axis and axis types

Object Attributes

Modifiers and the modifier stack

Object Modelling tools, Extruding, Insetting, Bevelling and more

Proportional editing and snap

Boolean operations

Subdivision Modelling and edge loops

3

Materials

Creating Blender materials

Colour, Reflectivity, Specularity and Roughness

Adjusting material properties

Types of shaders and their uses

Creating and Applying texture maps

The Material Node editor for more complex materials

Understanding UV Mapping

4

Lights, cameras, and environments

Creating lights, light types and properties

Adjusting light and shadow settings

Adding an environment

Creating cameras

Adjusting the camera to get exactly the shot you want

Changing camera settings for realism

Using depth of field and camera effects

5

Rendering

A tale of two renderers - Eevee and Cycles

Using Eevee for fast rendering and dynamic viewport updates

Using Cycles for production quality renders

GPU vs CPU rendering

Quality vs Render time

Sampling, Smoothing and Anti Aliasing

Outputting stills and animation

6

Geometry Nodes

The geometry nodes editor

A world of possibilities - exploring nodes

Example node setups

7

Animation

The timeline and animation editor

Setting Keyframes in Blender

How anything can be animated

Editing animation keys

Adjusting animation with curves for better results

8

Questions and answers

This course is also available as a private course. If you wish we can tailor the content for your team. Please contact us for more details.

Who is this course for?

For designers, artists, animators and creatives who want to learn 3D modelling, animation and rendering using Blender. No prior 3D or Blender experience required.

60 Reviews
9.8/10 Satisfaction
100% Recommend

Amazing Teacher - Really easy to follow and understand will deffo recommend to others

William – 1st April 26

Good variety of examples and clear explanations

Emily – 1st April 26

The course was very easy to follow and everything was well explained

Zhenqing – 1st April 26

Good at explaining things thoroughly and help to gain a deeper understanding of Blender and how we can use different processes. Definitely…

Teddy – 30th March 26

Very helpful with explaining things and showing us how to create different things. Being shown all different aspects of the software.

Laura – 30th March 26

Great at explaining and showing examples of how to do things.

Maria – 30th March 26

Expertly designed course and the teacher was very good at answering our questions whilst keeping us on track and on time

Marco – 10th November 25

The trainer was great, the course content was brilliant. All the staff are friendly, lunch is delicious and good facilities. I will recomme…

Q – 18th September 25

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