Announcement #5 (9/4/18): This class if officially over. See page 26 for the closing post and don't forget to fill out the questionnaire!
Announcement #4 (8/27/18): REMINDER that this week's stream is on Wednesday, NOT Tuesday. I'm out of the office Monday (8/27) and Tuesday (8/28) but will be back in full grading force on Wednesday.
Announcement #3 (8/6/18): New way to Submit Homework. Please create a unique forum thread to contain all your homework submissions for the month, rather than everyone submitting in this main thread. More info on page 12.
Announcement #2 (8/7/18): Zsolt has done it again. He's prepared the report card document for this month. Feel free to monitor your grades there throughout the next 4-5 weeks.
Announcement #1 (8/6/18): Class is officially in session!
**Experienced Blender users are Welcome! Clarification about involvement on page 2 of this thread.
Welcome to the CGCookie Class: Getting Started with 3D Modeling & Blender 2.8! If you're interested in computer graphics, 3D modeling, and you're new to Blender / new to Blender 2.8, this class is where you need to be.
This "Class" format invites all Citizen members to focus together on a particular topic/skill for a month. Participation looks like this:
WHEN? The class will take place from August 6th - September 4th.
Abstract: The goal this week is to simply get familiar with the application. We’ve all been there: Opening Blender (or any 3D package), gazing at all the crazy UI, trying to orbit in the viewport, crying...Ok, maybe you were stronger than me and didn’t cry. But the reality is 3D software is daunting. There’s SO MUCH to digest especially when you’re a beginner.
This first week we’re going to overview Blender 2.8 and 3D from an absolutely beginner perspective. What is Blender for? What can it do? Wait, this isn’t a juicing seminar?
Goal of the Week: Get comfortable with Blender 2.8's UI, viewport navigation, creation and position objects.
Pre-recorded course to watch:
Week 1 Live Event (Remember to RSVP!)
Homework:
Abstract: Enter the world of mesh modeling: The oldest form of building 3D objects with your computer. We’ll discuss the technical art of “pushing and pulling verts” as modelers often call it. Welcome to this wild, geometric world!
Goal of the Week: Practicing editing a polygonal mesh's components to create a custom 3D model.
Pre-recorded courses to watch:
Week 2 Live Event (Don't forget to RSVP)
Homework:
Abstract: Digital sculpting is the more artistically intuitive method of 3D modeling. If pushing and pulling verts felt like the hard way of doing things, sculpting will be a welcomed alternative!
Goal of the Week: Practice digital sculpting.
Pre-recorded courses to watch:
Article to Read: Big Idea: Digital Tablets
Week 3 Live Event (Don't forget to RSVP)
Homework:
Abstract: At this point, you've been introduced to the key 3D modeling methods. Meaning that you have the tools you need to MODEL STUFF! This is where practice will make perfect. This is where you build stuff.
Goal of the Week: Be inspired to continue modeling and spend the week modeling or sculpting a challenging object.
Pre-recorded courses to watch: Modeling in Blender Learning Flow
Week 4 Live Event (Don't forget to RSVP)
Homework:
This thread is reserved for CG Cookie Citizens that are participating in the "Getting Started with 3D Modeling & Blender 2.8" class. Its purpose is to serve as central communication for all participating Citizens (excluding Hobby plan Citizens) to ask Kent and fellow participants questions and to post homework. As the instructor of the class, Kent will be monitoring this thread on a daily basis (especially Mon-Thurs) throughout the month of Auguest to review homework and answer questions.
Free members are welcome to observe the thread but please respect that communication and participation is reserved for Citizens.
csehz I like that option too, and so far all of the 2.8 builds I have tried work the same way. You can run Blender from a thumb drive if you wanted.
3 days....
Unfortunately I've found I cannot switch -completely- to 2.8 after all; because I've started Wayne's animation courses this month and to continue those courses I will need to use 2.79, because the UI button addons for those courses' rigs don't work in 2.8 (addons are disabled).
I am RESOLUTE however about switching to right-click-select on Day 1 of the class! Which is the default setting in 2.8 of course, but which I will have to reset in 2.79.
Since the rig UI addons add the buttons to the N-panel, which is not changed tremendously much in 2.8, I'm hoping that they will simply work as intended once addons are switched back on for 2.8 at which point I finally will be able to switch for good. C'est d'art.
you can keep both. just download 2.8 and for the class open 2.8 blender and for the other you open 2.79
I don't think Blender 2.8 is for me, either. I'll switch if they bring back add-ons, local view, background images, modifiers for curves, and modifiers shown in edit mode.
3 days....
jakeblended Yes that is exciting, for me especially the introduction to 2.8 will be interesting and that is the place where finally all of us are beginners.
Anyway I respect from the side of the developers that they make available the program in a kind of half ready state (probably much more than half and in final state anyway will sweep away the old concepts), so trying to keep the being open approach without too much concrete expectations to actual projects. For that the 2.79 will be fine for long
csehz Yes absolutely. Remember, until the finalized version of 2.8 is released later this year, 2.79 still is the official current version of Blender and is the only one that is technically supported, so there's nothing wrong with using it.
In case I wasn't really clear in my last post, though - I still have "switched to 2.8" as far as my own personal projects go; I will just have to keep using 2.79 for the animation courses, or any other courses that may have materials that aren't 100% 2.8-ready yet.
i look forward to the class sessions. just a shame this week i working at the time the class start . so sadly i will have to rewatch it . since i just started 2 weeks ago this will be perfect for me :)
yyukinoh1989 No worries it is natural watching the recorded version of the live stream, if its time does not fit to your schedule/time zone.
Typically I am having the same, but so anyway we will meet in the thread here :-)
csehz
awesome so all questions can be asked here then ?
that is why this community is so awesome .
I could never attend to lessons since my current work so this is amazing and i learned already so much
yyukinoh1989 Ideally the live stream is the best place of putting questions, but as we are from all around on the globe and also life happens, for someones the recorded version stays and that is fine.
Although the CG Cookie site also has a good looking mobile version where the contents can be watched online, for saving some costs I used to download the recorded stream to the phone at home and just go :D Then watching it anywhere, on the autobus or in the breaks at work.
So yes absolutely feel free to ask here there are a bounch of experts, anyway sometimes your question might require some printscreen or even attaching your .blend file and that even more fit to the class thread.
csehz good to know . tommorow the first lessons start it seems.
just wondering is it only one day a week the lessons are been given or is that several days ?
ssmurfmier1985 Honestly, I've never used metaballs. Not once lol. Though I have seen some sculpting addons use metaballs for boolean-type mesh generation. I wouldn't call it a replacement for sculpting by any means, but it has some interesting uses. This video is the most unique metaball application I've seen. Still kind of a novelty feature imo.
One benefit of switching to 2.8 so soon is being able to get really excited when functions I miss are re-added. I'm gonna throw a party when Local View gets put back in; you're all invited.
Great point jakeblended! Glass half full kinda perspective 🤘
yyukinoh1989 Live streams are once a week (every tuesday) over the next 5 weeks. In between streams, the idea is to watch the outlined pre-recorded content, work on homework, and ask questions / answer questions here in this thread.
I'll go over the Class format early in tomorrow's stream.
@theluthier That video was great! Interesting the things he did with it, it's nothing like what I've seen before. Those chicken characters were pretty funny 😂 But after seeing this I think the skin modifier or a mesh object is easier to use.
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This means it's *officially* the time to get busy with week 1's curriculum:
Remember this is all outlined in detail above, in the description of this thread.
I'm so pumped to [finally] get underway!
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Here we go! 🚀 looking forward to the livestream and seeing everyones primitives homework, will be great to see what everyone comes up with 😄
