THE COLLABS COURSE: A Raw Look Into Remote Blender Production

Instructor:
Kent Trammell

This course is a deep-dive, longform look into the Collab.03 production, which resulted in the animated short film called "Peacemaker Protocol". It's a large Blender project that aims to capture the epic mech robot aesthetic so many 3D artists aspire to! 🤖🦾🦿

With production spanning from 2022 to 2023, over 50 hours of livestream footage was captured around production meetings and workflow demonstrations. Over 40 hours of that footage are included in this course.

What You'll Learn

Team production is a unique environment that cannot be simulated, rehearsed or recorded as a traditional tutorial course. Producing a large, complicated animated short between dozens of people goes way beyond 3D skills.

Through this course you will experience a fly-on-the-wall perspective of:

  • planning and administrating production tasks
  • establishing working protocols
  • how to develop and achieve project vision
  • how to problem solve
  • how to execute with Blender in a remote pipeline

DISCLAIMER

This course is a collection of livestreams

Recorded between 2022-2023, these longform streams were broadcast during Collab.03 production. They're not the usual rehearsed and edited video lessons you're used to.

At over 40 hours in total duration, longform isn't for everyone, but there is a LOT to learn for those that take the dive!

***PRO TIP: 2x playback speed is your friend.

Course Overview

Chapter 1

Pre-Production

The success of a project depends on its planning. Pre-production is the process of thinking through the DNA of the project, how we're going to approach each stage of production, who does what, and in what time frame.

Chapter 2-6

Production

As a modeling-centric collaboration, modeling tasks are plentiful and complex. Primarily this stage covers the modeling of the mech model, the environment, and the machinery, all of which is divided among contributors.

Chapter 7-8

Post-Production

The final stage of this collab production involves material creation, lighting, rigging, animation, VFX and rendering. In a way, we're adding the final ingredients before they're ready to be 'baked in the oven'.

want more collab content?

Collab.01 and Collab.02 Livestreams

All streams from the first two collab projects are also freely available to watch as playlists!

Awarded upon completion:
100xp +
Course Curriculum