Blender Essentials & Beyond: Modeling, Animation, and Post-Production Course

This course is perfect for complete beginners and intermediate Blender artists.

Course Overview

This 4-day intensive Blender course is designed to provide participants with a complete introduction to 3D production workflows. The program covers the entire creative pipeline: from modeling and shading in Blender, to rigging and animating a character, and finally rendering and compositing. In addition, participants will gain hands-on experience with industry-standard post-production tools, including After Effects for compositing and tracking and Premiere Pro for editing and sound design. By the end of the course, learners will have a solid foundation to create polished 3D projects from start to finish.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the Blender interface and basic 3D modeling tools.
• Create and apply realistic materials and shaders.
• Rig and animate a simple character.
• Using Mixamo and AI mockups.
• Set up cameras, render settings, and apply compositing for the final output.
• Compositing and tracking in After Effects.
• Editing and sound design in Premiere Pro.

Programme

Day 01 | Modeling

• Blender interface overview (navigation, viewport, object vs edit mode, hotkeys).
• Basic modeling tools (extrude, inset, loop cuts, proportional editing).
• Create a simple prop (chair, mug, or stylized character base).
• Introduction to modifiers (mirror, subdivision, solidify).
  

Day 02 | Shading & Materials

• Principled BSDF shader basics (color, roughness, metallic).
• Apply procedural textures (noise, gradient, mix shaders).
• UV unwrapping basics + image textures (importing PNG/JPG).
• Lighting setup (HDRI + area light) and quick render test.

Day 3 | Character Animation

• Introduction to armatures & rigging basics.
• Add an armature, parent it to the model, basic weight painting.
• Animation timeline overview (keyframes, interpolation, graph editor).
• Animate a simple walk cycle or waving motion.
• Using Mixamo assets and AI mockups.

Day 4 | Compositing & Final Render

• Camera setup + framing the scene.
• Render settings (Eevee vs Cycles, samples, output format).
• Compositor basics (render layers, glare, color correction).
• Add background image or simple VFX (depth of field, bloom).
• Final render + export animation (video or image sequence).
• After Effects/Premiere Pro compositing & Sound Design.