3D Extended Course

This course is a problem-based learning style course, in which the student selects a feature of Blender and produces a tutorial on it. Previous topics of choice have included, but are not limited to:

Technical / Workflow

Rendering with external engines
Advanced materials management with BlenderKit
Extended use of Geometry Nodes
Blender scripting with Python
Custom UI creation in Blender
Blender add-on development

Artistic / Visual

Advanced lighting for photorealism
Stylized rendering (NPR, toon shading)
Procedural texturing with shader nodes
Camera tricks and cinematic composition

Simulation / Physics

Soft body systems
Particle systems
Fluid simulation (Mantaflow)
Cloth simulation and pinning
Rigid body dynamics

Animation / Rigging / Audio

Basic Animation
Inverse Kinematics
Building a rig for animation of a character
Facial rigging and animation
Motion capture integration
Lip sync animation

Game Design / Integration / Web

Blender and game engines (Unity, Armory, Godot)
Interactive 3D experiences (WebGL, Verge3D)
Level design for games using Blender
Blender for AR/VR content creation

Integration / Asset Creation

Blender to Unreal Engine pipeline
Photogrammetry and Blender
UV mapping and baking techniques
Asset optimization for mobile/web
Retopology workflows