+ LED BY Marcella Driver-Moliner
Saturday, July 20, 2024
12 – 4 PM
InterAccess (950 Dupont St., Toronto ON M6H 1Z2)
Registration Available
‘Digital Existence Only!’ is a beginner-intermediate Blender software learning workshop that leads a group of creatives through the process of making an abstract scene in Blender. The outcome is to create something so wild that it can only live in the digital world, thus being too fragile to hold. Participants will learn software workflow, object creation, texturing, lighting, composition and rendering. Assets will be provided and created to enjoy the experience of rendering fully!
The 4-hour workshop with breaks will include a Blender template with a camera and rendering preferences set-up.
Participants will receive a refresher on the interface. After getting comfortable, we will start making assets involving curves, sculpting and importing assets to create a composition. Once a composition has been reached, we will texture the object with images and procedural texturing. Then, we will light and render out the scene. The workshop will result in a rendered scene abstract and wild to your liking and conclude with a show and tell of your creations. (not obliged!)
This workshop is presented as part of the Vector Festival 2024.
WORKSHOP PRE-REQUISITES
Participants should have some familiarity with Blender, a basic knowledge of its interface and have played around or attempted to create something. This can be done prior to the workshop. Here are some helpful links to get you started:
WORKSHOP REQUIREMENTS
- A PC with Windows 10-11 or Mac OS 11.2 or higher that has at least 16 - 32GB of RAM. It should have at least 15-20GB of available space.
- Download the latest version of Blender 4.0 and up. Note: The interface was changed for the 4.0 version, so it will be easier to follow along in the workshop.
- 3-button mouse (one with a wheel button)
- USB or hard drive
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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Marcella Driver-Moliner
Marcella Driver-Moliner is a Toronto-based bilingual new media artist who hails from the Eastern Townships of Quebec. They create 3D experimental animations and fabricated projects to re-interpret nature into personified emotions.
Following foundational training in Graphic Design at Dawson College in Montreal, they pursued an undergraduate degree in IMXA (Integrated Media: Expanded Animation) at OCAD University. Since graduating, their projects have been featured at Denver Digerati, the Aga Khan Light up the Dark, and other US, UK, and Toronto festivals. Currently, they facilitate learning and digitally fabricated projects at the Design and Technology Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University.
ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION
The InterAccess gallery has five steps from the sidewalk up to the main entrance with automatic doors. Once inside all facilities are on the same level with an accessible single-user washroom inside.
Reach out to education @ interaccess.org. with any questions or requests leading up to the event.
Images courtesy of Marcella Driver-Moliner