WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.733 OK, so let's go through what's coming up, so you get an idea 2 00:00:03.733 --> 00:00:07.733 of the course itself! So the course structure, what are we going to do? Well the 3 00:00:07.733 --> 00:00:11.733 first section is going to be designed for complete beginners. So 4 00:00:11.733 --> 00:00:15.733 if you already have experience, you may want to skip ahead 5 00:00:15.733 --> 00:00:19.733 but I generally don't recommend it. You might still find the beginning of this content 6 00:00:19.733 --> 00:00:23.733 useful. I've asked some experienced people, ones who have been perhaps playing with 7 00:00:23.733 --> 00:00:27.733 Blender on and off for a couple of years, and the feedback in general has been, oh 8 00:00:27.733 --> 00:00:31.733 even though I've used Blender for a while, I didn't know that thing existed. So it's 9 00:00:31.733 --> 00:00:35.733 wortwhile just watching, but bear with it, if you are experienced it may seem 10 00:00:35.733 --> 00:00:39.733 a little basic at first. And it is basic because it's just code 11 00:00:39.733 --> 00:00:43.733 with, is to help people cope with Blender, when they first approach it 12 00:00:43.733 --> 00:00:47.733 afresh. Remember you can speed up and slow down 13 00:00:47.733 --> 00:00:51.733 videos. There's a little toggle where you can make it go up to 2 times quicker, 14 00:00:51.733 --> 00:00:55.733 so you can very quickly scrub through these early videos, if you need to. 15 00:00:55.733 --> 00:00:59.733 So the learning journey itself! We're really focused on making sure 16 00:00:59.733 --> 00:01:03.733 you guys have a very progressive learning journey. So we aim 17 00:01:03.733 --> 00:01:07.733 to give you a breadth of knowledge across Blender. Every 18 00:01:07.733 --> 00:01:11.733 lesson will focus on one key area of Blender, or 19 00:01:11.733 --> 00:01:15.733 sometimes not Blender; sometimes it's just how to design, how to organize 20 00:01:15.733 --> 00:01:19.733 but we tend to focus just on one thing at a time, so you guys can 21 00:01:19.733 --> 00:01:23.733 stay focused essentially. Lessons will build on one another, 22 00:01:23.733 --> 00:01:27.733 so often later, especially later on in the course, you'll find that you'll be using 23 00:01:27.733 --> 00:01:31.733 a lot of your prior knowledge, and that tends to not be 24 00:01:31.733 --> 00:01:35.733 retaught over and over again. It does in the early sections but later on, 25 00:01:35.733 --> 00:01:39.733 we'll just use those skills that we've learned. Because of 26 00:01:39.733 --> 00:01:43.733 this, because of the progressive nature, I would not recommend skipping lectures, 27 00:01:43.733 --> 00:01:47.733 because it's very easy to miss something and then 28 00:01:47.733 --> 00:01:51.733 go, oh well how do I do this? So do go through each one individually, and if you 29 00:01:51.733 --> 00:01:55.733 get it then, of course, move on! So one of the big things 30 00:01:55.733 --> 00:01:59.733 that we get, early on in the course, is there are lots of different ways of 31 00:01:59.733 --> 00:02:03.733 doing things in Blender, it's a very versatile package. So there's 32 00:02:03.733 --> 00:02:07.733 always multiple paths to the same outcome, and it's important 33 00:02:07.733 --> 00:02:11.733 to realize that there isn't a right way. As long as you get 34 00:02:11.733 --> 00:02:15.733 to the destination point and you've completed, let's say, a challenge 35 00:02:15.733 --> 00:02:19.733 I give you guys, then that's it! You've completed it, that's brilliant! 36 00:02:19.733 --> 00:02:23.733 My way is not always necessarily the quickest or the way that you're 37 00:02:23.733 --> 00:02:27.733 going to choose. So don't see my way as the all seeing all knowing 38 00:02:27.733 --> 00:02:31.733 way, there are always multiple ways of doing it. And often, I'll be using 39 00:02:31.733 --> 00:02:35.733 the skills we've just learned in that lecture, even if there's another skill 40 00:02:35.733 --> 00:02:39.733 I could use in order to complete the challenge as well. 41 00:02:39.733 --> 00:02:43.733 If you have another route, share with everybody your experience. So 42 00:02:43.733 --> 00:02:47.733 there are multiple ways of doing things, and learning about all the different ones 43 00:02:47.733 --> 00:02:51.733 is valuable for absolutely everyone, so please share when you 44 00:02:51.733 --> 00:02:55.733 do that. Now, you'll see these green slides throughout the course. These are 45 00:02:55.733 --> 00:02:59.733 challenge slides. Now, most lectures will have these challenge 46 00:02:59.733 --> 00:03:03.733 slides in them, and these challenges are important, they really hone your knowledge, they make 47 00:03:03.733 --> 00:03:07.733 sure that what you've just been taught you can actually apply. 48 00:03:07.733 --> 00:03:11.733 And often it's worthwhile going through and trying out 49 00:03:11.733 --> 00:03:15.733 some more things, using the skills you've just learned. 50 00:03:15.733 --> 00:03:19.733 Challenges will focus on specifically what has been learned in that 51 00:03:19.733 --> 00:03:23.733 lecture, and it will incorporate earlier 52 00:03:23.733 --> 00:03:27.733 knowledge too, more so as we progress through the course. 53 00:03:27.733 --> 00:03:31.733 Now, please please share your work! Be proud of it! When you first 54 00:03:31.733 --> 00:03:35.733 start something afresh, it's very intimidating when you're surrounded with 55 00:03:35.733 --> 00:03:39.733 people that are better than you at something. Now don't worry 56 00:03:39.733 --> 00:03:43.733 about that, we all start from somewhere, and we all start from 0, if we've 57 00:03:43.733 --> 00:03:47.733 not used Blender or anything else in our lives. So just remember to 58 00:03:47.733 --> 00:03:51.733 be proud of it! I love seeing you guys develop and I want to see you 59 00:03:51.733 --> 00:03:55.733 start building things out of cubes and cylinders and putting it together, 60 00:03:55.733 --> 00:03:59.733 And then, in a few weeks time, you're building wonderful models! And that will happen, 61 00:03:59.733 --> 00:04:03.733 just stay with it, be proud of your work, and remember to share it! 62 00:04:03.733 --> 00:04:07.733 And do make the challenge your own! So I might ask you to make... 63 00:04:07.733 --> 00:04:11.733 And I will do in a few lectures time, a simple block-work 64 00:04:11.733 --> 00:04:15.733 plane. And I know some people have taken this challenge on their own, and instead of 65 00:04:15.733 --> 00:04:19.733 making a very simple plane, they've taken the knowledge they've learned so far and they've 66 00:04:19.733 --> 00:04:23.733 made some wonderful examples of aviation models. So 67 00:04:23.733 --> 00:04:27.733 it's absolutely wonderful seeing what you guy are doing! Go above and beyond the challenge 68 00:04:27.733 --> 00:04:30.133 whenever you can. Push yourself and you will be surprised 69 00:04:30.466 --> 00:04:34.466 you will be surprised with what you'll be able to do! 70 00:04:34.466 --> 00:04:38.466 So let's move on now to the next lecture!