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Welcome to the ‘Blender 101: Master the Art of Designing and Rendering Stylized Water Scenes’ class, where you'll master the art of creating stunning 3D dioramas of tropical water scenes.

This comprehensive class covers various aspects of 3D modeling, texturing, animation, and rendering. Whether you're a beginner or an intermediate Blender user, this class offers over 13 hours of content and provides a portfolio piece you can proudly showcase. Get ready to dive into the immersive world of stylized 3D game asset creation.

In ‘Blender 101: Master the Art of Designing and Rendering Stylized Water Scenes’, you'll learn how to create a wide range of assets, including trees, plants, foliage, and more, all specifically designed for tropical environments. One of the highlights is mastering the creation of underwater god rays, adding a captivating element to your scenes. You'll also model a fishing boat, fishing line and post, palm trees, coral, a treasure chest, tentacles, and scenic rocks.

To enhance your learning process, we provide a full class handbook with 24 sections, each focusing on specific assets or sets of assets. This allows you to navigate the class according to your preferences and take control of your learning journey.

As you progress, you'll delve into the technical aspects of Blender Cycles rendering. This knowledge will enable you to continuously assess the quality of your scene and adjust for better results. You'll also learn various techniques, such as utilizing modifiers and Blender add-ons to enhance your creations. Key topics covered in ‘Blender 101: Master the Art of Designing and Rendering Stylized Water Scenes’ include marking seams, preparing meshes for texturing, creating materials, mesh deforming, and utilizing armatures for animation. The class learning objectives include:

Mesh deforming and using Booleans
Learning how to make loop cuts
Fixing Ngons
Complete guide on marking seams & texture resolutions
Complete UV Mapping Guide: UV mapping and UV unwrapping your model
Creating Coral, Stone, and Gold Coin Materials
Creating Collections of Objects and Meshes using a Hierarchy System
Using Armatures to Pose a 3D model
Creating Underwater God Rays using Lightpath Node Set up that Utilises Sunlight and a Water Shader;
Achieving a Fully Realistic Water Refraction Effect;
Creating a Fully Lit Sky fit for the Tropics;
Learning how to use rendering to improve the quality of presentation for your 3D environment
Rendering a stylized tropical water scene to a high level

Moreover, ‘Blender 101: Master the Art of Designing and Rendering Stylized Water Scenes’ emphasizes realism within the stylized art, ensuring your creations are workable and maintain a sense of authenticity. For example, you'll model a fully functional fishing spool and scale your models using human references. You'll also receive freebies such as glass textures, an HDRI map, 5 glass texture maps, and 23 reference files for individual scene assets.

The class culminates in rendering your stylized water scene using Cycles. Lighting, a crucial but often overlooked aspect, will be explored in detail, enabling you to achieve desirable lighting conditions such as underwater god rays. The resulting renders will be of professional quality, perfect for showcasing on social media or in your portfolio.

So, join us in this tropical adventure and unlock your creativity in stylized 3D game asset creation. Immerse yourself in the vibrant world of Blender and take your skills to new underwater depths with ‘Blender 101: Master the Art of Designing and Rendering Stylized Water Scenes’.

Happy modelling everyone!

Neil

David Banuelos

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