Name: Blender Intensive Beginners Class
Start: 2026-02-20T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-21T17:00:00-05:00
Location: The Inventor Center

Come learn to use Blender's open source 3-D modeling program!
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This is a 2 Part Class on Friday February 20th 7-9:30PM and Saturday February 21st 9AM-5PM

This class is designed for those interested in learning to use the program Blender with no prior knowledge required. The class will start on February 20th Friday evening 7-9:30PM and continue February 21st Saturday from 9AM-5PM with an hour lunch break.

You will learn the the basics of Blender including:

Setting up Blender's User Preferences to make your work flow and learning easier.
The concepts of 3-D and vocabulary of Blender terms.
How to model objects for 3-D printing and for rendering as images or animations.
The basics of Materials and Textures for your 3-D Objects and Scenes in Blender.
The basics of Rigging, Shape Keys and Key Frames to Animate Objects.
Lighting your scenes.
How to Render both still images and animations.
Exporting files for 3-D Printing.

This Class is open to the public for $50 or Free to Members of the Inventor Center.

What you need for the class: A laptop and 3 button mouse. Please download Blender 5.0 for Free at the website www.blender.org to be ready for the class. A 3 button mouse is mandatory for the class. Your mouse must include a left and right button as well as a scroll wheel (the third button).

Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software tool set that runs on Windows, MacOS, BSD, Haiku, and Linux. Blender is used in Hollywood for special effects, animation, architectural pre-visualization, motion graphics and for creating 3-D files for printing.

Byron Kindig is a graduate of the University of South Florida. He has been using the 3D animation software suite, Blender, since 2002 and has been teaching Blender since 2005. He organized the first Blender Conference in the United States in 2007 as well as two more conferences since then.

Besides teaching Blender in Kingsport a number of times and once in Casper Wyoming at Casper College, he also offers individual tutoring in person and virtually.

He has presented demonstrations of Blender at the Kingsport Art Guild twice, 5 times at the Kingsport Maker Faire, the University of Virginia, in Wise, and at the Geek Out Conference in Asheville.