Lesson 1: Introduction to Visual Effects and
Blender
• 3D: General Principles
• Making and Rendering Your First Scenes
Lesson 2: Editing Objects
• Basic Principle: Data blocks
• Separating and Joining Objects
• Object Modifiers
• Converting to Mesh from Curve
Lesson 3: Texturing, Principles, and Practice
• How to Visually Break Down Materials
• Materials, Textures, and How They Get onto
Surfaces
• UV Mapping Basics
• Textures in More Depth
• More Complicated Procedural Textures with
Nodes
• Material Nodes
Lesson 4: Further Texturing and Rendering in
Cycles
• Three-Point Lighting Setup
• Advanced Textures
• Camera Effects and Properties
• Cycles Renderer and Its Settings
Lesson 5: Sculpting and Baking Normal Maps
• Sculpting Detail
• Baking & Retopologizing
• Automatic Tessellation and 3D Sketching
Lesson 6: Compositing
• Buildup of a Scene
• Color Correction and Texture Editing

• Sweetening and VFX
Lesson 7: Basic Animation- Camera and
Objects
• Constraints for Automating Animation
• Animated Textures
• Output to Video Files
Lesson 8: Camera Mapping and 2.5 D
• Parallax Described and Demonstrated
• 2.5D Plate Preparation & 2.5D When?
• Web and Interactive 2.5D/3D GIF and VR
Imagery
Lesson 9: Tracking and Replacement
• Tracking Practical Examples
• Tracking Addition and Replacement
• Use of Green-Screen (Monochromatic
Environment Removal)
Lesson 10: Animation of Characters
• The Armature
• Bones
• Poses and Key frames
Lesson 11: Particles and Fluids
• Setting Up Particle Systems
• Texturing of Particles
• Particles as Hair
Lesson 12: Video Editing and Addition of
Sound
• Working with Sound/Video Sequence Editor
• Compositor
• Sound Effects
• Final Output