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3D Modeling in Blender

3D Modeling in Blender In-Person

Why Blender?

Blender is a free, open source application that supports the ability to create high quality 3D models and animation. Blender, while not entirely intuitive at first, is powerful and has an incredibly active community surrounding it with tons of online tutorials. There is no limit to your imagination in Blender. Blender’s capabilities and interface is comparative to the 3D animation industry standard Maya Autodesk, so a lot of the skills you learn in Blender may be easily transferred over.

Learning objectives

At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

  1. Add shapes into the Blender viewport
  2. Move around the workspace by panning, zooming, and rotating
  3. Use the orthographic views (gizmo)
  4. Resize, rotate, and move objects
  5. Edit the mesh of an object
  6. Group objects together
  7. Add materials and colours to your object
  8. Save and export your file into an .STL or .OBJ file
Date:
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Time:
10:30am - 12:00pm
Time Zone:
Pacific Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Digital Scholarship Commons A308
Audience:
  Faculty and instructors     Graduate students     Library staff     Undergraduate students     UVic staff  
Categories:
  DSC  

Registration is required. There are 20 seats available.

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