Animation / Art Business & Entrepreneurship

Learn 3D animation in Blender and bring your imagination to life! | Everything you need to know to Start, Build and Grow your art into a successful, full-time business.

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Course Description

Welcome to 3D Animation with Blender for beginners –

Have you ever wanted to become an animator and bring your imagination to life? This highly rated course has had great success teaching students character animation at TAFTA! This is the one of the most comprehensive course you need to start your journey. Even if you have no 3D experience, this course will take you from beginner to animating a 3D scene in the free and open source software Blender.

This also includes a business course which is designed for any artist who want to turn their art into a successful, full-time business. If you have ever dreamed of creating art full time, I am telling you it can be done! And we at TAFTA will help you do it. When you sign up for this course, you will receive hours upon hours of online video content covering virtually every aspect of starting, building and growing your art business. You will also have a powerful team who will support you and help you every step of the way.

1. Consent/Information Sharing Policy
2. Pre-Training Assessment
3. How to use this course
1. Introduction
2. Course Requirements
1. Introduction to Animation
2. Introduction to CG
3. Blender Installation
4. Navigation & Hot keys
5. Basic Object Manipulation
6. Assignment 1: Become familiar with manipulating objects in Blender
7. Basic Modelling
8. Assignment 2: Practice Modelling
9. Assignment 3: Practice Modelling 2
1. Optional Daily Modelling Exercises Part 1
1. Introduction to Texturing
2. Basic Texturing
3. Assignment 4a
4. Assignment 4b
5. Assignment 4c
6. Basic Lighting
7. Assignment 5
8. Assignment 6
1. Optional Daily Modelling Exercises Part 2
1. Production Stages for Animation
2. Basic Animation
3. Bouncing Ball
4. Robot Arm Picking up an object
5. Assignment 7
6. Assignment 8
1. Copy of Optional Daily Modelling Exercises Part 3
1. Introduction to Rendering
2. Basic Rendering
3. Final Assignment Demo Videos
4. Final Assignment
1. Congrats! Here's what's next...
1. Welcome to Art Business & Entrepreneurship
2. Introduction to Art Business & Entrepreneurship
1. Introduction
2. Types of Entrepreneurs & Roles of an Entrepreneur
3. Self Awareness
4. Personal Confidence
5. Personal Effectiveness
1. Business Ideas, Innovation & Creativity
2. Identifying and Recognizing Business Opportunities
3. Testing/Vetting Your Ideas
4. The Life Cycle of a Business
1. Understanding Entertainment Industry, its Structure and the Connection with Entrepreneurship
2. Sources of Funding for Creative Business Ideas and How to Access Funding
3. Pitching Your Business Ideas to Investors in the Entertainment Industry
4. Writing Proposals for Business
1. Introdution
2. Defining the Business Concept and Business Models
3. Business Model
4. Writing A Business Plan
5. Step by Step Instructions for writing a Business Plan
6. Business Investment Plan
7. Profitability Analysis
8. Risk Management
9. Proposal Writing Essentials
10. Proposal Writing
11. Assessment
1. Planning and Implementation of a Financial Plan
2. Financial Planning Steps
3. Understanding Book-Keeping And Financial Data For Entrepreneurship Accountability
4. Objectives of Book-Keeping and Financial Accounting Data
5. Financial Statements and Long Term Financial Planning
6. Interpretation of Financial Statements
7. Managing and Controlling Cash Flow
8. How To Manage Cash Flow Problems & Remedy Cash Flow Problems
1. Business and Business Structure
2. Sole Proprietorship
3. Partnership
4. Companies
5. Business Registration Procedures
6. Intellectual Property Protection
7. Understanding Statutory Laws and Contract
8. Regulatory Agencies and Bodies in Business
1. Introduction
2. Key Elements of Business Operations
3. Project Management Fundamentals
4. Project Management
5. Themes of Project Management
6. Procurement Management
7. Monitoring & Evaluation as an Integrated Part of Project Planning & Implementation
8. Designing a Monitoring System
1. Introduction to Ethics
2. Governance & Compliance Issues in a Start-Up Business
3. Ethical & Social Responsibility of Entertainment Entrepreneurs
4. Aligning with Social Good: United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGS) & Mastercard Foundation Goals
1. Conclusion
2. Before you go...

About this course

Free
92 lessons
4 hours of video content

What you will learn

When you sign up for this course, you will be able to make and render a simple animation in Blender.
You will also Understand some of the theory and philosophy behind working in animation.
The version of Blender used in the examples and video tutorials is Blender Version 3.3 LTS, however future versions of Blender are still suitable for the course.

Requirements

A computer capable of running the free & open source software Blender (Click here to download blender)
It is recommended to have a three button mouse when working in Blender (see sample)
Internet connection

Discover your potential, starting today

Although courses taught at the academy stems from theatre arts, those that have transferable skill have been carefully chosen to increase the employability margin of graduates from the academy in the labour market. Not only does this make the graduates more prone to employment, the courses enables graduates to be employers of labour.