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Opening presentation (a keynote file): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LYWsNRgneoKYClGktAA2Ov9ztkmrjiRr/view?usp=sharing
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Discord: https://discord.gg/726hdcFp
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Download Blender: https://www.blender.org/download/
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Download UV (optional): https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/
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Download ST2: https://coldtype.xyz/st2/releases/ST2-v0-19b2.zip
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Videos:
- The Exchange Student (1967): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JeUzyMiTjk
- Man from Cocody (1965): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHkEMnWPg7Q
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Misc:
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Day One
- Morning
- Short presentation of Blender typography
- Blender basics
- Moving, scaling, rotating
- Adding light
- Adding materials
- Positioning the camera
- Camera/lens discussion
- Configuring the interface
- Afternoon
- ST2 basics
- Choosing a font
- Configuring a font
- A little physics
- Setting up a passive object
- Setting up our active objects
- Baking an animation
- Rendering an animation
- ST2 basics
- Morning
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Day Two
- Morning
- Keyframing basics
- Camera, object, etc.
- Variable fonts in ST2
- Keyframing axes, etc.
- Rendering an animation (caveat emptor)
- Scripting
- Geometry Nodes
- Coldtype/Python
- Lunch
- Start thinking about what kind of animation you want to make
- Afternoon
- Work on your own animations
- Present your animation (low res)
- Morning