This year I have again the great honor of being invited to speak at the View Conference 2023.
The View Conference in Turin is an exciting and creative place for inspiration, exchange and networking for the 3D, VFX, animation and games industry.

And all of this in a wonderful ambience.
That’s why I’m pleased to be able to offer 3 exciting and intensive Blender hands-on workshops:

👉 Blender – Animation Tools Introduction

Oct. 15, 10:00-12:30 CET, 2.5-hour workshop in English

In this hands-on workshop, Helge Maus (pixeltrain) teaches you the fundamentals of the powerful Blender 3.6 LTS Animation system.

You will learn important Blender concepts you have to understand before starting animating.
We will talk about key-framing and manipulation of many keyframes effectively and how to go through the different phases of animation.

We take a deep dive into the needed Blender Editors like the Dopesheet Editor, Action Editor and the Graph Editor.
Also we will talk about the NLA Editor and how to transfer existing animations between objects and scenes.
At the end we will have a quick introduction to the Grease Pencil environment for 2D-Animation.

As this is a live workshop you can ask your questions and get answers. At the end of the workshop you will be able to start animating in Blender with confidence.
So, if you have some knowledge of other packages like Maya or Cinema 4D you will also feel at home in Blender afterwards.

👉 Blender – Rigging Tools Introduction

Oct 15, 14:00-16:30 CET, 2.5-hour workshop in English

In this hands-on workshop, Helge Maus (pixeltrain) teaches you the fundamentals of the Blender 3.6 LTS Rigging system.

You will learn important Blender concepts you have to understand before you start rigging.

Then we will go into the rigging process for mechanical props and characters.

These topics are covered:

• Build you first Armature
• All about Bones, creating, manipulating and organizing them
• Different Methods of Binding your Mesh
• Weight Painting
• Constraints
• Drivers & Expressions
• How to work with Inverse Kinematic (IK) in Blender
• Using the built-in Rigify system 

As this is a live workshop you can ask your questions and get answers. At the end of the workshop you will be able to start rigging in Blender with confidence.

So, if you have some knowledge of other packages like Maya or Cinema 4D you will also feel at home in Blender afterwards.

👉 Blender 4.0 – Procedural Workflows with Geometry Nodes

Oct 17, 12:45-15:45 CET 3-Hour Workshop in English

In this workshop, Helge Maus (pixeltrain) teaches you the fundamentals of the Blender 3.6 LTS Geometry Nodes system and also some of the exciting new improvements of the coming version Blender 4.0 .

We will start from scratch, learn the fundamentals and then explore different areas of use.

With the help of Geometry nodes you are able to build powerful procedural tools inside of Blender. They can be combined easily with the existing Blender tools set and can help you for the daily challenges as an 3d artists.

At the moment the development focuses of Geometry, Spline (Hair) and Volume manipulations and lays the foundations of the Blender „All nodes“ project.

These are the topics we will cover:

• Theory of Geometry Nodes
• Understanding the Node Editor and Inspector
• Data structure in Geometry Nodes (Data types, Domains, Attributes)
• Field System
• Building Scatter Systems
• Procedural Modeling setups
• Working with the new procedural Hair system
• Simulation Nodes
• Loops & Iterations
• Animation Effects with Geometry Nodes

As this is a live workshop you can ask your questions and get answers. If you want to follow along please have beside of your Blender 3.6 LTS also a downloaded package of the current Blender 4.0 Beta (from blender.org) with you.

I look forward to meeting you! Ci vediamo!

Helge Maus

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Here is the link to the program:

https://www.viewconference.it/pages/program

And to the other amazing speakers:

https://www.viewconference.it/speakers

#savethedate #viewconference2023 

15-20 Oct 2023 | Turin | Italy 

➡ Get tickets:

https://www.viewconference.it/pages/registration/

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About Helge Maus

Helge Maus is Senior 3D & VFX Trainer | Blender for Production | Godot Artist | Compositor

As a Senior 3D & VFX Trainer, Helge Maus teaches 3D- & VFX Applications for over 20 years.

He delivers with his company pixeltrain | 3D | VFX | animation in-house & remote training, workshops and coaching for the 3D & VFX industry. 

His focus lies on Generalist workflows for VFX and Games. He works with studios, agencies and freelancers from different visualization areas and from the games industry.

Meanwhile he focuses on Blender & Godot for his daily work and training. He loves working with Indies and companies adapting FOSS software like Blender and Godot into their pipeline. His strong industry background in teaching Houdini FX, Cinema 4D, Unity, Nuke, and Maya over many years helps him to train artists from the industry within a wide production context.

Helges clients include companies such as Ubisoft, Tangent Animation, Mackevision, Jura, Vitra, Hugo Boss, eder GmbH, Jung-von-Matt, Pirates ´n Paradise, redseven Entertainment, ProSiebenSat.1, SKY Deutschland, NDR, rbb, Sony DADC, Intel and many more international companies. He has worked a couple of years as a freelancer for Adobe Systems, was a Maxon Lead Instructor for Cinema 4D and also beta tester for Maya, Cinema 4D, AfterEffects and Arnold.

Find more information on www.pixeltrain.net
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pixeltrain/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/pixeltrain3DVFXTrainings
Mastodon: https://mastodon.art/web/@pixeltrain3d