Blender Shortfilm "Supertramp" by Fabrizio Gammardella

Some time ago I’ve written about the Shortfilm “Supertramp” by Fabrizio Gammardella. It was made in Blender by a small team of talented artists. At the moment there is the opportunity to watch it in the free section of the Festival del Cinema di Salerno. The film is heartbreaking on one side, but also a wonderful experience to watch. The animation of the dog and the communication without words isRead More

pixeltrain Blender Academy 2024

🔥 pixeltrain Blender Academy 2024 🔥 dates are fixed now! Would you like to learn Blender in a well-founded and practice-oriented way?Without watching hundreds of redundant and shallow tutorials? Learn online, with live teaching sessions, in small groups and with personal mentoring from Senior 3D & VFX trainer Helge Maus. Through our modular system, you can build your own curriculum to suit your previous knowledge, pace and goals. The nextRead More

pixeltrain’s Academy 2023

Would you like to learn Blender in a well-founded and practice-oriented way? Without watching hundreds of redundant and shallow tutorials? Then our pixeltrain Academy 2023 is just right for you. Learn online, with live teaching session, in small groups and with personal mentoring from Helge Maus. Through our modular system, you can build your own curriculum to suit your previous knowledge, pace and goals. The next Blender Fundamentals module startsRead More

Blender Anime style Animation by DillonGoo Studios

Did you know, that Blender is not only a great 3D-Animation application with photorealistic rendering, but is also powerful application to mimic classic 2D-Shading and Animation? No, I’m not talking about 2D-Animation with Grease Pencil, but 3D-Scenes and Objects with 2D-Shading. One studio, which is masting this artform, is DillonGoo Studios (https://www.dillongoostudios.com/) Beside of their forked Blender version for this style and their great demos they now deliver an episodicalRead More

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 IntroductionRead More

Blender Grundlagen Schulung mit Helge Maus / pixeltrain

Möchtest Du eine schnelle und fundierte Einführung in Blender 3D haben?In Zusammenarbeit mit der Visualisierungs-Akademie biete ich einige zweitägige deutschsprachige Online-Kurse / Schulungen (live) an. Es handelt sich um kleine Gruppengrößen bis 5 Personen. Blender 3.6 – Grundlagen (21. + 22. Sept 2023)https://visualisierungs-akademie.ch/de/kurs/blender-einfuhrungskurs/21d29c48-ee8a-4549-a500-6f82f7ff7ddc Und wenn Du Dein Blender Know-How weiter ausbauen möchtest, hier direkt zwei weitere Aufbau-Kurse. Photorealistisches- & NPR-Rendering in Blender 3.6 – Cycles & Eevee (26. + 27.Read More

>> Introduction to Blender | Visualisierungsakademie Schweiz, July 6 + 7, 2023 On July 6 and 7 I will teach you online taking your first steps in Blender.If you are interested, please check out the detailed information here:https://visualisierungs-akademie.ch/bildung/blender-einfuehrungskurs/ On request I also teach this online course in English. Please do not hesitate to ask your questions (info(at) pixeltrain.net). I am always happy, to hear from everyone who is interested toRead More

You want to dive deeper into Blender and it’s workflows?Together with Visualisierungs-Akademie Schweiz GmbH, I offer all the trainings modules you need to start with Blender and deepen your knowledge depending on your needs. These courses are online in small groups, in German language at the moment.Every course can be booked separately depending on your time, budget and needs. You find all the dates on:https://visualisierungs-akademie.ch Blender Introduction, 2 daysApril 27Read More

View Conference 2022

The amazing program for the VIEW Conference 2022 (https://www.viewconference.it) is online! If you join this year’s Conference you will have the chance to start your Blender journey with 3 workshops for beginners: Blender 3.3: The Free Production Studio for IndiesTuesday 18th, 14:00 – 15:00 Blender 3.3: First Steps into Rigging of Props and Characters in BlenderSunday 16th, 10:00-12:30 Blender 3.3: First Steps into Blender’s 3D Animation System & 2D Grease PencilMonday 17th, 11:15 –Read More

Blender Studio Project - Heist

Shortly after Sprite Fright, Blender Studio has today announced the next Blender Studio Project. The goal is to develop a high-visual-impact, action-packed 2-minutes-long animation, which is is inspired by the game cinematics and realtime demos formats. The main goals, beside of making a great short like always, are: – Challenge Blender and the creative team to make characters and environments at an unprecedented level of realism and complexity – PushRead More