Helge Maus / pixeltrain talking about Blender for Production at the View Conference
22. December 2023

Interview about the State of Blender and How to Learn It

22. December 2023 By admin

Some time ago I had the pleasure to talk to Kirill (Kyrylo) Tokarev from 80.lv about the State of Blender in the industry, how to learn it and my personal journey into the 3d & vfx industry:

https://80.lv/articles/helge-maus-on-the-state-of-blender-and-how-to-learn-it/

Hope you like it and find some inspiration in it!

Helge

P.S. You can also follow me on my (free) Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/interview-about-95061738?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

View Conference 2022
7. September 2022

Learn Blender at View Conference 2022

7. September 2022 By admin

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 Indies
Tuesday 18th, 14:00 – 15:00

Blender 3.3: First Steps into Rigging of Props and Characters in Blender
Sunday 16th, 10:00-12:30

Blender 3.3: First Steps into Blender’s 3D Animation System & 2D Grease Pencil
Monday 17th, 11:15 – 14:15

Here is the direct link to the program:
https://www.viewconference.it/assets/html/view_CET.html

Don’t miss the opportunity to visit also the other exciting workshops and talks.

I am looking so forward to meeting you all in person!

CU,

Helge

25. September 2020

NEW Online-Events > Learn Blender!

25. September 2020 By admin

Start your Blender 2.9 Journey now!
Blender 2.9 – A full production suite for 3D, VFX and Animation.


Next to my beloved Houdini FX, Blender is for me the solutions for Modeling, Animation and PreViz.

As you may have seen, I have published the last days 4 free tutorials about the new features of Blender 2.9.
You find them on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/pixeltrain3DVFXTrainings


If you now have the feeling, that you want to start seriously to learn this great free production suite, here are some event tips, where I will be teaching Blender for you.

>> VIEW CONFERENCE 2020, Oct 18 – 23

https://www.viewconference.it/

The next live workshop will be at the exciting VIEW CONFERENCE 2020 – on-site and online
I will give a 2-hours Workshop:

“Blender 2.9: The Free Production Studio for Indies“

in Room Mezzanino on Sunday 18th Oct 2020 in English.

You find more Information about the Online-Workshop here: https://www.viewconference.it/article/384/blender-29-the-free-production-studio-for-indies
And, don’t miss all the other great Keynotes, Masterclasses and talks. This conference is great!

>> Blender-Trainings – Visualisierungs-Akademie Schweiz, Nov & Dec 2020

https://visualisierungs-akademie.ch/

In Cooperation with Visualisierungs-Akademie Schweiz, I will teach again some online sessions for small groups of 4-8 attendees. This is in german language. If you are interested in an English workshop, please let me know!



Blender 2.9 – Einführungskurs

Date: 26 and 27 November, 2020 – online
You find more Information about the Training here: https://visualisierungs-akademie.ch/bildung/blender-einfuehrungskurs/

Blender 2.9 – Rendering mit Eevee und Cycles

Date:04 December, 2020 – online
You find more Information about the Training here: https://visualisierungs-akademie.ch/bildung/blender-vertiefung/

Blender 2.9 – Animation & Rigging

Date: 10 and 11 December, 2020 – online
You find more Information about the Training here: https://visualisierungs-akademie.ch/bildung/blender-animation/



If you have questions or your company wants to adapt Blender (or Houdini FX) to the pipeline, get in contact. I’m happy to help!


17. January 2019

Helge’s Workshop auf dem Mouvo Festival, Prag

17. January 2019 By adminLeave a comment

>> MOUVO – Education in Motion

22. – 23. Februar 2019, Prag

 

“Mouvo – Festival presenting Motion Design in all of its forms.

Ubiquitous and creative dynamic field, combining graphic design, animation, video, special effects and new technologies.

Mouvo festival is a meeting place for all the thinkers, talents and producers around the world, who would like to cooperate and meet others from the community, those who are eager to learn, inspire and to be inspired.”

www.mouvo.cz

 

Helge wurde als Vortragender auf das Mouvo Festival in Prag eingeladen. Damit wird dieses Motion Design Festival das 3D & VFX Eventjahr 2019 für pixeltrain einläuten. Nach der Mouvo folgt die FMX in Stuttgart und dann im Herbst wieder unsere liebgewonnene VIEW Conference in Turin.
JA, pixeltrain goes Europe und wir freuen uns schon sehr auf dieses coole Event-Jahr! Let’s celebrate 3D, VFX creativity and mind :-)!

 

Helges HOUDINI FX-Workshop auf der MOUVO ist am 22. Februar 2019 von 14.00 bis 18.00 Uhr

Topic:

sideFX Houdini VFX | MotionGraphics & Abstracts

In this workshop, Helge Maus (3D & VFX Trainer) teaches you how the procedural approach and the various VFX Tools of Houdini FX can help you to be more effective in the fields of Motion Graphics, Creation and Commercials. By working through different examples Helge shows you, how Particles, Pyro, Wires, Cloth and Rigid Body Simulations can be used to generate exciting abstracts and animations.

 

Außerdem hält Helge eine Presentation zu den neuen Features von
Cinema 4D R20 am 23. Februar von 13:00 bis 14:30.
Bei dieser Presentation setzt er den Fokus vor allem auf FIELDS & VOLUMES.

Mouvo verspricht ein tolles Event zu werden. Das Eventjahr 2019 wird eingeläutet. Hier gibt’s mehr Infos zu dem Line-up der Speaker >> https://mouvo.cz/lineup/