Modeling the Tabernacle in Blender

We will be modeling items that were used at the Tabernacle and the highlight of the course will then be modeling the Tabernacle itself with all that’s in it.

I will be teaching you basic techniques in Blender and also you how you can use them to model just about anything.

We will stick to the basic tools throughout the course to help you to get comfortable with them.

As the complexity of the models increases, you will learn how to handle more and more modeling challenges and will gain confidence as you progress.

At the end of the course, basic 3d modeling will be second nature to you and you will look at any object in real life and enjoy the challenge of finding a way to model it.

I’m using the same approach in my current “Architectural 3d Modeling and Rendering Course” and I am amazed to see how confident the students already are in going through the moves even early into the course, and they keep telling me how much fun they are having as the project comes together.

The way this course works is you relax and watch what I’m doing during class, then I will send you a full-length video of the complete lesson and your homework is to work along with the video to build what I built during the lesson.

If you miss a class that should be no problem because you would still get a video and watch it as if you would have been there.

The greater number of my students take the entire course just by watching the videos.

This way there are no scheduling problems and you can go on vacation during the course whenever you want without missing anything.

Please be aware that 3D is hard on your computer and it would help if you had a good gaming laptop or a computer with an Nvidia graphics card, Blender doesn’t recognize Radeon cards.

The course can be taken on a lesser computer but the modeling work may take some time to refresh and can cause frustration.

And a mouse with a scroll wheel is a must, but graphics tablets or a stylus of any kind are neither useful nor needed for this course.

IMPORTANT (Don’t laugh, I’m serious!):

You need to be able to create, open, close, move and find folders on your computer and know how to unzip files, and build very basic folder structures.

Also, you have to be comfortable using the scroll wheel and know how to “click and drag” and do combo key strokes.

The course will run six months and will be held once a week. The lessons will be one hour in length (and sometimes go a couple of minutes overtime).

The curriculum is as follows (subject to change) :

1 –A little project to get familiar with Blender

2 – Modeling and texturing the stone tablets

3 – modeling table for showbread

4 – modeling and texturing the showbread

5 – modeling the wash basin

6 – modeling the altar for burnt offerings

7 – modeling the implements for the Altar for burnt offerings

8 – modeling the incense altar

9 – modeling the lampstand

10 – modeling the ark

11 – modeling the cherubs on the ark

12 – starting work on the tabernacle tent and the enclosure, setting up and building an environment

13 – wrapping up and finishing and creating some incredible photorealistic images from what we built.

Please note that the numbers represent lessons and not sessions. A lesson can stretch over several one-hour sessions.

$35.00 USD per lesson once a week for six months.