Architectural Rendering With Blender

The course is an easy introduction to the free “Blender” 3D software for beginners, with the added benefit of learning how to build and render an architectural model from construction drawings. This course will give you a good foundation if you want to dig deeper into more advanced 3D courses later.
In terms of modeling, this course is the easier one of my two Blender courses.

You won’t need to have any experience in architecture, but a healthy interest in it would be expected.

You will also acquire enough modeling skills to be able to earn a side income with architectural renderings.

One thing I would like to mention is that 3D modeling is not like CAD work, some students get “stumbled” by that because they expect everything to be drawn by entering numbers and measurements just like in CAD.
Keep in mind that, while CAD drawings are instructions for others after us how to build things, Architectural renderings fall under “Art”  and are meant to be like a “what if” photograph taken in the future.
Renderings are never used to take measurements from, when you think of it, that’s what CAD drawings are for, and that’s a different course…lol

Please be aware that it would help if you had a good gaming laptop or a computer with a dedicated graphics card (Blender only recognizes Nvidia cards).
A mouse with a scroll wheel is a must, but tablets or a stylus of any kind are neither useful nor needed for this course.

The cost is $35.00 U.S. per full hour once a week.
Duration of the course is six months.
Payment is done through PayPal, at the beginning of the month for the full month. (Please remember that some months have five lesson days, depending on what day the course is.)

My students usually don’t work along during the session but watch what I am showing them and ask questions.
I am recording every lesson on zoom and send off a link to the full-length video after every class to every student and the students are then working on the lesson on their own as homework.
This way, even if you can’t make it to some classes, you still get the video, so you won’t miss anything.

As a matter of fact – about 50% of my students take the entire course just by watching the videos on their own time without ever attending.
This may be an option for you if the time slot for the course is inconvenient for you.
Of course I will still be there for one-on-one help if needed.

Syllabus (subject to change) :

Lesson 01: Familiarization with Blender, building a toy house
Lesson 02: Sizing and importing plans for reference 
Lesson 03: Modeling the first floor walls
Lesson 04: Cutting out exterior window and door openings (main floor) L
Lesson 05: Putting in the floor (main floor)
Lesson 06: Modeling the second floor walls
Lesson 07: Cutting out exterior window and door openings (second floor)
Lesson 08: Putting in the floor (second floor)
Lesson 09: Cutting out interior door openings
Lesson 10: Building the staircase
Lesson 11: Modeling and texturing the roof
Lesson 12: Modeling windows
Lesson 13: Modeling doors
Lesson 14: Modeling porch and patio, gutter & moulding
Lesson 15: Setting up the environment and lighting
Lesson 16: Modeling a landscape
Lesson 17: Sourcing and using free 3rd party models of furniture, plants and other accessories
Lesson 18: Starting to model the landscape, first renderings.
Lesson 19: Using Blenderkit for importing trees and plants,
Lesson 20: Multiple cameras, viewpoint tips
Lesson 21: Preparing the model for interior renderings
Lesson 22: Building kitchen cabinets
Lesson 23: Installing supplied kitchen, lighting
Lesson 24: Furnishing living room, interior renderings
Lesson 25: basic camera walk-through animation