• Welcome to an immersive journey into the art of storytelling! Join Eva Recinos, a renowned creative non-fiction writer and arts and culture reporter, as she shares her expertise in crafting compelling human interest stories.
• In this online course, you'll learn the process of researching, conducting interviews, and drafting narratives that resonate with readers. From understanding the motivations of your subjects to organizing effective interview questions, Eva will guide you through the steps needed to create captivating stories inspired by real events and people. Get ready to unlock the power of words and celebrate the richness of the human experience through your writing.

• “I like to say that writing a recipe is part poetry, part science. Through a careful combination of ingredients and words, you can preserve the timeless traditions of a country, region, or family.”
• Giulia Scarpaleggia is the Tuscan-born and-bred food writer behind the award-winning blog, Juls’ Kitchen. Together with her husband, she’s written multiple cookbooks and collaborated with brands like UniCoop, Lemonsoda, and Le Creuset thanks to her profound passion for Italian cuisine.
• In this online course, Guilia teaches you her philosophy for soulful food writing. Learn how to test, write, and photograph hearty recipes from scratch that are ready to share on blogs, social media, and beyond. Season your favorite dishes with storytelling!

• Discover the art of needle embroidered lacemaking, where traditional techniques meet contemporary design. In this course, you'll learn to create a striking lace motif, filled with decorative stitches and edged with a pulled thread technique. Claire de Waard, an expert in the craft, will guide you through the process of transforming fabric into lace by cutting away areas and embellishing the remaining material with beautiful needlework. This unique method merges historical techniques with modern aesthetics, offering a fresh approach to lace creation.
• Claire, who has worked with brands like Alexander McQueen and Ralph & Russo, brings her years of experience and passion for obscure, often forgotten embroidery methods to this course. She'll show you how to reimagine traditional lacemaking with needlewoven patterns and openwork techniques that elevate any embroidery project. Whether you're looking to expand your embroidery skills or explore the world of lacemaking, this course provides the foundation and inspiration you need to create your own designs.

• In the same way that you can sculpt clay or wood, vignettes let you shape light and shadows. They can add depth, atmosphere, mystery, or wonder to your digital images. A vignette mimics subtle effects of human vision reproducing fall- offs in color perception and brightness around the periphery of our field of view. Technically a vignette is the actual fall-off in brightness across an image towards the edge. The darker less saturated borders drive the viewers attention back toward the focal point.

What You Will Learn

• Blender has many tools that can be enlisted in building vignette effects. In this tutorial series, we will:
• Find out how to construct vignettes in the VSE using the UV/Image editor’s mask tool.
• Learn to duplicate, animate and move the vignette around the timeline.
• Discover how to build vignettes in the compositor.

• Make your Cycles materials more tangible and appealing! In computer graphics, “shading” is the process of developing surface qualities for 3D models. The way your model interacts with light is very important. It’s a key step in achieving realism, tangibility, believability, and appeal.
• If you ever have doubts about this, go watch the film “Rango”. The artists responsible for the visuals in that film clearly spent a lot of time perfecting the thousands of material types throughout the movie. The tangible quality of each eyeball, rock, wood board and glass bottle is nothing short of stunning. The materials are so believable that you can forget to notice them because your brain accepts them as authentic.
• If you’re new to the concept of shading, the best place to start is to intentionally observe reality. Take note of your car’s reflections; the spotty specular quality of an asphalt road; or the frosted transparency of a condensating glass of water.
• Lucky for you and I, scientists have done the hard work of measuring reality’s phenomenon and programmers have mathematically implemented them into 3D software like Blender. Thanks to those rockstars we have the freedom to use their discoveries and tools to more efficiently create something beautiful. Speaking of something beautiful – For this course we’ll be working with the lovable “Pancake Hobo” character designed by Citizen user, Galit Weisberg!
• So, how does one “Shade”? Shading is more than simply building custom materials. Texture painting and Lighting go hand-in-hand with a material creation and all three disciplines complement one another. Therefore, the first half of this training course covers Texture Painting and associated tasks: - Photo-sourcing and stenciling - Paint-by-Hand - Deriving a bump map from a color map - Making non-tileable textures tileable
• Then we’ll dive into material creation by first establishing a solid lighting setup before tackling each material one by one: - Metallic Objects: The Fork - Fabric Material - Translucence/Subsurface Scattering: Butter, Skin, and Pancake - Transparency/Refraction: Maple Syrup - And more! CC Attribution

Blender Anime /NPR Environment Course

MP4 | Video: av01 / 0x31307661, 1920x1018 | Audio: aac, 48000 Hz | Duration: 4h 35m | 1.93 GB

Genre: eLearning | Language: English