Come learn to use Blender’s open source 3-D modeling while making Pumpkin’s!

Let’s Make Pumpkins, Blender Style!!
This is a 2 Part Class on October 11th and 18th Saturday Evenings from 7-9PM
Blender is an amazing 3-D modeling, and animation suite. It has many buttons, screens, and settings that can seem daunting for the first time user. In this class you will learn the basics of the navigation, how the interface works and how to model objects, and render them. You will learn the basic of creating and assigning materials to what you make. I hope you will feel free to experiment and play with Blender. When you play you will learn faster.
This Class is open to the public for $25 or Free to Members of the Inventor Center.
Bring a Laptop and a 3 Button Mouse.
Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software tool set that runs on Windows, MacOS, BSD, Haiku, and Linux. It can be downloaded at www.blender.org for free! Blender is used in Hollywood for special effects, animation, architectural pre visualization, motion graphics and for creating 3-D files for printing.

Byron Kindig is a graduate of the University of South Florida. He has been using the 3D animation software suite, Blender, since 2002 and has been teaching Blender since 2005. He organized the first Blender Conference in the United States in 2007 as well as two more conferences since then.
Besides teaching Blender in Kingsport a number of times and once in Casper Wyoming at Casper College, he also offers individual tutoring in person and virtually.
He has presented demonstrations of Blender at the Kingsport Art Guild twice, 3 times at the Kingsport Maker Faire, the University of Virginia, in Wise, and at the Geek Out Conference in Asheville.

This exciting, new planetarium program transports viewers to Chile where the dark skies and dry, remote setting create ideal conditions for observing the Universe. Journey to three world-class observatories in Chile’s rugged Andes Mountains and arid Atacama Desert— remote, extreme regions that happen to have the perfect conditions for astronomical research. Against a backdrop of breathtaking visuals and a hypnotic soundtrack, Big Astronomy introduces the diverse people who push the limits of technology, enable scientific discovery and expand what we know about the Universe using state-of-the-art telescopes. Along the way, you’ll meet an inspiring cast of astronomers, engineers, technicians, and support staff who keep these mega-machines running.
Show length ~26 min.
This program will feature a unique look at the night sky from south of the equator utilizing our Zeiss ZKP4 star projector.