I will no longer be teaching this course -- as the Storytelling Alice workshop is running into this session period. Ed Helwig (a talented 3D artist, Linux man and wonderful creative) is slated to teach. :)

So you're interested in learning about 3D concepts and how to produce artwork and animations in 3D, but you don't have thousands of dollars to spend on software.

An introduction to a powerful open source application called Blender might suit you well, then :). We'll cover getting around in the application, setting up projects -- and by the end of the two-week session you will have modeled, lit, textured and created some basic animated motion.