Trials of a new series of tutorials for Blender, the powerful open source 3D creation suite, have started in an inner-city Preston school. Initial results at Moor Park Business and Enterprise School have been wholly positive; students have been engaged in learning the programme and are beginning to produce some impressive results, despite, or perhaps partly because of, the challenge involved in creating 3D art on a 2D plane.
 
The tutorials can be downloaded as a zipped moodle course from www.cleo.net.uk/resource/blendermoodle or can be found online in www.cleo.net.uk/resource/sumit a cross-curricular, cross-phase microsite exploring the 3D work produced by artist Sumit Sarkar during an Arts Council funded residency in Ulverston’s LanternHouse International.