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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition
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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition
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Overview of this book
This book teaches you how to model a nautical scene, complete with boats and water, and then add materials, lighting, and animation. It demystifies the Blender interface and explains what each tool does so that you will be left with a thorough understanding of 3D. This book starts with an introduction to Blender and some background on the principles of animation, how they are applied to computer animation, and how these principles make animation better. Furthermore, the book helps you advance through various aspects of animation design such as modeling, lighting, camera work, and animation through the Blender interface with the help of several simple projects. Each project will help you practice what you have learned and do more advanced work in all areas.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
1. Introducing Blender and Animation
2. Getting Comfortable Using the 3D View
3. Controlling the Lamp, the Camera, and Animating Objects
4. Modeling with Vertices, Edges, and Faces
5. Building a Simple Boat
6. Making and Moving the Oars
7. Planning Your Work, Working Your Plan
8. Making the Sloop
9. Finishing Your Sloop
10. Modeling Organic Forms, Sea, and Terrain
11. Improving Your Lighting and Camera Work
12. Rendering and Compositing
A. Pop Quiz Answers
Index
