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Blender 3D By Example

Blender 3D By Example

By : Romain Caudron, Pierre-Armand Nicq
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Blender 3D By Example

Blender 3D By Example

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By: Romain Caudron, Pierre-Armand Nicq
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Overview of this book

Blender is a powerful tool, stable, with an integral workflow that will allow you to understand your learning of 3D creation with serenity. Today, it is considered to be one of the most complete 3D packages on the market and it is free and open source! It is very efficient for many types of productions, such as 3D animated or live action films, architecture, research, or even game creation with its integrated game engine and its use of the Python language. Moreover, Blender has an active community that contributes to expanding its functionalities. Today, it is used in many professional products and by many companies. Through this book, you will create many types of concert projects using a step-by-step approach. You will start by getting to know the modeling tools available in Blender as you create a 3D robot toy. Then, you will discover more advanced techniques such as sculpting and re-topology by creating a funny alien character. After that, you will create a full haunted house scene. For the last project, you will create a short film featuring a rat cowboy shooting cheese in a rat trap! This will be a more complex project in which you learn how to rig, animate, compose advanced material, composite, and edit a full sequence. Each project in this book will give you more practice and increase your knowledge of the Blender tools. By the end of this book, you will master a workflow that you will be able to apply to your own creations.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Straight into Blender!
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1. Straight into Blender!
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An overview of the 3D workflow
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Getting used to the navigation in Blender
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A brief introduction to the projects
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Summary
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2. Robot Toy – Modeling of an Object
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2. Robot Toy – Modeling of an Object
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Let's start the modeling of our robot toy
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Using the basic modeling tools
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Summary
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3. Alien Character – Base Mesh Creation and Sculpting
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3. Alien Character – Base Mesh Creation and Sculpting
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Understanding the sculpting process
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An introduction to sculpting
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Choosing sculpting over poly modeling
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Anatomy of a brush
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Creating a base mesh with the Skin modifier
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An introduction to artistic anatomy
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Summary
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4. Alien Character – Creating a Proper Topology and Transferring the Sculpt Details
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4. Alien Character – Creating a Proper Topology and Transferring the Sculpt Details
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Why make a retopology?
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Making the retopology of the alien character
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Unwrapping UVs
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Understanding UVs
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The baking of an ambient occlusion
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5. Haunted House – Modeling of the Scene
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5. Haunted House – Modeling of the Scene
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Blocking the house
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Blocking the bases of the house
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Refining the blocking
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Reworking the blocking objects
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Breaking and ageing the elements
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Creation of the simulation of a stack of planks
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Modeling the environment (8 pages)
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Organizing the scene
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6. Haunted House – Putting Colors on It
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6. Haunted House – Putting Colors on It
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Unwrapping UVs
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Adding colors
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Doing a quick render with Blender Internal
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7. Haunted House – Adding Materials and Lights in Cycles
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7. Haunted House – Adding Materials and Lights in Cycles
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Understanding the basic settings of Cycles
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Lighting
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Creating materials with nodes
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Creating realistic grass
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Baking textures in Cycles
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Compositing a mist pass
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8. Rat Cowboy – Learning To Rig a Character for Animation
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8. Rat Cowboy – Learning To Rig a Character for Animation
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An introduction to the rigging process
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Rigging the Rat Cowboy
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Skinning
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Custom shapes
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The shape keys
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9. Rat Cowboy – Animate a Full Sequence
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9. Rat Cowboy – Animate a Full Sequence
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Principles of animation
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Animation tools in Blender
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Preparation of the animation
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Animating the scene
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Render a quick preview of a shot
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10. Rat Cowboy – Rendering, Compositing, and Editing
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10. Rat Cowboy – Rendering, Compositing, and Editing
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Creating advanced materials in Cycles
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The Raw rendering phase
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Enhance a picture with compositing
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Editing the sequence with the VSE
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Introduction to the Video Sequence Editor
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Index
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Index

A brief introduction to the projects

You will now be introduced to the fun projects that we will do together during each of the later chapters. You will need practice to improve your skills.

The Robot Toy

In this project, you will follow step by step the modeling of a little Robot Toy, starting from a simple cube primitive. This old school mechanic robot will make you re-live your childhood. The goal of this chapter is to teach you the modeling process in Blender. You will gain a good overview of the main modeling tools, such as extrude or loop cut. On the other hand, you will discover what a good workflow is by creating your model according to a reference.

The Alien Character

This project will be exciting! We think you will have enough experience to start learning how to create your own alien character using the sculpting tools of Blender. During the project, you will encounter a new modeling process by creating a base mesh for sculpting. After this, you will understand how to retopologize and keep the details of that sculpt. It will be divided into two parts: the sculpting and the retopology process.

The Haunted House

The Haunted House is a nice but scary little house in the middle of the Pennsylvania...Booooohhhhhhhoooohhh! The legend says that it is haunted by thousands of spectrums. In this project, divided into three parts, you will start by modeling the house and its environment while discovering new modeling techniques, such as the array modifier. After completing the modeling, you will learn how to use the powerful Blender texturing and UV tools in order to add colors to your meshes. Finally, you will use the Cycles nodal editor in order to create materials with the textures previously made. After reading the corresponding chapters, you will have a good understanding of how a full 3D scene is constructed and how to organize yourself for such a big task.

The Rat Cowboy

The Rat Cowboy and the story of the holes in the cheese will be your first animated sequence. It will be a nice starting point to learn more about rigging and animation. The Rat will face a piece of cheese pinched under a rat trap, and he will unsheathe his gun to shoot the cheese. The Gruyère cheese is born. In order to produce a polished final shot, you will learn some compositing tricks and how to render the sequence with Cycles.

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