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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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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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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

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