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Shading, Lighting, and Rendering with Blender EEVEE

By : Sammie Crowder
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Shading, Lighting, and Rendering with Blender EEVEE

By: Sammie Crowder

Overview of this book

Blender is the most important up-and-coming 3D software package in the world. EEVEE, a state-of-the-art real-time rendering engine is a fairly new addition to Blender and provides the capacity to create artwork at blazing speed, almost 12 times faster than Cycles. Lighting, Shading, and Rendering with Blender’s EEVEE provides a high-level overview of what EEVEE is capable of, then teaches users about Geometry Nodes, Rendering Techniques, using shortcuts like Kitbashing and Alphas to speed up scene creation, volumetrics, reflections, adding lights, cameras and even special effects like fire and smoke, all in EEVEE. All of this is in the context of creating actual scenes that readers will work through from start to finish. By the time a Blender Artist completes the book, they will have created three separate works that have challenged them to iterate and design with the full power of Blender’s EEVEE.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Section 1: Configuring in EEVEE – Mini-Project 1 – Stylized Scene
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Section 2: Real-Time Rendering – Mini-Project 2 – Creating a Realistic Environment Concept
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Section 3: Advanced Features – Mini-Project 3 – Creating a Sci-Fi Concept

Chapter 11: Kitbashing – Adding Details Fast

As I hope you've noticed over the course of this book, it's not just about EEVEE. It's about making renders look great and look great fast. The bulk of the workflows and tips and tricks are about EEVEE, but there's also so much value in feeling like you can use EEVEE to make something that won't require you to sit in front of your computer for months and agonize over every single detail. The idea is to give you the tools to create something amazing, not just provide rote knowledge about the technical details of EEVEE. That's why I want to give you knowledge of Geometry Nodes, alphas, the Asset Browser, and more because EEVEE can't reach its full potential without further knowledge. So, in that spirit, in this chapter, we're going to learn about kitbashing, which is a way to add more visual interest by recycling smaller pieces of geometry to give life to an otherwise boring model. This way, it...