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Shading, Lighting, and Rendering with Blender EEVEE

By : Sammie Crowder
Book Image

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

Technical requirements

This chapter is mostly an introduction to the technology, but having the latest version of Blender downloaded from https://www.blender.org/ is recommended to be able to start exploring the world of EEVEE, and can provide a useful point of reference as we talk about limitations. Another great point of reference is Blender's docs: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/eevee/index.html.

We'll go over many of the things covered inside the EEVEE official docs, but reading through and being familiar with the various terms will help you to pick up some of these concepts faster as we encounter them in our mini-projects.