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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By : Gordon Fisher
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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By: Gordon Fisher

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 (20 chapters)
Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
3
Controlling the Lamp, the Camera, and Animating Objects
Index

The key-function table


These key shortcuts should help you speed your work.

Key

Function

O

Turns proportional editing on or off.

Page Up

Enlarges the proportional editing circle.

Page Down

Shrinks the proportional editing circle.

fn + up arrow

Enlarges the proportional editing circle on a Mac.

fn + down arrow

Shrinks the proportional editing circle on a Mac.

Shift + C

Resets 3D Cursor position to 0, 0, 0, and zooms out to show the entire scene.

Shift + X

If used with scaling (S) or moving (G), it restricts changes to the Y and Z axes.

Shift + Y

If used with scaling (S) or moving (G), it restricts changes to the X and Z axes.

Shift + Z

If used with scaling (S) or moving (G), it restricts changes to the X and Y axes.

U

Gets you to the UV Mapping menu.

Ctrl + G

Makes a group of the selected objects.

Shift + G

Brings up a dialog box to manipulate groups.