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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

Time for action – creating the red image for the left eye


You will now use the Node Editor to create the Red channel, which shows what the left camera recorded and what your left eye will see:

  1. Open a new file in Blender.

  2. In the Dimensions subpanel of the Properties window, set the Resolution to X: 512, Y: 512, and 100%. Set the End: option in Frame Range to 64. Click on the Frame Rate button. Select Custom from the drop-down menu. Set FPS to 12.

  3. In the top Blender window header, just to the right of Default, select the button with the three boxes and choose Compositing from the drop-down menu.

  4. There are three windows: the Node Editor window on the top, the UV/Image Editor on the lower left, and the 3D View on the lower right, as shown in the following screenshot:

  5. In the Node Editor window's header, look at the three graphic buttons just to the right of the word Node. They select the Node tree type that is active. Make sure the center of the three buttons is highlighted as shown in the following...