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Blender 3D By Example - Second Edition

By : Oscar Baechler, Xury Greer
Book Image

Blender 3D By Example - Second Edition

By: Oscar Baechler, Xury Greer

Overview of this book

Blender is a powerful 3D creation package that supports every aspect of the 3D pipeline. With this book, you'll learn about modeling, rigging, animation, rendering, and much more with the help of some interesting projects. This practical guide, based on the Blender 2.83 LTS version, starts by helping you brush up on your basic Blender skills and getting you acquainted with the software toolset. You’ll use basic modeling tools to understand the simplest 3D workflow by customizing a Viking themed scene. You'll get a chance to see the 3D modeling process from start to finish by building a time machine based on provided concept art. You will design your first 2D character while exploring the capabilities of the new Grease Pencil tools. The book then guides you in creating a sleek modern kitchen scene using EEVEE, Blender’s new state-of-the-art rendering engine. As you advance, you'll explore a variety of 3D design techniques, such as sculpting, retopologizing, unwrapping, baking, painting, rigging, and animating to bring a baby dragon to life. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to work with Blender to create impressive computer graphics, art, design, and architecture, and you'll be able to use robust Blender tools for your design projects and video games.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

The background

Our next goal is to take a metropolitan skyline and movie theater, then boil it down to its simplest elements. We'll move the city and theater at different paces than the moviegoer, creating parallax. Big graphic shapes and a limited color palette will stylishly sell the scene.

The city skyline

We'll use a handful of lines, fills, and subtracted elements to capture all of the windows and buildings of our city skyline, then use modifiers to repeat and move it:

  1. In the Properties window, go to the World tab and change World Color to a dark purple for our evening metropolitan sky. Switch your Viewport Shading to Rendered to see the color.
  2. Create a new Grease Pencil object and name it Skyline. Delete the...