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Blender 3D By Example - Second Edition

By : Oscar Baechler, Xury Greer
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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)

Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 1: Sculpting

We've made it to the final project in this book. This is a very large project spanning five chapters. We will be going through every step of the character creation process to create a fully realized beastie suitable for a fantasy video game or movie! Our finished creation will look like this:

Our example baby dragon at the end of this five-part project

The content in these five chapters covers real-world techniques that will be useful for creating almost any type of character you can think of! We will be using these techniques to create a baby dragon because dragons have all sorts of details, such as hard surfaces for horns, teeth, claws, and eyeballs, as well as organic forms across the body. Also, dragons are super cool! Some parts of this project will get tough, but we'll start with one of the most fun parts first: sculpting...