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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)

Finishing up

Now that we've learned these methods of retopology, we can finish retopologizing our model. Use a combination of the techniques we've learned to finish the job. Our example turned out like this:

The finished baby dragon retop

Sometimes, it's helpful to see the important face loops highlighted in bright colors to show off the patterns and topology structure. You can see an example of this on our baby dragon model in the following screenshot. If it helps, you can use it as a guide for where to place your face loops:

Highlighted face loops on the retopologized mesh

There's plenty left to do, so if you would like to move onto the next chapter before finishing this retop, you can download the finished retop model from the next chapter's source files.

Congratulations on making it through this section! It may not have been as fun as our sculpting...