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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)

Texture painting the base color in Blender

This young hatchling is ready to put his arsenal of maps to use. We'll use these bakes both as initial textures as well as masks when creating the final Base Color, Specular, Roughness, Subsurface, Normal, Bump, Displacement, and Emit textures. Blender's Texture Paint interface uses many tools similar to the sculpting and Grease Pencil interfaces and lets us paint our maps by hand.

First up, we'll paint some base color onto our baby dragon so that it won't look so bland anymore.

Painting the base color

We'll start our first pass on the Base Color texture by painting in Blender. If you're only allowed one texture, Base Color is the most important:

The...