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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)

The Wide World of Blender

In this final chapter, we'll explore a variety of smaller projects that deal with 3D skills that didn't fit into other projects. So far, we've only scratched the surface of Blender's amazing capabilities. Your task now is to keep learning, join the larger Blender tribe beyond this book, and, above all else, make something.

Perhaps it's games. Perhaps it's an animated film, 2D or 3D. Maybe it's live action, with Blender as your VFX and video editing toolset. Even if you just use Blender to make memes, you're doing the right thing! Animation is not just a skill, it's a lifestyle. Your best Blender art doesn't end with this book, it merely began here.

Out in the Blender community, the skillsets and purpose of peoples' projects vary wildly. From 3D printing to physics simulation, the possibilities are...