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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)

Blender skills to learn next

The list of Blender-related skills we didn't cover is longer than the list of topics we can include here. Some of these involve venturing into other programs or using skills such as Python scripting that, although not as visually exciting, can dramatically extend Blender's tools. For things such as physics, hair, and smoke, Blender provides shortcuts that can get a simulation up and running fast.

Photogrammetry

Let's say you've reached the final chapter of this book, and despite our best efforts, you've decided you can't stand 3D modeling and texturing, and plan to swear off of it forever. Never fear! Through the power of photogrammetry, you can make terrific models...