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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)

Creating cabinets, islands, and a stove with add-ons

Add-ons can greatly extend the power of Blender, often providing new tool suites that become practically separate programs in their complexity. With many of them shipping with the Blender factory settings, it would be crazy to let them gather dust when they could speed up our architecture workflow.

We'll use the Archimesh add-on to generate a variety of cabinets and cupboards quickly. Then, we'll use the Bool Tool add-on to speed up the Boolean modifier workflow that we used earlier. The Archipack add-on provides other architectural creation tools, which we'll use for quick windows and doors. Lastly, the Extra Objects add-on will give us additional mesh primitives.

Before we can use these add-ons, we—of course—have to enable them.

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