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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)

Summary

The finished kitchen uses all the tricks of Eevee to get physically realistic lighting, with the added benefits of real-time feedback. If this scene was for a prospective client, you could fly through the scene and show them custom angles, without the burden of overnight renders. These concepts instantly translate to game engines, such as Unity and Unreal. Lastly, scenes such as these work in parallel with both Eevee and Cycles.

Your next step might be to render this in Cycles for the specific features it has that Eevee doesn't—IES lights, micro-displacement, denoising, compositing, and other advanced techniques. When you find yourself in a room with beautiful lighting, be sure to study it from both a physical and artistic standpoint. Different bulbs and equipment produce vastly different results, but the human element of how these are arranged is a major aspect...