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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)

Illustrating an Alien Hero with Grease Pencil

Grease Pencil is a set of vector drawing tools, named for the easily erased pencils used in the days of animating on paper. Before diving into animation, we'll use these drawing tools to their maximum potential to illustrate an alien hero that will utilize all the layers, brushes, effects, and modifiers that Grease Pencil has to offer. This kind of avatar drawing is used as concept art for 3D models, or as an illustration for science fiction projects as a planetary representative. Creating concept art will let you master the brush and layer interfaces, and emulate the styles of rough pencil, clean ink, and color palettes:

Our finished Alien Hero concept art

To draw and paint the character, the best process starts with broad idea, gathering reference images, and sketching lots of thumbnails. Once a direction is clear, we&apos...