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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)

Animating an Exquisite Corpse in Grease Pencil

A great advantage of animating in 2D is the audacity of what it's capable of conveying. Through a series of drawings, you can draw a person melting into an eyeball, which explodes into a flock of birds, which congregate into a hand, which has its fingers cut off, then morphs into a young girl. In 3D, that many assets would take forever, but in 2D, it's simply a few keyframes of drawing away. We'll explore these possibilities with an exquisite corpse animation. In the process, we'll also examine the traditional principles of 2D animation, and also get comfortable with the animating tools and conventions of Blender.

Exquisite corpses are a perfect game to follow this philosophy. The term "exquisite corpse" comes from poetry, in which cut-up sentences and words are put together at random to form ideas you...