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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By : Gordon Fisher
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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By: Gordon Fisher

Overview of this book

This book teaches you how to model a nautical scene, complete with boats and water, and then add materials, lighting, and animation. It demystifies the Blender interface and explains what each tool does so that you will be left with a thorough understanding of 3D. This book starts with an introduction to Blender and some background on the principles of animation, how they are applied to computer animation, and how these principles make animation better. Furthermore, the book helps you advance through various aspects of animation design such as modeling, lighting, camera work, and animation through the Blender interface with the help of several simple projects. Each project will help you practice what you have learned and do more advanced work in all areas.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
3
Controlling the Lamp, the Camera, and Animating Objects
Index

Time for action – creating depth of field


Depth of field is a technique borrowed from film cameras to set off what is the subject and what is the background:

  1. Open the file 4909OS_11_Blender_Island.blend. In the Outliner window just above the Properties window, select Camera.Depth of Field with the LMB.

  2. In the header of the upper right-hand 3D View window, select View, and then scroll up to Cameras and then select Set Active Object as Camera.

  3. You can press Ctrl + MMB and the mouse to make the camera area fill the window.

  4. Look at the Layers controls in the 3D View header. The sky is in Layer 10. Press Shift + LMB over Layer 10 so that all layers with objects will render.

  5. Press F12 to render the scene. It looks similar to the previous image, but without the people. Look at it and see how everything in the image is in focus. Zoom into the house to see the tiles on the roof. Do not press Esc to get rid of the image.

  6. In the Timeline window, select the Current Editor Type button on the left end of the...