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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 – making a face from an edge


This short exercise will introduce you to what some 3D modelers have called the most powerful tool available to modelers, the humble extrusion.

  1. Select two vertices along the bottom side of the shape you made, as shown on the left-hand side of the preceding screenshot.

  2. Tap the E key, and then move the mouse to create another face as shown on the right-hand side of the preceding screenshot.

What just happened?

We discovered that if you press the E key when you have two vertices selected in Edit Mode, then Blender will create a new face. This is called an extrusion. You built a face, and extruded another from it. This is often how modelers create objects, such as automobiles, which often have fluid lines and no definite edges for much of their surface. Making faces and extruding them, you can make just about anything.

Note

For your reference, the 4909_04_making a face from an edge.blend file, which has been included in the download pack, has the face...