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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

Using charts and guides to help you plan your animation


When planning your animation, it's good to make use of guides to help you save time and work. Here are some to help you establish where your animation should happen on screen, how long the actions should take, and plan what work is required to create the animation. You have already seen the Composition Guides to help you compose your shots, but here are some to help ensure that what you plan to do gets seen by your audience.

Staying in TV limits with Safe Title zone, Safe Action zone, and Lower Third

The Safe Title zone and Safe Action zone originated in the black-and-white days of television. They were created to make sure that what was put on the screen got seen.

Early TV was very imprecise. It was decided that only the inner 80 percent of the image was likely enough to be seen, and that it could be trusted to display titles and sponsor logos. Only the inner 90 percent was likely enough to be seen, so critical action could be shown....