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Blender 3D By Example

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Blender 3D By Example

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Blender 3D By Example
Sep, 2015 | 334 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Blender 3D By Example
Blender 3D By Example
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Straight into Blender!
Straight into Blender!
An overview of the 3D workflow
Getting used to the navigation in Blender
A brief introduction to the projects
Summary
2
Robot Toy – Modeling of an Object
Robot Toy – Modeling of an Object
Let's start the modeling of our robot toy
Using the basic modeling tools
Summary
3
Alien Character – Base Mesh Creation and Sculpting
Alien Character – Base Mesh Creation and Sculpting
Understanding the sculpting process
An introduction to sculpting
Choosing sculpting over poly modeling
Anatomy of a brush
Creating a base mesh with the Skin modifier
An introduction to artistic anatomy
Summary
4
Alien Character – Creating a Proper Topology and Transferring the Sculpt Details
Alien Character – Creating a Proper Topology and Transferring the Sculpt Details
Why make a retopology?
Making the retopology of the alien character
Unwrapping UVs
Understanding UVs
The baking of an ambient occlusion
Summary
5
Haunted House – Modeling of the Scene
Haunted House – Modeling of the Scene
Blocking the house
Blocking the bases of the house
Refining the blocking
Reworking the blocking objects
Breaking and ageing the elements
Creation of the simulation of a stack of planks
Modeling the environment (8 pages)
Organizing the scene
Summary
6
Haunted House – Putting Colors on It
Haunted House – Putting Colors on It
Unwrapping UVs
Adding colors
Doing a quick render with Blender Internal
Summary
7
Haunted House – Adding Materials and Lights in Cycles
Haunted House – Adding Materials and Lights in Cycles
Understanding the basic settings of Cycles
Lighting
Creating materials with nodes
Creating realistic grass
Baking textures in Cycles
Compositing a mist pass
Summary
8
Rat Cowboy – Learning To Rig a Character for Animation
Rat Cowboy – Learning To Rig a Character for Animation
An introduction to the rigging process
Rigging the Rat Cowboy
Skinning
Custom shapes
The shape keys
Summary
9
Rat Cowboy – Animate a Full Sequence
Rat Cowboy – Animate a Full Sequence
Principles of animation
Animation tools in Blender
Preparation of the animation
Animating the scene
Render a quick preview of a shot
Summary
10
Rat Cowboy – Rendering, Compositing, and Editing
Rat Cowboy – Rendering, Compositing, and Editing
Creating advanced materials in Cycles
The Raw rendering phase
Enhance a picture with compositing
Editing the sequence with the VSE
Introduction to the Video Sequence Editor
Summary
Index
Index

Using the basic modeling tools

In the following, you will learn the powerful usage of the main modeling tools of Blender, such as the Extrusion, Bevel, or Loop Cut tool, while creating your little robot toy.

Modeling the head

We will now use the basic modeling tools in order to form the shape of the head. As you may have understood, we are going to add new geometry gradually to approximate the shape in 3D. One of the useful tools is called Extrusion.

Note

What is an extrusion?

This is the process of creating new geometry by extending (and optionally transforming) selected components.

  1. While the top face of the cylinder is selected in the Edit Mode, we will press the E key in order to create a new geometry from that face. Then, we will need to position and validate the extrusion.

  2. We now have two choices in order to confirm the extrusion. If you want, you can move the extruded geometry, and after this, press LMB in order to validate its position. The other choice is to press RMB, in order to place...

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