Blender 3D By Example: Design a complete workflow with Blender to create stunning 3D scenes and films step-by-step!

Caudron

Pierre-Armand Nicq

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3.9 (19 Ratings)

eBook Sep 2015 334 pages 1st Edition

Caudron

Pierre-Armand Nicq

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3.9 (19 Ratings)

eBook Sep 2015 334 pages 1st Edition

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Blender is a powerful tool, stable, with an integral workflow that will allow you to understand your learning of 3D creation with serenity. Today, it is considered to be one of the most complete 3D packages on the market and it is free and open source! It is very efficient for many types of productions, such as 3D animated or live action films, architecture, research, or even game creation with its integrated game engine and its use of the Python language. Moreover, Blender has an active community that contributes to expanding its functionalities. Today, it is used in many professional products and by many companies. Through this book, you will create many types of concert projects using a step-by-step approach. You will start by getting to know the modeling tools available in Blender as you create a 3D robot toy. Then, you will discover more advanced techniques such as sculpting and re-topology by creating a funny alien character. After that, you will create a full haunted house scene. For the last project, you will create a short film featuring a rat cowboy shooting cheese in a rat trap! This will be a more complex project in which you learn how to rig, animate, compose advanced material, composite, and edit a full sequence. Each project in this book will give you more practice and increase your knowledge of the Blender tools. By the end of this book, you will master a workflow that you will be able to apply to your own creations.

What you will learn

Understand the basics of 3D and how to navigate your way around the Blender interface
Create a 3D robot toy model from start to finish using the basic modeling tools of Blender
Make a full alien character using the skin mesh modifier and the sculpting tools with an artistic approach
Use retopology techniques to create a clean 3D version of the previously sculpted alien
Model a full haunted house and its environment using more advanced modeling tools and techniques such as the Array Modifier, Instance duplication, or Curves
Discover the power of the texture paint tool in order to add color to the haunted house
Get to know the Cycles render engine by creating different materials for the house and the environment

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martin lawrence Nov 08, 2015

I've bought this as I'm skilled with the basics and this has helped me broaden my skills to cover new areas within the program

Theresa M Mason Feb 17, 2016

Gift for my husband for Christmas and he loves it!!!

Carles Nov 12, 2015

This book covers everything you can do with Blender the best way, using plenty of examples and going through them very precisely not giving anything for already known.The book is long (almost took me 3 weeks to read on my spare time) but never gets boring.It starts with a brief introduction to the workflow and then continues with the part anyone sure enjoys the most: several examples which cover different tools and design paths.After being already confident with the tool, this beefy part allow you to deliver all your creativity implementing the different case scenarios and having lots of fun while you learn at the same time.The only drawback for tight budgets is that it could be a little pricey but imho the book it's worth its value.

Perry Nally Nov 06, 2015

This book is amazing! I've read a few other Blender books and they all incorporate similar features. But this book goes a step further and teaches you animation, modeling, rigging, texturing, sculpting, lighting, particles, fur, grass, trees, rocks, character design, compositing, shape keys for your rig, and all the rest of the tools blender offers in such a way that it also adds principles of good techniques. For instance, you'll learn traditional principles of animation, how to write a script for your fully animated scene, what story boarding is and how to create them, and using the video sequence editor to complete the full animation of your sequences. There is an amazing amount of great information within these pages. You will learn very useful and current techniques on how to create a 3D animated sequence from scratch. I wish I had this book a few years ago.I am a mobile game developer (and a bunch of other things), and I often need 3D objects for my games. This book has given me the knowledge that I was looking for to create assets for my games. Sure it doesn't go into things like exporting for games, but it does discuss things like creating a re-topology of a high resolution model and correct UV mapping. Tons of other things too that help me inadvertently. I still needed things like creating an animated short and still images, so this is perfect.This really is your one stop shop for using blender if you are new to the blender world, and even a good reference book if you are familiar with blender already. Sure there will be more advanced feature that you'll need to learn that this book does not have, but the fact that this book even goes into subsurface scattering (SSS) in advanced textures and how to create grass and fur, tells you that this is not just a simple beginner's book, you'll learn it all including adjusting the cycles renderer to make great films. I'm so glad I read this book, and so will you.

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