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An edition of Blender foundations (2010)

Blender foundations

the essential guide to learning Blender 2.6

by D. Roland Hess and Roland Hess

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An edition of Blender foundations (2010)

Blender foundations

the essential guide to learning Blender 2.6

by D. Roland Hess and Roland Hess

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2010

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Table of Contents

Preface

Page xi

Chapter 1. An Introduction to 3D: Recreating the World Inside Your Computer, or Not

Chapter 2. Understanding Blender's Interface

A Little Bit of History

Getting and Installing Blender

The Parts of the Interface

Changing Window Sizes

Merging and Splitting Windows

Creating a New Application Window

Using Different Screens

Maximizing a View

A Tour of the Common Window Types

How to Find the Tools You Need

Chapter 3. Object and Animation Basics

Finding Your Way in 3D

Perspective and Orthographic View

Working with Objects

Transformation Basics

Selection Basics

Transformation Manipulator

Basic Keyframe Animation

Object Relationships and Management

Instancing and Duplicating

Chapter 4. Modeling: A Million to One

The Building Blocks of Mesh Modeling

Free Modeling: Polygon by Polygon

Modeling with Modifiers

Putting the Table Together

Assembling the Room

Chapter 5. Lighting: The Easiest Thing That's Tough

The Tools: Directional Lighting

Deep Shadow Maps

Nondirectional Lighting

Ray-Based Gathering

Approximate Environment Lighting

An Effective General Outdoor Lighting Setup

An Effective General Indoor Lighting Setup

Chapter 6. Character Creation

An Overview of Character Creation

Starting from a Base Head

Refining Facial Features

Eyes and Eyelids

Modeling Joints

Hands and Other Exposed Parts

Techniques for Adding Clothes

Hair Styling and Digital Rogaine

Chapter 7. Surfacing

Targets for Building Believable Materials

Basic Material and Texture Settings: Walls and Floor

Varying Material Properties with Textures

Adding a Second Material and Using Image Textures

Adding an Image Texture

Extremely Basic UV Mapping

The Table: Cheap, Fast Unwrapping and Real Reflection

The Vase: Transparency and the Faked Reflection

The Character: High-Quality UV Unwrapping, Subsurface Scattering, and Projection Painting

The Easy Way: Pinning and Live Unwrap

Defining the Material

Adding UV Channels

Creating UV Unwraps for Different Views

Projection Painting

Completing the Head Texturing

Materials for Clothes

Painting Custom Textures

Combining Painted Textures with Procedurals

Live Mattes: Camera Projection

Chapter 8. Sculpting

An Alternative to Traditional Modeling

Basic Sculpting Tools

Shaping Existing Models

Detailing and Normal Maps

Using the Multiresolution Modifier

Baking to a Normal Map

Sculpting from Scratch

Sculpting and Performance

Chapter 9. Rigging: Digital Orthopedia

Preparing to Rig

Creating the Initial Skeleton

Rig Testing and Adjustment

Adding Basic Controls with Parenting

Rigging with Constraints

The Reverse Foot

Adding a Pole Target

Finishing the Foot Rig

More High-Level Control

Toggle IK and Other Constraints

Too Much Influence

Spikes, or No Influence

Helping Deformation with Extra Bones

Chapter 10. Shapes and Morphing

Creating a Shape Key

Creating Effective Shape Keys

Preparing Shapes for Animations

Chapter 11. Character Animation: The Fun Part

Pose Mode and the Dope Sheet

Recording the Starting Pose

Creating a New Pose, Or Animation

Grabbing the Chair

Throwing the Cube

Checking Your Arcs

Chapter 12. Rendering: Faster, Processor!

Rendering Basics

Speeding Up Test Renders

Finding the Sweet Spot for Final Renders

Getting Familiar with the Compositor

Overall Effects

Render Layers and the Compositor

Chapter 13. Environmental Animation

This Is Not a Physics Class

Cloth and Force Fields

Soft Bodies, or Bouncy, Squishy Things

The Halo Material

Smoking Is Good for You

Smoke Materials

Chapter 14. Video Compilation and Final Output

Creating Animation Files

Rendering to Still Frames

Creating an Animation from Stills

Appendix A. Blender Glossary

Appendix B. Blender Resources

Edition Notes

Published in: Burlington, MA

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class: 006.6/96
Library of Congress: TR897.7 .H4865 2010, TR897.7.H4865 2010, TR897.7 .H4865 2010eb

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Pagination: p. cm.

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ISBN 13: 9780240814308
LCCN: 2010011897
OCLC/WorldCat: 798922709, 827947157, 647765310

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