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Blender 3D By Example

Table of Contents

Blender 3D By Example

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Straight into Blender!

An overview of the 3D workflow

The anatomy of a 3D scene

What can you do with Blender?

Getting used to the navigation in Blender

An introduction to the navigation of the 3D Viewport

What are editors?

The anatomy of an editor

Split, Join, and Detach

Some useful layout presets

Setting up your preferences

An introduction to the Preferences window

Customizing the default navigation style

Improving Blender with add-ons

A brief introduction to the projects

The Robot Toy

The Alien Character

The Haunted House

The Rat Cowboy

Summary

2. Robot Toy – Modeling of an Object

Let's start the modeling of our robot toy

Preparing the workflow by adding an image reference

Adding the head primitive

The Edit Mode versus the Object Mode

Using the basic modeling tools

Modeling the head

Modeling the antenna

An introduction to the Subdivision Surface modifier

Improving the head shape

Modeling the thunderbolts

Modeling the eyes

Modeling the chest

Modeling the neck

Modeling the torso

Modeling the buttons

Modeling the fork

Modeling protections for the fork

Modeling the main wheel

Modeling the arm

Using Blender Internal to render our Robot Toy

Summary

3. Alien Character – Base Mesh Creation and Sculpting

Understanding the sculpting process

An introduction to sculpting

Choosing sculpting over poly modeling

Using a pen tablet

The sculpt mode

Optimizing the viewport

Anatomy of a brush

Dyntopo versus the Multires modifier

First touch with the Multires modifier

First touch with Dyntopo

Creating a base mesh with the Skin modifier

Visual preparation

An introduction to artistic anatomy

Sculpting the body

The head

The torso

The arms

The legs

The belt

Summary

4. Alien Character – Creating a Proper Topology and Transferring the Sculpt Details

Why make a retopology?

Possibilities of arranging polygons

Errors to avoid during the creation of retopology

Density of polygons

Making the retopology of the alien character

Preparing the environment

The head

The neck and the torso

The arms and the hands

The legs

Unwrapping UVs

Understanding UVs

The placement of the seams

The placement and adjustment of the islands

The baking of textures

The baking of a normal map

What is a normal map?

Making of the bake

Displaying the normal map in the viewport

The baking of an ambient occlusion

Understanding the ambient occlusion map

Creation of the bake

Displaying the ambient occlusion in the viewport

Summary

5. Haunted House – Modeling of the Scene

Blocking the house

Working with a scale

Blocking the bases of the house

Refining the blocking

Adding instantiated objects

Reworking the blocking objects

Breaking and ageing the elements

Simulate a stack of wooden planks with physics

Creation of the simulation of a stack of planks

Modeling the environment (8 pages)

Modeling the cliff

Modeling a tree with curves

Enhancing the scene with a barrier, rocks, and a cart

Organizing the scene

Grouping objects

Working with layers

Summary

6. Haunted House – Putting Colors on It

Unwrapping UVs

Using Project From View

Unwrapping the rest of the house

The tree with the Smart UV Project

Unwrapping the rest of the environment

Tiling UVs

What is tiling for?

The UV layers

Adding colors

Basics of the Texture Paint tool

Discovering the brushes

The TexDraw brush

The Smear brush

The Soften brush

The Clone brush

The Fill brush

The Mask brush

The Stroke option

Delimiting the zones of painting according to the geometry

Painting directly on the texture

Painting the scene

Laying down the colors

Tiled textures

The settings of our workspace

Advice for a good tiled texture

Painting the roof-tile texture

Quick tips for other kinds of hand-painted tiled textures

Baking our tiled textures

Why bake?

How to do it?

Creating transparent textures

The grass texture

The grunge texture

Doing a quick render with Blender Internal

Setting lights

Placing the camera

Setting the environment (sky and mist)

Summary

7. Haunted House – Adding Materials and Lights in Cycles

Understanding the basic settings of Cycles

The sampling

Light path settings

Performances

Lighting

Creating a testing material

Understanding the different types of light

Lighting our scene

Painting and using an Image Base Lighting

Creating materials with nodes

Creating the materials of the house, the rocks, and the tree

Adding a mask for the windows

Using procedural textures

Making and applying normal maps in Cycles

Creating realistic grass

Generating the grass with particles

Creating the grass shader

Baking textures in Cycles

Cycles versus Blender Internal

Baking the tree

Compositing a mist pass

Summary

8. Rat Cowboy – Learning To Rig a Character for Animation

An introduction to the rigging process

Rigging the Rat Cowboy

Placing the deforming bones

The leg and the foot

The arm and the hand

The hips

The tail

The head and the eyes

Mirroring the rig

Rigging the gun

Rigging the holster

Adding a root bone

Skinning

The Weight Paint tools

Manually assigning weight to vertices

Correcting the foot deformation

Correcting the belt deformation

Custom shapes

The shape keys

What is a shape key?

Creating basic shapes

Driving a shape key

Summary

9. Rat Cowboy – Animate a Full Sequence

Principles of animation

Squash and Stretch

Anticipation

Staging

Straight Ahead Action and Pose to Pose

Follow Through and Overlapping Action

Slow In and Slow Out

Arcs

Secondary Action

Timing

Exaggeration

Solid drawing

Appeal

Animation tools in Blender

The timeline

What is a keyframe?

The Dope Sheet

The Graph editor

The Non-Linear Action editor

Preparation of the animation

Writing a short script

Making a storyboard

Finding the final camera placements and the timing through a layout

Animation references

Organization

Animating the scene

The walk cycle

Mixing actions

Animation of a close shot

Animation of the gunshot

Animation of the trap

Render a quick preview of a shot

Summary

10. Rat Cowboy – Rendering, Compositing, and Editing

Creating advanced materials in Cycles

Skin material with Subsurface Scattering

Eye material

The fur of the rat

The Raw rendering phase

Enhance a picture with compositing

Introduction to nodal compositing

Depth Pass

Adding effects

Compositing rendering phase

Editing the sequence with the VSE

Introduction to the Video Sequence Editor

Edit and render the final sequence

Summary

Index