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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

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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

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