Blender 3D By Example

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

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Romain Caudron and Pierre-Armand Nicq

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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

Who this book is for

Straight into Blender!
Robot toy - Modeling the object
Alien character ? Base-mesh creation and sculpting
Alien character ? Creating a proper topology and transfer the sculpt details
Haunted house ? Modeling of the scene
Haunted house ? Putting colors on it
Haunted house ? Adding materials and lights in Cycles
The Rat cowboy ? Learning to rig a character for animation
The Rat cowboy ? Animating a full shot
The Rat cowboy ? Rendering and composting in Cycles

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PDF ISBN: 978-1-78528-024-5

Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited

Publication date: 2025

Language: English

Pages: 334

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