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Understand Mantaflow to create fire and smoke simulations

Learn to design satisfying animations using soft bodies and the cloth simulation

Construct realistic physics animations with rigid bodies

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Blender is a free, open source 3D software that allows you to create stunning visual graphics, animation, VFX, and much more! This book is an in-depth guide to creating realistic and eye-catching simulations, understanding the various settings and options around their creation, and learning how to troubleshoot solutions to your own Blender problems. In addition, this book can also be used to simulate the behavior of certain physics effects, such as fire, fluid, soft bodies, and rigid bodies. You’ll learn how to use Mantaflow, an open source framework within Blender software, to create fire, smoke, and fluid simulations. As you progress, you’ll understand how to easily produce satisfying rigid and soft body simulations, along with cloth simulations. Finally, you’ll use Dynamic Paint, Blender’s modifier, and the physics system to create eye-catching animations. By the end of this Blender book, you’ll have created a number of animations on your own, such as a campfire, waterfalls, and explosions. You’ll also have gained a deeper understanding of all the simulation options in Blender, which you can use to create portfolio-ready animations.

What you will learn

Discover what Mantaflow is and how to use it effectively

Understand domains, flows, and effectors, and why they are important

Create realistic fire, smoke, and fluid simulations

Produce satisfying soft and rigid body simulations with ease

Use the cloth simulation to bring animated fabric to life

Explore canvas and brush objects in Dynamic Paint to create eye-catching animations

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isabelle Oct 21, 2024

Another excellent book by Stephen Pearson. it is a great complement for his online video. I am not a complete beginner but a big fan of Blender and found all the eplanations clear and easy to follow. Thaks Stephen!

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W. Hansen Dec 13, 2022

I’ve only been working in Blender for this last few months. I thought this book might be a bit over my head but I am very interested in simulation.I created my first fire simulation within a few minutes. What a great first Chapter!The author breaks down the concepts of domains, flow and effectors in a clear cut way and followed up with the creation of my first fire render! Very cool!After a really great introduction, I was looking forward to chapter 2, and getting some of the more advanced concepts of Mantaflow.I started off learning about an adaptive domain, and the huge timesaver that provides. Very good information!This chapter includes a deeper, dive into fire and flame creation, as well as making some liquid simulations.I wasn’t surprised at how realistic, and therefore complicated making these objects are, but the author does a really great job of jumping into each of these nuances in a very clear and clean way. I learned a lot in this chapter.I learned about the level of detail we can achieve. I gained a much more in depth knowledge of all the settings in Mantaflow.This book is very helpful and I’m going keep it close to my workstation so I can reference this information quickly on my next project.This is a great book and I highly recommend it!

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Elizabeth Lozada Nov 18, 2022

This is a good book to have if you’re a beginner at Blender. I’ve been learning how to use Blender for several months and have only been using YouTube videos. While the videos are good this book does a good job of explaining each part to create the simulation in a simple way. It also has step by step to follow along to create the simulation on your own in Blender.

kblack21 Nov 28, 2022

This book guides new users comfortably in Mantaflow. I’ve just began the first fire simulation, and the mindfulness and clarity given in the instructions make this a perfect go to guide for me.

Amazon Customer Nov 22, 2022

I read the demo mode of this book and I have never seen any detailed book about blender mantaflow ever in .y life and this shows hoe well the writer has written in this book. Thank you so much! Really great book and recommended for every blender user to get better at it

Learn Blender Simulations the Right Way: Create attractive and realistic animations with Mantaflow, rigid and soft bodies, and Dynamic Paint

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