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You're reading from Blender 3D By Example. A project-based guide to learning the latest Blender 3D, EEVEE rendering engine, and Grease Pencil

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789612561

Length 658 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Blender

Concepts

Graphics Programming

Authors (2):

Oscar Baechler

Xury Greer

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to 3D and the Blender User Interface

2. Editing a Viking Scene with a Basic 3D Workflow FREE CHAPTER

3. Modeling a Time Machine - Part 1

4. Modeling a Time Machine - Part 2

5. Modern Kitchen - Part 1: Kitbashing

6. Modern Kitchen - Part 2: Materials and Textures

7. Modern Kitchen - Part 3: Lighting and Rendering

8. Illustrating an Alien Hero with Grease Pencil

9. Animating an Exquisite Corpse in Grease Pencil

10. Animating a Stylish Short with Grease Pencil

11. Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 1: Sculpting

12. Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 2: Retopology

13. Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 3: UV Unwrapping

14. Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 4: Baking and Painting Textures

15. Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 5: Rigging and Animation

16. The Wide World of Blender

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Setting up Blender for the UV unwrapping workflow

As with any workflow in Blender, it's easiest if we adjust the user interface to fit our needs. UV unwrapping requires us to have a 3D Viewport and a UV Editor open at the same time, so let's learn how to easily set that up.

Downloading the source files

If you're working from your own retopologized mesh, then open the scene with your low-res mesh.

If you would like to work from our example model, download the ch13_BabyDragon_LowRes.blend file.

Open the file and let's get started!

Setting up the interface

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Authors (2)

Oscar Baechler

Oscar Baechler is a CG generalist, professor, painter, photographer, open source advocate, and community organizer who teaches at Lake Washington Institute of Technology. He's published a number of mobile games with a Blender pipeline and created animation for clients both big and small. Oscar runs the Seattle Blender User Group and Ballard Life Drawing Co-op and has presented on CGI at SIGGRAPH, LinuxFest Northwest, the Blender Conference, OSCON, Usenix LISA, SeaGL, SIX, WACC, and others.

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Xury Greer

Xury is a digital media generalist and educator in the Greater Seattle Area. He earned his bachelor's degree in game design from Lake Washington Institute of Technology. He specializes in 3D characters, and technical art, and loves to share his knowledge. Xury is an avid member and Co-Organizer of the Seattle Blender User Group and aims to help others by teaching Blender, as well as other 3D content creation tools. He is always excited to get new users started on their digital media production journey.

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