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Blender Quick Start Guide

You're reading from Blender Quick Start Guide 3D Modeling, Animation, and Render with Eevee in Blender 2.8

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789619478

Length 194 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Blender

Concepts

Animation

Author (1):

Allan Brito

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. Using Blender 2.8 UI, Shading and Navigator Widget

2. 3D Modeling and Real-Time Rendering in Eevee FREE CHAPTER

3. The New 3D Cursor and Modeling Options

4. Using Real-Time Materials in Eevee

5. Real-Time Textures for Eevee

6. Lights and Real-Time Rendering with Blender Eevee

7. Animate Everything in Blender 2.8!

8. Editing Animations in Blender 2.8

9. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Summary

Understanding the user interface is critical to use Blender for any project, and now you have a solid knowledge of how to manipulate windows, transform 3D objects, change the zoom, and selection modes.

From this point, we can move to the next chapter and start to create 3D models from polygons, and also take advantage of the real-time rendering features of Eevee. There you will learn how to use tools like extrude and manage lights and shadows.

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Authors (1)

Brito

Brito

Allan Brito is an architect with a strong background in the use of technology in all phases of project development. His friends used to say that he swapped bricks for pixels. Besides working in the architecture business, he also has more than 10 years of experience as a college teacher, helping students to create animations, 3D games, and mobile apps. In the academic field, he was in charge of the e-learning department of one of the largest colleges in Brazil for almost eight years, using technologies such as interactive 3D content, games, and virtual reality as learning tools. Blender is one of the essential tools in his workflow, and he has used it every day since the days of version 2.35 in 2005.

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