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Blender 3D Basics

You're reading from Blender 3D Basics The complete novice's guide to 3D modeling and animation

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2012

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849516907

Length 468 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Blender

Concepts

Graphics Programming

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

1. www.PacktPub.com

2. Preface

1. Introducing Blender and Animation

2. Getting Comfortable using the 3D View FREE CHAPTER

3. Controlling the Lamp, the Camera, and Animating Objects

4. Modeling with Vertices, Edges, and Faces

5. Building a Simple Boat

6. Making and Moving the Oars

7. Planning your Work, Working your Plan

8. Making the Sloop

9. Finishing your Sloop

10. Modeling Organic Forms, Sea, and Terrain

11. Improving your Lighting and Camera Work

12. Rendering and Compositing

Pop quiz Answers

Index

Time for action — seeing the bottom view, rear view, and left side view

Sometimes you also need to look at an object or scene from the bottom, from behind or from the left. These keys will help you:

Press the Ctrl key, and the 7 key on the Numpad.
Press the Ctrl key, and the 1 key on the Numpad.
Press the Ctrl key, and the 3 key on the Numpad
Now, alternate pressing the 1, 3, and 7 keys on the Numpad, and pressing them with the Ctrl key depressed.

What just happened?

You know to use the 1, 3, and 7 keys on the Numpad to change views. To see from the opposing angle of a view, you press the Ctrl key and the number for the view on the Numpad. Ctrl+7 shows the bottom view. Ctrl+1 shows the back view and Ctrl+3 shows the left side view.

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