You're reading from Taking Blender to the Next Level Implement advanced workflows such as geometry nodes, simulations, and motion tracking for Blender production pipelines

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803233567

Length 520 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Blender

Concepts

Graphics Programming

Author (1):

Ruan Lotter

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Modeling, Materials, and Animation Workflows

2. Chapter 1: Using Geometry Nodes to Create Dynamic Scenes FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Creating a Motion Graphics Scene Using Geometry Nodes

4. Chapter 3: Organic Modeling P1: Creating a Mushroom

5. Chapter 4: Organic Modeling P2: Creating the Landscape around the Mushroom

6. Chapter 5: PBR Materials: Texturing our Mushroom Scene

7. Chapter 6: 3D Scanning and Photogrammetry: Creating Your Own 3D Scans

8. Chapter 7: Modeling an Alien Cartoon Character

9. Chapter 8: Rigging and Animating Your 3D Cartoon Character

10. Part 2: Let's Do Some Physics

11. Chapter 9: Rigid Body Simulation: Destroying a Statue Using Physics

12. Chapter 10: Dynamic Cloth Simulations

13. Chapter 11: Creating Dynamic Hair Using Particles

14. Part 3: Match Moving and Compositing

15. Chapter 12: Matching Blender's Camera Movement to Live Action Footage

16. Chapter 13: Compositing the Alien Cartoon Character onto the Live Action Footage

17. Chapter 14: The Final Render

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up the scene

In this chapter, we will import the statue model that we're going to destroy. You can download my statue model from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Taking-Blender-to-the-Next-Level/blob/main/Chapter09/Chapter%2009%20-%20Statue.obj or you can use your own 3D model instead. You can also download free models from various websites. MyMiniFactory has some great free statue models that you can download for free from their Scan The World collection. These models are 3D scans of real statues from around the world.

Please note that these 3D scanned models are high-poly and may need some work to bring their poly count down. I will explain how to do that in this section. These 3D scanned models are mostly in STL format, and that's why we're activating the Import-Export: STL format add-on. Let's get started: