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Blender 3D By Example.

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789612561
Length 658 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Oscar Baechler Oscar Baechler
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Xury Greer Xury Greer
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how 3D software works and in particular, Blender. You learned the basics of the three-axis coordinate system, as well as how transforms are used to place objects in a 3D scene. You also got a glimpse of Blender's UI and looked at the list of projects that will be covered in this book.

These concepts will be the foundation of your 3D knowledge. There are so many possibilities that there's something for everyone! You can model, create materials, paint textures, sculpt, render, and much more! To learn more about Blender's features, have a look at the features page on the Blender website at: blender.org/features.

Now, you're ready for your first 3D project! In the next chapter, you'll be provided with a small scene full of Viking themed objects. You'll get to position objects in the scene and make some edits and additions...

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