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Blender 3D Cookbook

You're reading from Blender 3D Cookbook Build your very own stunning characters in Blender from scratch

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783984886

Length 608 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Blender

Concepts

Graphics Programming

Author (1):

Enrico Valenza

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Modeling the Character's Base Mesh FREE CHAPTER

2. Sculpting the Character's Base Mesh

3. Polygonal Modeling of the Character's Accessories

4. Re-topology of the High Resolution Sculpted Character's Mesh

5. Unwrapping the Low Resolution Mesh

6. Rigging the Low Resolution Mesh

7. Skinning the Low Resolution Mesh

8. Finalizing the Model

9. Animating the Character

10. Creating the Textures

11. Refining the Textures

12. Creating the Materials in Cycles

13. Creating the Materials in Blender Internal

14. Lighting, Rendering, and a Little Bit of Compositing

Index

Chapter 7. Skinning the Low Resolution Mesh

In this chapter, we will be covering the following recipes:

Parenting the Armature and Mesh using the Automatic Weights tool
Assigning Weight Groups by hand
Editing Weight Groups using the Weight Paint tool
Using the Mesh Deform modifier to skin the character
Using the Laplacian Deform modifier and Hooks

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Authors (1)

Valenza

Valenza

Enrico Valenza, also known as "EnV" on the Web, is an Italian freelance illustrator, mainly collaborating with publishers such as Mondadori Ragazzi and Giunti as a cover artist for sci-fi and fantasy books. He graduated from Liceo Artistico Statale in Verona (Italy) and was later a student of illustrator and painter Giorgio Scarato. When he started to work, computers weren't that much in use among normal people, and he spent the first 15 years of his career doing illustration with traditional media, usually on cardboard; he specialized in the use of the air-graph, a technique particularly esteemed for advertisement work. When the movie Jurassic Park came to theaters, he decided to buy a computer and try this "computer graphic" everyone was talking about. When it comes to the many aspects of CG, he has been totally self-taught; it has been his encounter with the open source philosophy that actually opened a brand new world of possibilities, Blender in particular. In 2005, he won the Suzanne Award for "Best Animation, Original Idea and Story" with the animation "New Penguoen 2.38." In 2006, he joined the Orange Team in Amsterdam for the 2 last weeks of production to help in finalizing the shots of the first open source cg animated short movie produced by the Blender Foundation, Elephants Dream. From 2007 to 2008, he has been a lead artist in the Peach Project team for the production of Big Buck Bunny, the second Blender Foundation's open movie. From 2010 to 2011, he has been an art director at CINECA (Bologna, Italy) for the "Museo della Citt di Bologna" project, which is the production of a stereoscopic CG-animated documentary made in Blender and which explains the history of the city of Bologna. Also, being a Blender Certified Trainer, he often collaborates as a cg artist with production studios that have decided to switch their pipeline to open source. Enrico uses Blender almost on a daily basis for his illustration jobs, rarely to have the illustration rendered straight by the 3D package and more often as a starting point for painting over with other open source applications. He has conducted several presentations and workshops about Blender and its use in productions.

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