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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition

You're reading from Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition A quick and easy-to-use guide to create 3D modeling and animation using Blender 2.7

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2014

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783984909

Length 526 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Blender

Concepts

Graphics Programming

Author (1):

Gordon Fisher

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Introducing Blender and Animation FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Comfortable Using the 3D View

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

A. Pop Quiz Answers

Index

Time for action – zooming the camera versus dollying the camera

Say you want to start out with a long shot that transitions into a close-up. Do you zoom or dolly? We studied dollying in Chapter 3, Controlling the Lamp, the Camera, and Animating Objects. Dollying moves the camera towards or away from the scene. Zooming starts with one field of view and transitions to a different field of view. You can go from a distant shot to a close-up of your subject with either method. Is there a difference in the results? Let's find out. This exercise has two identical cameras; you'll zoom one and dolly the other and see what you think. Check Chapter 3, Controlling the Lamp, the Camera, and Animating Objects, if you need to review the commands for navigating in the Timeline Editor. The following steps will show you how to zoom and dolly the camera:

Open the file 4909OS_11_Blender_Island.blend. Camera.Field of View is selected as the active camera in the upper-left 3D View window.
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Authors (1)

Gordon Fisher

Gordon Fisher

Gordon Fisher got his start in computer graphics, working with industry pioneers at Information International, Inc. Since then, he has made 3D animation for clients including the U.S. Army, Ford Motor Co., the Dallas Cowboys, the Southeastern Conference, Costco, and Southwest Airlines. He has been using Blender professionally since 2002, and has given classes on using Blender and using Python with Blender at Python conferences in Texas and Arkansas. His short film, Land and Sky, made with Blender, was shown at the Ozark Foothills Film Fest. His work has been displayed at the National Air and Space Museum. He is the Creative Director for Point Happy Interactive and spends his spare time as a bicycling advocate and space activist. He has written articles about 3D modeling and animation for the American Modeler magazine and Digital Video Producer e-zine.

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