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Blender 3D Basics

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849516907
Length 468 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

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

Making Stereoscopic 3D Animation


That tracking was pretty cool. But what if you could do it in stereo just like Avatar or Men in Black 3. Blender has got you covered. Check out 6907OS_06_Using Stereoscopic Cameras.pdf in your download pack. You'll learn how to make two different kinds of stereo camera rigs and use them to record stereo-pairs of images.

Key

Function

MMB

Press it after starting to move, scale, or rotate an object and it locks the motion, scaling, or rotation to the nearest axis.

Ctrl+Z

Undoes a step

Ctrl+Shift+Z

Redoes a previous step undone with Ctrl+Z

Alt+F

Makes faces from selected vertices

Shift+Alt+F

Done after using Alt+F, this makes a nicer set of faces.

Tab

When using a multi-set button, such as X, Y, Z or R, G, B, it allows you to move quickly between the buttons.

B

Does a border select in the Graph Editor

Ctrl+P

Child a group of selected objects to the last object selected

Ctrl+T

Sets an object(s) to track the...

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