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

Importing our character and getting it ready for the rigging process

In this section, we will import our character model and get it ready for the rigging process. First, we will import our cartoon character from the project file that we have saved in Chapter 7, Modeling an Alien Cartoon Character. We will then apply any active modifiers that we have added to our character to ensure that it's ready for rigging. We will also apply the scale of our character model to ensure there are no scaling issues during the rigging process.

Let's get started!

Importing our character model

Let's begin by importing our character model from the project file we saved in Chapter 7, Modeling an Alien Cartoon Character. You can also download my character model if you want from the following URL: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Taking-Blender-to-the-Next-Level/blob/main/Chapter08/Chapter%2008%20-%20AlienModel.obj. First press A to select everything in the scene, then press X, and...