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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783984909
Length 526 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gordon Fisher Gordon Fisher
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

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 A. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – using Blender's Safe Title/Safe Action guide

Blender has its own Safe Title/Safe Action guide included. Using it is just like using Blender's Composition Guides. The following steps will guide you to use Blender's Safe Title/Safe Action guide:

  1. Save and close the Blender file that you were using to make the sloop. Save it with a unique filename that you will remember in six months.
  2. Open a new Blender file.
  3. Press 0 on the NumPad to get the Camera view.
  4. Click on the border between the image area and the passe-partout to select the Camera view.
  5. Select the Object Data button on the Properties header, it has the movie camera on it and is highlighted in blue, as seen in the following screenshot.
  6. In the Display subpanel, check the Safe Areas checkbox.
    Time for action – using Blender's Safe Title/Safe Action guide

What just happened?

You discovered Blender's built-in Safe Action/Safe Title guides. They are pretty easy to set up. Just choose the camera and check the Safe Areas checkbox under the Data Object panel. Remember...

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