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Blender 3D 2.49 Incredible Machines

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Product type Book
Published in Nov 2009
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847197467
Pages 316 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Blender 3D 2.49 Incredible Machines
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Machinery Modeling and Visualization with Blender 2. Modeling a Handgun 3. Polygon Modeling of the Weapon 4. Adding Details 5. Rendering the Project with YafaRay 6. Steampunk Spacecraft 7. Working with Smaller Areas 8. Advanced UV Mapping 9. Putting the Spacecraft to Fly and Shoot with Special Effects 10. Rendering the Spacecraft with YafaRay 11. Transforming Robot 12. Using Modifiers and Curves to Create Details for the Robot and Scene 13. Making the Robot Look Metallic with Materials in LuxRender 14. Adding Lights to the Scene and Rendering with LuxRender 15. It's Alive! Animating the Robot 16. Post Production of the Robot

Project workflow


This project will improve our modeling and creating skills with Blender to a great extent! So, to make the process more efficient, the workflow will be planned as this would be done by a professional studio. This is the best way to optimize the time and quality of the project. It will also guarantee that future projects will be finished in the shortest timeframe.

The first step for all projects is to find some reference images or photos for the pre-visualization stage. At this point, we should make all important decisions about a project based only on your concept studies. The biggest amount of time spent on this type of project is with artistic decisions like the framing of the camera, type and color of materials, shape of the object, and environment setup.

All of those decisions should be made before we open Blender and start modeling because a simple detour on the main concept could result in a partial or total loss of all work.

When all of the decisions are made, the...

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