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Blender 3D By Example. - Second Edition

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Published in May 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789612561
Pages 658 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Oscar Baechler Oscar Baechler
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Oscar Baechler is a CG generalist, professor, painter, photographer, open source advocate, and community organizer who teaches at Lake Washington Institute of Technology. He's published a number of mobile games with a Blender pipeline and created animation for clients both big and small. Oscar runs the Seattle Blender User Group and Ballard Life Drawing Co-op and has presented on CGI at SIGGRAPH, LinuxFest Northwest, the Blender Conference, OSCON, Usenix LISA, SeaGL, SIX, WACC, and others.
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Xury Greer Xury Greer
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Xury is a digital media generalist and educator in the Greater Seattle Area. He earned his bachelor's degree in game design from Lake Washington Institute of Technology. He specializes in 3D characters, and technical art, and loves to share his knowledge. Xury is an avid member and Co-Organizer of the Seattle Blender User Group and aims to help others by teaching Blender, as well as other 3D content creation tools. He is always excited to get new users started on their digital media production journey.
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Introduction to 3D and the Blender User Interface 2. Editing a Viking Scene with a Basic 3D Workflow 3. Modeling a Time Machine - Part 1 4. Modeling a Time Machine - Part 2 5. Modern Kitchen - Part 1: Kitbashing 6. Modern Kitchen - Part 2: Materials and Textures 7. Modern Kitchen - Part 3: Lighting and Rendering 8. Illustrating an Alien Hero with Grease Pencil 9. Animating an Exquisite Corpse in Grease Pencil 10. Animating a Stylish Short with Grease Pencil 11. Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 1: Sculpting 12. Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 2: Retopology 13. Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 3: UV Unwrapping 14. Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 4: Baking and Painting Textures 15. Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 5: Rigging and Animation 16. The Wide World of Blender 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating the starting point of the baby dragon with speed-sculpting

The process of creating our baby dragon sculpture begins with roughing in the forms and getting all the body parts in their approximate positions. This early stage of a sculpture should allow you to make quick and sweeping changes and new additions. Whole body parts should snake-hook out quickly, and little mind should be paid to their poly cleanliness. Avoid sculpting the intricate details to start, as detailed work will be lost as we make adjustments to the major forms. To comp out the basic form of our dragon, we will look at several approaches, test out big design changes, and work on segments individually. Lastly, we can combine them when we're happy with the design and ready for fine detail. A baby dragon design presents many artistic challenges for us to tackle in our sculpting project. It calls for...

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Profile icon Oscar Baechler
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Oscar Baechler is a CG generalist, professor, painter, photographer, open source advocate, and community organizer who teaches at Lake Washington Institute of Technology. He's published a number of mobile games with a Blender pipeline and created animation for clients both big and small. Oscar runs the Seattle Blender User Group and Ballard Life Drawing Co-op and has presented on CGI at SIGGRAPH, LinuxFest Northwest, the Blender Conference, OSCON, Usenix LISA, SeaGL, SIX, WACC, and others.
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Xury is a digital media generalist and educator in the Greater Seattle Area. He earned his bachelor's degree in game design from Lake Washington Institute of Technology. He specializes in 3D characters, and technical art, and loves to share his knowledge. Xury is an avid member and Co-Organizer of the Seattle Blender User Group and aims to help others by teaching Blender, as well as other 3D content creation tools. He is always excited to get new users started on their digital media production journey.
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