Blender for Dummies - Jason van Gumster

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Auteur(s) : Jason van Gumster

Editeur : Wiley

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/02/2020

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 640

Expédition : 1180

Dimensions : 23.6 x 19.1 x 3.5

ISBN : 1119616964

Résumé :

Make your 3D world a reality

Some of the dramatic visual effects you've seen in top-grossing movies and heralded television series got their start in Blender. This book helps you get your own start in creating three-dimensional characters, scenes, and animations in the popular free and open-source tool.

Author Jason van Gumster shares his insight as an independent animator and digital artist to help Blender newcomers turn their ideas into three-dimensional drawings. From exporting and sharing scenes to becoming a part of the Blender community, this accessible book covers it all!

• Create 3D characters-no experience required
• Build scenes with texture and real lighting features
• Animate your creations and share them with the world
• Avoid common rookie mistakes

This book is the ideal starting place for newcomers to the world of 3D modeling and animation.

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Biographie:

Jason van Gumster, author of all previous editions of Blender For Dummies, has used Blender in animation, video, and digital design for over 20 years. A Blender Foundation Certified Trainer, he has taught numerous students and serves as lead moderator on BlenderArtists.org, the largest Blender community website....

Sommaire:

Introduction 1

About This Book 2

Foolish Assumptions 2

Icons Used in This Book 4

Beyond the Book 4

Where to Go from Here 5

Part 1: Wrapping Your Brain Around Blender 7

Chapter 1: Discovering Blender 9

Getting to Know Blender 10

Discovering Blender's origins and the strength of the Blender community 11

Making open movies and games 12

Getting to Know the Interface 15

Working with an interface that stays out of your way 17

Resizing areas 19

Maximizing an area 20

The menu that is a pie 22

Chapter 2: Understanding How Blender Thinks 25

Looking at Editor Types 25

General editors 26

Animation editors 28

Scripting editors 29

Data editors 29

Understanding the Properties editor 30

Navigating in Three Dimensions 32

Orbiting, panning, and zooming the 3D Viewport 32

Changing views 35

Selecting objects 40

Taking advantage of the 3D cursor 40

Extra Features in the 3D Viewport 44

Quad View 44

Regions 45

Collaborating (with others and yourself) with annotations 48

Don't know how to do something? Hooray for fully Integrated search! 49

Customizing Blender to Fit You 50

Using preset workspaces 51

Blender workflows 55

Setting user preferences 57

Using custom event maps 58

Speeding up your workflow with Quick Favorites 61

Chapter 3: Getting Your Hands Dirty Working in Blender 63

Grabbing, Scaling, and Rotating 64

Differentiating Between Coordinate Systems 64

Transforming an Object by Using Object Gizmos 67

Activating object gizmos 68

Using object gizmos 69

Saving Time by Using Hotkeys 72

Transforming with hotkeys 73

Hotkeys and coordinate systems 73

Numerical input 76

The Sidebar 76

Chapter 4: Working in Edit Mode and Object Mode 77

Making Changes by Using Edit Mode 77

Switching between Object mode and Edit mode 78

Selecting vertices, edges, and faces 79

Working with linked vertices 84

Still Blender's No 1 modeling tool: Extrude 85

Adding to a Scene 90

Adding objects 90

Meet Suzanne, the Blender monke 92

Joining and separating objects 93

Creating duplicates and links 95

Discovering parents, children, and collections 101

Saving, opening, and appending 108

Part 2: Creating Detailed 3D Scenes 111

Chapter 5: Creating Anything You Can Imagine with Meshes 113

Pushing Vertices 114

Getting familiar with Edit mode tools 116

Adding geometry by insetting 117

Cutting edges with the Knife 122

Rounding your corners by beveling 126

Spiraling new geometry into existence with the Spin tool 130

Working with Loops and Rings 131

Understanding edge loops and face loops 132

Selecting edge rings 134

Creating new loops 135

Simplifying Your Life as a Modeler with Modifiers 137

Understanding modifier types 140

Doing half the work (and still looking good!) with the Mirror modifier 147

Smoothing things out with the Subdivision Surface modifier 149

Using the power of Arrays 153

Chapter 6: Sculpting in Virtual Space 157

Adding Background Images in the 3D Viewport 158

Mastering the types of image objects 159

Changing image object properties 160

Adjusting your image objects 162

Setting Up Your Sculpting Workspace 163

Sculpting a Mesh Object 166

Understanding sculpt tool types 166

Tweaking brush properties 173