The Complete Guide to Blender Graphics: Computer Modeling and Animation

✍ Scribed by John M. Blain

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 391
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

While Blender is a wonderful free and open source program for computer modeling and animation, there has been a lack of unified, up-to-date documentation for beginners. Removing the frustration from the learning process, The Complete Guide to Blender Graphics: Computer Modeling and Animation helps beginners understand the basics of computer animation using Blender.

The author begins with a detailed explanation of the Blender graphical user interface (GUI) and its method of navigation. He covers basic mesh modeling on both the object and sub-object levels. At this point, the beginner 3D modeler can create a wide variety of models. The author moves on to materials, camera, lighting, and rendering, allowing the creation of more complete models and rendered images. He also includes a section on animation. This sequence provides a solid foundation for the more advanced topics discussed in later chapters.

Alleviating the difficulties in learning Blender, this book provides thorough instruction on the basics of this 3D modeling and animation program.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: The Blender Interface. Navigate and Save. Create Edit Objects. Materials. Textures. World Settings. Lighting. Camera. Rendering. Raytracing. Animation Basics. 3D Text. Nurbs and Metashape. Modifiers. Particle System. Child Parent Relationship. Constraints. Armatures. Relative Shapes Keys. Fluid Simulation. Nodes. Game Engine. Video Sequence Editing. Appendix.
Abstract: Helps novices learn Blender version 2.60+ and describes the basic operation of the interface and the majority of its functions including visual reference and examples of operations