About the Author |
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About the Technical Reviewer |
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction |
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Chapter 1 Introducing Blender 3.0 |
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Exploring the Main Changes in Blender 3.0 |
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Left Button Selection (LBS) |
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Asset Browser and Pose Library |
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The Blender 3.0 Toolbar (T) |
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The Blender Foundation Website |
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Installing Different Versions of Blender 3.0 |
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Using the Default Interface of Blender 3.0 |
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Introducing Editors and Views |
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30 | (5) |
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35 | (10) |
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45 | (3) |
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Selecting, Navigating, and Transforming |
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48 | (7) |
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48 | (2) |
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50 | (2) |
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The Object Context Menu (RMB) |
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53 | (2) |
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Using New Keyboard Shortcuts |
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55 | (2) |
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57 | (6) |
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Eevee, Cycles, and Cycles X |
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57 | (4) |
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61 | (2) |
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Chapter 2 Modeling Inorganic and Organic Objects in Blender |
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Preparing to Start Modeling |
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65 | (22) |
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66 | (1) |
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67 | (20) |
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Understanding Mesh Modeling |
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87 | (23) |
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87 | (8) |
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95 | (15) |
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110 | (14) |
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111 | (3) |
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114 | (7) |
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121 | (3) |
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124 | (14) |
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128 | (9) |
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137 | (1) |
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Exercises: The Mad Hatterαs Tea Party |
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Exercise 1: Modeling a Teapot |
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Exercise 2: Creating a Glass |
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157 | (9) |
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Chapter 3 Building a 3D Environment |
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167 | (62) |
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Modeling for Architecture |
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167 | (18) |
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168 | (7) |
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Blender 3.0 Add-ons for Architectural Modeling |
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175 | (10) |
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Procedural and Parametric Modeling |
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185 | (11) |
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Add-ons for Procedural and Parametrical Modeling |
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186 | (10) |
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Modeling and Importing Furniture |
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196 | (5) |
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Asset Libraries in Blender |
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198 | (3) |
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Character Modeling for Architecture |
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201 | (1) |
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Modeling a Character with Make Human |
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Exercises: Creating an Environment |
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Exercise 3: Modeling a Living Room |
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Exercise 4: Populating Our Environment |
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215 | (3) |
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Exercise 5: Modeling a Chair |
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218 | (9) |
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Chapter 4 Understanding Materials, Lighting, and World Settings |
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Learning Nodes and Material Nodes |
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230 | (31) |
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Understanding Material Nodes |
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235 | (26) |
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Learning More About Textures |
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261 | (4) |
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Bitmap and Procedural Textures |
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Open Source Image Editors: Gimp and Krita |
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UV Mapping and Unwrapping |
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UV Editing Workspace and UV Editor |
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Lights, Shadows, and Cameras |
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272 | (7) |
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277 | (1) |
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The World Settings: Sky and Environment Texture |
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279 | (6) |
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Deepening HDRI Environment Maps |
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279 | (2) |
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281 | (2) |
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283 | (2) |
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Exercises: Creating Materials |
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285 | (25) |
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Exercise 6: Creating Standard Material Nodes |
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286 | (24) |
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310 | (1) |
Chapter 5 Painting |
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311 | (70) |
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311 | (23) |
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312 | (7) |
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Introducing Digital Painting |
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319 | (15) |
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334 | (21) |
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346 | (2) |
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The 3D View Header and the Tool Settings |
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358 | (1) |
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Getting Started with Weight Paint |
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360 | (5) |
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361 | (2) |
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The 3D View Header and the Tool Settings |
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363 | (1) |
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Exercises: Introducing Digital Painting |
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Exercise 10: Painting a Texture |
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366 | (3) |
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Exercise 11: Creating a Painted Texture |
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369 | (3) |
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Exercise 12: Node-Based Texture Painting |
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Chapter 6 Render, Compositing, and Video Editing |
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381 | (80) |
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Comparing Cycles and Eevee |
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381 | (27) |
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Cycles and Eeveeαs Shared Settings |
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384 | (2) |
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386 | (5) |
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391 | (3) |
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394 | (5) |
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Introducing the Freestyle Render |
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399 | (9) |
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408 | (19) |
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408 | (3) |
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411 | (2) |
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413 | (14) |
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The Video Editing Workspace |
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427 | (2) |
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429 | (1) |
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430 | (2) |
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Adding Effects and Transitions |
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432 | (5) |
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Exercises: Rendering and Compositing |
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437 | (23) |
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Exercise 13: Rendering with Eevee |
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438 | (7) |
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Exercise 14: Rendering in Cycles with Denoise |
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445 | (2) |
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Exercise 15: Deepening Compositing Techniques |
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447 | (5) |
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Exercise 16: Creating a Video for The Mad Hatterαs Tea Party |
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452 | (8) |
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Index |
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