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Published:
February 11, 2020

Blender For Dummies

Overview

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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About The Author

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.

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If you’re already used to object animation and the basics of Blender, using armatures to animate in the Dope Sheet extends naturally from that process. The following is a common process for animating with Blender. ©Shutterstock/FrameStockFootages Plan the animation. This point can’t be emphasized enough: Know what you’re going to animate and have an idea about the timing of the motion.
Blender has sooooooo many great tools for getting your animation just right. Part of getting the movement right involves giving your characters the natural movements. Guess what? Blender also has a tool for that!Not everything that reacts to physics has the internal jiggle and bounce that soft bodies have. Say, for example, that you have to animate a stack of heavy steel girders falling down at a construction siteFor that animation, you don’t want to have a soft body simulation.
One of the most groundbreaking features to hit Blender’s modeling community in recent years was the ability to have dynamic topology (Dyntopo for short) while in Sculpt mode. Simply put, when you enable Dyntopo, your sculpting brush can add or remove geometry from your mesh on the fly.Need more detail in just one part of your model?
Blender offers a variety of sculpting tools to help you master stunning creations. Once you’ve created your Grease Pencil object, it’s time to do some sculpting.After you have your drawing created in a Grease Pencil object, may want to go in and do some custom tweaks to it. Perhaps you want thicker or thinner lines in some places.
What is the Blender software and what can you do with it? Blender is a free and open source 3D modeling and animation suite. Yikes! What a mouthful, huh? Put simply, Blender is a computer graphics program that allows you to produce high-quality still images and animations using three-dimensional geometry.It used to be that you’d only see the results of this work in animated feature films or high-budget television shows.
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