Blender 3D By Example

Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to 3D and the Blender User Interface
	Overview of the 3D workflow
		The 3D coordinate system
		3D objects
		Components of a mesh
		Materials and textures
		Perspective view versus Orthographic view
	Blender's user interface
		A brief history of Blender's user interface
		Blender 2.8's user interface
	Basic 3D navigation controls
	A brief introduction to the projects in this book
		Setting up the source files
	Summary
Chapter 2: Editing a Viking Scene with a Basic 3D Workflow
	Setting up the source files
	Using the Outliner to organize a scene
	Navigating the 3D Viewport
	Using the Toolbar
	Basic transformations in Object Mode
	Editing the Viking helmet
		Preparing to work on the helmet
		Making changes to components in Edit Mode
		Adding the nose guard
		Adding the horns
		Adding the studs
		Returning to Object Mode to finish
	Rendering the final image
	Summary
Chapter 3: Modeling a Time Machine - Part 1
	Using transformation hotkeys
	Setting up the reference images for the time machine
	Box modeling the main section of the chair
	Destructive editing versus non-destructive editing
	Modeling the cushions of the chair
	Modeling the sci-fi rings with modifiers
	Modeling the armrests
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 4: Modeling a Time Machine - Part 2
	Modeling the base of the time machine
	Modeling the clock
	Modeling the side rails
	Modeling the rear assembly
	Modeling the front housing
	Adding smooth shading to the model
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 5: Modern Kitchen - Part 1: Kitbashing
	Setting up the source files
	Previsualizing the kitchen layout
		Creating a floor plan
		Creating previz objects
		Laying out the kitchen composition
	Creating tables with box modeling
		Appending or linking the tables to the scene
	Creating chairs with modifiers and curves
		Chair 1 – a wooden slat deck chair
		Chair 2 – a perforated plastic bar stool
		Chair 3 – cushioned coffee table chairs
		Chair 4 – a plastic chair with air slits
		Chair 5 – wooden layers with Booleans
		Appending, linking, and instancing the chairs
	Creating cabinets, islands, and a stove with add-ons
		Enabling our add-ons
		An Archimesh kitchen island
		Boolean modeling a sink with Bool Tool
		Doors and windows with Archipack
		Adding other decorations with Extra Objects
	Linking in canned assets
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 6: Modern Kitchen - Part 2: Materials and Textures
	Simple materials and the nodal workflow
		Navigating nodes with a test material
		The Principled BSDF material
		Simple metals
		Simple non-metals
		Wood
		Tiled backsplash
		Granite counters
		Plant alpha cards
		Wall art texture atlas
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 7: Modern Kitchen - Part 3: Lighting and Rendering
	Preparing the scene
	Daylight rendering
		Preliminary lighting with a sun object
		World lighting
	Indirect lighting
		Irradiance volume
		Addressing artifacts
		Reflection probes
	Using filters and postprocessing
		Screen space reflections 
		Bloom
		Ambient occlusion
		Color management
		Camera settings
		Rendering with indoor lighting
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 8: Illustrating an Alien Hero with Grease Pencil
	Playing with Grease Pencil objects
		Setting up a tablet and stylus
		Annotating with Grease Pencil
		Testing in the default Grease Pencil scene
		The Edit and Sculpt modes
		Adjusting the brush tool for calligraphy
		Customizing Grease Pencil materials
		Stippling over a photo with a dots material
	Roughing in a character
		Thumbnailing with layers and keyframes
		Sketching rounded forms in Pencil
		Construction drawing
	Inking the alien hero
		The starting ink
	Adding color with the fills pipeline
		Silhouette and local color
		The background
		Lighting and texture
	Summary 
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 9: Animating an Exquisite Corpse in Grease Pencil
	Animating a bouncing ball
		Pose to pose beginnings
		Arcs, timing, and squash and stretch
		Adding a visual style
		Adding an ease-in, ease-out anticipation starting take
		Reusing and reworking frames with Multiframe
	Blinking Blender eyes
		Reusing frames for the Blender blinking animation
		A field of eyeballs
		Returning to the start frame
	Building a zooming fight scene
		The lines layer
		The fighters
		Adding color
	Bringing it all together
		Rendering to external files
		Editing the scenes together
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 10: Animating a Stylish Short with Grease Pencil
	Getting started
		Preproduction
		Navigating this chapter's files
	The walk cycle
		The pencil test
		The head and pelvis
		Footfalls
		Finalizing the walk cycle with loop and pizzazz
	The background
		The city skyline
		The theater and usher
	Animating the usher's take
		The theater approach
		The first take
	The money exchange
		Setting up the scene
		Animating the characters
	The theater, crying, and triumph
		Reusing the walk with the concession stand
		The popcorn
		The change of heart
	The ending
		Entering the theater
		Animating the girl's eating and the popcorn's death
		End credits
		Rendering the finished animation
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 11: reating a Baby Dragon - Part 1: Sculpting
	The sculpting UI preset
		Viewport shading and MatCaps
		Low poly versus high poly
	Overview of the sculpting brushes
		The Draw brush
		Smooth, Slide Relax, and Simplify brushes
		The Clay and Clay strips brushes
		The Snake Hook, Grab, and Elastic Deform brushes
		Mask brushes
		The Inflate and Blob brushes
		The Crease and Pinch brushes
		The Scrape and Flatten brushes
		The Nudge and Thumb brushes
		The Layer brush
		The Rotate and IK Pose brushes
		Utility brushes
	Creating the starting point of the baby dragon with speed-sculpting
		Approach 1: Dynamic topology – head, jaw, and horns
		Approach 2: Skin modifier – wings, arms, and legs
		Approach 3: Metaballs – torso and tail
		Approach 4: Meshes – eyes, teeth, claws, and horns
		Brute-force sculpting
	Sculpting intermediate details
		Chiseling with the Scrape, Pinch, and Smooth brushes
		Bulging seams
		Overlapping muscles via masking
	Sculpting the fine details
		Stenciling in scales
		Stamping ridges along the wing and spine
		Refining the details
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 12: Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 2: Retopology
	What is topology?
	What are the rules of good topology?
		Polygon density
		Edge loops
		Face loops
		Poles
	Setting up Blender for the retopology workflow
		Downloading the source files
		Linking the sculpture to a new scene
		Setting up viewport shading
		Setting up the snap settings
		Setting up the retopology object
		Subdivision-shrinkwrap method (optional)
		Enabling add-ons
	Retopologizing the baby dragon
		Method 1 – the Poly Build tool
		Method 2 – Manual extrusion and F2
		Method 3 – Shrinkwrap
		Method 4 – Bsurfaces
		Method 5 – QuadriFlow remeshing
	Finishing up
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 13: Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 3: UV Unwrapping
	What are UVs?
	Setting up Blender for the UV unwrapping workflow
		Downloading the source files
		Setting up the interface
		Setting up the preview checker pattern
	Marking the seams and UV unwrapping
		Marking the first seams
		Visualizing the distortion
		Fixing texel density issues
	Laying out the baby dragon's UVs
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 14: Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 4: Baking and Painting Textures
	Technical requirements
	Getting set up for texture baking
		Preparing the scene for baking
		Material baking setup
	Baking texture maps from high poly to low poly
		Your first bake – AO
		Normals 
		Cavity and displacement
		Convexity
		Subsurface
		Top lighting, soft lighting, and facing maps
	Texture painting the base color in Blender
		Painting the base color
		Creating stencils in the image editor
		Normal maps and sculpting with a bump map
	Using external programs for image editing
		Setting up an external program
		Image edit projection painting
	Setting up the remaining BSDF textures
		Making specular and roughness maps from a master file
		Subsurface scattering
		Rune magic with object projection
		Painting the eye
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 15: Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 5: Rigging and Animation
	What is a rig?
		Armatures and bones in Edit Mode
	Practicing with a simple tentacle rig
		Setting up the tentacle rig's controls
		Finishing the tentacle rig
	Using the Rigify add-on to rig the baby dragon
		Setting up the baby dragon's meta-rig
		Creating and modifying the Rigify rig
	Modifying the armature weights
		Parenting (everything) with automatic weights
		Parenting to bones (eyes and stencil)
		Assigning weights manually (to the horns, claws, and teeth)
		Weighting the animation
		Painting weights
	Animating a flying cycle
		Understanding the rig controls
		Blocking in keyframes
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 16: The Wide World of Blender
	Blender skills to learn next
		Photogrammetry
		Physics 
		Volumetrics
		Hair and fur
		Recording a macro in Python
	The Blender community
		The Blender Foundation and Blender Institute
		Blender user groups
		Online Blender communities
	Summary
	Questions
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Index