Blender All-In-One for Dummies (Paperback)

Introduction 1

Book 1: Wrapping Your Brain Around Blender 7

Chapter 1: Discovering Blender 9

Chapter 2: Understanding How Blender Thinks 29

Chapter 3: Getting Your Hands Dirty Working in Blender 71

Chapter 4: Working in Edit Mode and Object Mode 87

Book 2: Creating Detailed 3D Scenes 123

Chapter 1: Creating Anything You Can Imagine with Meshes 125

Chapter 2: Simplifying Your Life as a Modeler with Modifiers 153

Chapter 3: Sculpting in Virtual Space 177

Chapter 4: Using Blender’s Non-Mesh Primitives 217

Chapter 5: Getting Procedural with Geometry Nodes 257

Book 3: Working with Colors and Materials 295

Chapter 1: Changing That Boring Gray Default Material 297

Chapter 2: Giving Models Texture 337

Chapter 3: Lighting and Environment 369

Chapter 4: Exporting and Rendering Scenes 409

Book 4: Get Animated! 429

Chapter 1: Animating Objects 431

Chapter 2: Adding Controls to Your Scene 455

Chapter 3: Rigging: The Art of Building an Animatable Puppet 481

Chapter 4: Animating Object Deformations 531

Chapter 5: Letting Blender Do the Work for You 553

Chapter 6: Making 2D and 2.5D Animation with Grease Pencil 587

Book 5: Sharing Your Work with the World 629

Chapter 1: Editing Video and Animation 631

Chapter 2: Compositing Images and Video 651

Chapter 3: Mixing Video and 3D with Motion Tracking 681

Book 6: Getting Technical 705

Chapter 1: Working with Linked Data 707

Chapter 2: Automating Blender with Python Scripting 719

Index 735