Blender for Animation and Film-Based Production (Paperback)

Why Blender

History of Blender
BLENDER’S ROADMAP

Blender User Interface
START UP BLENDER
CONTROLS AND BUTTONS
EDITOR SYSTEM
EDITOR TYPES
MODES AND CONTEXT
INTERNATIONALIZATION

Blender in a Digital Studio Pipeline
USING BLENDER FOR PREPRODUCTION TASKS
USING BLENDER FOR POSTPRODUCTION TASKS
ORGANIZE THE PROJECT IN DISK
BLENDER AND THE OPEN MOVIES

Modeling Your Main Character
MODELING IN BLENDER
MODIFIERS
MAKING PROPS
BUILDING THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE SCENE
TOPOLOGY SOLUTIONS

Applying Materials to Our Objects
PREVIEW
DIFFUSE
SPECULAR
SHADING
TRANSPARENCY
MIRROR
SUBSURFACE SCATTERING
STRAND
OPTIONS
SHADOW

Blender Internal Textures
PREVIEW
COLORS
MAPPING
INFLUENCE

UV Unwrap and External Textures
UNWRAPPING A MESH
UV LAYOUTS
EDITING UVS
OPTIMIZE THE UV MAP
COMBINE UV MAPS
REFINE LAYOUT
APPLYING IMAGES

Introduction to Rigging: Armatures and Bones
THE ARMATURE OBJECT
BONES

The Animation Process
TIMELINE AND ANIMATICS
MARKERS
KEYFRAMES
TYPES OF ANIMATION
USING CONSTRAINTS IN ANIMATION
SHAPE KEYS
WALKCYCLE

Introduction to Lighting
LAMPS
SHADOW
ENVIRONMENT LIGHT
AMBIENT OCCLUSION
RESOLVING ISSUES WITH LIGHTS

Compositing Nodes
SETTING UP NODES
USING NODES
NODE TYPES

Using Particles and Dynamics
DYNAMICS AND FORCE FIELDS
COLLISIONS
PARTICLES
SOFT BODY
CLOTH
FLUIDS
SMOKE

Render
BLENDER INTERNAL
CYCLES
EXTERNAL RENDER ENGINES
RENDER SETTINGS AND TIPS

Final Movie Compositing
USING BLENDER IN POSTPRODUCTION

Python
PYTHON API
BLENDER/PYTHON API IN FILM PRODUCTION

Film Promotion and Conclusion
CONCLUSION