Taking Blender to the Next Level

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• Taking Blender to the Next Level
• Contributors
• About the author
• About the reviewer
• Preface
  • Who this book is for
  • What this book covers
  • To get the most out of this book
  • Download the example files
  • Download the color images
  • Conventions used
  • Get in touch
  • Share Your Thoughts
• Part 1: Modeling, Materials, and Animation Workflows
• Chapter 1: Using Geometry Nodes to Create Dynamic Scenes
  • Introduction to Geometry Nodes in Blender
    • The Geometry Nodes workspace
    • Geometry Nodes
  • Creating and manipulating geometry using nodes
    • Creating the base mesh
    • Creating a new Geometry Nodes modifier
    • Creating our instance object
    • Creating our first nodes
    • Specifying the instance object
    • The Subdivide node
    • The Point Scale node
    • Different types of attributes
    • The Point Rotate node
    • The Point Translate node
    • The Attribute Randomize node
    • Randomizing the Scale attribute
    • Randomizing the Position attribute
    • Randomizing the Rotation attribute
    • Changing the instance object
    • Muting nodes
  • Using textures to control attributes
    • The Attribute Sample Texture node
  • Animating with Math nodes
    • The Attribute Vector Math node
  • Summary
• Chapter 2: Creating a Motion Graphics Scene Using Geometry Nodes
  • Creating our base mesh and instance object
    • Creating the base mesh
    • Creating the instance object
    • Distributing the instance object across our base mesh
  • Using an empty object to calculate proximity data
    • Calculating the proximity
  • Using the proximity data to modify the attributes
    • Adding our nodes
    • Naming the input value
  • Animating our scene
    • Adding keyframes
    • Adjusting the overall scale of the instance objects
  • Adding color using materials
  • Summary
• Chapter 3: Organic Modeling P1: Creating a Mushroom
  • Creating our base mesh for the mushroom
    • Using primitive objects to create our base mesh
    • Optimizing our topology
  • UV unwrapping our model
    • The UV Editing workspace
    • Adding seams
    • Unwrapping the faces
    • Adding more seams
    • Unwrapping the stem
    • Optimizing the UV layout
  • The multiresolution modifier
    • Statistics overlay
  • Sculpting finer details
    • Setting up the sculpting workspace
    • Sculpting basics
    • Sculpting finer details onto our mushroom
  • Using a lattice to shape your overall model
    • The Lattice modifier
    • Shaping your mesh using the lattice object
  • Creating a low-poly and high-poly mesh
    • Duplicating our models
    • Applying the modifiers
  • Baking the normal map
    • Creating the blank normal map image texture
    • Baking from the high-poly mesh to the image texture
    • Saving the normal map texture
  • Summary
• Chapter 4: Organic Modeling P2: Creating the Landscape around the Mushroom
  • Creating the landscape
  • Adding grass using Geometry Nodes
    • Creating the individual grass blades
    • Scattering the grass blades using Geometry Nodes
  • Summary
• Chapter 5: PBR Materials: Texturing our Mushroom Scene
  • Adding materials to the mushroom
    • The mushroom stem
    • The top part of the mushroom
  • Adding materials to the landscape
  • Creating a procedural grass material
  • Using an HDRI, Sky Texture, and Sun to light our scene
  • Summary
• Chapter 6: 3D Scanning and Photogrammetry: Creating Your Own 3D Scans
  • Taking photos for 3D scanning/photogrammetry
    • Camera settings and best practices
  • Using Meshroom to convert photos into a 3D model
  • Cleaning up a model using Blender
    • Importing the model created by Meshroom
  • Optimizing the topology of a model using Instant Meshes
  • UV unwrapping and texture baking
    • UV unwrapping
    • Texture baking
  • Summary
• Chapter 7: Modeling an Alien Cartoon Character
  • Creating reference images of your character
  • Setting up the reference images in Blender
  • Modeling an alien cartoon character
    • Modeling the body
    • Modeling the head
    • Modeling the legs and feet
    • Modeling the arms and hands
    • Modeling the eyes
    • Modeling the mouth
    • Adding smaller details to our character
  • Summary
• Chapter 8: Rigging and Animating Your 3D Cartoon Character
  • Installing the Rigify add-on
  • Importing our character and getting it ready for the rigging process
    • Importing our character model
    • Applying any active modifiers
  • Rigging the character using Rigify
    • Rigging the upper part of the character
    • Rigging the lower part of the characters body
    • Rigging the torso, arms and hands of our character
    • Final rig alignment
  • IK versus FK and rig layers
    • IK versus FK
    • Rig layers
  • Animating the walk cycle
    • Setting up key pose number one
    • Setting up key pose number two
    • Setting up key pose number three
    • Setting up key pose number four
    • Creating inverted keyframes
    • Looping the walk cycle
  • Summary
• Part 2: Let's Do Some Physics
• Chapter 9: Rigid Body Simulation: Destroying a Statue Using Physics
  • Installing the required add-ons
  • Setting up the scene
  • Using Cell Fracture to break our model into smaller pieces
  • Fracturing the impact point using the Annotation Pencil
  • Rigid Body physics
    • Rigid Body physics properties
    • Transferring Rigid Body physics properties to other objects
    • Configuring mass, gravity, and speed
  • Linking fractured pieces together using Rigid Body Constraints
  • Animating a Rigid Body impact object
  • Baking the final physics simulation
  • Summary
• Chapter 10: Dynamic Cloth Simulations
  • Importing our character and walk cycle
  • Adding a rest pose
  • Creating clothing for our character
  • The cloth simulation
  • Using forces to enhance the simulation
  • Baking the cloth simulation
  • Adding final modifiers
  • Summary
• Chapter 11: Creating Dynamic Hair Using Particles
  • Reusing our alien character and walk cycle animation
  • Creating a Vertex Group
  • Creating hair particles that interact with physics
  • Grooming and styling
  • Baking the hair simulation to cache
  • Setting up a hair shader for rendering
  • Summary
• Part 3: Match Moving and Compositing
• Chapter 12: Matching Blender's Camera Movement to Live Action Footage
  • Creating an image sequence from a video
  • Importing the image sequence into Blender
  • Camera tracking or match moving
    • Placing trackers in the viewport
    • Tracking features that go off-screen
  • Solving and refining the track and orienting the scene
  • Testing the camera track with test objects
  • Summary
• Chapter 13: Compositing the Alien Cartoon Character onto the Live Action Footage
  • Importing our alien character and tracked camera into a new Blender project
    • Converting the tracked camera to keyframes
    • Importing the tracked camera into our new project
    • Importing the live-action image sequence
    • Positioning our character in the scene
  • Matching the lighting to our live-action scene
    • Adding an HDRI image to light our scene
  • Configuring View Layers
    • Using collections to separate render elements
  • Compositing using nodes
    • Rendering out one frame
    • Initiating the compositing process
    • Changing the backdrop image
    • Color grading the live-action footage
    • Blurring shadows
    • Color grading our image
  • Summary
• Chapter 14: The Final Render
  • Understanding the render settings
    • Enabling Motion Blur
  • Rendering an animation as an image sequence
  • Converting the image sequence into an MP4 video
  • Summary
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