Advantage of the Quick Favorites Menu Look at Models from Different Views Don’t Forget about Add-ons Lock a Camera to an Animated Character Name Everything Do Low-Resolution Test Renders Use Annotations to Plan Ask for Help Have Fun, but Take Breaks Chapter 21: Ten Excellent Community Resources Blender.org BlenderArtists.org BlenderNation BlenderBasics.com blender.stackexchange.com CGCookie.com Blend Swap (blendswap.com) Blender.community Social Media Blender.chat
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List of Tables
1 Chapter 1TABLE 1-1 Open Projects from the Blender Institute
2 Chapter 2TABLE 2-1 Keyboard/Mouse Keys for Navigating 3D SpaceTABLE 2-2 Hotkeys on the Numeric Keypad
3 Chapter 3TABLE 3-1 Useful Hotkey Sequences for Transformations
4 Chapter 11TABLE 11-1 Basic controls in the Graph Editor
5 Chapter 17TABLE 17-1 Helpful Mouse Actions in the SequencerTABLE 17-2 Common Features/Hotkeys in the Sequencer
6 Chapter 18TABLE 18-1 Commonly Used Mouse Actions in the CompositorTABLE 18-2 Commonly Used Hotkeys in the Compositor
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 1FIGURE 1-1: Blender through the years: Blender 1.8 (top left), Blender 2.46 (to...FIGURE 1-2: Open projects from the Blender Institute help drive Blender develop...FIGURE 1-3: The Blender splash screen.FIGURE 1-4: The default Blender interface.FIGURE 1-5: A typical Blender workspace includes at least one window containing...FIGURE 1-6: Your first pie (menu)!
2 Chapter 2FIGURE 2-1: The Editor Type menu.FIGURE 2-2: Navigation controls at the top right of the 3D Viewport give you fa...FIGURE 2-3: The View menu in the 3D Viewport (left) and the pie menu version of...FIGURE 2-4: The numeric keypad is your ultimate tool for navigating 3D space.FIGURE 2-5: Viewport shading types from the 3D Viewport’s header (left) and fro...FIGURE 2-6: You can control the position and orientation of your 3D cursor from...FIGURE 2-7: The Pivot Point menu in the 3D Viewport’s header (left) and as a pi...FIGURE 2-8: The Snap menu.FIGURE 2-9: Using the Ctrl+Alt+Q hotkey, you can quickly switch between Blender...FIGURE 2-10: You can open a floating Last Operator panel by pressing F9.FIGURE 2-11: The Annotations panel in the View tab of the Sidebar is where you ...FIGURE 2-12: Blender’s integrated search menu is a great way to get familiar wi...FIGURE 2-13: Add any workspace to your Blender window by navigating the menu in...FIGURE 2-14: Customizing a hotkey sequence directly from Blender’s menus.
3 Chapter 3FIGURE 3-1: The Transform Orientations menu from the 3D Viewport’s header (left...FIGURE 3-2: The Global, Local, Normal, Gimbal, View, and Cursor coordinate orie...FIGURE 3-3: Blender gives you an assortment of transform tools: Move, Rotate, S...FIGURE 3-4: The Gizmos menu in the 3D Viewport’s header gives you the ability t...FIGURE 3-5: The Snapping menu.FIGURE 3-6: You can view changes in the 3D Viewport’s header.
4 Chapter 4FIGURE 4-1: On the left, the Mode button allows you to switch between Object mo...FIGURE 4-2: The Modeling workspace gives you quick access to Edit mode and a sc...FIGURE 4-3: The Edit mode Select buttons.FIGURE 4-4: Vertex Select, Edge Select, Face Select, and Combo Select modes.FIGURE 4-5: Use the Viewport Overlays roll-out menu to enable face centers so i...FIGURE 4-6: Border Select, Circle Select, and Lasso Select.FIGURE 4-7: You can open a little Toolbar menu near your mouse cursor by pressi...FIGURE 4-8: Suzanne!FIGURE 4-9: Editing duplicated Suzannes!FIGURE 4-10: Three objects are sharing this datablock.FIGURE 4-11: A data schematic of linked Suzannes.FIGURE 4-12: Linking cubes to Suzanne.FIGURE 4-13: The Outliner is where you manage collections. Four chapters into t...FIGURE 4-14: The Blender File Browser.
5 Chapter 5FIGURE 5-1: From left to right, box modeling, point-for-point modeling, and scu...FIGURE 5-2: You can expand the Toolbar in Blender’s 3D Viewport by clicking its...FIGURE 5-3: Insetting (right) creates a nicer border on a complex shape than ju...FIGURE 5-4: Insetting can cause ugly overlapping intersections at corners.FIGURE 5-5: Clean corners on your inset, thanks to the power of the Merge opera...FIGURE 5-6: Using the Knife tool, you can prepare your mesh for other mesh oper...FIGURE 5-7: The Bisect gizmo allows you to adjust your bisecting cut after you’...FIGURE 5-8: The Bevel tool gives you the ability to add realism to your models ...FIGURE 5-9: The Last Operator panel gives you all the necessary controls for tw...FIGURE 5-10: Using the Spin tool, you can turn flat profiles into beautiful cyl...FIGURE 5-11: Use the Last Operator panel to tweak the number of steps or to hav...FIGURE 5-12: A closed edge loop (left) around a sphere and a terminating edge l...FIGURE 5-13: Some face loops selected on a sphere.FIGURE 5-14: An edge ring selected on a UV sphere.FIGURE 5-15: All the modifiers you can use on mesh objects.FIGURE 5-16: The Array and Bevel modifiers in Modifier Properties.FIGURE 5-17: The Mirror modifier.FIGURE 5-18: Vertex groups are created within the Object Data tab of the Proper...FIGURE 5-19: A cube with increasing levels of subdivision from 1 to 6.FIGURE 5-20: Adding the Subdivision Surface modifier to Suzanne.FIGURE 5-21: The Subdivision Surface modifier.FIGURE 5-22: Using Optimal Display on a mesh with three levels of subdivision.FIGURE 5-23: Filling a room with chairs by using the Array modifier.FIGURE 5-24: (1) Model the step. (2) Add an Empty for Object Offset and rotate ...
6 Chapter 6FIGURE 6-1: Blender’s sculpt tools give you the ability to create highly detail...FIGURE 6-2: The three kinds of image objects: Image Empty, Reference, and Backg...FIGURE 6-3: The Object Data tab of the Properties editor is where you can modif...FIGURE 6-4: The default work environment when you choose File ⇒ New ⇒ Sculp...FIGURE 6-5: Use the Texture panel in Active Tool Properties to make use of a te...FIGURE 6-6: The Multiresolution modifier block.FIGURE 6-7: The Dyntopo panel in Active Tool Properties allows you to enable dy...FIGURE 6-8: Beginning to model with the Poly Build tool. You start with three v...FIGURE 6-9: Using the Poly Build tool to start retopologizing your sculpt.FIGURE 6-10: On the left, a model sculpted with Dyntopo; on the right is the sa...
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