Blender 3D Basics: Second Edition

Blender is a powerful tool for creating advanced graphics including images, animation, and editing, models for 3D printing, and games. It provides a broad spectrum of functionalities in one single application like Lightning, Animation, Texturing, and Modeling. It competes with suites of software costing many thousands of dollars. Blender lets you do all of this within a single open source software package, and connects you to an active, worldwide community of users.

This book teaches you to model a maritime scene complete with boats and water, and then add materials, lighting, and animation. It demystifies the Blender interface and explains what each tool does so that you will be left with a thorough understanding of 3D. This book starts with an introduction to Blender and some background on the principles of animation, how they are applied to computer animation, and how these principles make animation better. Furthermore, the book helps you advance through various aspects of animation design through Blender interface like modeling, lighting, camera work, and animation with the help of several simple projects. Each project will help you practice what you have learned and do more advanced work in all areas.

Finally, with creating a video and a stereoscopic 3D animation the book concludes by bringing it all together with an advanced project covering all subject areas of animation.