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The rich companion website ( /learning-blender-files) will help you quickly master even the most complex techniques with bonus contents like video tutorials. He also walks you through integrating your animated character into a real-world video, using professional camera tracking, lighting, and compositing techniques. Author Oliver Villar provides full-color, hands-on chapters that cover every aspect of character creation: design, modeling, unwrapping, texturing, shading, rigging, animation, and rendering. Still the only Blender tutorial to take you from preproduction to final result, this guide is perfect for both novices and those moving from other software to Blender (open source and free software).


This edition covers the powerful new selection and modeling tools, as well as high-efficiency improvements related to other parts of the project such as texture painting, shading, rigging, rendering, and compositing. Now fully updated for Blender 2.78b and beyond, Learning Blender, Second Edition, walks you through every step of creating an outstanding 3D animated character with Blender, and then compositing it in a real video using a professional workflow. Master the Newest Blender Techniques for Creating Amazing 3D Characters: From Design and Modeling to Video Compositing This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book.
