Mastering Blender

Blender, the open-source 3D software, is more popular than ever and continues to add functionality. If you're an intermediate or advanced user, this new edition of Tony Mullen's expert guide is what you need to get up to speed on Blender and expand your skills. From modeling, texturing, animation, and visual effects to high-level techniques for film, television, games, and more, this book covers it all. It also highlights Blender's very latest features, including new camera tracking tools and a new renderer.

Provides intermediate to advanced coverage of Blender and its modeling, texturing, animation, and visual effects tools Covers advanced topics such as cloth, fur and fluids, Python scripting, and the Blender game engine Brings you up to speed on Blender's new camera tracking tools and new renderer Showcases techniques used in real-world 3D animation and visual effects

Create realistic animation and visual effects with Blender and this expert guide that shows you step by step how to do it.

Author Notes

Tony Mullen, PhD, has a broad background in CG-related work. He teaches at Tsuda College and Musashino Art University in Tokyo, where his courses include modeling and animation with Blender as well as the Python programming language. His screen credits include writer, codirector or lead animator on several short films, including the award winning short The Devices of Gustav Brastache. Bachelor of Science. He is the author of Introducing Character Animation with Blender and several other books on Blender from Sybex. You can follow him on Twitter at @ tonymullen.

Introduction	p. xxi
Part I Fundamentals of Blender 3D	p. 1
Chapter 1 Working in Blender	p. 3
Data and Data Access	p. 3
Using the Outliner	p. 4
Exploring the User Preferences	p. 11
Other Options	p. 22
Improving Your Workflow	p. 22
Viewport Hot Keys and Properties	p. 22
Grouping and Selection	p. 25
Object Manipulation	p. 29
The Bottom Line	p. 30
Chapter 2 Working with Textures and Materials	p. 33
Creating UV Textures with Blender and GIMP	p. 33
Textures and Texture Mapping	p. 33
UV Mapping	p. 35
Texturing a Locomotive Smokestack	p. 36
Smoothing the Seams with Texture Baking	p. 50
Advanced Materials with Material Nodes	p. 60
Adding Soot to the Smokestack	p. 60
Hot Lava with Nodes	p. 67
Transparency and Subsurface Scattering	p. 76
Transparent Shadows	p. 78
Subsurface Scattering	p. 79
Creating Convincing Real-Time Viewport Materials with Material Capture Images	p. 81
The Bottom Line	p. 84
Chapter 3 Sculpting and Retopo Workflow	p. 87
Sculpting with Blender	p. 87
Multiresolution Modeling	p. 88
Sculpting Tools	p. 89
Sculpting a Baby's Head	p. 94
The Sculpting Process	p. 101
Retopologizing the Mesh	p. 118
Normal Map Baking	p. 126
The Bottom Line	p. 131
Chapter 4 Rendering and Render Engines	p. 133
What Is Rendering?	p. 133
Real-Time and Viewport Rendering	p. 134
Rendering with Blender Internal	p. 136
Rendering with Cycles	p. 144
Cycles and Sampling	p. 144
Nodes Revisited	p. 145
Rendering with Renderfarm.fi	p. 154
Distributed Rendering for the People	p. 155
Contributing Resources	p. 158
The Bottom Line	p. 158
Part II Physics and Simulations	p. 161
Chapter 5 Getting Flexible with Soft Bodies and Cloth	p. 163
The Hard Facts on Soft Bodies	p. 163
Understanding Soft Body Basics	p. 164
Baking	p. 167
Animating a Spring with Soft Bodies	p. 167
Force Fields and Collision	p. 173
Simulating Cloth and Clothing	p. 175
Hanging the Drapes	p. 176
Clothing for Animation	p. 179
The Bottom Line	p. 200
Chapter 6 Working with Particles	p. 201
Introducing Emitter Particles	p. 201
Adding a Particle System	p. 202
Emitter Particles	p. 202
Baking	p. 206
Physics	p. 206
Display and Render Options	p. 208
Using Force Fields and Deflection	p. 212
Setting Up an Explode Modifier with Dynamic Particles	p. 220
Working with Boids	p. 223
Setting Up the Boids System	p. 224
Working with Goals and Predators	p. 224
Creating a Simple Flying Bird	p. 225
Hair Particles	p. 227
A Trip to the Beauty Salon	p. 228
Preparing the Mesh	p. 228
Editing Hair Particles	p. 230
Releasing Your Inner Hairdresser	p. 236
Materials and Textures for Hair	p. 242
Creating Clumping, Roughness, and Kink	p. 246
Lighting and Rendering	p. 250
The Bottom Line	p. 251
Chapter 7 Volumetric Fluid, Smoke, and Fire	p. 253
Using the Blender Fluid Simulator	p. 253
Getting Started with Fluids	p. 253
Inflow and Outflow	p. 264
Time, Size, and Resolution	p. 268
Particles	p. 271
Obstacles and Animation	p. 278
Animating Fluid Properties	p. 287
Getting the Shot	p. 287
Bottle of Pop	p. 288
Rushing Creek	p. 294
Going Further with Fluids	p. 301
Simulating Smoke and Fire	p. 301
Rendering Smoke	p. 303
Simulating Flames	p. 307
The Bottom Line	p. 313
Chapter 8 Bullet Physics and the Blender Game Engine	p. 315
Physics in the BGE	p. 315
Getting Started with the Blender Game Engine	p. 316
Using Actions in BGE	p. 324
Rigid Body Simulation and F-Curves	p. 326
Baking Game F-Curves	p. 326
Frame Rate and Simulation Speed	p. 328
Recording Physics and Animation	p. 328
Actor Parameters, Boundaries, and Hull Types	p. 334
General Tips on Working with Bullet	p. 344
Using Physics. Visualization	p. 344
Joints, Ragdolls, and Robots	p. 345
Using Rigid Body Joint Constraints	p. 348
Using Generic 6 DoF Joints	p. 350
Setting Up a Ragdoll Armature	p. 350
Controlling an Armature	p. 357
A Passive-Walking Robot	p. 362
Further Resources	p. 364
The Bottom Line	p. 366
Part III Video Post-production in Blender	p. 367
Chapter 9 Compositing with Nodes	p. 369
Compositing with Render Layers and Passes	p. 369
What is Compositing?	p. 369
What Are Nodes?	p. 370
A Closer Look at Render Layers and Nodes	p. 370
Reconstructing an Image with Render Passes	p. 374
Combining Passes	p. 379
Node Groups	p. 389
Pulling a Green Screen Matte with Nodes	p. 390
Working with Green Screen Video	p. 390
Working with Composite Nodes	p. 392
Using the AnimAll Add-on	p. 397
Animating the Garbage Matte	p. 405
Using Render Layers and Nodes	p. 408
Using Alpha Overlays and Premultiplication	p. 410
Spill Correction and Cleaning Up	p. 412
Tweaking Color Channels	p. 413
Finishing Off the Matte	p. 415
Muting Nodes	p. 417
Learning More about Compositing	p. 418
The Bottom Line	p. 418
Chapter 10 Advanced 3D/Video Compositing	p. 419
Camera Tracking and the Movie Clip Editor	p. 419
Camera Tracking from Video	p. 422
Anatomy of a Good Feature	p. 422
Tracking Markers and Track Settings	p. 423
Tracking	p. 425
Getting Good Tracks	p. 425
Camera Solving	p. 431
Setting Up the Scene in 3D	p. 437
Reconstruction Mode	p. 437
The Node Setup	p. 439
Masking in the Clip Editor	p. 441
Editing the Mask	p. 442
Compositing with Masks	p. 446
Other Mask Features	p. 446
The Bottom Line	p. 451
Chapter 11 Working with the Video Sequence Editor	p. 453
Introducing the Video Sequence Editor	p. 453
Importing Video and Image Sequences	p. 455
Setting Frame Rates	p. 458
Working with Sequence Strips	p. 460
Editing Sound	p. 463
Using Markers	p. 465
Accessing Other VSE Display Modes	p. 465
Adding Transitions and Compositing in the VSE	p. 466
Alpha Overlays	p. 467
Fades and Transitions	p. 468
Fading to Black	p. 470
Transform	p. 470
Other Effects	p. 473
Meta-Strips	p. 474
Working with Blender Scenes in the VSE	p. 474
Adding Captions to a Video	p. 474
Composited Scenes	p. 478
Rendering and Output	p. 479
The Bottom Line	p. 480
Part IV Blender-Python	p. 481
Chapter 12 The Blender-Python Interpreter	p. 483
Introducing Python	p. 483
What Is Python	p. 483
Why Python?	p. 485
Further Resources	p. 486
Understanding the Python Development Environment	p. 488
Using the Command-Line Shell	p. 488
Accessing the System Console	p. 489
Using the Text Editor	p. 491
Understanding Python Syntax	p. 491
Data Types and Structures	p. 491
Control Flow	p. 496
Functions	p. 498
Classes and OOP	p. 500
The dir() Function	p. 501
Modules	p. 501
The Bottom Line	p. 502
Chapter 13 Python Scripting for Blender	p. 503
Editing and Running Scripts in Blender	p. 503
Calling Functions from the Command Line	p. 505
Working with Text Editors	p. 506
The Blender Text Editor	p. 507
Script Format and Templates	p. 508
Adding a Simple Mesh Object to the Scene	p. 508
Creating an Interactive Add-on	p. 511
The Addon Add Object Template	p. 511
The bl_info Block	p. 513
Working with Custom Properties	p. 518
Composing the Add-on	p. 518
The Complete Add Bouncing Cone Code	p. 527
The Bottom Line	p. 530
Part V Mastering the Blender Game Engine	p. 531
Chapter 14 Creating Assets for the Blender Game Engine	p. 533
Creating Content for the Game Engine	p. 533
Modeling a Simple Low-Poly Character	p. 534
Texture Painting	p. 541
Rigging and Animating the Character	p. 545
Creating a Walk Cycle	p. 549
Setting Up the World	p. 553
Baking Procedural Textures for a Simple Skybox	p. 554
Creating a Simple Maze	p. 561
Getting More Familiar with the BGE Environment	p. 567
Placing Your Objects in the Game World	p. 568
Setting Material Options	p. 569
Using Lighting in the Game Engine	p. 571
Vertex Painting for Light Effects	p. 572
The Bottom Line	p. 572
Chapter 15 Making Things Happen in the Game Engine	p. 573
Working with Logic Bricks	p. 573
Understanding Logic Brick Basics	p. 574
Setting Up the Camera	p. 583
Using Properties, Messages, and States	p. 583
Setting Up Bad Guys	p. 583
Collecting Treasure and Racking Up Points	p. 590
Creating Special Effects with Textures	p. 594
Creating Dynamic Text	p. 594
Creating Animated Textures	p. 596
Working with Sound in the BGE	p. 602
The Bottom Line	p. 603
Chapter 16 Python Power in the Blender Game Engine	p. 605
From Logic Bricks to Python	p. 605
Controlling a Character with Python	p. 606
Python Power for the BGE	p. 610
Creating a Teleportation Machine with Python	p. 610
Creating a Login Screen	p. 615
Sound Effects and Multiple Viewports	p. 622
Working with Viewports	p. 622
Accessing Sound with Python	p. 626
Further Resources	p. 628
The Bottom Line	p. 628
Appendix The Bottom Line	p. 631
Chapter 1 Working in Blender	p. 631
Chapter 2 Working with Textures and Materials	p. 632
Chapter 3 Sculpting and Retopo Workflow	p. 633
Chapter 4 Rendering and Render Engines	p. 634
Chapter 5 Getting Flexible with Soft Bodies and Cloth	p. 635
Chapter 6 Working with Particles	p. 635

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