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Blender for Animation and Film-Based Production

Author Michelangelo Manrique
Release Date: 2015/09/01
ISBN: 9781482204742
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Book Description

See Why Blender Is Right for Your Studio’s Pipeline

Blender for Animation and Film-Based Production explores why Blender is ideal for animation films. It demonstrates Blender’s capability to do the job in each production department. Whether you are a beginner or more advanced user, you’ll see why Blender should be taken into consideration in animation and film production.

This Blender reference will help you:

  • Manage your projects from start to finish
  • Understand the different stages in any animation production
  • See how studios work and develop their animation projects

Describing the versatility and power of Blender, the book shows you why studios should incorporate Blender in their pipeline. It avoids tedious tutorials and incomprehensible examples. Instead, the book guides you toward finding efficient solutions for issues with your production files or pipeline. It familiarizes you with the animation industry and explores the risks involved in choosing Blender as a primary tool in animation studios.

Table of Contents

  1. Preliminaries
  2. Dedication
  3. Preface
  4. Author
  5. Chapter 1: Why Blender?
  6. Figure 1.1
    1. Figure 1.1
    2. Figure 1.2
    3. Figure 1.3
    4. Figure 1.4
    5. Figure 1.5
    6. Figure 1.6
    7. Figure 1.7
    8. Figure 1.8
  7. Chapter 2: History of Blender
    1. 2.1 Blender's Road Map
  8. Figure 2.1
    1. Figure 2.1
    2. Figure 2.2
    3. Figure 2.3
    4. Figure 2.4
    5. Figure 2.5
  9. Chapter 3: Blender User Interface
    1. 3.1 Start-Up Blender
    2. 3.2 Controls and Buttons
    3. 3.3 Editor System
      1. 3.3.1 Editor's Header
      2. 3.3.2 Systematize Editors
      3. 3.3.3 Workspace Layout
        1. 3.3.3.1 Configuring our Workspace Layout
      4. 3.3.4 Scenes
        1. 3.3.4.1 Configuring Our Scene
    4. 3.4 Editor Types
      1. 3.4.1 3D View
      2. 3.4.2 Timeline
      3. 3.4.3 Graphic Editor
      4. 3.4.4 DopeSheet
      5. 3.4.5 NLA Editor
      6. 3.4.6 UV/Image Editor
      7. 3.4.7 Video Sequence Editor
      8. 3.4.8 Text Editor
      9. 3.4.9 Node Editor
      10. 3.4.10 Logic Editor
      11. 3.4.11 Properties Editor
      12. 3.4.12 Outliner
      13. 3.4.13 User Preferences
      14. 3.4.14 Info Window
      15. 3.4.15 File Browser
      16. 3.4.16 Console
    5. 3.5 Modes and Context
    6. 3.6 Internationalization
  10. Figure 3.1
    1. Figure 3.1
    2. Figure 3.2
    3. Figure 3.3
    4. Figure 3.4
    5. Figure 3.5
    6. Figure 3.6
    7. Figure 3.7
    8. Figure 3.8
    9. Figure 3.9
    10. Figure 3.10
    11. Figure 3.11
    12. Figure 3.12
    13. Figure 3.13
    14. Figure 3.14
    15. Figure 3.15
    16. Figure 3.16
    17. Figure 3.17
    18. Figure 3.18
    19. Figure 3.19
    20. Figure 3.20
    21. Figure 3.21
    22. Figure 3.22
    23. Figure 3.23
    24. Figure 3.24
  11. Chapter 4: Blender in a Digital Studio Pipeline
    1. 4.1 Using Blender for Preproduction Tasks
      1. 4.1.1 Developing the Script with Blender
      2. 4.1.2 Using the Video Sequence Editor to Build the Storyboard
      3. 4.1.3 Creating Concept Art
    2. 4.2 Using Blender for Postproduction Tasks
    3. 4.3 Organize the Project in Disk
    4. 4.4 Blender and the Open Movies
  12. Figure 4.1
    1. Figure 4.1
    2. Figure 4.2
    3. Figure 4.3
    4. Figure 4.4
    5. Figure 4.5
    6. Figure 4.6
    7. Figure 4.7
    8. Figure 4.8
    9. Figure 4.9
  13. Chapter 5: Modeling Your Main Character
    1. 5.1 Modeling in Blender
    2. 5.2 Modifiers
    3. 5.3 Making Props
    4. 5.4 Building the Environment of the Scene
    5. 5.5 Topology Solutions
  14. Figure 5.1
    1. Figure 5.1
    2. Figure 5.2
    3. Figure 5.3
    4. Figure 5.4
    5. Figure 5.5
    6. Figure 5.6
    7. Figure 5.7
    8. Figure 5.8
    9. Figure 5.9
    10. Figure 5.10
    11. Figure 5.11
    12. Figure 5.12
    13. Figure 5.13
    14. Figure 5.14
    15. Figure 5.15
    16. Figure 5.16
    17. Figure 5.17
    18. Figure 5.18
    19. Figure 5.19
    20. Figure 5.20
    21. Figure 5.21
    22. Figure 5.22
    23. Figure 5.23
    24. Figure 5.24
    25. Figure 5.25
    26. Figure 5.26
  15. Chapter 6: Applying Materials to Our Objects
    1. 6.1 Preview
    2. 6.2 Diffuse
    3. 6.3 Specular
    4. 6.4 Shading
    5. 6.5 Transparency
    6. 6.6 Mirror
    7. 6.7 Subsurface Scattering
    8. 6.8 Strand
    9. 6.9 Options
    10. 6.10 Shadow
  16. Figure 6.1
    1. Figure 6.1
    2. Figure 6.2
    3. Figure 6.3
    4. Figure 6.4
    5. Figure 6.5
    6. Figure 6.6
    7. Figure 6.7
    8. Figure 6.8
    9. Figure 6.9
    10. Figure 6.10
    11. Figure 6.11
    12. Figure 6.12
    13. Figure 6.13
    14. Figure 6.14
    15. Figure 6.15
    16. Figure 6.16
    17. Figure 6.17
    18. Figure 6.18
  17. Chapter 7: Blender Internal Textures
    1. 7.1 Preview
    2. 7.2 Colors
    3. 7.3 Mapping
    4. 7.4 Influence
  18. Figure 7.1
    1. Figure 7.1
    2. Figure 7.2
    3. Figure 7.3
    4. Figure 7.4
    5. Figure 7.5
    6. Figure 7.6
    7. Figure 7.7
  19. Chapter 8: UV Unwrap and External Textures
    1. 8.1 Unwrapping a Mesh
    2. 8.2 UV Layouts
    3. 8.3 Editing UVS
    4. 8.4 Optimize the UV Map
    5. 8.5 Combine UV Maps
    6. 8.6 Refine Layout
    7. 8.7 Applying Images
  20. Figure 8.1
    1. Figure 8.1
    2. Figure 8.2
    3. Figure 8.3
    4. Figure 8.4
    5. Figure 8.5
    6. Figure 8.6
    7. Figure 8.7
    8. Figure 8.8
  21. Chapter 9: Introduction to Rigging: Armatures and Bones
    1. 9.1 The Armature Object
    2. 9.2 Bones
      1. 9.2.1 Bones' Segments
      2. 9.2.2 Bones' Influence
  22. Figure 9.1
    1. Figure 9.1
    2. Figure 9.2
    3. Figure 9.3
    4. Figure 9.4
    5. Figure 9.5
    6. Figure 9.6
    7. Figure 9.7
    8. Figure 9.8
    9. Figure 9.9
    10. Figure 9.10
    11. Figure 9.11
    12. Figure 9.12
    13. Figure 9.13
  23. Chapter 10: The Animation Process
    1. 10.1 Timeline and Animatics
    2. 10.2 Markers
    3. 10.3 Keyframes
    4. 10.4 Types of Animation
      1. 10.4.1 The Twelve Principles Developed at Disney
    5. 10.5 Using Constraints in Animation
    6. 10.6 Shape Keys
    7. 10.7 Walkcycle
  24. Figure 10.1
    1. Figure 10.1
    2. Figure 10.2
    3. Figure 10.3
    4. Figure 10.4
    5. Figure 10.5
    6. Figure 10.6
    7. Figure 10.7
    8. Figure 10.8
  25. Chapter 11: Introduction to Lighting
    1. 11.1 Lamps
    2. 11.2 Shadow
    3. 11.3 Environment Light
    4. 11.4 Ambient Occlusion
    5. 11.5 Resolving Issues with Lights
  26. Figure 11.1
    1. Figure 11.1
    2. Figure 11.2
    3. Figure 11.3
    4. Figure 11.4
    5. Figure 11.5
    6. Figure 11.6
    7. Figure 11.7
    8. Figure 11.8
    9. Figure 11.9
  27. Chapter 12: Compositing Nodes
    1. 12.1 Setting Up Nodes
    2. 12.2 Using Nodes
    3. 12.3 Node Types
      1. 12.3.1 Input Nodes
      2. 12.3.2 Output Nodes
      3. 12.3.3 Color Nodes
      4. 12.3.4 Vector Nodes (Figure 12.8)
      5. 12.3.5 Filter Nodes (Figure 12.9)
      6. 12.3.6 Convertor Nodes (Figure 12.10)
      7. 12.3.7 Matte Nodes (Figure 12.11)
      8. 12.3.8 Distortion Nodes (Figure 12.12)
  28. Figure 12.1
    1. Figure 12.1
    2. Figure 12.2
    3. Figure 12.3
    4. Figure 12.4
    5. Figure 12.5
    6. Figure 12.6
    7. Figure 12.7
    8. Figure 12.8
    9. Figure 12.9
    10. Figure 12.10
    11. Figure 12.11
    12. Figure 12.12
    13. Figure 12.13
    14. Figure 12.14
    15. Figure 12.15
    16. Figure 12.16
  29. Chapter 13: Using Particles and Dynamics
    1. 13.1 Dynamics and Force Fields
      1. 13.1.1 Drag
      2. 13.1.2 Turbulence
      3. 13.1.3 Boid
      4. 13.1.4 Curve Guide
      5. 13.1.5 Texture
      6. 13.1.6 Lennard-Jones
      7. 13.1.7 Charge
      8. 13.1.8 Harmonic
      9. 13.1.9 Magnetic
      10. 13.1.10 Vortex
      11. 13.1.11 Wind
      12. 13.1.12 Force
    2. 13.2 Collisions
    3. 13.3 Particles
      1. 13.3.1 Emission
      2. 13.3.2 Velocity
      3. 13.3.3 Rotation
      4. 13.3.4 Physics
      5. 13.3.5 Render
      6. 13.3.6 Display
      7. 13.3.7 Children
      8. 13.3.8 Field Weights
      9. 13.3.9 Force Field Settings
      10. 13.3.10 Cache
    4. 13.4 Soft Body
      1. 13.4.1 Soft Body Solver
      2. 13.4.2 Soft Body
    5. 13.5 Cloth
    6. 13.6 Fluids
    7. 13.7 Smoke
      1. 13.7.1 Flow
  30. Figure 13.1
    1. Figure 13.1
    2. Figure 13.2
    3. Figure 13.3
    4. Figure 13.4
    5. Figure 13.5
    6. Figure 13.6
    7. Figure 13.7
    8. Figure 13.8
    9. Figure 13.9
    10. Figure 13.10
    11. Figure 13.11
    12. Figure 13.12
    13. Figure 13.13
    14. Figure 13.14
    15. Figure 13.15
    16. Figure 13.16
    17. Figure 13.17
    18. Figure 13.18
    19. Figure 13.19
    20. Figure 13.20
    21. Figure 13.21
    22. Figure 13.22
    23. Figure 13.23
    24. Figure 13.24
    25. Figure 13.25
    26. Figure 13.26
    27. Figure 13.27
    28. Figure 13.28
    29. Figure 13.29
    30. Figure 13.30
    31. Figure 13.31
    32. Figure 13.32
    33. Figure 13.33
    34. Figure 13.34
    35. Figure 13.35
    36. Figure 13.36
    37. Figure 13.37
    38. Figure 13.38
    39. Figure 13.39
    40. Figure 13.40
    41. Figure 13.41
    42. Figure 13.42
  31. Chapter 14: Render
    1. 14.1 Blender Internal
      1. 14.1.1 Render
      2. 14.1.2 Dimensions
      3. 14.1.3 Antialiasing
      4. 14.1.4 Sampled Motion Blur
      5. 14.1.5 Shading
      6. 14.1.6 Performance
      7. 14.1.7 Post Processing
      8. 14.1.8 Freestyle
      9. 14.1.9 Stamp
      10. 14.1.10 Output
      11. 14.1.11 Bake
    2. 14.2 Cycles
    3. 14.3 External Render Engines
      1. 14.3.1 Freestyle
      2. 14.3.2 Yafray
    4. 14.4 Render Settings and Tips
      1. 14.4.1 Using Layers to Organize Our Render
      2. 14.4.2 When Something Goes Wrong
  32. Figure 14.1
    1. Figure 14.1
    2. Figure 14.2
    3. Figure 14.3
    4. Figure 14.4
    5. Figure 14.5
    6. Figure 14.6
    7. Figure 14.7
    8. Figure 14.8
    9. Figure 14.9
    10. Figure 14.10
    11. Figure 14.11
    12. Figure 14.12
    13. Figure 14.13
    14. Figure 14.14
    15. Figure 14.15
    16. Figure 14.16
    17. Figure 14.17
    18. Figure 14.18
    19. Figure 14.19
    20. Figure 14.20
    21. Figure 14.21
  33. Chapter 15: Final Movie Compositing
    1. 15.1 Using Blender in Postproduction
      1. 15.1.1 Effects
        1. 15.1.1.1 Add
        2. 15.1.1.2 Subtract
        3. 15.1.1.3 Alpha Over and Alpha Under
        4. 15.1.1.4 Cross
        5. 15.1.1.5 Gamma Cross
        6. 15.1.1.6 Multiply
        7. 15.1.1.7 Wipe
        8. 15.1.1.8 Glow
        9. 15.1.1.9 Transform
        10. 15.1.1.10 Color
        11. 15.1.1.11 Speed Control
        12. 15.1.1.12 Multicam Selector
        13. 15.1.1.13 Adjustment Layer
      2. 15.1.2 Audio
  34. Chapter 16: Python
    1. 16.1 Python API
      1. 16.1.1 Accessing Data
      2. 16.1.2 Accessing Attributes
      3. 16.1.3 Creating or Removing Data
      4. 16.1.4 Context
      5. 16.1.5 Operators
      6. 16.1.6 Example
      7. 16.1.7 Types
        1. 16.1.7.1 Native Types
        2. 16.1.7.2 Internal Types
        3. 16.1.7.3 Mathutils Types
      8. 16.1.8 Animation Using Python
    2. 16.2 Blender/Python API in Film Production
  35. Figure 16.1
    1. Figure 16.1
    2. Figure 16.2
    3. Figure 16.3
    4. Figure 16.4
    5. Figure 16.5
  36. Chapter 17: Film Promotion and Conclusion
    1. 17.1 Conclusion
  37. Appendix
  38. References
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