Blender All-in-One For Dummies

Jason van Gumster is an expert Blender consultant to top studios and toolmakers. Jason and his family live the life of digital nomads while he builds custom tools and leads workshops on Blender all over the world. He’s author of all editions of Blender For Dummies, as well as GIMP Bible.

• Introduction 1Book 1: Wrapping Your Brain Around Blender 7Chapter 1: Discovering Blender 9Chapter 2: Understanding How Blender Thinks 29Chapter 3: Getting Your Hands Dirty Working in Blender 71Chapter 4: Working in Edit Mode and Object Mode 87Book 2: Creating Detailed 3D Scenes 123Chapter 1: Creating Anything You Can Imagine with Meshes 125Chapter 2: Simplifying Your Life as a Modeler with Modifiers 153Chapter 3: Sculpting in Virtual Space 177Chapter 4: Using Blender’s Non-Mesh Primitives 217Chapter 5: Getting Procedural with Geometry Nodes 257Book 3: Working with Colors and Materials 295Chapter 1: Changing That Boring Gray Default Material 297Chapter 2: Giving Models Texture 337Chapter 3: Lighting and Environment 369Chapter 4: Exporting and Rendering Scenes 409Book 4: Get Animated! 429Chapter 1: Animating Objects 431Chapter 2: Adding Controls to Your Scene 455Chapter 3: Rigging: The Art of Building an Animatable Puppet 481Chapter 4: Animating Object Deformations 531Chapter 5: Letting Blender Do the Work for You 553Chapter 6: Making 2D and 2.5D Animation with Grease Pencil 587Book 5: Sharing Your Work with the World 629Chapter 1: Editing Video and Animation 631Chapter 2: Compositing Images and Video 651Chapter 3: Mixing Video and 3D with Motion Tracking 681Book 6: Getting Technical 705Chapter 1: Working with Linked Data 707Chapter 2: Automating Blender with Python Scripting 719Index 735