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Learning Blender: A Hands-On Guide to Creating 3D Animated Characters 2nd Edition

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Master the Newest Blender Techniques for Creating Amazing 3D Characters: From Design and Modeling to Video 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. 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.

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). 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. He also walks you through integrating your animated character into a real-world video, using professional camera tracking, lighting, and compositing techniques.

The rich companion website (blendtuts.com/learning-blender-files) will help you quickly master even the most complex techniques with bonus contents like video tutorials. By the time you’re done, you’ll be ready to create outstanding characters for all media―and you’ll have up-to-date skills for any 3D project, whether it involves characters or not.

  • Learn Blender’s updated user interface, navigation, and selection techniques
  • Create your first scene with Blender and the Blender Render and Cycles render engines
  • Organize an efficient, step-by-step pipeline to streamline workflow in any project
  • Master modeling, unwrapping, and texturing
  • Bring your character to life with materials and shading
  • Create your character’s skeleton and make it walk
  • Use Camera Tracking to mix 3D objects into a real-world video
  • Transform a raw rendered scene into the final result using Blender’s compositing nodes
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  5. Publication date
    April 3, 2017
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6.95 x 0.8 x 9 inches
  8. Print length
    368 pages
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“Oliver Villar’s book will give you a solid foundation in Blender and computer graphics in general. Filled with well-crafted examples and lessons, this book will give you the tools you need to succeed as an artist.”

―David Andrade, Producer, Theory Studios

“The days are now over when beginners found learning Blender 3D difficult. Oliver Villar introduces to beginners the best of Blender’s 3D features and 3D fundamentals in fun and exciting ways. His approach of completing a character from scratch, touching every aspect of 3D from Blender’s point of view, is truly filled with explanations of techniques and important tools that will help readers to bring their ideas to life creatively while following professional workflows in 3D.

“Starting with the fundamentals of 3D, this is a great resource for every beginner artist who is looking to learn Blender 3D. It’s truly a book written with great dedication!”

―Waqas Abdul Majeed, CG Generalist, www.waqasmajeed.com

“I found Oliver Villar’s book Learning Blender to be an essential tool in getting users not only acquainted with Blender but also in preparing them by explaining the history and the magic that has made Blender what it is now. His book also prepares users to be productive and informed by explaining the community and its various portals. His book is complete in explaining all the aspects of the UI and acquainting users with the classic G, S, and R. The exercises are perfect for getting users on the level to begin making their own worlds. I was even pleased to see him discussing F2, ripping with V, and even knife project, which are classics I usually consider to be more advanced. This book is a no-holds-barred approach to getting the most out of this capable little program. I must also add that the character created is attractive and well created and is a fine example of using the program for character modelling. Oliver is truly a skilled artist and that shines through in his use of this program. “

―Jerry Perkins, 3D Conceptor, Fenix Fire

About the Author

Oliver Villar, born in Galicia (Spain) in 1987, has been drawing since he was a kid. His interest in art brought him into 3D, which he’s been studying since 2004. He used different commercial 3D software before stumbling onto Blender in 2008. Since then, he uses Blender professionally as a freelance 3D designer and tutor. In 2010 he funded blendtuts.com, a website in which he’s devoted to offer quality Blender training videos to the community. Currently, he’s working as the co-director of Luke’s Escape, a 3D animated short film made with Blender.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Professional; 2nd edition (April 3, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0134663462
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0134663463
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.52 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.95 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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J. A. Grogan
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is excellent!
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2017
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OK, I just spent about 30 good minutes reviewing the table of contents and key chapters in the book. Since I have did video tutorials of creating models in Blender before, while not an expert on 3D modeling, that experience has at least prepared me what to look for in evaluating this book for it's capacity to help me become a better 3D modeler in Blender.

There were two things I was concerned about when I bought this book:

1) The author is a native of Spain so would I be able to understand his style of English?
a) Yes, his English is excellent, concise, and attention holding and not droning or boring.

2) To teach all this book teaches in about 325 pages is a whole lot to learn and not a lot of pages to learn it in. It also, because of the very visual nature of what is being taught requires quite a lot of images to illustrate concepts and explanations that no amount of words could do concisely or as accurately so that reduces the amount of teaching verbal explanation quite a bit in 125 pages.
a) The book manages to teach everything concisely and well as promised in the 325 pages. The table of contents of index where given extra details when he organized the writing of this book so it could be used as a quick review & reference source by forgetful amateurs such as myself. The basic concepts are taught generically and simply as learning, preparation, and practice before you are taken to actually applying the same concepts and tools to modeling a character. The book is quite detailed in teaching you these things.

This book is excellent!
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Atomkey
5.0 out of 5 stars Get's you introduced to the Blender Tool Set very quickly - great selection.
Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2018
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Fantastic - this is a short book - not that I care or measure in the thickness thereof, but about a half inch thick. I add that info because I was expecting some rather lengthy read. I was disappointed at first. But - it gets to the point really quick. I would expect anyone that is starting with vector graphics the first time might have to add in some you tube time to go along with this. But if you already have a general idea on what a vector line is (bezier curve), a plane (not that you fly), and a coordinate system (x, y, z) - then this book will get you into 2D layout to extrusion into solid forms very quickly. From there you go quickly into Boolean operations, etc.

In short fashion you will actually build the little guy on the cover of the book. And he's not that hard to make with the way the author explains it. For myself, I had no interest in making characters, I just wanted a quick introduction into the tool set. But if you are wondering about the character art, then you will be happy with this selection.

I was happy with this more than I expected. And I have already used it more than once as a reference because the progress of the tool set is laid out in short order in about 1/4 of the total book and reads from simplicity to complexity...
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4.0 out of 5 stars This book has become part of my desk. I'm ...
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2018
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This book has become part of my desk. I'm very early in my Blender training and this book helps me by answering my questions. How to navigate the screens, where's the this or the that, you know the things beginners need to know. Helps tie all the videos and forums together.
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Wesley D
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommend
Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2017
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Oliver Villar' is a master teacher taking you all the way from an idea and a crude
sketch to a short finished animation. Unlike so many other blender books he even
delves into character design philosophy where he blocks out a character in an
iterative process instead of just presenting a finished design that doesn't let you
see the process by which the artist created it.

The book is generously illustrated and the author includes on his website plenty
of videos made for the book that are a great help in learning.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent training for using Blender to build and rig characters.
Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2018
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Excellently written and updated book. I am working through the tutorials for the character mesh building and rigging. I am finding this an easy to follow step-by-step approach for modelling characters correctly. It also has a great guide to Blender functionality and use in the early sections for version 2.78.
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country cat
5.0 out of 5 stars good book
Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2021
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I bought this for my son who usually struggles with tech stuff. He was able to create some cool stuff while using this book. I bought it for a specific version of Bender and found out when i looked at the book that i had the wrong version. But, it still was usable.
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Harmonybee
4.0 out of 5 stars A very helpful guide for 3D characters
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2019
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This book has demystified 3D character creation. I just wish Blender wasn’t so buggy. The version I’m using now 2.81 is more reliable. Hopefully I’ll be able to apply what I learned when modeling my own characters.
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Stalones
3.0 out of 5 stars WAY BEHIND the current release, buy only for concepts not instruction.
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2020
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This book seems to be well written, easy to follow, and a good resource. However, this edition (2nd) that I purchased is pretty behind the current version (2.9) and as such there are commands that don't work as they should, instructions that have changed, or items that have simply been moved to new areas of the program. This is always an issue with buying books based on computer programs so I wasn't all that surprised. If you were depending on this book to learn though you would be frustrated. The concept though, character creation, is VERY good and I think at least the subject is timeless even if its in program directions aren't. Buy the book for the character development but don't expect to get a lot from the directions although a lot of them still work fine.
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Elizabeth Hopkins
5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive guide to Blender newbies!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 14, 2021
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Great book!
My daughter has found this really useful for her Animation course at University & has taught herself from it - a bonus when she goes to class & answers questions from other students!!! It covers just about every topic you would need to know to get yourself to grips with this complex 3D software program!
Would recommend it!
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drup
5.0 out of 5 stars ideale aanvulling voor wie blender leert
Reviewed in Germany on May 7, 2020
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een heel goede hulp bij het leren van blender. dit programma is zodaning uitgebreid dat je onmogelijk alles kan leren (tenzij je als professional ermeebezig bent). alles is heel goed en duidelijk uitgelegd
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5.0 out of 5 stars Blender 3D
Reviewed in Spain on January 14, 2020
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Cómo crear un personaje animado desde el modelado, texturizado, hasta el video tracking. Es un proyecto sencillo pero completo. Y el profesor blendtuts Oliver Villar es de lo mejorcito que hay.
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Andrea Correani
5.0 out of 5 stars Semplice ed efficace
Reviewed in Italy on November 6, 2019
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Molto bello, nonostante alcune variazioni dovute alla versione di Blender utilizzata (2.7x, io ho la 2.8).

L'inglese utilizzato è immediato e lineare, per cui basta una conoscenza scolastica come la mia per capirlo.

Alla fine si ha un'idea molto chiara di come utilizzare Blender: creare ed animare un personaggio è una scusa per mostrare l'intero flusso di lavoro, dalla modellazione al compositing (e oltre: si parte dalla fase di progettazione del personaggio, ovvero di qualunque cosa vogliamo modellare). Ovviamente non è tutto semplice come la fa lui, ma d'altronde lo ripete diverse volte (ad esempio, nella creazione delle mani riuscire a creare le proporzioni corrette è impresa tutt'altro che semplice). Unica nota: io ho seguito bene il testo perché avevo già un'infarinatura di Blender, non so se partendo completamente da zero avrei seguito altrettanto bene.

Naturalmente, alla fine si saprà animare un personaggio come lo ha fatto lui: creare personaggi più complessi e realistici è molto più complicato (il rigging, ad esempio, è estremamente complesso, soprattutto per il volto se si vogliono simulare le espressioni facciali). CIò non toglie nulla al valore di questo testo, che personalmente ho trovato illuminante sotto molti aspetti.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is THE book for Blender. New people or Experienced.
Reviewed in Canada on October 12, 2017
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This is the book you want to learn blender. I was already a good animator but all the other aspects like modelling and texturing I was a no-go at. I bought this book, and this book is good for people experienced or completely new to blender. It's for everyone. The best part about it is that it teaches you how to work as if you were in a commercial environment. Where as myself, I only knew how to work like the freelance animator I am. This is the book you want.

It also teaches about film and media in general and the pre production and post production phases and everything in between. I already knew about this but reading it I did pick up on a few new things but I also realized that a lot of people new to Media as a whole wouldn't know these phases and how important they are.

Olivar Villar wrote this book well. Recommending it to everyone.
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