Get to grips with new real-time animation techniques and tricks to improve both your artistic and technical skills in shading, 3D rendering, lighting, and scene creation using Blender 3.0
Key Features
- Learn real-time rendering engine concepts by creating three projects
- Understand how to update workflows to Blender 3.0
- Explore intermediate to advanced-level tutorials on creating art inside Blender
Book Description
Blender is one of the most important emerging 3D software packages in the world. Anyone can download the software, and with millions of tutorials on YouTube and elsewhere, learn how to use it. EEVEE, a state-of-the-art, real-time rendering engine, is a fairly new addition to Blender and provides you with the capacity to quickly iterate on the artwork, allowing you to rapidly create, modify, and produce quality renders.
This book provides a high-level overview of what EEVEE is capable of and then takes you through the steps of creating three professional-quality artworks in three unique styles. As you progress, you'll discover new techniques added in Blender 3.0, ways to add life to your renders, and mind-blowing shortcuts that will allow you to take your artwork to the next level.
By the end of this Blender book, you'll have created three separate works that will have challenged you to design and iterate with the full power of Blender EEVEE.
What you will learn
- Explore EEVEE Render Properties for optimal outcomes
- Focus on shading processes, including those that are both traditional and more cutting-edge
- Understand composition and create effective concept art inside Blender
- Discover procedural workflows to shorten the artistic process instead of getting mired in details
- Understand intermediate Blender workflows for working in a professional environment
- Develop art in different styles and learn why each style has different workflows and conventions
- Create interactive, rapid changes in Blender's EEVEE engine
Who this book is for
This book is for 3D animators, sculptors, modelers, and concept artists who want to use EEVEE to speed up their work in movies, TV, and game design. Readers are expected to have a basic to intermediate-level understanding of 3D programs and ray-tracing engines.
Table of Contents
- Introducing EEVEE – A Real-Time Rendering Engine
- Creating Materials Fast with EEVEE
- Lights, Camera...
- Non-Physical Rendering
- Setting Up an Environment with Geometry Nodes
- Screen Space Reflections – Adding Reflection to the Water
- Faking Camera Effects for Better Renders
- Using Alphas for Details
- Lighting an Interior Scene
- Working with Irradiance Volumes and Cubemaps for More Accurate Rendering
- Kitbashing – Adding Details Fast
- Special Effects with EEVEE – Fire and Smoke
- Exploring the Wide World of Blender
Sammie Crowder first discovered Blender 8 years ago, and she has been using it to create ever since. After self-teaching while working at a library for several years, she started using Blender as an educator, creating short - and long-form animations that explain complex scientific concepts for the University of Colorado. Following several years of developing that program, she transitioned to using Blender 3D to create synthetic data for machine learning applications. Her current focus is on education, using Blender and other tools to get underserved groups into technology and art-based industries. She lives in beautiful Colorado with a dog, two cats, a lizard, and her partner. When she's not working in Blender she likes to read, hike, and garden.
