Animating with Blender : how to create short animations from start to finish / / D. Roland Hess

• Autore: Hess Roland <1970->
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier/Focal Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st edition
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (366 p.)
• Disciplina: 006.6/96
• Soggetto topico: Computer animation; Three-dimensional display systems; Computer graphics
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Animating with Blender: How to Create Short Animationsfrom Start to Finish; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Chapter 1. An Overview of the Short Animation Process; Creating a Short Animation; Avoiding Death by Natural Causes; Preproduction; Production; Postproduction; The Importance of Following the Work Flow; Chapter 2. Story Story Story; What Makes an Engaging Story; Writing It Down; Story Scope, Your Resources, and Reality; Scope Example: Adding a Second Character; Scope Example: Adding a Second Location; Scope Example: Adding Length; How Long Is My Story?; Chapter 3. Organization ; Your Digital AssetsThe Way That Blender Handles Assets; A Suggested Organizational Structure; Chapter 4. Storyboarding and the Story Reel; Storyboarding Basics; Suggested Tools; Pen Tablets; Paint Software; Blender's Image Editor; Creating the Storyboards; Telling the Story; Recording a Temporary Soundtrack for Timing; Assembling a Story Reel in Blender's Sequence Editor; Sequencer Tools for Working with Image Strips; Watching and Exporting the Story Reel; Chapter 5. Character Design and Creation; Designing in Line with Your Theme and Reality; The Beast; The Mom; The Dogs ; Modeling Based on Storyboard RequirementsFaces, Hands, and Clothes; Level of Detail; Normal Mapping for Greater Detail at Lower Resolutions; Mesh Animation Issues; Quads, Edge Loops, and Joints; Bind Pose; Polygon Count; Preparing the Model for Future Work; Chapter 6. Libraries and Linking; Libraries, and Why You Should Bother; Linking Assets That Do Not Animate; Linking Assets for Object-level Animation; Creating an Animation Proxy; Creating and Linking a Dupligroup; Which Method to Choose?; Linking Assets for Character Animation; Managing Your Links and Libraries ; Finding and Fixing Broken LinksMoving a Shot File and Maintaining Its Links; Moving an Asset File; Chapter 7. Rough Sets, Blocking, and an Animatic; Creating Rough Sets; Preparing the File for the Rough Set; Building Your Template Scene File; Matching Camera Angles to Storyboards; Placing Your Characters; Proceeding Through the Story Reel; Special Case: Reusing Cameras; Additional Detail: Moving Cameras, Moving Characters; Creating an Animatic; Replacing Storyboards in the Story Reel; Chapter 8. Good Sound; Finding Decent Equipment and Environments; What to Use; Where to Record ; Making the RecordingThe Goal of the Recording Session; Some Sound Processing Basics; Removing Noise and Adjusting Levels; Previewing the Recorded Sound; Chapter 9. Rigging and Skinning; An Iterative Method for Rigging, Skinning, and Testing; Control Structures; Deformers; Helpers; General Rigging and Skinning Work Flow; Building the Rig in Layers; A Practical Example; Inverse Kinematics/forward Kinematics; Auto Ik; Another Rigging Example: the Fingers; Binding the Rig to the Mesh; To Deform or Not?; The Armature Modifier and Vertex Groups; The Mesh Deform Modifier; Lattices ; Combining Different Deformation Methods with Vertex Groups
• Sommario/riassunto: Blender has become one of the most popular 3D and animation tools on the market, with over 2 million users, and it is free! Animating with Blender is the definitive resource for creating short animation projects from scratch, the ideal platform for experimenting with animation.Blender expert and author Roland Hess walks you through the entire process of creating a short animation, from writing to storyboarding and blocking, through character creation, animation and rendering.
• Titolo autorizzato: Animating with Blender
• ISBN: 1-136-13845-5; 1-136-13846-3; 1-281-78990-9; 9786611789909; 0-08-092811-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825969103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II