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3D Environment Design with Blender. Enhance your modeling, texturing, and lighting skills to create realistic 3D scenes

3D Environment Design with Blender. Enhance your modeling, texturing, and lighting skills to create realistic 3D scenes

Abdelilah Hamdani, Carlos Barreto

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Blender is a powerful tool for creating all kinds of visual assets, but with such power comes complexity. Creating a photorealistic 3D scene seems like a Herculean task for more than 90% of 3D designers, but don’t be discouraged! 3D Environment Design with Blender will get you up and running.

This practical guide helps reduce the complexity of 3D environment design, advance your Blender skills, and produce lifelike scenes and animations in a time-efficient manner. You'll start by learning how to fix the most common mistakes 3D designers make with modeling and scale matching that stop them from achieving photorealism. Next, you’ll understand the basics of realistic texturing, efficient unwrapping and achieving photorealistic lighting by turning an actual reference of a wood cabin into a realistic 3D scene. These skills will be used and expanded as you build a realistic 3D environment with natural assets and materials that you’ll create from scratch. Once you’ve developed your natural environment, you’ll advance to creating realistic render shots by applying cool camera features, and compositing tricks that will make your final render look photorealistic and pleasing to the eye.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to implement modeling tricks and best practices to make your 3D environments look stunningly lifelike.
  • 1. Most Common Modeling Mistakes That Prevent You from Achieving Photorealism
  • 2. The Basics of Realistic Texturing in Blender
  • 3. Efficient Unwrapping and Texturing in Blender
  • 4. Creating Realistic Natural Plants in Blender
  • 5. Achieve Photorealistic Lighting in Your Environment with Blender
  • 6. Creating Realistic Landscapes in Blender
  • 7. Creating and Animating Realistic, Natural-Looking Water
  • 8. Creating Procedural Mud Material
  • 9. Texturing the Landscape with Mud Material
  • 10. Creating Natural Assets: Rock
  • 11. Creating Realistic Flowers in Blender
  • 12. Using Particle System to Scatter Objects in Blender
  • 13. Finalizing the Landscape Scene – Lighting, Rendering, and Compositing
  • Title: 3D Environment Design with Blender. Enhance your modeling, texturing, and lighting skills to create realistic 3D scenes
  • Author: Abdelilah Hamdani, Carlos Barreto
  • Original title: 3D Environment Design with Blender. Enhance your modeling, texturing, and lighting skills to create realistic 3D scenes
  • ISBN: 9781803233512, 9781803233512
  • Date of issue: 2023-01-31
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_2wzw
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing