Book description
This book provides concise yet step-by-step examples on using all of the power of Blender to provide a complete post-production workbench.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ABOUT THE TECHNICAL REVIEWER
- ABOUT THE COVER IMAGE DESIGNER
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. BLENDER OVERVIEW
- 2. BLENDER IN THE PIPELINE
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3. WELCOME TO BLENDER!
- 3.1. Starting Blender
- 3.2. Introducing Blender's core window types
- 3.3. Getting organized
- 3.4. Importing elements
- 3.5. Your first composite in 30 minutes or less
- 3.6. Saving blend files
- 3.7. Summary
- 4. FORMATS
- 5. 3D ELEMENTS
- 6. CAMERA AND WORLD
- 7. SHADING
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8. ANIMATED EFFECTS
- 8.1. Object animation
- 8.2. Camera animation
- 8.3. Shader animation
- 8.4. Lighting animation
- 8.5. Animating masks
- 8.6. Particle effects
- 8.7. Generating particles
- 8.8. Coordinating your animation
- 8.9. Summary
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9. RENDERING
- 9.1. Rendering an image
- 9.2. Rendering video
- 9.3. Of containers and codecs
- 9.4. Render farms
- 9.5. Summary
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10. NODE-BASED COMPOSITING
- 10.1. Working with the compositor
- 10.2. Feed me (input nodes)
- 10.3. Getting something out of it
- 10.4. The distort processing nodes
- 10.5. Shake, rattle, and roll
- 10.6. Format conversion
- 10.7. Summary
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11. MANIPULATING IMAGES
- 11.1. Color nodes
- 11.2. Conversion nodes
- 11.3. Matte nodes
- 11.4. Summary
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12. ADVANCED NODES
- 12.1. Vector nodes
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12.2. Filter nodes
- 12.2.1. Blur node
- 12.2.2. Soften filter
- 12.2.3. Sharpen filter
- 12.2.4. Laplace filter
- 12.2.5. Sobel filter
- 12.2.6. Prewitt filter
- 12.2.7. Kirsch filter
- 12.2.8. Shadow filter
- 12.2.9. Dilate/Erode node
- 12.2.10. Depth of field with the Defocus node
- 12.2.11. Directional Blur node
- 12.2.12. Bilateral Blur node
- 12.2.13. Motion blur via the Vector Blur node
- 12.2.14. Glare node
- 12.3. Node groups
- 12.4. Posterizing and retro
- 12.5. Grease Pencil tool
- 12.6. Visualizing the win
- 12.7. Summary
- 13. NONLINEAR VIDEO EDITOR
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14. SEQUENCER EFFECTS
- 14.1. Loading combined audio/video
- 14.2. Editing strips
- 14.3. Splice and transition effects
- 14.4. Glow effect
- 14.5. Speed Control effect
- 14.6. Offset blending effect
- 14.7. Masking in the sequencer
- 14.8. Animating VSE effects
- 14.9. VSE plug-in effects
- 14.10. Audio sequences
- 14.11. Mashups
- 14.12. Summary
- 14.13. Apress License Agreement (Single-User Products)
Product information
- Title: Foundation Blender Compositing
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2010
- Publisher(s): Apress
- ISBN: 9781430219767
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