April 2015
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
14h 8m
English
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Index
• Numerics •
3D View editor
defined, 29
loading reference images as background, 115
Quad View, 62
selecting objects in, 59
spot-checks from different angles, 468
standard lighting, 47
user preferences for, 29, 37–38
• A •
absolute path, 45
actions
creating, 371
fake users, 372
mixing to create complex animation, 373–374
active object, 70
add-ons
Dynamic Spacebar Menu add-on, 92
exporters, 412
Extra Objects add-on, 94
support levels for, 42
user preferences for, 42
Adobe Illustrator, 164
Adobe Photoshop, 247–248, 250, 417, 429, 434, 448
Adobe Premiere, 423
aliasing, 470
alpha channel, 217–218, 417, 430–432
Alpha Over node, 448
Amaranth theme, 43
ambient occlusion (AO), 253–254, 439, 471
Ambient Occlusion shader, 208
animation
armatures
copying mirrored poses, 367–368
ghosting, 369
visualizing motion with paths, 369–370
basic process for, 302
constraints
copying movement of another object, 327–329
defined, 323
limiting movement of objects, 330–331
selection order, 324
tracking motion of another object, 332–333
vertex groups and, 327
viewing available, 324
easing, 316
editing motion curves, 315–
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