Blender Studio Projects: Digital Movie-Making -- About the Authors -- Contents -- Introduction -- Who Should Buy This Book -- Regarding Software Versions -- How to Use This Book -- What's Inside -- What's on the DVD -- Chapter 1: Blender in the Studio -- The Professional Blender -- Blender's Professional Beginnings -- Welcome to Licuadora Studio -- The Blender-Based Animation Studio -- Chapter 2: Planning and Preproduction -- Conceptualizing the Movie -- Designing Characters -- Storyboarding -- Pacing the Story with a 2D Animatic -- Chapter 3: Creating a 3D Animatic -- Working with an Asset Library -- Organizing Sequences and Shots -- Animating and Rendering the Animatic -- Chapter 4: Modeling -- Organic Modeling Techniques -- Cloth and Clothing -- Inorganic Modeling -- Chapter 5: Rigging Characters -- Using Armatures, Modifiers, and Deformation -- Mastering Complex PyDrivers -- Controlling Textures with PyDrivers -- Chapter 6: Animating a Character Scene -- Preparing to Animate -- Implementing the Stages of Character Animation -- Creating Facial Animation -- Adding Cloth and Hair -- Chapter 7: Descent into the Maelstrom -- Setting the Scene -- Using Textures, Modifiers, and Simulation -- Touching Up the Shot with Node-Based Compositing -- Appendix: About the Companion DVD -- What You'll Find on the DVD -- System Requirements -- Using the DVD -- Troubleshooting -- Index.