Introducing Character Animation with Blender -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: Creating a Character with Blender -- Chapter 1: Blender Basics: Interface and Objects -- Work Areas and Window Types -- Navigating the 3D Space -- Objects and Datablocks -- User Preferences -- Chapter 2: Working with Meshes -- Polygons and Subsurfacing -- Poly-by-Poly Modeling and Box Modeling -- Common Problems and Solutions in Mesh Modeling -- Chapter 3: Completing the Model with Materials, Textures, and Hair -- Materials and Material Slots -- Material Properties -- Textures and UV Mapping -- Working with Particle Hair -- Chapter 4: Armatures and Rigging -- Blender Armature System -- Building a Simple Armature -- Rigging Captain Blender with Rigify -- Chapter 5: Shape Keys and Facial Rigging -- Shape Key Basics -- Building a Shape Key Set for Captain Blender -- Facial Bones and Controls -- Improved Mesh Deformations Using Driven Shape Keys -- Part II: Bringing It to Life: Animation -- Chapter 6: Basics of Animation -- Keyframes and Function Curves -- Using the Graph Editor: Bouncing a Ball -- Interpolation and Extrapolation -- Chapter 7: Armature Animation -- Posing and Keyframing with the DopeSheet and Action Editor -- Walk and Run Cycles -- Pose-to-Pose Animation -- Chapter 8: Facial Animation and Lip Sync -- Facial Posing -- Lip Sync -- Playback -- Chapter 9: Animation for Production -- Working with Proxies -- Using the NLA Editor -- NLA in Action -- Chapter 10: Further Issues in Character Animation -- Interacting with Props -- Lattices and Mesh Deformers -- Softbodies and Metaballs -- Chapter 11: Lighting, Rendering, and Editing Your Animation -- Lighting Basics -- Rendering Your Animation -- Editing in the Sequence Editor -- Chapter 12: Python Scripts and Add-Ons -- Using Add-Ons -- The Blender Python API.

Learning More about Blender Python Scripting -- Part III: Blender in Production -- Chapter 13: The Fruits of Freedom: Open Movies and Open Content -- The Blender Institute -- The Blender Open Movie Project -- Free and Open Licenses for Software and Content -- Chapter 14: A Look Inside the Blender Open Movies -- Learning from Elephants Dream -- Nonhuman Rigs in Big Buck Bunny and Sintel -- The Production Pipeline -- Chapter 15: Behind the Scenes with Sintel -- From Durian to Sintel -- The Sintel Open Content -- Sintel Artists in Their Own Words -- Chapter 16: Feifi the Canary-Plumiferos Takes Wing -- Introducing Feifi -- Facial Deformations with Lattices -- Rigging a Cartoon Bird -- Part IV: Blender and Beyond -- Chapter 17: Other Software and Formats -- Importing and Exporting Other File Formats -- Useful Open Source Software for Blender Artists -- Blending into the (Near) Future -- Chapter 18: Resources for Further Learning -- Selected Blender Resources -- Recommended Non-Blender-Specific Books -- On Becoming a Blender Master -- Index -- Color Insert.