Allan Brito - Blender for Video Production Quick Start Guide: Create high quality videos for YouTube and other social media platforms with Blender

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Allan Brito is an a rchitect with a strong background in the use of technology in all phases of project development. His friends used to say that he swapped bricks for pixels.

Besides working in the architecture business, he also has more than 10 years of experience as a college teacher, helping students to create animations, 3D games, and mobile apps.

In the academic field, he was in charge of the e-learning department of one of the largest colleges in Brazil for almost eight years, using technologies such as interactive 3D content, games, and virtual reality as learning tools.

Blender is one of the essential tools in his workflow, and he has used it every day since the days of version 2.35 in 2005.

Fernando Castilhos Melo lives in Toronto, Canada, and works as a software engineer. Since 2009, he has used his spare time to work on 3D modeling using Blender. He has lectured on Blender and 3D modeling at several Brazilian free/open source software events.

Fernando holds a degree in computer science from UCS (Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Brazil), and this is the fourth Blender book that he has worked on. The other ones were Blender Cycles: Lighting and Rendering Cookbook, in 2013; Blender 3D by Example, in 2015; and Blender 3D Printing by Example, in 2017.

Moreover, he has also developed an integration between Blender and Kinect named Kinected Blender in order to generate 3D animations using body movements captured from Kinect.

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How can software with a focus on 3D animation and modeling help with video production projects? Blender is an outstanding tool for content creation and has several hidden tools for artists willing to invest some time in learning the software.

The software now even has an integrated game engine for creating interactive 3D content.

Among all those hidden features of Blender, you will find a non-linear video editor. The primary use of that editor is to help artists with animation production , but since it can manipulate video and audio data, you can extend the application to include much more than just animation.

Using the Video Sequencer Editor in Blender alongside the Movie Clip Editor, you can create full-featured videos and projects. Do you have some footage that you've captured with your smartphone or standalone camera? Blender can help you improve that material by means of effects, audio, and more.

With the release of Blender 2.8, the software is gaining a revamped user interface and some improvements to existing tools, such as Eevee, that will enhance the way we work with Blender.

This book uses an early version of Blender 2.8 as a basis for all chapters, but you won't find any significant problems following the content in future releases.

This book is aimed at anyone trying to produce content based on video for platforms such as YouTube. Those artists will need software to cut and edit video footage or make small intro clips, animations, or info graphics for their videos.