Chapter 1: Creating Natural Materials in Blender
  Introduction
  Creating a realistic pebble material using procedural textures
  Creating a gray limestone pebble
  Creating the quartz pebble material
  Creating an opalescent quartz material
  Creating a mask to represent the quartz veins
  Combining two materials, to make a third, using Nodes
  Creating a large rock material using procedural, and node textures
  Creating a sea rock material
  Creating a texture node to simulate seaweed at the base of a rock
  Creating a large rock face using photo reference
 
 Chapter 2: Creating Man-made Materials
  Introduction
  Creating a slate roof node material that repeats but with ultimate variety
  Using a tileable texture to add complexity to a surface
  Warping a texture to disguise seams in a repeated texture
  Adding weathering by copying and reusing textures
  Combining materials using nodes
  Creating metals
  Using specular maps to add age and variety to man-made surface materials
  Adding oxidization weathering to our copper material
  Adding grime and artistic interest to our copper material
  Creating a path or road material that never repeats
  Repeating a tiled texture to duplicated objects
  Deforming materials and textures in Blender
 
 Chapter 3: Creating Animated Materials
  Introduction
  How to move textures and create animation without moving a mesh
  Manipulating the F-Curves of texture movement
  Using an Empty as a dummy object to control texture movement over time
  A barber pole with no moving parts
  How to alter the color of materials and textures over time
  Creating a red hot iron bar
  How to animate transparency in a texture
  Creating a burning sheet of paper
  How to change textures during an animation
  How to texture with movies creating a TV screen
 
 Chapter 4: Managing Blender Materials
  Introduction
  Setting a default scene for materials creation
  Additional settings for default scene
  Creating an ideal Blender interface for material creation
  Creating an ideal texture animation setup
  Naming materials and textures
  Appending materials
  Linking materials
  Making blendfiles stand alone
 
 Chapter 5: Creating More Difficult Man-made Materials
  Introduction
  Creating rust on iron-based metals
  Creating a mesh object to provide good reflective surfaces
  Using environment map textures to simulate reflection
  Varying environment map reflections to simulate corrosion or wear
  Using raytrace reflections to simulate polished metals
  Varying raytrace reflections to simulate dirt and grime
 
 Chapter 6: Creating More Difficult Natural Materials
  Introduction
  Creating realistic large-scale water in Blender 2.5
  Setting up an ocean vista environment
  Creating a wave surface using textures
  Creating an ocean surface material
  Creating wake around objects in water
  Creating a non-repeating leaf material
  Creating image and bump maps, with alpha channels
  Using images as the basis for a leaf material
  Using alpha to create a leaf shape on a simple mesh
  Adding a non-repeating bump to the leaf material
  Adding color complexity to the leaf material
 
 Chapter 7: UV Mapping and Sub Surface Scattering
  Introduction
  Creating a face map from photographs
  Unwrapping a face mesh to produce a UV map
  Editing a UV map to optimize the image space
  Creating multiple UV maps for a single object
  Combining UV maps to create an enveloping UV
  Using a paint package to merge UV maps
  Extracting color, bump, and specularity maps from photographs
  Applying UVs to create an accurate skin material
  Skin shading using SSS and AO
 
 Chapter 8: Painting and Modifying Image Textures in Blender
  Introduction
  Post processing rendered images from within Blender
  Adding more than one material to a surface
  Adding dirt onto a model
  Creating an aged photo with simple Blender materials
 
 Chapter 9: Special Effects Materials
  Introduction
  Creating explosive smoke in Blender
  Igniting a flame and making things burn in Blender
  Creating loopable fire and smoke sequences
  Adding complex FX without the render overhead
 

 Part I: Wrapping Your Brain Around Blender.
 	Chapter 1: Discovering Blender.
 	Chapter 2: Understanding How Blender Thinks.
 	Chapter 3: Getting Your Hands Dirty Working in Blender.
 	Chapter 4: Working in Edit Mode and Object Mode.
 
 Part II: Creating Detailed 3D Scenes.
 	Chapter 5: Creating Anything You Can Imagine with Meshes.
 	Chapter 6: Using Blender’s Nonmesh Primitives.
 	Chapter 7: Changing That Boring Gray Default Material.
 	Chapter 8: Giving Models Texture.
 	Chapter 9: Lighting and Environment.
 
 Part III: Get Animated!
 	Chapter 10: Animating Objects.
 	Chapter 11: Rigging: The Art of Building an Animatable Puppet.
 	Chapter 12: Animating Object Deformations.
 	Chapter 13: Letting Blender Do the Work for You.
 
 Part IV: Sharing Your Work with the World.
 	Chapter 14: Exporting and Rendering Scenes.
 	Chapter 15: Compositing and Editing.
 
 Part V: The Part of Tens.
 	Chapter 16: Ten Problems for New Users in Blender (And Ways Around Them).
 	Chapter 17: Ten Tips for Working More Effectively in Blender.
 	Chapter 18: Ten Excellent Community Resources.
 
 Appendix: About the DVD.