Creating An eBook with Affinity

Recently I have been busy making an eBook to explain how blender geometry nodes work. The eBook needed to rely heavily on simple, easy to understand illustrations that has its own memorable style that is appropriate for the subject matter. Affinity with its suite of tools provides everything that is needed for the project. While it is possible to simply take pictures within blender itself to use for the book, it needed to be engaging for the medium it is going to be read in. Take the example shown below. 

While it does communicate the necessary information, is this something to be content with when the eBook itself is an art form?

Expanding from this style, it is possible to incorporate isometric artwork to create something that couldn’t be seen from just taking images from blender to use.

For making multiple page for the eBook Affinity has Master pages that can be used to create templates and dynamic fields that new pages will follow. This is great for making books with page numbers and fields such as chapter titles. Another great thing that I found with using Affinity is its export functionality that allows you to create an adobe PDF file without needing a subscription. 

For making the style that we see, I went to canva templates to get inspiration. Rather than stumble in the dark, Canva has a large library of templates that can be studied and adapted into Affinity to create something unique. As the eBook is being it started leaning more towards minimilism which allows for great contrast which iis great for pulling the readers attention. With the number of geometry nodes in blender it was only logical create prefab components that are reusable throughout the book.

For now the eBook is meant to be short but to the point with illustrations shown above doing the heavy lifting. Assuming the work you will be doing is vector based, Affinity provides a great suite of tools to use.