Blender For Dummies
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Make your 3D world a reality
Some of the dramatic visual effects you’ve seen in top-grossing movies and heralded television series got their start in Blender. This book helps you get your own start in creating three-dimensional characters, scenes, and animations in the popular free and open-source tool.
Author Jason van Gumster shares his insight as an independent animator and digital artist to help Blender newcomers turn their ideas into three-dimensional drawings. From exporting and sharing scenes to becoming a part of the Blender community, this accessible book covers it all!
- Create 3D characters―no experience required
- Build scenes with texture and real lighting features
- Animate your creations and share them with the world
- Avoid common rookie mistakes
This book is the ideal starting place for newcomers to the world of 3D modeling and animation.
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Additional information
| Publisher | 4th edition (24 Jan. 2020), For Dummies |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 640 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1119616964 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1119616962 |
| Dimensions | 18.54 x 4.06 x 23.11 cm |
by Elizabeth Hopkins
I bought this as an update to the version made for 2.79 many years ago. Whilst informative with helpful examples that paint clear pictures, I had to do further research on shader nodes.
by Paul G
Bought for my daughter who is studying Animation at University.
Simple, easy to follow information (with useful tips & warnings!!!) – my daughter is autistic & dyslexic & she has managed to work with this book fine!
In fact, at her first Blender class yesterday, her tutor recommended they use this book!
by nameunknown
AWESOME Book and reference way point for all new to Blender
It’s got everything, if like me, used to use different software and just what to transfer over to another
Easy to follow too.
by Jonah
Good in plain language
by JJ
I’m transferring from using 3dsmax to blender and this book is just great at explaining how blender works and a clear expalination of the often daunting keystrokes – it’s now just for me to remember them…….
by Shane sidlow
Gave me a good reference starting out
by sally maltby
I’m a fairly experienced Python programmer and have used other 3d software before I decided to try Blender. There are a lot of tutorials for Blender on line but many of them are so old (just a few years!) that the examples they give don’t work due to software updates. Blender’s online documentation is obscure to say the least. So what I needed was an uptodate book to flip through and look for answers.
The reviews of this book promised help – so far the book has not provided it. Particular failings include references like “Booleans are done with a modifier. Modifiers are covered in more detail in Chapter 5” (p 94). Yes, it is true that modifiers are covered in Chapter 5, but Booleans get a few unhelpful lines (p142). The book refers on further materials being available online “because of the limitations of book size” (p117) – so far I haven’t found anything useful. In places the figures purport to show how to use menus, but the printing is so blurred (see for eaxmple figure 7-10) that they are impossible to read.
I’m dissappointed with this book and would not have bought it if I had even a quick flip through in a bookshop. Not even a quick reference to hot keys – rather like producing a book on basic chemistry without a periodic table (apart from a rather useless table 3-1). Maybe some might find it helpful, but for a Python programmer looking to get a foothold om Blender’s steep learning curve, forget this one.
by Paul G
Just really getting started with but was not expecting low quality blurred images. Don’t know if that’s the Kindel for PC app our the Kindel version of the book. Not great for a manual about high fidelity graphics.