The Essential Blender: Guide to 3D Creation with the Open Source Suite Blender (Paperback)
by admin on มิ.ย..11, 2009, under Book Review
Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite that is a real alternative to commercially available 3D design software. A cross-platform software package with millions of downloads annually, Blender is now one of the world’s most popular 3D design tools. Although Blender is free, it’s intended for design professionals and others motivated to become 3D artists. The Essential Blender will provide you with the knowledge you need to help integrate Blender into your work and begin to master its powerful creation tools. If you’ve never tried 3D design before, an introductory chapter will familiarize you with relevant terminology and concepts. If you’re already experienced with commercial 3D software, The Essential Blender will get you up to speed with Blender quickly. After a tour of Blender’s 3D modeling, animation, and rendering capabilities, you’ll learn how best to use Blender for these tasks: Object manipulation and animation Mesh and sculpt modeling and (more…)
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มิถุนายน 11th, 2009 on 11:14 pm
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fabulous book. A must have!
– If you’re a beginning Blender user then this is the book for you.
- Whether you’ve used 3d applications before or not this is the book for you.
มิถุนายน 12th, 2009 on 3:59 am
5.0 out of 5 stars
Blender has a huge huge advantage with this book
over many other softwares with badly written manuals,
and there are many. “The Essential Blender” is really
the best place to start.
มิถุนายน 12th, 2009 on 6:15 am
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not perfect, but good enough
I’ve used Blender a fair amount, so I expected “The Essential Blender” to be something of a review with hopefully a few valuable nuggets thrown in — and so it proved…
มิถุนายน 12th, 2009 on 8:21 am
5.0 out of 5 stars
Clear, meaty, lots to digest
A really good, clear intro to what had always been an intimidating topic in the past. Of course, it really helped to be able to read a good bit of the book online via the Blender…
มิถุนายน 12th, 2009 on 12:25 pm
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good book for learning all the basics of Blender.
This book is a little outdated now, but still teaches all the basics in a really easy hands on aproach.
มิถุนายน 12th, 2009 on 1:59 pm
3.0 out of 5 stars
Blue picture, blue results
I purchased this book because I want to learn Blender. Insidiously, I also purchased the second book, which is only a little better than the first.
มิถุนายน 12th, 2009 on 8:39 pm
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great book, bad images
I’ve used Maya for approximately seven years, so getting into Blender has been quite a challenge. I’ve tried various online tutorials, but nothing has really worked for…
มิถุนายน 12th, 2009 on 10:15 pm
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great beginer book
I started this book not knowing a thing about blender having just downloaded the application. Today i have animations of atoms with orbiting electrons, gingerbread men waling…
มิถุนายน 12th, 2009 on 11:44 pm
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Read- Recommended
I bought this for my brother who has read many of the Blender guides, This one he said was the best.
มิถุนายน 13th, 2009 on 4:30 am
5.0 out of 5 stars
Get this book.
For several years, I’ve been trying to learn 3D animation, but the books I read were hard to follow. So I gave up.