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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #324798 in Books
- Published on: 2012-06-22
- Released on: 2012-06-22
- Original language:
English - Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x
.91" w x
7.52" l,
1.76 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 468 pages
Product Description
The complete novice's guide to 3D modeling and animation
- The best starter guide for complete newcomers to 3D modeling and animation
- Easier learning curve than any other book on Blender
- You will learn all the important foundation skills ready to apply to any 3D software
In Detail
Blender is by far the most popular open source graphics program available. It is a full featured 3D modeling, animation and games development tool used by millions all over the world – and it's free! This book is for those looking for an entry into the world of 3D modeling and animation regardless of prior experience.
Blender 3D Basics is the entry level book for those without prior experience using 3D tools. It caters for those who may have downloaded Blender in the past but were frustrated by its lack of intuitiveness. Using simple steps it builds, chapter by chapter, into a full foundation in 3D modeling and animation.
Using Blender 3D Basics the reader will model a maritime scene complete with boats and water, then add materials, lighting and animation. The book demystifies the Blender interface and explains what each tool does so that you will be left with a thorough understanding of 3D.
What you will learn from this book
- How to create 3D objects in blender
- How to compose a scene ready for animation
- Loading, saving, importing and exporting various file formats
- Create a full animation using key-frames on a timeline
- Adding simple materials and lighting your scene
- Rendering and compositing the final animation sequence
- Add stereoscopic 3D effects
Approach
Written in a step by step tutorial style, learning comes as a result of creating the fully animated scene and the explanations that follow each stage.
Who this book is written for
Blender 3D Basics is great for anyone who is new to Blender or new to 3D.
Customer Reviews
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Nice & Thorough
By M. J. Anders
The first impressions on reading this book are that is well written. The writer clearly has thought about how to present the reader with projects that provide a smooth learning curve. No details are left out and animation, not just modeling an rendering, is a focal point from page one.While reading the book you clearly get the feel you are getting somewhere. Many easy to follow steps guide you through subjects like camera work, animating, rendering a final compositing and even touches on that all important point of animation: telling a story. At the end the reader will be able to create a small animated movie (even in anaglyphic 3d!).It helps of course that for almost every small step sample files are available for download and the pdf version of the ebook is in color, a necessity for books about graphics in my opinion (although the .mobi version read just fine on my Kindle)Of course there are some things it doesn't cover : character animation, (which is advanced, but something about armatures would have been nice, even for non-character animation), while texturing, especially UV mapping, is only touched upon. Cycles, the new Blender render engine, is only covered as an addendum but that I think is hardly a problem: thousands of fine animations have been made with Blender's internal renderer and thousands will be.Conclusion: I am impressed. This is an excellent book for Blender novices. Reading this book gives the aspiring Blender animator the biggest chance of actually finishing something instead of leaving the reader with some boring technical experiments.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.Great intro to Blender
By Franz Lanzinger
So I thought I knew Blender pretty well, with some gaps, of course. Then I got a chance to review Gordon Fisher's "Blender 3D Basics: The complete novice's guide to 3D modeling and animation". In summary, this is a great book and definitely lives up to the billing as the best starter guide for complete newcomers to 3D modeling and animation. Having seen quite a few Blender books, video tutorials, and written documentation, I'd have to say that working through this book is the best first step before going on to other more advanced topics.I'll even go further and recommend this book to somewhat more experienced Blender users such as myself. Blender isn't exactly easy to learn on your own, so this book is a great way to tackle the initial learning curve.As an indie game developer, programmer, artist and musician, this book is a great resource both for improving my Blender skills and also for learning some great things about 3D graphics and animation.Blender's user interface isn't exactly standard. It's famous for driving people nuts and stumping newcomers. Version 2.6 is a vast improvement over the earlier 2.4 versions, but it's still a bit wonky. On the other hand, the user interface is very keyboard oriented, which is just how I like it. There's just the slight problem of learning the keys and enough of the basics to learn the rest on your own.This isn't some cursory review. I actually worked through the first 330 pages of this 430 page book. I plan to work through the rest in the coming weeks, but I thought that I'd share my impressions so far.The step-by-step approach of the book is great. Just follow the steps and slowly but surely you'll learn how to use Blender. Anyone can do it. There's no artistic talent required, just an eye for detail. The downside of this way of learning is that if you happen to skip a step or do something slightly differently you might find yourself looking at something very different from the screenshots a few steps later. Never fear, the author did a really great job providing a whole bunch of .blend files to load to get you back on track.The whole experience of working through the steps was truly educational for me, as I'm sure it will be for you as well. My only real criticism is that on occasion I felt that I would have liked an explanation of the steps as I was doing them rather than in the "What just happened" section after completing the section.Technically, this book is pretty good, though it's not perfect. There are a few typos and, strangely, the occasional confusion of RMB and LMB (right mouse button and left mouse button). In Blender you select layers with LMB, but the book instructs you to use the RMB I a few places. Not a big deal, really. Also, a few of the screen shots don't match exactly what I was seeing when working through the steps, but over 95% of the time they were right on. In all cases I was able to work through the steps and follow along.So who am I, and why am I writing this? Well, I'm Franz Lanzinger and I received a free copy of the book for the purposes of writing a review both here and on my blog franzgameblog dot com. That being said, I'm not a professional reviewer but a veteran independent game developer with a long track record spanning Atari's coinop Crystal Castles (1983), Tengen Ms. Pacman, and Gubble HD. I'm always happy to discover hidden gems such as this book and share my discoveries.In conclusion this book is awesome. If you're interested in learning the basics of Blender this is a great way to do it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.Back To Basics
By Ryan
The book truly lives up to it's name - it is a set of tutorials with the most basic of instructions that are extremely easy to follow. Whilst the pictures are in black and white, the written detail of the instructions makes it easy to work out how to accomplish the necessary result. And this is coming from an absolute beginner, too.
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