Introducing Character Animation with Blender [With Dvdrom]

By Tony Mullen

Book Overview

Let this in-depth professional book be your guide to Blender, the powerful open-source 3D modeling and animation software that will bring your ideas to life. Using clear step-by-step instruction and pages of real-world examples, expert animator Tony Mullen walks you through the complexities of modeling and animating, with a special focus on characters. From Blender basics to creating facial expressions and emotion to rendering, you'll jump right into the process and learn valuable techniques that will transform your movies. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470102608
• ISBN13: 9780470102602
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Sybex
• Length: 478 Pages
• Weight: 2.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

DVD is nice, but not required

An earlier reviewer thinks the book is useless without the included DVD. Not so. While it's very nice of Tony to include Blender, the Gimp, Audacity, VirtualDub, InkScape, Python, YafRay, BlenderPeople and VLC on the DVD, these are also freely downloadable from the web. [...] Tony also provides animations and examples from the blender community, including the open source film Elephant's Dream, which are wonderful and...

A must have for blender

I'm brand new to Blender so this is a noob review.If you are new to Blender get this book.If you are interested in in-organic modeling like buildings and such you won't learn about it here but you will learn about the interface and tools.This book is very well written.Now, will somebody please write a short book on modeling buildings,basic architecture and the like? Trying to figure out how to do something simple like doors,windows,wall...

Non Trivial, but a Very Good Start

For those considering a high end 3D modeling and animation software package Blender has to be considered a finalist among the candidates. First there are several technical aspects such as cross-platform portability, a good graphical user interface, is very fast, and more. Then the cost - FREE vs. hundreds to thousands of dollars. That's because Blender is open source with the advantages that there is a huge community of developers...

Just buy this and think about it later

Blender is a free open source 3d application that includes a complete compositing and non-linear video editing system, with a ton of user-created extensions, plugins, scripts, tutorials and guides. However it can be intimidating to people starting out and let's face it, you have to be pretty motivated to teach yourself anything (downloading and collecting all the files you need to start, finding a good tutorial to get started,...

More than an introduction--it's an invitation to a whole new world!

The blender community has accomplished some amazing milestones in the past few years, creating an open source 3d production environment that rivals the best (and most expensive) proprietary systems in terms of power, performance, and flexibility. It is truly amazing that one can download for free software that's been used to create artistic and commercial works that have been seen at film festivals and mainstream television...