The Blender for Dummies book about the fundamentals of Blender was recently reviewed and released as 2nd Edition. This time the author Jason Van Gumster is describing the new series of Blender 2.5x. The book is divided into 5 parts and 18 chapters on 406 pages. The author is taking the reader through all the Basics in Blender starting with induction the reader to the user interface and understanding how Blender works. In the next chapters he explains detailed modeling, rigging and animation, textures and much more. The book comes with a DVD which includes help files for the books chapters and useful software.
A list of the chapters is bellow:
Part I: Wrapping Your Brain Around Blender.
Chapter 1: Discovering Blender.
Chapter 2: Understanding How Blender Thinks.
Chapter 3: Getting Your Hands Dirty Working in Blender.
Chapter 4: Working in Edit Mode and Object Mode.
Part II: Creating Detailed 3D Scenes.
Chapter 5: Creating Anything You Can Imagine with Meshes.
Chapter 6: Using Blender’s Nonmesh Primitives.
Chapter 7: Changing That Boring Gray Default Material.
Chapter 8: Giving Models Texture.
Chapter 9: Lighting and Environment.
Part III: Get Animated!
Chapter 10: Animating Objects.
Chapter 11: Rigging: The Art of Building an Animatable Puppet.
Chapter 12: Animating Object Deformations.
Chapter 13: Letting Blender Do the Work for You.
Part IV: Sharing Your Work with the World.
Chapter 14: Exporting and Rendering Scenes.
Chapter 15: Compositing and Editing.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 16: Ten Problems for New Users in Blender (And Ways Around Them).
Chapter 17: Ten Tips for Working More Effectively in Blender.
Chapter 18: Ten Excellent Community Resources.
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