Blender Production: Creating Short Animations from Start to Finish

by Roland Hess

Blender has become one of the most popular 3D animation tools on the market because it is robust and absolutely free. Blender Production is the definitive resource for anyone who wants to create short animations from scratch. With this book, and Blender, you have the ideal platform to make it happen.aBlender expert and author Roland Hess walks you through the entire process of creating a short animation writing, storyboarding, blocking, character creation, animation, rendering, and production.The associated web site includes the full Blender software kit andaa complete short animation work broken down into handy modules that animators can study, learn from, and reuse in their own animated films. The sample project files amount to 100+ MB of cool content, including models, textures, materials, scenes and animation work.

321 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2008

About the author

D. Roland Hess works in machine learning at Google, and has written about art and software for Focal Press, John Wiley & Sons, and Taylor & Francis, winning an American Publishers Association PROSE Award in 2011 for his book on character animation. He honed his craft in the Creative Writing program at UPenn, but gave up the potential glory of starving-artistdom for a career in production art and software development.

His hobbies include construction (carpentry, electrical work, sweating copper), weaponry, tending bar, cars that Go, writing software, playing piano and guitar, and occasional forays into art. He lives in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, the glorious Gateway to the Midwest.

Reviews

[Reepacheep · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm in the "flipping through to see what's here" stage with this book. Next comes the more thorough reading. I'll probably not finish before I need to send this back to the library, but that's not unusual for me.

My initial perusal leaves the impression that this book has a wealth of information that is practical and thoughtfully laid out. I am looking forward to reading this and putting what I learn into practice.