Animating with Blender: Creating Short Animations from Start to Finish Paperback September 30, 2008

by Roland Hess

Create animated movies in Blender from start to finish with these effective tips and guidelines. Author D. Roland Hess walks you through the entire process of creating a short animation from the writing to the rendering. You'll learn how all of the tools in Blender work together.The companion DVD includes the Blender software and an entire finished short animation project that you can study, pick apart, and even reuse in your own animated films.

Paperback

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.