The Blender Book

by Carsten Wartmann

Blender is a fast, powerful, and free 3D graphics and animation tool. The Blender Book shows you how to use Blender efficiently and creatively with clear step-by-step tutorials that teach all aspects of this often tricky program. You'll learn how to enhance your Web sites, graphic designs, and videos with the 3D graphics and animations you'll create in Blender.

Genres: Nonfiction

311 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2000

Reviews

[JACKSON CLIAM]

This is a superb introduction to Blender’s value for web and video production — I especially appreciate the emphasis on it being free and open source. If you’re weighing options, it’s also worth checking out how Blender stacks up against Maya in professional pipelines (e.g. in the article here: Maya vs Blender: The Battle of 3D Software Giants).

In many studios, Maya’s advanced animation tools and industry adoption are huge strengths, but Blender’s community, flexibility, and cost advantages make it a serious contender — especially for freelancers, indie creators, or those starting out.

[Chris Manthey · Rating 4 out of 5]

was great to get to know all the shortcuts and approaches!
i feel almost solid now in finding functions i need to model a specific object or get the animation the way i want.

[Hardik Vaghasiya]

5 rate