Blender 3D For Beginners: The Complete Guide: The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Getting Started with Navigating, Modeling, Animating, Texturing, Lighting, Compositing and Rendering within Blender.

by Danan Thilakanathan (editor)

Blender 3D For The Complete Guide aims to help get you started with using the free open-source 3D software Blender. You will learn the basics of nearly everything Blender has to offer. The book is aimed at the complete beginner of Blender and even beginners in the world of 3D graphics and animation.With 16 chapters and 115 pages in total, this book aims to explain the key components of Blender clearly and concisely and get you up to speed with Blender very quickly! The book is explained in a simple and easy-to-understand manner with minimal jargon. Furthermore, the book provides simple follow-along exercises that helps you get the practical experience you need which in turn helps you learn better. By the end of this book, you will begin to feel comfortable working with 3D projects within Blender alone and also get one step closer to your dream goal of one day making your own animated film! (or any other project that requires Blender)More specifically, in this book, you will learn The Blender user interface- Navigating your way around Blender- 3D Modeling basics- Cycles shaders- Texturing and UV mapping- Lighting (as well as some basic lighting setups you can use right away)- Sculpting- Animation- Particles- Physics- Rendering- Using Blender as a Video Editor- CompositingSubscribe to the email list at ThilakanathanStudios.com to receive regular Blender for Beginner tutorials for free.

119 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 2, 2016

Reviews

[Martin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Simple introduction to Blender of roughly 100 pages with low word/letter-density.
It is mostly copy/paste from the official Blender tutorials and manual.
Little own/original material from the author.
Graphical and lay-out quality is not very good.
I will use it primarily as quick reference book and study aid.

[Bill Tillman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Blender 3D For Beginners

Great how to book. After a 7 year break I have the itch to model again, free open source Blender is for me. Chapters develop basic skills and familiarity with Blender.

[Scott Phillips · Rating 3 out of 5]

Excellent book!

Danan really explains Blender in a easy to understand way. I enjoy his tutorials as well and also have a few other books he has put together. Great resource I will be using as my BLENDER skills increase. Thanks Danan.

[Hamish Donaldson · Rating 4 out of 5]

brief history introduction to blender, done well

A very short book, covers the basics at a high level. Easy to read and navigate, but a bit superficial

[Biplab · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good

[Geri Anna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good basic intro

This is a good introduction for Blender. It goes over a broad range of functionality. There are just a few basic examples to follow. It is just the right level of detail I was looking for.