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Hello all.
I'm interested in learning Blender. I've played around with the tutorials on the web but am looking for something a little more definitive--i.e. a book. With that being said, does anyone know what the best book would be for learning Blender?
A couple extra points:
a) I'm a complete newbie when it comes to Blender and 3D animation
b) Is Blender for Dummies the way to begin?
c) I'm mainly interested in using Blender with my brick filming
Thanks in advance.
I swear someone like Leo needs to make a brickfilming with blender tutorial.
262,
Here are two free online blender books for you: Blender 3d: Noob to Pro and Essential Blender. They're kind of different, so take a look at each of them before choosing. I learned from Essential Blender.
If you're interested in using Blender for brickfilming, you will probably want to use LDraw - a database of 3d LEGO parts. You can import them into Blender and work with them like any other 3d mesh. Most brickfilmers use two LDraw editors - MLCad to build 3d LEGO models and LeoCad to convert them to 3DS format so that you can import them into Blender.
Look into those two books as well as LDraw.
- Leo
Hionestly, I was going to post about this soon, thanks for the book links, Leo, I will be using them.
I know you're looking for books, and that's what I tried to do as well (I eventually gave up), but I would check out this site. I know near nothing about this guy, but he looks helpful.
Thanks guys.
I swear someone like Leo needs to make a brickfilming with blender tutorial.
Hint, hint.
I found this tutorial series, which is actually really well done just a few days ago. I hope it helps! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgSMD4yC … re=channel 
262,
Here are two free online blender books for you: Blender 3d: Noob to Pro and Essential Blender. They're kind of different, so take a look at each of them before choosing. I learned from Essential Blender.
Thanks. I made my first 3D animation last night, and while it is one of the most primitive things ever created - two spheres circling a pulsating cube - it has given me such a sense of accomplishment. Blender does look intimidating but Essential Blender does a great job of breaking it down.
Can we see the animation?
I created this after reading the first three chapters of Essential Blender. I did the tutorial and was pleased with it, so I decided to start from scratch and see if I can get something going. It's basically just me learning to work in three dimensions...
Thanks again for all of the help.
Not bad, I should try Essential Blender.
Right on. My first 3d animation looked similar to that as well.
Keep working on it, you'll get better and better.
- Leo
deffinately checking out essential blender! i downloaded blender like 4 months ago and gave up, but here's to getting it right!
-FLIP
wait, what is Blender exactly?
It's a Free CGI animator thingamajig that I've tried to do but miserably fail every time...
I have been meaning to use it, but haven't.
will you please change your signature? it's really annoying HeAndHim.
will you please change your signature? it's really annoying HeAndHim.
I don't find it annoying, it just makes him look like an idiot.
By all means leave it there. The world embraces idiots.
- Leo
more like kicks them in the @&! really hard.
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