Blender Book: Free 3D Graphics Software for the Web and Video - Softcover

Carsten Wartmann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1886411441 ISBN 13: 9781886411449

Publisher: No Starch Press, 2001

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Synopsis

Blender is a fast, powerful, and best of all, free 3D modeling program that runs on multiple platforms: Windows, Linux, SGI, Sun, and BeOS. Popular among Web developers, graphic designers, artists, and students, it can be used to develop 3D graphics, create complex animations, and render 3D scenes. As useful as Blender is, its interface can be difficult to master. The Blender Book remedies this with its step-by-step tutorial approach that allows the user to take immediate, full advantage of the program. The book covers 3D graphic fundamentals; colors, lighting, and transformations; moving from 2D to 3D; and modeling, materials, and animation. Individual topics include animating with keyframes, paths, and particles; integrating 3D objects into video; and modeling with polygons, curves, and surfaces. The bundled CD-ROM includes the latest version of Blender for all platforms, as well as textures from the digital design library and all the tutorials, scenes, and animations from the book.

Edition details

• Publisher: No Starch Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1886411441
• ISBN 13: 9781886411449
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312