Introducing Character Animation with Blender
February 10th, 2010 | 
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- ISBN13: 9780470102602
- Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
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Let this in-depth professional book be your guide to Blender, the powerful open-source 3D modeling and animation software that will bring your ideas to life. Using clear step-by-step instruction and pages of real-world examples, expert animator Tony Mullen walks you through the complexities of modeling and animating, with a special focus on characters. From Blender basics to creating facial expressions and emotion to rendering, you’ll jump right into the process a… More >>
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I bought this book because it has good reviews. I hope I can learn somethings from this book, but I had spend hours read this book until fall sleep and still don’t get it. This book has no step by step instruction. This is the worst book I ever bought.
Rating: 1 / 5
I received this title from Amazon only to find that the included DVD which contains files manditory for working on the tutorials was melted by the publisher’s hot glue binding process. One side of the DVD literally melted. If you buy this volume or any other title from Sybex make sure the Dvd is intact (don’t buy it online). Their customer service is nill; I sent them an email from their site a week ago and have yet to get a response. It’s probably a great book, but rather useless without the disk. You might want to wait untill a non-vanity press publisher picks it up and it gets a decent treatment.
Rating: 1 / 5
Introducing Character Animation with Blender
THIS IS A WELL WRITTEN BOOK THAT COVERS EVERY SUBJECT IN A CLEAR CONCISE MANNER BUT, THE INFORMATION IS OUTDATED DUE TO THE ADVANCEMENTS IN THE NEW BLENDER SOFTWARE RELEASES. IF YOU WANT TO GET THE BASIC MIND SET OF HOW THINGS WORK AND HAVE THE EXTRA MONEY BUY IT. I ENCOURAGE YOU TO BUY BLENDER FOR DUMMIES WHICH IS BASED ON THE NEWEST VERSION OF BLENDER AND IS ALSO SOLD ON AMAZON.COM
Rating: 1 / 5
Don’t buy this book if you want the DVD the publisher is not inserting it correctly and it is glued into the binding and ruined. Attempts to get a replacement from Wiley are a waste of time.
Rating: 1 / 5
I did learn a few things from this book and the information on some of the blender projects was interesting but with that said, I have to add this book is not what it’s cracked up to be. While providing a lot of information on what folks do with blender it fails to provide a very complete set of insights into the process of using it. Some of the content is just unfinished or is concluded by telling the reader to simply look at the sample files, with no further explanation(I found this to be more confusing than helpful). These are files mostly available all over the net tutorials anyway so having them on a disk was more of a convenience than informative. The section on lighting and shading was almost non-existent. There are lots of pictures(with no explanations on how to achieve the effects, etc denoted). I’m sure folks can pick up a few tricks from the text. But if you are looking for a manual on how to make characters in blender you will be disapointed. Oh and BTW> The DVD I received in the book as so scratched that it wouldn’t even load up. I think this book is a decent start and is about as helpful as any of the good tut’s out there but it seemed unfinished in spots, and maybe needs a revision or two before it will measure up to how it is portrayed in its description.
Rating: 3 / 5