Essential Blender: The Official Guide to 3D Creation with the Blender Open Source Suite - Softcover

Roosendaal, Ton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593271662 ISBN 13: 9781593271664

Verlag: No Starch Press,US, 2007

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The Essential Blender: Guide to 3D Creation with the Open So editado por No starch press

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Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite that is a real alternative to commercially available 3D design software. A cross-platform software package with millions of downloads annually, Blender is now one of the world's most popular 3D design tools.

Although Blender is free, it's intended for design professionals and others motivated to become 3D artists. The Essential Blender will provide you with the knowledge you need to help integrate Blender into your work and begin to master its powerful creation tools.

If you've never tried 3D design before, an introductory chapter will familiarize you with relevant terminology and concepts. If you're already experienced with commercial 3D software, The Essential Blender will get you up to speed with Blender quickly.After a tour of Blender's 3D modeling, animation, and rendering capabilities, you'll learn how best to use Blender for these tasks:

• Object manipulation and animation
• Mesh and sculpt modeling and shape animation
• Materials and texturing (including UV unwrapping)
• Lighting and rendering
• Particle animation
• Character rigging and animation
• Node-based composition

The book is modular in its approach, with each topic addressed independently and accompanied by hands-on tutorial sections.

The combined expertise of key members of the Blender community, coupled with the experience of editor Roland Hess, bring you The Essential Blender-the definitive guide to Blender. You'll find a wealth of 3D design information inside that will help you to unlock your artistic potential and get the most out of Blender.

Includes a Complete Version of Blender 2.44 on the CD-ROM. Covers Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (x86 and PowerPC), Solaris, FreeBSD, and IRIX.

Biografía del autor

Ton Roosendaal is Blender's creator and the chairman and founder of the Blender Foundation, the non-profit organization that maintains Blender under the GNU/GPL license. He co-authored The Official Blender 2.3 Guide, The Official Blender GameKit (both No Starch Press), and The Official Blender 2.0 Guide (Premier Press).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: No Starch Press,US
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1593271662
• ISBN 13: 9781593271664
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 371
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar