[ale] Recommendations for basic blender tutorial?

Rev. Johnny Healey rev.null at gmail.com
Mon Aug 9 13:20:40 EDT 2010


I find this site to be an invaluable blender resource:
http://www.willitblend.com/

-Rev. Johnny Healey

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> "The Blender Book" is an excellent starting point (plus it supports the tool
> development). Beyond that look at specific topics to tackle. Tony Mullen is
> well respected for both his Blender skills and his writing about Blender.
>
> Blender is an amazingly powerful application with a near vertical learning
> curve for about 6 months. Add Cinnelerra, Cinepaint and audacity and you
> have a pro-level full video, animation, graphics and sound editing and
> compositing environment. And a huge excuse to pony up some $$$$$ for bigger
> hardware :-)
>
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> So I had my first encounter with Blender ( http://www.blender.org/ )
>> this weekend.  I was very impressed. But it's clear that even learning
>> to hack some basic shapes in Blender is gonna take some guidance.  I
>> poked around the web a little and found some video tutorials, but I
>> can't load them in another tab or hold them in my lap and refer to
>> them.  Does anyone have a recommendation for a good basic Blender
>> book?  There're 7 or 8 at bn.com, including a couple of incredibly
>> evil search composite books and a Dummies book.  Anyone out there seen
>> something worthwhile?  I'm primarily interested in making solid files
>> for 3d printing, rather than animation.
>>
>> -- CHS
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