[ale] Recommendations for basic blender tutorial?

[Charles Shapiro]

Okay, looks like "The Essential Blender: guide to 3D creation with the
open source suite blender" it is. And yeah, I've seen willitblend.com
. Hah hah.

-- CHS


On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Rev. Johnny Healey <rev.null at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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