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e-book: Recreating a Historical Airplane with Blender

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Witold Jaworski presents a new edition of his e-book, and now also offers it in English! While the original Polish versions are available for free, the English versions have a price tag of $5-$15 per chapter.

Witold writes:

"Virtual Airplane" is the second edition of my book (and the first one in English). It describes how to create the airplane shown on its cover. This is not a simplified "textbook example", but a real, detailed and accurate model. So far I have published the three of planned four volumes:

  • Excerpt I: Preparations (of the detailed and accurate blueprints) - 148 pages, 220 pictures, published in September 2012
  • Excerpt II: Modeling (and the introduction to Blender) - 427 pages, 1190 pictures, published in February 2013 (i.e. now)
  • Excerpt III: Textures and Materials (for the Cycles renderer) - 585 pages, 1700 pictures, published in September 2012

These "excerpts" from the main text are regular books on their own. The 1000 already published pages describe the basic workflow. I hope you will find interesting. The last volume will discuss model detailing, rigging, scene composition, and postprocessing. I plan to finish it in July 2013.

This publication contains so many illustrations, that it resembles a semi-comic book. Just like a comic book, it is "readable" to some extent even in a foreign language. Because the Polish versions of these books are free (on the CC license), you can download them (and their English tables of contents) from the web page of this project. This way you have the unique possibility to skim these e-books from the first to the last page. Then you can decide whether it is worth to buy their English versions.

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  1. I bought Excerpt III on materials and I can honestly say Witold's writing is the best, most detailed descriptions I have seen. It's a small fee for a TON of great material!

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