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I ran into two free e-books on Python programming the other day. They are both great assets if you want to do some scripting for Blender:
Update: make that TEN ELEVEN free Python books!
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Published by Bart on
August 27th, 2008 in Books
Terry Wallwork reviews 'Bounce, Tumble, and Splash!: Simulating the Physical World with Blender 3D'
Tony Mullen's been at it again releasing another Blender book this time on using Particles, Physics, Softbodies, Blender Game Engine and Fluid simulation features in Blender 2.46.
Continue Reading 'Tony Mullen's - Bounce, Tumble and Splash - Book Review' »
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Published by Bart on
August 20th, 2008 in Books, People
Amazon.com has published a 'Boutique' on 3D animation books featuring five prominent authors. One of them is none other than our own Tony Mullen!
Continue Reading 'Blender Featured in Amazon's 3d Animation Boutique' »
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Published by Tim Formica [Room335] on
June 28th, 2008 in 3D News, Books
Well if you've been around Blender for a long time, you may recall "The Official Blender 2.0 book put together by Ton and Carsten Wartmann several years back. I know that I wore out that book, and I still have it. Now Carsten has announced that the first copy of his new Blender DVD Tutorial has arrived. Hopefully there will be an English version in the future.
Continue Reading 'Blender DVD Seminar by Carsten Wartmann' »
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Published by Tim Formica [Room335] on
June 20th, 2008 in 3D News, Books, Documentation, Tutorials
I wanted to write a quick note to let everybody know that my advance copies of "Bounce, Tumble, and Splash! Simulating the Physical World with Blender 3D" have arrived, and I'm very excited with how they've turned out! I've taken a few snapshots and posted them here on Flickr to give people a sense of what the book looks like on the inside: Continue Reading 'Update on Bounce Tumble and Splash by Tony Mullen' »
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Published by Tim Formica [Room335] on
June 11th, 2008 in 3D News, Books, Tutorials
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Published by Allan Brito on
March 31st, 2008 in Books
A new book about Blender has been released in Brazil. The book "Modelando personagens com Blender 3D", which could be translated to: Character Modeling with Blender 3D.
Continue Reading 'New Brazilian Blender Book, about character Modeling' »
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Published by Virgilio Vasconcelos on
March 12th, 2008 in 3D News, Books
Every month for the last few years, the great Shawn Kelly (senior animator at ILM and co-founder of Animation Mentor) has been sharing his knowledge with cool articles called just "Tips & Tricks".
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Published by Alltaken on
February 24th, 2008 in Books, Documentation, Education, Tutorials
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Published by Kernon on
February 11th, 2008 in 3D News, Books
Created in 1947, "Advanced Animation" has often been called the best "how-to" book on cartoon animation ever published.
Continue Reading 'Preston Blair's "Advanced Animation" (1st Edition)' »
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Published by Tim Formica [Room335] on
February 7th, 2008 in 3D News, Books
Pavel Siska wrote to tell us "This is a Czech (country which I come from)book about Blender 3D, it is basic book for beginners and covers all topic… I am sure it is pretty interesting, because this is first Czech book about Blender…"
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Published by Kernon on
January 30th, 2008 in 3D News, Art, Books, People
Roland Hess (aka harkyman), editor and lead author for “The Essential Blender” and creator of the BlenderPeople crowd simulation project, has been busy with yet another promising project…“The Beast”.
Continue Reading '"The Beast" - animated short/book project by Roland Hess' »
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Published by Bart on
November 20th, 2007 in Books
Poland has a large and active Blender community, and now Kamil Kuklo and Jarosław Kolmaga have written the first Polish Blender book. It is now available for ordering.
Continue Reading 'Polish Blender Book: 'Blender. Kompendium'' »
Spanish publisher Anaya Multimedia has translated Tony Mullen's 'Introducing Character Animation with Blender' into Spanish.
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Published by tom on
October 1st, 2007 in Books
A new book called "Starter Kit Blender", has been recently published by Pearson/Campus Press.
Continue Reading 'New French Blender Book "Starter Kit Blender"' »
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Published by Bart on
September 11th, 2007 in Books
Olivier Saraja wrote to inform us of the fact that 'La 3D Libre avec Blender' is now in its second edition. It has been fully updated to be compliant with Blender 2.44.
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