After more than three years, the popular (and free!) classroom tutorial book 'Blender Basics' has received a thorough upgrade.

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'Art of Community' is a new book currently being written by Jono Bacon. Its a book detailing the many areas of  communities which follow 'Every software project, online site, or company' and how to build a strong community. The book is relevant to Blender as Ton Roosendaal has recently contributed some interview content.

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Tony Mullen's 'Bounce, Tumble and Splash!' is now available in Japanese. Nice!

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It's been quite some time since the last article that I wrote here. I have a good reason, though! Recently, I completed writing Blender For Dummies, and it's currently available for a discounted pre-order on Amazon.

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You can now pre-order "The Blender Gamekit 2nd Edition! Continue Reading 'Preorder "The Blender Gamekit 2nd Edition"!' »

The Brazilian Blender book, Blender 3D – Guia do Usuario was released again with a revised and expanded third edition. Now the book has 552 pages covering most of the basic aspects of Blender.

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Some days ago I got a copy of Animating With Blender - How to Create Short Animations from Start to Finish on my mailbox, and I have just finished reading it.

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Carsten Wartman, the author of the upcoming second edition of the Blender Gamekit, has released a sneek preview of one of the games.

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The old Blender Gamekit book has been translated into Spanish by Nodoy1 and is now free for viewing online at his site.

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Carsten Wartmann, the great writer of many blender books, is now officially writing the second edition of the Blender Gamekit books, the new books will cover the new functionality of the new Blender.

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The new book 'Animating with Blender: How to Create Short Animations from Start to Finish' by Roland Hess will start shipping on September 26. He just released the accompanying animation titled 'The Beast'.

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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:

• Dive into Python [GNU Free Documentation License]
• Invent your own computer games with Python [Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0]

Update: make that TEN ELEVEN free Python books!

• Free Python Programming Books(Thanks, bebraw!)
• A Byte of Python(Thanks, sanne!)

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.

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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!

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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.

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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' »

Just a quick note on the release of a new Blender book about architectural visualization from one of our editor's, Allan Brito. The book is called "Blender 3D Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery".

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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.

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