fiammybe writes:
Packt Publishing is doing a special offer on two Blender 2.49 eBooks : “Blender 2.49 scripting” together with “Blender 3D 2.49 Incredible Machines“. You get 50% of both ebooks when bought together.
Just add them both to the shopping cart, and give ‘b249ebk’ as promotion code during checkout. Just make sure you get the ebooks and not the old-fashioned paper ones.
Both books were reviewed on Blendernation before: scripting, incredible machines.
Michaelangelo Manrique tells us about his project “bProficiency series”. The first part of it “RAT” is what he made for Blender Foundation’s Certified Trainers (BFCT) program. With educational purpose, he’s open sourcing his production files and its detailed PDF documentations under his program “Platform Michelangelo™“.
BlenderCN (a Chinese Blender blog) is back, and it’s offering more interaction than ever. Want to launch or make some improvements to your local Blender community? You may want to check out what they have done.
Terry Wallwork reviews ‘Blender Studio Projects’ by Tony Mullen and Claudio Andaur.
Terry Wallwork reviews ‘Blender 2.49 Scripting’ by Michel Anders. Many people still use 2.49 in production environments where you can’t work with feature-incomplete alpha software (myself included ;-), so yeah, I think this is a good idea.
Angel David Guzmán [PixelOz] has published a 227 page(!!) free e-book on the creation of paper models using 3D software. It focuses on Blender and even includes some sample files and a Python unfolding script.
Tony Mullen and Claudio “Malefico” Andaur are working on a new Blender book, aimed at using Blender in a professional workflow.
The popular classroom book ‘Blender Basics‘ has been translated into Russian.
Terry Wallwork reviews Allan Brito’s latest book, ‘Incredible Machines’.
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Allan Brito has just finished a new book, called “Blender 3D 2.49 Incredible Machines”, in which he takes us through the process of modeling, animating, and rendering 3 different mechanical objects, as well as showing us how to use YafaRay and LuxRender. Check it out!
