FormaCD released volume 1 of their Blender training material in the French language.
FormaCD N°36 : Blender 2.5-2.6 Volume 1 (French)
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Category Archives: Documentation
re: The Essential Blender (2007)
An interesting story by Roland Hess about the sales of his book ‘Essential Blender’. His advice: ‘Don’t buy it!’.
Training Video: Animation Fundamentals Pre-Order
Blender Cookie have just announced a new training DVD: Animation Fundamentals, by Beorn Leonard. Beorn was part of the Sintel crew.
Book: Prototyping Augmented Reality
Tony Mullen presents his new book, Prototyping Augmented Reality.
Remesh Modifier Documentation
Nicholas Bishop has written up some documentation for the currently in development remesh modifier, which converts arbitrary meshes into quad-based surfaces. If you’re wondering what it does you can read through the new docs, or take a look at some of the example videos showing it in use. The remesh modifier is scheduled for release in Blender 2.62.
Das Blender-Buch – 4th Edition!
The German ‘Das Blender Buch’ is now in its 4th edition.
Camera/motion Tracking Docs now Available
It was already mentioned in today’s developer meeting notes, but I think it deserves additional coverage: the manual for the camera/motion tracker is now available on the Blender wiki. This module is not available in the stable Blender release yet, so you’ll have to download a build from Graphicall.org.
New German Blender Book Released
Heiko Ihde writes:
A new german Blender book was released. It’s focused on beginners and those, who are ready to give up version 2.4x for the new 2.5 or 2.6 versions.
The book has about 350 pages with more than 500 colored illustrations. It comes with a DVD with movies, pictures and blender scenes.
You can look inside the book on Amazon.
The book “Blender Basics 4th edition” in Russian
The 4th edition of Blender Basics has been translated into Russian.
Wiki Update
The homepage of the Blender documentation wiki has received a wonderful cleanup, making it much easier for new users to use. Great job, guys!
