Comments on: Review: 'Blender et POV-Ray'

By: jef jansen

jef jansen — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:56:42 +0000

It happened. Travelled two weeks in France, as always in spring France is beautifull. Spend a a day or two in a city and hang out in book shops, not for informatica books. They re-invent new words in informatica, translations and this make reading "informatique" books not easy for none native readers.

My eye catches the book and it seems to be something different. Every evening I was reading the book it catch me. A different way of reading: not a blender nor povray book indeed, but a reflection of the author view on 3D programs the formats of the files and proposing one and his idea about it.

To be short: the book has good ideas, explanation is clear, gives a lot of ideas and insight in 3D, but not a learning book for Blender.
I'm still reading it, for the 2 ° time, slower than …, a verry own style and giving a lot of thinking…

By: r3615

r3615 — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:45:48 +0000

Same feeling here, ordered it as soon as it popped up on amazon…
I was expecting too much from this book overview and returned it for a refund after a couple days.

It maybe good for highlighting blender's potential to a cg hobbyist.
But the conversational style and approach did not feed my need for solid information on getting effective within Blender itself.
In this respect, I recommend Olivier Saraja's book too !
And to learn english to support/enjoy the community effort on documentation.

By: UglyMike

UglyMike — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:16:15 +0000

Yes, I came across this book in the Fnac in Brussels some months ago. I leafed through it but found it a bit lacking in the Blender-Pov connection (Blen2Pov was already out then so I didn't really see the point in buyin this book)
As stated, it did look like it had a nice intro into Blender (but Olivier Saraja's book blows it away in that aspect so that's the one I bought some weeks later…. )

By: Cubedude04

Cubedude04 — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 06:33:15 +0000

If only i listened more in French lessons instead of talking to my friends the whole lesosn