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Blender 3D Basics

You're reading from   Blender 3D Basics The complete novice's guide to 3D modeling and animation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849516907
Length 468 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. Introducing Blender and Animation 2. Getting Comfortable using the 3D View FREE CHAPTER 3. Controlling the Lamp, the Camera, and Animating Objects 4. Modeling with Vertices, Edges, and Faces 5. Building a Simple Boat 6. Making and Moving the Oars 7. Planning your Work, Working your Plan 8. Making the Sloop 9. Finishing your Sloop 10. Modeling Organic Forms, Sea, and Terrain 11. Improving your Lighting and Camera Work 12. Rendering and Compositing Pop quiz Answers Index

Top 10 reasons to enjoy using Blender 3D


We all have our reasons for wanting to use Blender. My initial reason was that I wanted to teach a class on 3D animation at my local parks and recreation center. I needed a 3D system that would fit the budget and that students could take home to use. Since then, I've also used it professionally, creating animations for an airline, a national football league team, banks, and more. I made the first animated entry ever into the Film in 48 Hours contest with Blender and one Blender animation of mine was also accepted into the Ozark Foothills Film Festival. So you never know how Blender will come in handy.

Here are the top 10 reasons to enjoy using Blender 3D:

10

It's a fun hobby that will last all of your life.

9

You can use it to make a portfolio to get a job in games, films, advertising, and other fields.

8

You can start a home-based graphics, animation, or game business.

7

Blender has the largest user base and a great world-wide community.

6

You can express your artistic side and make things the way they should be.

5

It's fun to build your own worlds and have God-like power over them.

4

You can make games with the Blender Game Engine and make assets for them.

3

You can learn how to do computer programming with Python.

2

You can impress your friends making animations for your civic social group or favorite team.

1

You can get coffee, a snack, or take a nap while it's rendering and still be productive.

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