Blender 3d Cookbook Paperback – July 30, 2015

Monochrome pictures are not the best but the online resource is in color.

GREAT BOOK!!

Learning a lot

A must-have reference book for newer Blender users. Enrico Valenza's (or also known as simply "EnV") 600+ page book is a comprehensive tour de force of Blender. The "Blender 3D Cookbook" could easily be your first book on Blender and the only one you need until you've mastered techniques through the journey laid out by EnV in the fourteen chapters.So you wanna create CG character? This is a great place to start...Chapter 1 through Chapter 4 focus on Modeling using Base Mesh & Sculpting Techniques, then Poly-modeling the characters accessories. By Chapter 4 a new blender users's will be fairly proficient modelers. The book is filled with helpful insights and techniques. Keep the book close at hand to regularly reference Chapter 5 & 6, UV Unwrapping and Rigging... Two dense subjects. Chapter 5 and 6 account for 1/3 of the book.Complete the book and you will have attained the insights and techniques to create your own characters, or take your practice further using your favorite cartoon characters, or modeling sheets available online. Easily modify Enrico's techniques and adapt to your own workflow as you'll likely become a addicted to modeling, texturing, and compositing characters and worlds in the Open Source Blender software.

I really hated giving this 2 stars as it is a well written book for Blender artists, however for the price (which is not cheap) all the pictures in it are very dark, and in black and white (which makes it impossible to tell what verticies, polygon etc that they have selected or anything for that matter) This was a total waste in money due to that fact alone. I'm sure the Digital version is in color and much easier to see. Too bad they don't include a digital version with purchase.However you will notice that they have a link inside the book that tell you to go to PackTPub for digital versions. So I thought "Hey, cool that resolves my issue". Not true, you unfortunately will have to purchase it all over again. Should have just bought the digital version from the get go and saved myself the cash. Will not be purchasing it twice though. Such a shame

Blender 3d Cookbook covers the creation of a 3d character. Enrico takes you through the entire process from modeling to a simple animation. He covers modeling, sculpting, retopology, rigging, skinning, shape keys and drivers and textures as well as lighting, rendering and a bit of compositing.This is a comprehensive book that shows you all the steps needed to create your own character. Enrico covers the various ways each task can be done and the tools needed to complete the task. He also covers both Cycles and Blender Internal for the texturing sections.Enrico does go through a considerable amount of material fairly quickly which could lead to frustration for beginners.That being said, although a good working knowledge of Blender would be helpful, a beginner could complete the steps with a little help from outside sources to explain where things are and how a few things work.

This book is excellent as it goes step by step in the process of character creation working from a sketch and creating a fully rigged, animated and textured model. It covers the new cutting edge features of Blender when it comes to mesh creation, sculpting, and re-topology. This is the first book that I have read that was able to explain in detail the different techniques that can be used in Blender to apply re-topology to meshes. It covers each topic in detail and allows for the application of several techniques to accomplish tasks. While this book seems geared towards an intermediate level of blender experience, a beginner should be able to easily pick up the topics in this book and be able to learn complicated processes is very little time.

It's $22 at Packt

Uno dei migliori libri che ho acquistato per blender, una volta ottenuto le basi di blender questo libro è un must per comprendere ed imparare le tecniche per ottenere un buon modello 3d funzionale ed animato... Uno dei pochi libri che valgono la loro spesa, consigliatissimo