ANIMATING WITH BLENDER How to Create Short Animations from Start to Finish

Blender has become one of the most popular 3D/Animation tools on the market - with 2 million + users, and it is free! There is very little available for Blender users and animators on how to take Blender to the next level - beyond creating 3D still images - to the world of animation. Animating with Blender is the definitive resource for creating short animation projects from scratch with Blender, the ideal platform for experimenting with animation, as it's totally free. The book comes directly from the Blender Foundation's Roland Hess, noted Blender expert and author. Hess walks animators through the entire process of creating a short animation from: writing, to storyboarding and blocking, through character creation, animation and rendering. A single short animation project is created from start to finish, providing an in-depth look at how all of the Blender tools work together.

The accompanying DVD includes the Blender software, and quality renderings of the example short animation project, as well as all files used to produce the finished animation. The files are available for examination and re-use.

Blender has become one of the most popular 3D and animation tools on the market, with over 2 million users, and it is free! Animating with Blender is the definitive resource for creating short animation projects from scratch, the ideal platform for experimenting with animation.

Blender expert and author Roland Hess walks you through the entire process of creating a short animation, from writing to storyboarding and blocking, through character creation, animation and rendering.

* Learn the ropes from Roland Hess, one of Blender's developers and a community guru for this FREE animation program, which was used in the previz for Spiderman 2

* Create a single short animation project from start to finish, take an in-depth look into how all of the Blender tools work together

* Study, pick apart and reuse all of the files from the animation referenced throughout the book, with the Blender software and sample animation files included on the companion DVD

Roland Hess is the leading expert on Blender. He is one of a handful of people who has been involved with Blender since its inception, and is a key voice in the community. Hess brings a unique perspective to Blender instruction that bridges the difficult gap between technical knowledge and artistic expression. Hess wrote Focal Press titles: Animating with Blender (2009) and Tradigital Blender (2011)