"The Blender Book" is an excellent starting point (plus it supports the tool development). Beyond that look at specific topics to tackle. Tony Mullen is well respected for both his Blender skills and his writing about Blender.<br>
<br>Blender is an amazingly powerful application with a near vertical learning curve for about 6 months. Add Cinnelerra, Cinepaint and audacity and you have a pro-level full video, animation, graphics and sound editing and compositing environment. And a huge excuse to pony up some $$$$$ for bigger hardware :-)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Charles Shapiro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
So I had my first encounter with Blender ( <a href="http://www.blender.org/" target="_blank">http://www.blender.org/</a> )<br>
this weekend. I was very impressed. But it's clear that even learning<br>
to hack some basic shapes in Blender is gonna take some guidance. I<br>
poked around the web a little and found some video tutorials, but I<br>
can't load them in another tab or hold them in my lap and refer to<br>
them. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good basic Blender<br>
book? There're 7 or 8 at <a href="http://bn.com" target="_blank">bn.com</a>, including a couple of incredibly<br>
evil search composite books and a Dummies book. Anyone out there seen<br>
something worthwhile? I'm primarily interested in making solid files<br>
for 3d printing, rather than animation.<br>
<br>
-- CHS<br>
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