Enjoy fast, free delivery, exclusive deals, and award-winning movies & TV shows with Prime
Try Prime and start saving today with fast, free delivery

Paperback
$10.66 - $17.00

List Price: $44.95 Details

Save: $27.95 (62%)

Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns

FREE delivery Monday, February 5 on orders shipped by Amazon over $35

Select delivery location

Only 1 left in stock - order soon.

$$17.00 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details

Ships from

Amazon

Ships from

Amazon

Sold by

Lancaster Group

Sold by

Lancaster Group

Returns

Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt

Returns

Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt

This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.

Read full return policy

Payment

Secure transaction

Payment

Secure transaction

We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more

Details

Add a gift receipt for easy returns

Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime

FREE delivery Friday, February 2 on orders shipped by Amazon over $35. Order within 14 hrs 9 mins

Select delivery location

Used: Very Good | Details

Sold by Ehood Books

Fulfilled by Amazon

Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

Other Sellers on Amazon

Added

Not added

$18.00
FREE Shipping on orders over $35.00 shipped by Amazon.

Sold by: Legendary solutions

Added

Not added

$18.79
FREE Shipping on orders over $35.00 shipped by Amazon.

Sold by: HQR Express

Added

Not added

$24.10
FREE Shipping on orders over $35.00 shipped by Amazon.

Sold by: five star ten number

Image Unavailable

Image not available for
Color:

To view this video download Flash Player

Follow the authors

The Essential Blender: Guide to 3D Creation with the Open Source Suite Blender First Edition

by Roland Hess (Author)

4.1 105 ratings

See all formats and editions

{"desktop_buybox_group_1":[{"displayPrice":"$17.00","priceAmount":17.00,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"17","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"00","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"0dW8cAPlWee91Z1rs%2Bp%2FBB59sJD0XrcatePJyq55iLrtGlwowSFCrB9NMdT%2BpMItMp218sUbyppXtD7a%2B3bu%2BzCTVb2oQ9WmTtlvB7CyQLv1Hv3i%2FX4pISqv%2FR6MZOA4bjzhNxAveo4cDhzC1GEU8hm4V7B5ixXnbpN3Je1IPmw8IX9p%2BlwKWtNKPejxYTSz","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"NEW","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":0}, {"displayPrice":"$10.66","priceAmount":10.66,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"10","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"66","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"0dW8cAPlWee91Z1rs%2Bp%2FBB59sJD0Xrca9OggXP0Li2LkVd8ViEk9NZi9U7LljvVr7Id5LobTLUS3gejVdg7dkpRcDyyP9RfTRDTx6h2IV7ft9fTAMrFeVxbpglgEsFhFlzivjJMC6pcq6eD2qNAnH7Q%2Bxo797AyGsNnK2vKd83kCvU%2Fguqu6pOFZFILVSYln","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"USED","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":1}]}

Purchase options and add-ons

Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite that is a real alternative to commercially available 3D design software. A cross-platform software package with millions of downloads annually, Blender is now one of the world's most popular 3D design tools.

Although Blender is free, it's intended for design professionals and others motivated to become 3D artists. The Essential Blender will provide you with the knowledge you need to help integrate Blender into your work and begin to master its powerful creation tools.

If you've never tried 3D design before, an introductory chapter will familiarize you with relevant terminology and concepts. If you're already experienced with commercial 3D software, The Essential Blender will get you up to speed with Blender quickly.After a tour of Blender's 3D modeling, animation, and rendering capabilities, you'll learn how best to use Blender for these tasks:

Object manipulation and animation
Mesh and sculpt modeling and shape animation
Materials and texturing (including UV unwrapping)
Lighting and rendering
Particle animation
Character rigging and animation
Node-based composition

The book is modular in its approach, with each topic addressed independently and accompanied by hands-on tutorial sections.

The combined expertise of key members of the Blender community, coupled with the experience of editor Roland Hess, bring you The Essential Blender-the definitive guide to Blender. You'll find a wealth of 3D design information inside that will help you to unlock your artistic potential and get the most out of Blender.

Includes a Complete Version of Blender 2.44 on the CD-ROM. Covers Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (x86 and PowerPC), Solaris, FreeBSD, and IRIX.

ISBN-10

1593271662
ISBN-13

978-1593271664
Edition

First Edition
Publisher

No Starch Press
Publication date

September 27, 2007
Language

English
Dimensions

6.75 x 1 x 9 inches
Print length

376 pages
See all details

Jason van Gumster
272
Paperback
52 offers from $16.61
3dtotal Publishing
202
Paperback
43 offers from $28.98

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Ton Roosendaal is Blender's creator and the chairman and founder of the Blender Foundation, the non-profit organization that maintains Blender under the GNU/GPL license. He co-authored The Official Blender 2.3 Guide, The Official Blender GameKit (both No Starch Press), and The Official Blender 2.0 Guide (Premier Press).

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ No Starch Press; First Edition (September 27, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 376 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1593271662
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1593271664
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.52 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 1 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,394,732 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #122 in 3D Graphic Design
- #363 in Digital Video Production (Books)
- #5,089 in Computer Software (Books)

Customer Reviews:
4.1 105 ratings

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Videos

Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video!

Upload your video

Important information

To report an issue with this product or seller, click here.

About the authors

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

D. Roland Hess
Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.
D. Roland Hess has worked in machine learning and operational excellence at Google, and has written about art and software for Focal Press, John Wiley & Sons, and Taylor & Francis, winning an American Publishers Association PROSE Award in 2011 for his book on character animation.
See more on the author's page
Roland Hess
Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.
Discover more of the author’s books, see similar authors, read author blogs and more
See more on the author's page
Ton Roosendaal
Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.
Discover more of the author’s books, see similar authors, read author blogs and more
See more on the author's page

Customer reviews

4.1 out of 5

105 global ratings

How customer reviews and ratings work

Sort reviews by

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

James D. Cullen

Best book on any subject!

Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2010

Verified Purchase

I just received this book a from Amazon a few days ago. After working through the first few chapters I had to write a review of how outstanding this book is!
I am not a 3D artist and I have never worked with 3D modeling. The author takes you through the interface explaining it's functions as you progress. I was very pleased with the author explaining in detail the interface and Hotkeys for Blender.
When I first opened Blender before I bought this book I was apprehensive at the forign environment. The GUI was intimidating! I now feel comfortable navigating and manipulating objects in Blender because of the authors excellent work on explaining the interface and controls!

I was working on the tutorials I marveled at the authors style. Not only does the author explain what your doing, he even reiterates his point with a warning not to make a common mistake! I was just about to make that very mistake, I had my hand on the mouse as I read that line! The author had actually anticipated my actions!
I have worked in the IT field for 16 years, so I am familiar with documentation. I marveled at how the author transitioned from the concept from one tutorial into the next! The work flow is very natural.

Within the few days that I have had this book, I have gone from NO CLUE on Blender to feeling comfortable with the interface, and creating an animation timeline, and animating a simple scene! I realized last night as I did the simple animation tutorial with a few spheres how this would tie in to chapters on character animation further in the book!
I sat in front of my computer bubbling with glee as I understood the concept of my objects in the scene and how they were tied to time! I haven't had this much FUN in a long time!

Fiction, nonfiction, technical or nontechnical, this book is the BEST BOOK I have ever read on ANY subject!

Incredibly well done!
Jim Cullen

One person found this helpful

Helpful

S. G. Paxman

For those that can't afford Maya or 3D Studio Max.

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2009

Verified Purchase

Blender is a free Open Source 3D Modeling Program, much like Maya, 3D Studio Max and XSI.

Most of the time when dealing with Free Open Source, they like to say "Think Free as in Freedom, and not Free as in Free beer."

Well this Program is Free Beer my friends. but the book however is not. Well at least not the hardcopy version.

This book is a great resource to have if you can get over the steep learning curve of the Programs interface. which often time make getting started with Blender very difficult. After you get over that initial Hump Learning how to use blender get a whole lot more fun and easier.

There are however websites that have video Tutorials that are quite good. Blender Underground is one of the finer I've seen.

this is not to discredit the book, The book is fine and dandy. but can get a little too bogged down with technical terms at time and a couple of the Tutorials in the book are missing a set or two giving you different results then the ones shown in the Little Colorless and some time hard to see picture.

there is a Link to correction they added to book after publishing it, and there are a few other places you can go for help.

If you are going to get this book, I would highly recommend that you instead buy it directly from the Blender 3D e-Shop [...]

Buying it directly from them will Help them with funding for a lot of great project and development cost they run into from time to time.

As a reference Manual, this is a great tool. as a learning tool it's okay but not the greatest...

One person found this helpful

Helpful

itisgregory

Excellent Beginner's Tutorial!!

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2009

Verified Purchase

I am completely new to learning 3D animation. I wasted time and money on 3 other books. This book is EXACTLY what a beginner needs because each chapter is an in-depth tutorial. By the end of each chapter you feel confident in being able to use your new knowledge and have a complete understanding of the subject matter because you will have worked through real world examples.

Many other books on this subject are mere reference books. This book gives step by step instructions on how to actually create usable and practical animations. It is almost like having a tutor in your home or being in a class room.

The author also explains many different ways to accomplish the same tasks since Blender usually has 2 or more ways to do the same thing.

This book blows the others out of the water. I would only recommend the others when you have a thorough and confident understanding of the Blender basics and that is what you will get with this book.

3 people found this helpful

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

Translate all reviews to English

Amazon Customer

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 23, 2014

Verified Purchase

Great price useful text

おりん

入門書として

Reviewed in Japan on November 21, 2014

Verified Purchase

以前バージョンのものですが基本を学ぶにはちょうど良いくらいです。

Translate review to English

Matthias

Sehr gutes Konzept

Reviewed in Germany on March 10, 2008

Verified Purchase

Eines der besten Technikbücher, die ich bisher gelesen habe. Und das, obwohl das Buch nicht von professionellen Autoren, sondern größtenteils von Mitgliedern der Blender-Gemeinde verfasst wurde (natürlich hat der Editor auch gute Arbeit geleistet).

Das Buch ist sinnvoll in mehrere (fast) von einander unabhängige Kapitel aufgeteilt, die jeweils aus zwei Teilen bestehen: Einem anleitungsähnlichen ersten Teil, der in das Kapitel einführt und viele Möglichkeiten aufdeckt, und einem zweiten Teil, der zusammenfasst und auf einige Dinge näher eingeht. Das hat mir sehr gut gefallen.

Insgesamt ist das Buch sehr, sehr kurzweilig und abwechslungsreich und ich habe mich bisher noch nicht dabei erwischt, Seiten zu überblättern, wie es oft mal bei dicken, langweiligen Programmierschinken der Fall ist.

Der einzige Wermutstropfen sind die Bildschirmfotos im Buch. Allesamt ziemlich unscharf und pixelig. Sprich, die Auflösung ist wohl nicht für den Druck angepasst worden. Mich wundert, ob das gewollt war. Allerdings war mir das keinen Sternabzug wert. Teilweise werden die Bilder benötigt, um dem Buch folgen zu können, dann muss man schon mal "näher" ranrücken oder raten. Aber ansonsten kann man diesen Negativpunkt größtenteils vernachlässigen.

9 people found this helpful

Translate review to English

Andy

Was hoping to get into Blender but haven't managed it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 11, 2016

Verified Purchase

Was hoping to get into Blender but haven't managed it

The Oracle

... this product for my nephew who thinks it's absolutely fantastic. 10/10

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2015