[ale] Recommendations for basic blender tutorial?

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

"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.

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 :-)

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>wrote:

> So I had my first encounter with Blender ( http://www.blender.org/ )
> this weekend.  I was very impressed. But it's clear that even learning
> to hack some basic shapes in Blender is gonna take some guidance.  I
> poked around the web a little and found some video tutorials, but I
> can't load them in another tab or hold them in my lap and refer to
> them.  Does anyone have a recommendation for a good basic Blender
> book?  There're 7 or 8 at bn.com, including a couple of incredibly
> evil search composite books and a Dummies book.  Anyone out there seen
> something worthwhile?  I'm primarily interested in making solid files
> for 3d printing, rather than animation.
>
> -- CHS
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