Blender Production: Creating Short Animations from Start to Finish

Hess, Roland

ISBN 10: 1138400718 / ISBN 13: 9781138400719

Published by Routledge, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blender Production: Creating Short Animations from Start to Finish
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138400718
• ISBN 13: 9781138400719
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Short animation projects are ambitious and time-consuming, but with a good plan and toolset, they can be hugely rewarding. Blender expert Roland Hess will get you up to speed on animated short fundamentals, including writing, storyboarding, blocking, and character creation. This follow-up of Blender Foundations will introduce the more advanced functionalities of Blender, such as the Library and Linking system, physics simulators, the integrated compositor, and the Sequence Editor. If that wasn‘t enough, this tutorial-based book will also have you create a short animation from scratch, making you a master of the Blender toolkit in no time.
Learn how to fully manage your art assets using the Library and Linking system
Gain practical advice on story construction tailored specifically for short animations
Companion website includes the full Blender software kit, sample project files amounting to 100 plus MB of valuable content, including models, textures, materials, scenes and animations

About the Author

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)