Book: Introducing Character Animation with Blender

I just received my copy of Introducing Character Animation with Blender by Tony Mullen yesterday, which is available for purchase at the blender.org e-shop. It has an attractive cover and looks like a good quality product, with just under 480 pages including the index…

I’ll be going through it slowly, but plan on posting my experiences with it as time progresses. The back cover says the book deals with modeling, armatures, lighting, and rendering. I’m particularly interested in the part that claims, “see how armatures, lattices, and IK interact,” since I am yet unable to properly reverse-engineer Mancandy. Hopefully a nice mellow pace through the book will take me to my next level of understanding in animation and rigging. After all, I’m a blender beginner, practically speaking. (This book is also available on amazon.com.)

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Purchase Book at Blender.org

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8 Responses

  1. Apollos says

    I’m thinking about giving a chapter by chapter rundown on my experiences with this book as I progress, although I won’t be giving details on the specifics. I plan to inform on the content in general, but leave the nuts and bolts to the book itself, leaving in place the value of the text and not undermining Tony Mullen’s efforts.

    June 27th, 2007 at 10:59 pm

  2. DaveC says

    Did I just read that YOU are a blender beginner? Noooooooooo! That makes your videos all the more amazing!

    September 2nd, 2007 at 4:59 am

  3. Apollos says

    It’s true!!! Don’t tell anyone. I’ve only been using Blender since 2.43, not long before the 2.44 release. I really give the credit to the other video tutorials out there (BlenderNewbies, Geneome.net, Spaghetti Moon, Montage Studios, Greybeard, Metsys, Tufts, etc).

    I have used 3D Studio Max before, so I’m not necessarily new to 3D. This sped up my adaptation to the Blender environment. After watching the tuts at blender.org, I was hooked.

    September 2nd, 2007 at 12:19 pm

  4. DukeProtocol says

    There really IS a need for a forum. All the comments are turning into discussion :P

    I’d say I’m relativley new as well. I found Blender 2 years ago during the 2.40-2.41 release, and used it on and off, so I wouldn’t really count those 2 years as being a Blender user.

    (Topic question: When and during which release did you start using Blender?)

    September 2nd, 2007 at 5:51 pm

  5. Apollos says

    There really IS a need for a forum. All the comments are turning into discussion :P

    Done. Temporary, no frills, not pretty, but definitely the place to be. Blender Underground Forums

    September 2nd, 2007 at 9:53 pm

  6. kaveh says

    Only problem is there is no RSS feed on the forum, is there?

    September 4th, 2007 at 9:10 am

  7. Apollos says

    kaveh, I haven’t found one, but it would be really nice to have.

    You can do thing like View Post since Last Visit and View Your Posts.

    September 4th, 2007 at 9:47 am

  8. DukeProtocol says

    There is an option to get e-mails when someone replies on a topic that you have posted on.

    September 4th, 2007 at 3:31 pm

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