Table of Contents
This is the official website for the book Blender For Dummies, by Jason van Gumster. It will include links to videos, sample files and color versions of some of the images that appear in the book. This site is broken up into chapters; to see the extra stuff I’ve created for each one, just click on the links, below.
This site also has a blog, accessible on the left menu, with an RSS feed that you can use to follow along and get informed whenever I upload new content.
- Chapter 1: Discovering Blender
- Files
- Chapter 2: Understanding How Blender Thinks
- Files
- Chapter 3: Getting Your Hands Dirty Working in Blender
- Chapter 4: Working in Edit Mode and Object Mode
- Files
- Chapter 5: Creating Anything You Can Image with Meshes
- Files
- Video Tutorials
- Chapter 6: Using Blender’s Non-Mesh Primitives
- Files
- Chapter 7: Changing that Boring Gray Default Material
- Files
- Video Tutorials
- Chapter 8: Giving Models Texture
- Files
- Chapter 9: Lighting and Environment
- Files
- Chapter 10: Animating Objects
- Files
- Chapter 11: Rigging: The Art of Building an Animatable Puppet
- Files
- Video Tutorials
- Chapter 12: Animating Object Deformations
- Files
- Chapter 13: Letting Blender Do the Work for You
- Files
- Chapter 14: Exporting and Rendering Scenes
- Chapter 15: Compositing and Editing
- Files
- Chapter 16: Ten Problems for New Users in Blender (and Ways around Them)
- Chapter 17: Ten Tips for Working More Effectively in Blender
- Bonus Chapter: Ten Excellent Community Resources
