![]() | The Essential Blender: Guide to 3D Creation with the Open Source Suite Blender, Book/CD Package by Roland Hess
Buy new: £20.59 / Used from: £18.45 In my opinion, still the best 'beginner' book for Blender, but let down by unclear illustrations. Nice mix of 'tech' discussion with hands-on sessions.
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![]() | Blender for Dummies by Jason van Gumster
Buy new: £11.46 / Used from: £11.67 Reads like a manual, if that's what you want. IMO, let down by a lack of actual tutorials. I found it a bit dull.
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![]() | Introducing Character Animation with Blender by Tony Mullen
Buy new: £16.42 / Used from: £15.99 Soon to be reprinted, I think - hopefully without the lethal typos and ommissions that ruined this otherwise great book.
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![]() | Animating with Blender: How to Create Short Animations from Start to Finish by Roland Hess
Buy new: £15.06 / Used from: £14.19 Follow a project from start to finish, learning a professional approach.
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![]() | Bounce, Tumble, and Splash!: Simulating the Physical World with Blender 3D by Tony Mullen
Buy new: £20.42 / Used from: £18.14 SUPER book for learning how to do some of that jaw-dropping eye-candy stuff in Blender. Highly recommended.
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![]() | Blender 3D Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery by Allan Brito
Buy new: £23.74 / Used from: £37.47 Extended tutorial on how to create the scene on the cover. Great if architecture is your thing.
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![]() | The Official Blender 2.3 Guide by T. Roosendaal
Buy used from: £15.99 Still a fairly useful reference, but less necessary now because of the rapid advances in the software and the other great books listed here.
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![]() | The Official Blender Gamekit by T. Roosendaal
Buy used from: £39.95 Pretty out of date and in fact it's available for free on the Blender website (Beware amazon sellers trying to charge you £40 for it!!) A new updated version is also available there.
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![]() | The Blender Book by Carsten Wartmann
Buy used from: £2.01 A good book at the time, but almost totally outdated now. BTW, buying any of these books from the Blender site helps to finance the software.
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