Blender has become one of the most popular 3D/Animation tools on the market - with 2 million + users, and it is free! There is very little available for Blender users and animators on how to take Blender to the next level - beyond creating 3D still images - to the world of animation. Animating with Blender is the definitive resource for creating short animation projects from scratch with Blender, the ideal platform for experimenting with animation, as it's totally free. The book comes directly from the Blender Foundation's Roland Hess, noted Blender expert and author. Hess walks animators through the entire process of creating a short animation from: writing, to storyboarding and blocking, through character creation, animation and rendering. A single short animation project is created from start to finish, providing an in-depth look at how all of the Blender tools work together.

The accompanying DVD includes the Blender software, and quality renderings of the example short animation project, as well as all files used to produce the finished animation. The files are available for examination and re-use.