Roland Hess

Author of The Essential Blender: Guide to 3D Creation with the Open Source Suite Blender

5 Works 158 Members 4 Reviews

About the Author

PROSE Award-winning author Roland Hess has worked with graphics and imaging software for over 20 years, and is one of the leading experts for Blender software. As an active user and developer of Blender, Roland brings a unique perspective to Blender instruction that helps to bridge the difficult show more gap between technical knowledge and artistic endeavor. Hess wrote Focal Press titles Blonder Foundations (2010) and Tradigital Blender (2011). show less

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Works by Roland Hess

Blender Foundations: The Essential Guide to Learning Blender 2.6 (2010) 36 copies

Animating with Blender: How to Create Short Animations from Start to Finish (2008) 24 copies

Tradigital Blender: A CG Animator's Guide to Applying the Classic Principles of Animation (2011) 11 copies

Blender Production: Creating Short Animations from Start to Finish (2012) 4 copies

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Legal name: Hess, David Roland
Other names: Hess, D. Roland
Birthdate: 1970
Gender: male

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The Essential Blender: Guide to 3D Creation with the… by Roland Hess

I think this is an excellent book to get your feet wet with the Open Source app Blender.

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The Essential Blender: Guide to 3D Creation with the… by Roland Hess

Intended as a fairly complete introduction to the 3D modelling software package Blender. However, it is rendered almost useless by the small size of its diagrams, which are mostly screenshots of menus in which the options are completely indecipherable (even with a magnifying glass).
I would recommend that you avoid buying this book and instead use the online version (which has reasonable diagrams): target="_top">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Books/Essential_Blender_(text)… (more)