Animating with Blender: Step-by-Step Guide to Create Professional Short Animations from Start to Finish - Perfect for Beginners, Filmmakers & Digital Artists

This is a great book.First, the production quality is very high. The pages are heavy stock and all of the illustrations are in full color. This is extremely important for a book such as this, where color illustrations can make the difference from being able to tell what's going on, or not. (I also really like Tony Mullen's Introducing Character Animation with Blender, but most of the illustrations in that book were in black-and-white, and at times, I really struggled to see what was going on.)Coverage of the material is excellent. Having used Blender enough now that I'm starting to get comfortable, I found that I didn't really know how to proceed to create an animated short. This book really covers the material, explaining how to develop your story and storyboards, then proceeding to cover topis on production and post-production.This book is not in tutorial form, so there aren't lots of step-by-step instructions on doing something. Instead, it covers how to create your animated short, given that you have some familiarity with Blender.That said, there's still quite a bit of information for relative beginners. It's a bit surprising sometimes that the book will cover some fairly basic information in some areas and then assume you already know the basics in other areas.All-in-all, this is a great book. It's fun to read and it's also a great reference. It's filled with valuable and useful advice and techniques on accomplishing the goal of completing an animated short.