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Table of Contents

• "Essential Blender" License
• Chapter 0: How to get Blender and Install it
• Chapter 1: An Introduction to 3D Art
• Chapter 2: The Blender Interface
• Chapter 3: Object Manipulation and Basic Animation: Hands on
• Chapter 3: Object Manipulation Basics
• Chapter 3: Object Animation Basics
• Chapter 4: Mesh Modeling: Hands on
• Chapter 4: Modeling tools
• Chapter 5: Multiresolution Sculpting: Hands on
• Chapter 5: Multiresolution Sculpting: discussion
• Chapter 6: Character Animation: Hands on
• Chapter 6: Character Animation: Discussion
• Chapter 7: Rigging and Skinning: Hands On
• Chapter 7: Rigging and Skinning: Discussion
• Chapter 8: Shape Keys: Hands on
• Chapter 8: Shape Keys: Tools
• Chapter 9: Materials and Textures in Blender: Hands on
• Chapter 9: Blender Materials: Discussion
• Chapter 10: UV Unwrapping and Painting: Hands on
• Chapter 10: UV Unwrapping and Painting: Tools
• Chapter 11: Lighting: Hands on
• Chapter 11: Lighting: Discussion
• Chapter 12: Particles: Hands on
• Chapter 12: Particle Toolset Discussion
• Chapter 13: Composite and Rendering: Hands on
• Chapter 13: Compositing and Rendering: Discussion
• Chapter 13: Render Settings: Discussion
• Chapter 14: Preferences and Options: Customizing
• Chapter 15: Blender Bonuses
• Application Glossary
• Errata corrige