Blender Foundations is the definitive resource for getting started with 3D art in Blender one of the most popular 3D/ Animation tools on the market. With the expert insight & experience of Roland Hess noted Blender expert & author animators & artists will learn the basics starting with the revised 2.6 interface modeling tools sculpting lighting & materials through rendering compositing & video editing. Some of the new features covered include the completely re-thought interface the character animation & keying system & the smoke simulator. More than just a tutorial guide Blender Foundations" covers the philosophy behind this ingenious software that so many 3D artists are turning to today. Start working today with Blender with the accompanying web site which

Includes:: all of the projects & support files alongside videos step-by-step screenshots of the trickier tutorials as well as a direct links to official resources like the Blender download site & artist forums."

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Blender is a powerful & free 3D graphics tool used by artists & designers worldwide. But even experienced designers can find it challenging to turn an idea into a polished piece. For those who have struggled to create professional quality projects in Blender author Ben Simonds offers this peek inside his studio. You'll learn how to create 3D models as you explore the creative process that he uses to model three example projects: a muscular bat creature a futuristic robotic spider & ancient temple ruins. Along the way you'll master the Blender interface & learn how to create & refine your own models. You'll also learn how to: * Work with reference & concept art in Blender & GIMP to make starting projects easier * Block in models with simple geometry & build up more complex forms * Use Blender's powerful sculpting brushes to create detailed organic models * Paint textures with Blender & GIMP & map them onto your 3D artwork * Design textures in GIMP & map them onto your 3D artwork * Light render & composite your models to create striking images Each chapter walks you through a piece of the modeling process & offers detailed explanations of the tools & concepts used. Filled with full-color artwork & real-world tips Blender Master Class gives you the foundation you need to create your own stunning masterpieces. Supplementary download

Includes:: files for each project in the book as well as extra textures brushes & other resources. Covers Blender 2.6x

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Ezra & Sheena Pepin live in Oxford with their three children. Ezra has abandoned his calling as an anthropologist; Sheena has found hers running a travel company. They are like everyone else: overworked worried about their children trying to preserve their marriage. But when change comes knocking at the Pepins door the family will never be quite the same again. Perceptive & funny Blenheim Orchard is both human drama at its most powerful & an acute portrait of the times we live in. ...

George Best needs little introduction. A legend in his own lifetime he is undoubtedly the greatest footballer the UK has ever produced. Blessed with an extraordinary gift he brought a beauty & grace to the game never before seen. But Best was unable to cope with the success & fame his football genius brought. His fabled story is littered with tales of women & sex & of course alcohol. Much has been written about Best but very little substantiated by the man himself. That is until George Best opened his heart & engaged us in one of the most exhilarating life stories for years Blessed. In his own words George recounts the halcyon days at Manchester United the big games & European Cup win of '68. & then there's the heartbreaking truth about the death of his mother & his struggles with alcohol that forced him to face up to a life without drink. Blessed reveals the man behind the up-for-a-laugh boozy womanizing stereotype that had dogged George Best for so long. Open & honest about his mistakes George is also incredibly candid about his triumphs his regrets & only three years before his death what he had hoped for the future. ' Don't coach him he's a genius' Sir Matt Busby. ' Unquestionably the greatest' Sir Alex Ferguson. ...

The Oslo police are baffled. Crime scenes are being found covered with blood but there is no victim. Only an odd series of numbers is left behind. When a girl is brutally raped in her apartment Detective Hanne Wilhelmsen is charged with solving the case. Hanne quickly notices strange similarities with the blood-stained crime scenes. But the victims father has started an independent hunt for the rapist...and Hanne will have to race against time to prevent a victim becoming a vigilante. ...

The Eighteenth Century was an era when brave mariners took their ships beyond the horizon in search of an unknown world. Those chosen to lead these expeditions were exceptional navigators men who had shown brilliance as they ascended the ranks in the Royal Navy. They were also bloody good sailors.rnrn From ship's boy to vice-admiral discover how much more there was to Captain Blight than his infamous bad temper. Meet a 24-year-old Master Bligh as he witnesses the demise of his captain & mentor Cook; a 34-year-old Lieutenant Bligh at the helm of the famous Bounty then cast adrift by Fletcher Christian on an epic 47-day open-boat voyage from Tonga to Timor; & a 36-year-old Captain Bligh as he takes HMS Providence the the company of a young Matthew Flinders on a grand voyage to Tahiti & back. & all this before he was forty. ...

Hundreds of years before the great Mage War a land lies unknowing on the edge of catastrophe.. . Barl is young impulsive & wants to explore her raw magical potential. But Doranas rigid class system means that only those with the right pedigree are trained. Desperate to learn Barl lets her eagerness lead her to rebellion & disgrace. She faces the possibility of never using her powers again
- until she meets Morgan Danfey who sits on the Mage Council itself. Together they realise they can create an extraordinary new magic. But the lure of this great power reveals a darkness in Morgan which will bring their land to its knees. A BLIGHT OF MAGES is set in the world of Karen Millers Bestselling debut THE INNOCENT MAGE.
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Laura Chases older sister Iris married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor & eighty-two is living in Port Ticonderoga a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While coping with her unreliable body Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life in particular the events surrounding her sisters tragic death. Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following. Sexually explicit for its time The Blind Assassin describes a risky affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman & a man on the run. During their secret meetings in rented rooms the lovers concoct a pulp fantasy set on Planet Zycron. As the invented story twists through love & sacrifice & betrayal so does the real one; while events in both move closer to war & catastrophe. By turns lyrical outrageous formidable compelling & funny this is a novel filled with deep humour & dark drama. ...

The deepest cave on earth was a prize that had remained unclaimed for centuries long after every other ultimate discovery had been made. This is the story of the men & women who risked everything to find it earning their place in history beside the likes of Peary Amundsen Hillary & Armstrong. In 2004 two great scientist-explorers attempted to find the bottom of the world. Bold American Bill Stone was committed to the vast Cheve Cave located in southern Mexico & deadly even by supercave standards. On the other side of the globe legendary Ukrainian explorer Alexander Klimchouk
- Stones opposite in temperament & style
- had targeted Krubera a freezing nightmare of a supercave in the Republic of Georgia. Blind Descent" explores both the brightest & darkest aspects of the timeless human urge to discover
- to be first. It is also a thrilling epic about a pursuit that makes even extreme mountaineering & ocean exploration pale by comparison. These supercavers spent months in multiple camps almost two vertical miles deep & many more miles from their caves exits. They had to contend with thous&-foot drops deadly flooded tunnels raging whitewater rivers monstrous waterfalls mile-long belly crawls & much more. Perhaps even worse were the psychological horrors produced by weeks plunged into absolute perpetual darkness beyond all hope of rescue including a particularly insidious derangement called " The Rapture". " Blind Descent" is a testament to human survival & endurance
- & to two extraordinary men whose relentless pursuit of greatness led them to heights of triumph & depths of tragedy neither could have imagined."



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The Number One bestselling detective series. Nothing keeps a crime hidden like fear & DS Logan Mc Rae hits a dead-end in this 5th crime thriller from the award-winning Stuart Mac Bride. ' You can't be an eyewitness if I cut out your eyes...' Someone's preying on Aberdeen's growing Polish population. The pattern is always the same: men abandoned on building sites barely alive their eyes gouged out & the sockets burned. With the victims too scared to talk & the only witness a paedophile who's on the run Grampian Police is getting nowhere fast. The attacks are brutal they keep on happening & soon DS Logan Mc Rae will have to decide how far he's prepared to bend the rules to get a result. The Granite City is on the brink of gang warfare; the investigating team are dogged by allegations of corruption; & Logan's about to come to the attention of Aberdeen's most notorious crime lord... ...