Brekel offers a free program
that will let you connect your Microsoft Kinect 3D camera to
your Windows computer and capture your human motions in BVH
format for export to Blender.
Mocap libraries:
TrueBones
Shapeways will print your Blender creations for you
in 3D in your choice of materials (plastic, aluminium, stainless
steel, coloured sandstone, glass…). Know that your model may
need a lot of extra work before you can have it printed in 3D.
Makehuman.org This free
program lets you create customised human rigs with skeletons
that you can import into Blender and animate
Youtube has lots of Blender
tutorials. Click HERE for the official YouTube Blender channel.Search
also for videos by Ira Krakow and SuperBoy3.
Blender for Dummies.
Jason van Gumster Paperback: 472 pages. Publisher: John Wiley &
Sons; 2nd Edition edition (6 May 2011) Be sure to get the 2011
edition and not the older edition. ISBN-13: 978-0470584460.
Comes with a DVD. Book is based on Blender version 2.56a.
Blender Foundations,
The Essential Guide to Blender 2.6
Roland Hess, Focal Press ISBN: 978-0-240-81430-8. Be sure to
get the 2011 edition and not the older edition.A site
www.blenderfoundations.com provides support materials
Learning Character
Animation with Blender Second edition
by Tony Mullen. Sybex. ISBN: 978-0-470-42737-8 Be sure to get
the 2011 edition and not the older edition. A website provides
support materials. Note that the rig included on the site may
not be fully compatible with the latest versions – it seems to
work with Blender 2.56 but not with 2.57b (no FK/IK switching).
You should look into this before buying the book – Check the
errata page for the book.
