Baby Blender Steps

I have now been tracking my book online and been disappointed in the fact that it has been in Bell, California for two days. Bell is approximately three hours away. So I went to sites other than Amazon and Google maps. Blender has an amazing site that looks great and is very functional. They have a wiki, gallery and tutorials. All of which are useful or just cool. I downloaded a few of the video tutorials, which i can burn to a disk to save anyone interested time. The tutorials are very clear and useful, but it is by far the most complicated program I have ever seen. This is definitely a good summer project. For now we wait.

Blending It Up

I recently ran across a program called Blender online and quickly became very interested. Blender is a 3D modeling program with incredible capabilities. If you would like to download Blender, you can visit www.Blender.org and find the download page. Blender is an open source program that is completely free. A programming language called Python (like a snake) is integrated into Blender and can be used to create things such as physics and Artificial Intelligence(AI), which may be incorporated into a game that one might model using Blender. I ordered a book on Blender online yesterday and hope it will arrive by next week.

My goals for this summer are:

• Learn the basics of Blender's modeling capabilities and animating capabilities
• Learn how to incorporate Python into Blender animations, etc.
• Further advance my modeling and animating capabilities in Blender
• Learn how games are made using Blender and Python