Best book/way to learn Blender?

Hi Everyone,

I am considering learning Blender so I can make my own objects to use with Unity.
Can anyone recommend any good books/websites or any other recommendation to get started?

Thanks!

 

CG-Cookie
BlenderGuru
Blender.Org
Blender-Cycles
Blender-Nerd

I don't recommend books for learning blender as you can get allot of free tutorials on the web.

Blender-Forums

 

Thanks very much Wentzel!

 

This free PDF is really quite good. The 4th edition covers 2.5x and above.

http://www.cdschools.org/54223045235521/blank/browse.asp?A=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&C=55205

 

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro

These were the tutorials that made me stop hating Blender and actually understand it... they may help you too.

 

Thank you you guys!!! ))
much appreciated )))

 

I put some different links in a thread yesterday. More Blender tuts and such...

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/112673-Affordable-alternative-3D-packages

Hope it helps,

TheLorax

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/cannedmushrooms#g/c/2BA5BDF79FF50122

Watch this dude's tutorials. That's how I learned it.

 

Thank the TheLorax!

 

What I did was watch a bunch of youtube videos and just play with it. It's pretty easy to learn. It's the techniques people use that takes a little learning. But I'm sure you can find some easy crash courses on youtube

 

(bookmarked)

 

Awesome Links!!!!

 

I personally like this one, as it has a completely different approach. It was one of my first forays into Blender, and it made me realize how powerful blender could be and how many different way one can approach a problem:

Modelling a 608 Bearing
http://www.rab3d.com/tut_blender.php

 

I highly recommend the following https://www.onlinebooksreview.com/articles/best-blender-3d-books#0134663462 book. This book provides you an easy to follow step-by-step approach for modeling characters with blender functionality and also provides information from basic to advanced level. This is a very good reference book from which you will learn Blender’s updated user interface, navigation, and selection techniques, how to organize an efficient, step-by-step pipeline to streamline workflow in any project, use camera tracking to mix 3D objects into a real-world video and much more.