Hand Turkey Studios is proud to announce the release of Blender For Dummies by company co-founder, Jason van Gumster. Blender For Dummies is a beginner’s reference guide Blender, the freely available 3D modeling and animation suite used in all Hand Turkey animated projects.

The book is available just about anywhere you can purchase books, including Amazon and the Blender e-shop. Wiley Publishing has also provided a PDF file with the full table of contents as well as a sample chapter of the book. Use the following link to download the Blender For Dummies Sample Chapter.

A website has also been created to support the book at www.blenderbasics.com. The site currently has all of the project files included on the Blender For Dummies CD and will also be the home of a number of video tutorials to assist with the concepts covered in the book.

Stay tuned to this site for more Blender-training news from Hand Turkey Studios in the near future.

Hand Turkey Studios recently created a logo for the open source Flash video player, FlowPlayer. FlowPlayer is a very useful player that can be embedded into any website to play videos in the Flash video format. It is used on such large sites as The Internet Archive and putfile.com, as well as Hand Turkey’s own animation portfolio page.

A detailed description of the process that was used to create this logo can be found on sheep-dot, Hand Turkey’s side projects blog.