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Villar, Oliver.
    Learning Blender : a hands-on guide to creating 3D animated characters / Oliver Villar.
        pages cm
    Includes index.
    ISBN 978-0-13-388617-7 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    1. Computer animation. 2. Blender (Computer file) 3. Computer graphics. 4. Three-dimensional display systems. I. Title.
    TR897.72.B55.V55 2015
    006.6’96—dc23                                                                                        2014028384

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ISBN-13: 978-0-13-388617-7
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First printing, October 2014

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