Oliver Villar is a Blender Foundation Certified Trainer. He has has studied 3D since 2004 and used diverse commercial 3D software before stumbling onto Blender in 2008. Since then he has used Blender professionally as a freelance 3D designer and tutor. In 2010 he founded blendtuts. com to offer high-quality Blender training videos to the community. He authored this book's first and second editions and the video Introduction to Blender LiveLessons (Addison-Wesley 2015). Villar is now co-directing Luke's Escape a 3D animated short film made with Blender. He is also teaching Blender at online schools focused on teaching for the Spanish community and teaches 3D for online schools and the University of Murcia in Spain. Language: English