About the reviewer

Fernando Castilhos Melo lives in Toronto, Canada, and works as a software engineer. Since 2009, he has used his spare time to work on 3D modeling using Blender. He has lectured on Blender and 3D modeling at several Brazilian free/open source software events.

Fernando holds a degree in computer science from UCS (Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Brazil), and this is the fourth Blender book that he has worked on. The other ones were Blender Cycles: Lighting and Rendering Cookbook, in 2013; Blender 3D by Example, in 2015; and Blender 3D Printing by Example, in 2017.

Moreover, he has also developed an integration between Blender and Kinect named Kinected Blender in order to generate 3D animations using body movements captured from Kinect.