About the Reviewers

Fernando Castilhos Melo lives in Caxias do Sul, Brazil, and works in a software company as a software developer and systems analyst. In his spare time, he works on 3D modeling using Blender. He has been using Blender since 2009. He has given several lectures on Blender and 3D modeling at several Brazilian free / open source software events, such as FLISOL and TcheLinux. Fernando holds a degree in computer science from UCS (University of Caxias do Sul).

This is the second book on Blender that he has worked on. The first one was Blender Cycles: Lighting and Rendering Cookbook in 2013. He had developed an integration between Blender and Kinect named "Kinected Blender" to generate 3D animation. This project is currently in the alpha version. For more information, you can go to his web page at http://www.fernando.melo.nom.br/.