LINKS
to Blender Learning and Resources
these
links were incredibly useful and valuable in my pursuit of learning
Blender 3D. Thank you so much to all the contributors!
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Creating
a stylised Dragon (Video tutorials)
One
of my all time favourite series of tutorials. Covers the entire process
of
modelling, texturing and rigging
a Dragon. A great way to really
learn the complete process in Blender.
http://cgcookie.com/blender/2010/06/17/series-stylized-dragon-part-1/
Abstract
Art - Blender
http://www.blendernation.com/2011/09/02/tutorial-making-abstract-3d-art/#utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Blendernation+%28BlenderNation%29
Grow
Ivy
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.5/Py/Scripts/Curve/Ivy_Gen
Blender
3D keying tracking
http://www.blendernation.com/2011/08/02/timelapse-3d-tracking-keying-compositing-using-blender-tomato-branch/#utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Blendernation+%28BlenderNation%29
The
brilliance of BMESH
http://www.blendernation.com/2011/07/25/review-bsurfaces-3d-spline-mesh-sketching-and-re-topology-add-on/#utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Blendernation+%28BlenderNation%29
Nice
grass tutorial
http://tutorialfield.blogspot.com/2011/06/blender-25-cycles-grass.html
Blender
book 2 sided page turn tutorial
http://www.blendernation.com/2011/06/15/tutorial-double-sided-material-page-flip-animation/#utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Blendernation+%28BlenderNation%29
Using
Lattices in Blender
http://www.blendercookie.com/2011/02/09/tip-using-lattice-modifier/
Ultimate
Green Screen Keying
http://www.youtube.com/user/blendedplanet#p/u/1/SqcJAdEuftY
How
to create a flame thrower
http://www.blenderguru.com/how-to-create-a-flamethrower/
Realistic
Foam Tutorial
http://www.blendernation.com/2011/04/27/realistic-foam-tutorial/#utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Blendernation+%28BlenderNation%29
Armatures
Crash Course - really cool. Heaps of tips!
http://www.blendernation.com/2011/04/15/armatures-in-blender-2-5-a-crash-course/#utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Blendernation+%28BlenderNation%29
Blender
Toon Shading - FREESTYLE
http://freestyleintegration.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/development-updates-on-march-17/
Blender
Fracture tools tutorial and game node activators
http://www.directcg.info/how-to-use-fracturetools-inside-blender.html
Green
Screen Keying and Crowd Replication Tutorial Videos
http://www.hollywoodcamerawork.us/vfx_sampleclips.html
Awesome
Asteroid Tutorial - Covers Displacement Textures, Grouped particles
systems, Stars, Mist, Compositing, Vignette, Chromatic aberration and
on!
http://vimeo.com/21060971
HDRI
maps and techniques
http://www.blendernation.com/2011/03/22/hdri-tools-for-sibl-in-blender-internal/#utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Blendernation+%28BlenderNation%29
Rig
a Spider Leg in Blender 2.5
http://vimeo.com/20933291
Stereoscopic
3D Blender Script and Tutorial
http://www.noeol.de/s3d/
Capsule
Physics
http://www.blendernation.com/2011/03/09/capsule-physics-in-blender-2-5/#utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Blendernation+%28BlenderNation%29
Ocean
SIM Quick Start Tutorial
http://www.savetheoceansim.com/blog/?p=161
Cool
Blender Ink Drop ZTutorial
http://blenderdiplom.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=20:tutorial-a-cool-looking-inkdrop-in-blender&Itemid=106
Double
Sided Page with two different textures (Tutorial)
http://www.blendertime.com/blender-tutorial-double-side-material-page-flip-animation/
Blender
2.5 Network rendering walkthrough
http://blendingwithforbes.blogspot.com/2010/03/blender-25-network-render.html
Blowing
leaves Tutorial and alpha clipping
http://www.blendercookie.com/2010/05/26/creating-a-scene-of-blowing-leaves/
Intro
to Colour grading
http://www.packtpub.com/article/introduction-to-blender-2-5-color-grading
Colour
grading sequel
http://www.packtpub.com/article/introduction-to-blender-2-5-color-grading-sequel
Blender
camera mapping tutorial
http://www.blendernation.com/2010/04/09/blenderguru-camera-mapping-in-blender-2-5/
Baking
AO lighting in Blender 2.5 video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKUAemD7oo4
Changing
cameras during an animation 2.5
http://www.blendernation.com/2010/11/17/changing-cameras-during-an-animation-in-blender-2-5/#utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Blendernation+%28BlenderNation%29
Free
NASA 3D Models, images, textures
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/3d_resources/index.html
SubD
to NURBS
http://www.integrityware.com/subdnurbs.html
Rigify!
http://www.blendernation.com/2010/10/30/rigify-auto-rigging-system-new-and-improved/#utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Blendernation+%28BlenderNation%29
Unlimited
Clay update
http://www.blendernation.com/2010/11/01/unlimited-clay-update/#utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Blendernation+%28BlenderNation%29
Blender
Shape Key Tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTp_f_u8Nl0
Blender
GLSL Projection Painting
http://www.blendernation.com/2008/08/26/tutorial-texturing-a-head-with-glsl/
HDRI
and Open Footage
http://www.openfootage.net/?p=96
Blender
MultiLayer Skin
http://www.limbopeak.net/blog/?p=1
CartoonSmart.com
- great free tutorials
http://www.cartoonsmart.com/free_index.php5
Blender
Flame Thrower Tutorial
http://www.blendernation.com/2010/09/11/blender-2-5-smoke-sim-save-some-time-when-going-hires/#utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Blendernation+%28BlenderNation%29
How
to join and separate objects
http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-combine-objects-blender-196569/
Head
Retopology methods
http://vimeo.com/14560538
Quick
Reflections
http://vimeo.com/14606187
Human
Rigging Tutorial
http://www.blendernation.com/2010/09/04/human-rigging-tutorial-with-blender-2-5/#utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Blendernation+%28BlenderNation%29
Advanced
Particle Tutorials
http://www.blendernation.com/2010/09/01/blender-2-5-particle-tutorials/#utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Blendernation+%28BlenderNation%29
Disintegration
http://www.packtpub.com/article/advanced-effects-using-blender-particle-system
Colin
Levy Tutorials
1.
Snurgle Shot - 3D Character Full breakdown modelling, rigging animation
2.
Symmetrical Particles
3.
Camera Mapping
4.
Icarus Video Tutorial Series - now PFMagic
http://www.colinlevy.com/tutorials.php
Symmetrical
Particles Tutorial
http://www.colinlevy.com/tuts/ParticleTutorial/Particles_Tut.html
Blueprints
http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/modernplanes/helicopters-a-b/page/2/
Blender
Array Tutorial
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7017597301732577894#
Compositing
Render Passes
http://vimeo.com/4732738
Compositing
Nodes Tutorial
http://blenderunderground.com/2008/04/10/introduction-to-composite-nodes-part-2/
Point
cache data from Maya to Blender to Lightwave
http://forums.cgsociety.org/archive/index.php/t-832469.html
Blender++
Batch Render and heaps of other cool development stuff
http://www.aktasway.com/blog/
NetRender
video tutorial 2.5
http://vimeo.com/14165910
16
Useful Modelling Tools Video
http://www.blendernation.com/tutorial-16-really-useful-modeling-tools/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Blendernation+(BlenderNation)
Model
Starcraft2 Logo
http://www.blenderguru.com/recreate-the-starcraft-2-logo/
100
Video tutorials
http://gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html
Red
Nelb Rig by Daniel Lara
http://www.daniel3d.com/pepeland/misc/3dstuff/blender/rig/red-nelb/Red-Nelb_v08.blend
Lighting
with Normal Nodes
http://www.daniel3d.com/pepeland/misc/3dstuff/ilum_normal/[pepeland]-iluminating_with_normal_nodes.htm
Blender
2.53 to After Effects
http://www.blender.bartekskorupa.com/-video/109.html
script
ftp://ftp.bartekskorupa.com/blender253toAE.zip
Blender
Noob to Pro book/Wiki
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro
Morpheus
Rig Open Beta
http://journal.joshburton.com/2010/08/morphy-body-open-beta.html
Blender
Sequencer manual
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Sequencer/Usage
Blender
Material Repository
http://matrep.parastudios.de/index.php?p=7
V
Paint Demo
http://www.blendernation.com/new-feature-in-development-vpaint-image-source-overlay/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Blendernation+(BlenderNation)
P-Tex
in Blender
http://vimeo.com/13859283
Multires
V-Paint
http://vimeo.com/13581943
Accelerated
V-Paint
http://vimeo.com/13198222
Let's
Paint - Displacement Painting
http://www.blendernation.com/lets-paint/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Blendernation+(BlenderNation)
Multi
Rig and The Cup short film
http://www.blendernation.com/the-cup/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Blendernation+(BlenderNation)
Intro
to Smoke Blender 2.5 (Really good!)
http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/blender/introduction-to-smoke-simulation-in-blender-2-5-day-1/
http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/blender/introduction-to-smoke-simulation-in-blender-2-5-day-2/
Making
a Flag [Cloth] Blender 2.5 tutorial
http://www.box.net/shared/nej0j8ex7q
http://foreverblender.blogspot.com/2010/05/cloth-basics-making-flag.html
After
Effects Parallex tutorial
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/animating_a_still/
HDRI
Environment in Blender 2.5 steps
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=869030
Blender
Vector Blur tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXKFzbL7qek&feature=PlayList&p=C446C7BE140B3F0A&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=25
Indepth
Baking Tutorial
http://vimeo.com/1147621?hd=1
Point
Density Clouds from shapes
http://www.vimeo.com/7177831
Nice
simple 3D volume clouds tutorial
http://vimeo.com/groups/25535/videos/6450820
UV
Texturing tutorial - Quick but good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI859_0-rrU
Blender
2.5 UV creation.
step
1. Select object and switch to Edit mode
step
2. deselect object
step
3. select the edgesyou want as seams
step
4. select 'mesh', 'edges', 'mark seam'
step
5. deselect everything
step
6. switch to faces and select all faces
step
7. with faces selected - 'mesh', 'uvunwrap', 'unwrap'
step
8. create a new window and switch it to 'uv/image editor' view
step
9. select the meshes in the uv layout window
step
10. select 'image', 'open' in the UV/Image Editor window and select
image
You
will also need to set the material to UV mapping and load the image
there as well otherwise it will not show up in render.
Blender
3D Noob to PRO tutorial list
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Tutorial_Links_List
Animate
Rig - Ginger Bread Man
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.5/Manual/Your_First_Animation/1.A_static_Gingerbread_Man
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Tutorials/Animation/BSoD/Character_Animation
Filmmaker's
Excellent 555 Blender Tutorials
http://filmmakeriq.com/2009/04/555-blender-tutorials/
Nice
cell shaded Anime footage Blender
http://www.blendernation.com/tomos-manga-videos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Blendernation+(BlenderNation)
GUIDE
to Volumetric Shader Blender
http://www.stratus3d.com/blender/tutorials/27-guide-to-volumetric-shading-in-blender-250
PARTICLE
TUTORIALS
Sand
over a cube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8vr6E5wxts&feature=related
Advanced
Array Tutorial
http://www.blendernation.com/advanced-array-animation-tutorial-for-blender-2-5/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Blendernation+(BlenderNation)
Introduction
to Compositor
http://www.wowfactorbook.com/introduction-to-the-compositor/
Fracture
Script and tutorial
http://www.blendernation.com/fracture-script-tutorial/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Blendernation+(BlenderNation)
Cloud
Generating Script
http://www.blendernation.com/cloud-generator-script-for-blender-2-5/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Blendernation+(BlenderNation)
Blender
Surface Sketching script . . . Awesome!!
http://www.blendernation.com/new-script-surface-sketching/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Blendernation+(BlenderNation)
*
Blender Cookie Tutorials
http://www.blendercookie.com/category/all/tutorials/
Spin
duplicates with an array modifier
http://www.blendercookie.com/2010/03/30/tip-spin-duplicates-with-an-array-modifier/
Network
Rendering in Blender
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.5/Manual/Render/Engines/Netrender
Distributed
Render for Blender
http://sites.google.com/site/blendoli/yadra
Colour
Grading with Blender
http://www.blendernation.com/color-grading-with-blender-2-5/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Blendernation+(BlenderNation)
http://www.francois-tarlier.com/blog/index.php/2010/03/color-grading-with-blender-2-5/
Introduction
Smoke Simulation
http://www.blenderguru.com/introduction-to-smoke-simulation/
Creating
realistic grass
http://www.blenderguru.com/the-secret-to-creating-realistic-grass/
Blender
Guru Clouds and more ...
http://www.blenderguru.com/create-volumetric-clouds/
Blender
Particle Garden Video and files
http://vimeo.com/8733089
Awesome
Camera Mapping Breakdown
http://www.blendernation.com/in-dire-need-camera-mapping-breakdown/
Camera
Mapping with 3D environment objects - [Excellent]
http://www.colinlevy.com/tuts/CameraMapping/CameraMapping.html
Realtime
Stone With Details
http://www.blendernation.com/realtime-stone-with-detail-maps-in-blender/
Camera
Mapping Video Tutorial
http://www.blendernation.com/videotutorial-camera-mapping-in-blender/
Rotoscoping
in Blender tutorial (PDF)
http://www.blendernation.com/rotoscoping-and-matte-painting-in-blender/
Breaking
up a Matte Painting
http://vimeo.com/9766986?hd=1
Rigging
an Eye for Dialation 2.5
http://www.blendercookie.com/2010/03/13/rigging-a-pupil-for-dilation/
Intro
to Indirect Lighting
http://www.blendernation.com/intro-to-indirect-lighting/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Blendernation+(BlenderNation)
Creating
realistic Fire
http://www.blenderguru.com/creating-realistic-fire/
Applying
a decal with Blender
http://www.blendernation.com/applying-a-decal-in-blender-2-5-alpha-1/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Blendernation+(BlenderNation)
Getting
started with Blender
http://www.blendercookie.com/getting-started-with-blender/
Blender
2.5 to After Effects CS3 - CS4
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ciccone_paolo/ae-exporter-blender/video-tutorial.php
Blender
foot rig tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tApdSx_4b0Q
Dark
Scarab Blender 2.5 tutorials
http://www.darkscarab.com/tutorials/
Materials
and Texture Painting Pt1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CZ5iYe8-7k
Great
Fly Modelling Tutorial
http://www.vimeo.com/2879397
Indirect
Lighting Video
http://vimeo.com/9580375
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