Blender tutorials: 20 ways to create cool 3D effects

Creating 3D art can be expensive. But thanks to creatives developing free open source software, like Blender, everyone can get involved. In this article, we've rounded up the best step-by-step Blender tutorials from around the web. Improve your modelling, animating, rendering and compositing skills as you follow the projects and pick up tips from leading 3D designers in these video and text tutorials. We've grouped these Blender tutorials into three sections, so that as well as browsing the whole list you can jump straight to the guides that are most relevant to you (use the drop-down menu above to navigate to the page you want). Blender tutorials for beginners 01. Get started with the basics of Blender with this free video tutorial series from Blender Foundation-certified trainer Jonathan Williamson. 02. Before you start creating anything in Blender, you need to master the basics. 03. 04. 05. 06. Get to grips with the complete workflow for setting up lighting for an outdoor scene. 07.

Tutorials/Animation/BSoD/Character Animation/Upper body armature From BlenderWiki Rigging basics Think about how you would animate a character. You definitely wouldn't want to move each vertex, frame by frame. In Blender, the skeleton is called an Armature. An Armature is composed of many Bones. Just to give you a heads up, first we'll create the upper body armature, and once that's done we'll move to the lower body. For "real" armatures . . . This, by design, is a very simple armature to demonstrate the basics. Apply the Mirror modifier Up until now, we've been operating on one side of the mesh, and the other side has been automatically updated by the Mirror modifier. Important: Make sure the character mesh is the way you want it. Applying the Mirror modifier to make the mirrored vertices real. With the character mesh selected, go to the Edit buttons In the Mirror modifier, click Apply (Applying the Mirror modifier to make the mirrored vertices real) "Modifer is not first" warning. Second warning message when applying Mirror modifier. Add Armature and

Blender 2.5+ Tutorials Human Rigging Tutorial with Blender 2.5 nawabz wrote us about a nice video tutorial by David Ward from BlenderCookie.com . The video started by adding the default human meta-rig template then adding basic IKs for the arm and leg and a fews constraints to the palm and fingers to make them form a perfect fist. The tutorial uses b-bone for nicely twisting forearms, spine and neck. Check out the video from his site. David writes: In this Blender 2.53 video tutorial, I show you how to add the Human Meta-Rig, and set it up with constraints and such for easier and faster rig creation. Link Using the Human Meta-Rig Be Sociable, Share!

Blender Time Glasses The Movie Blender 3D Design Course Blender 3D Design Course Note: Added new Lesson #13 - NURBS Surfaces / Meta Objects - April 27, 2013 Note: Added new Lesson #14 - Rigid Body Dynamics- June 1, 2013 Students: This course is also available for downloading to your iPhone or iPad via Tufts University iTunesU. (Install the iTunesU app / Search Colleges and Universities - Tufts University / Subscribe to "3D Design - Blender"). You can also download the course to a desktop or laptop via the iTunes application. The video tutorials are also available on my Vimeo channel (Blender Video Tutorials - Neal Hirsig) Instructors: If you are an instructor and would like to download the 3D Design Blender 2.6X content (Syllabus, Video Tutorials, PDF Tutorials, Projects and Exercises), send me your name, e-mail address and the name of your school or institution. Neal Hirsig nhirsig@tufts.edu Syllabus Blender Cheatsheet All Video Tutorials All PDF Tutorials Links Copyright Notice Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA

47 Amazing Blender Tutorials Okay all you freeloaders... here are the Blender tutorials I promised! I got you 47 amazing tuts from around the far reaches of the interwebs. So go get some coffee or a can of coke, cause you're gonna be here for a while. Model and texture a wooden barrel using multiple modifiers and projection painting with Jonathan Williamson . Learn how to create magic wand effects in this huge 3 part tutorial. This tutorial goes through the process of setting up your UVs, and then using projection painting to create the textures. Shows how to make a good three-point lighting setup in Blender. At the risk of sounding redundant....learn how to model a teddy bear:Part 1 Part 2 Learn how to model and texture a steampunk style telescope. Model a rope in Blender by replicating a segment along a path using Array and Curve modifiers. Learn to model a human head in this huge 6 part tutorial. CGSutra has 3 tutorials on Blender Basics: The Interface Working With Viewports Moving Around in 3d Space