Learning Blender

Working Notes

• Blender User Interface
• Asset Management

References

Sites

• Blender Cookie
• Blender Guru
• Blender Newbies
• Blender Artists
• Blender Art Magazine

Online Books/Courses

• Essential Blender
• Blender Manual
  • List of all hotkeys/shortcuts
• Blender 3D: Noob to Pro (not that great)
• Blender 3D Design Course

Tutorials

Promising 2.5 Tutorials

• Using LuxRender
• Morphing Objects - for the slip portal?
• Arrays along a curve
• Breaking apart and reassembling meshes
• How to make snow
• GIMP texture tips
• Shape modeling tutorials
• Where'd That Button Go
• Surviving Blender 2.5A

Older Links

• Blender.org's List of External Tutorials
• Character Animation
• Storyboard Animatics
• Extrude Along a Path
• Stone Pedestal
• Sky Dome for Pseudo GI

Space-Related

• Earth
• Other Planet
• Urban Design (good for planetscapes?)
• Meteor Shower (video - out of date version)
• High Tech Corridor

Other

• Blender.org Python Scripts Catalog
• Architecture Models - check licensing
• Thread on casting shadows from live footage in a virtual set
• Thread on video into virtual set
• Thread on camera calibration