Blender

Interested in learning about video making? Then maybe you should visit Video School, a library of video making tutorials and related techniques. Max Hammond writes: Vimeo, “the video hosting...

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A tongue-in-cheek video by BlenderGuru. I did some of those! Did you? :)

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For those wanting to create realistic jewellery in blender and cycles, a new tutorial by Alex Telford is available on 3D World Magazine! There is an in depth text tutorial for those subscribed to the...

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A detailed look into the special effects of some recent Hollywood movies. Andy writes: VFX work from recent Hollywood movies showing the use of VFX and 3D in shot breakdowns. (Non-Blender) Intended...

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As part of his ‘environment series’ of tutorials, Alex Telford jumps into modeling an old well. Alex writes: Bear in mind that this is NOT a beginner series, I will assume you already...

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Character animation is a bit stiff, but I think the overall look of this video is great! Rajiv writes: My very first short film modeled and animated completely on Blender 2.6. Hope you enjoy..Video...

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FormaCD released volume 1 of their Blender training material in the French language. This first volume teaches all the basics needed to make your first steps in 3D with Blender. Five more DVDs are...

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Jaka Benedik has a great story to share about his design work for a well-known backpack brand. Jaka Benedik writes: I would like to share one year of my profesional experience using Blender with the...

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This infographic by XRG does a great job at explaining some of the differences between quad modeling and the upcoming new Bmesh module. Here it is in full size: What are YOU most excited about?

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All product designers and architects will love this one. The new Carve library finally is making its way into trunk and bringing to us much faster boolean operations. Now interactive cut section...

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NI Mate imports Kinect motion capture data in real-time into 3D apps. Blender is the first application that it supports! Julius Tuomisto writes: Mine and Janne “jahka” Karhu’s...

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Blender 2.62 release is still planned for 2.5 weeks from now, FFmpeg gets an update and new render passes for Cycles are being looked in to. Ton Roosendaal writes: Here’s the notes from...

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CGCookie uploaded 4 complete basic animations rigs to Blend Swap free of charge for you to download and learn from under the CC-BY license model. These are the animation rigs used in the first 2...

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By Greg Zaal. Greg writes: 42 hand painted texture masks later and the exterior is finally done :) Well, I do still need to adjust the landing gear by adding some pistons and things, but for now...

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After we posted Nikhil Dhoka’s growing ivy animation, he received many requests for a tutorial on this technique. Here it is! Nikhil Dhoka writes: Since some users asked for tutorial.. So,...

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By Stephan Fleischer. Stephan writes: I was a little depressed because of not seeing any progress in my work and felt like being buried under tons of mud and dirt… So I sat down in front of my...

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For everybody who is new to Blender and product rendering Alex Telford released a small tutorial which in a very compressed format highlights a best practice approach for modeling a scene and setting...

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Working also with NURBS and T-Splines concepts such as N-Gons is very familiar to me when it comes to locally subdivide the mes for detailing. Blendercookie made this timelapsed movie demonstrating...

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“This video was created in order to promote the use of Creative Commons on the volunteer computing based rendering service Renderfarm.fi (http://www.renderfarm.fi) and in any other relevant...

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Christopher Wilmer has created this image for the cover of Nature Chemistry, a leading scientific journal. Christopher Wilmer writes: Hello everybody, I am Ph.D. student in chemical engineering at...

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