Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/Tutorial Links List
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Here you can find useful Blender Tutorial Links written in English. Feel free to add some cool tutorials, but, on this page, only in English. For tutorials in other languages please read About. A tutorial about editing these pages can be found here. New to the 3D world? Read To Those Learning 3D.
[edit] Official Blender Documentation
Almost all Manuals can be found in the latest official Blender Manual Books. For additional tutorials look below this topic.
- Tons of Video Tutorials
- Blender MediaWiki * exposed
- Documentation at Blender3D.org
- Categorized list of Blender 3D Tutorials
[edit] Interface
- The best website to learn Blender 3d
- Blender Interface Theme Repository
- Basic Editing
- Blender Hotkeys
- Blender Hotkeys II *broken link*
- Basic Blender
- Basic Interface
- Blender Multimedia
- Changing Views
- First Impression
- Getting Started
- Removing Orphan Vertices
- Seeing Textures with Alt-Z
- Stereoscopic camera for editing
- Blueprint Setup : Blender3d Club
[edit] Mesh Modeling
- Basic Modeling
- Video - DupliVerts Tutorial
- How to solve Blender's smoothing problems: discussion about smoothing strategies: Smooth/Solid, Auto Smooth, EdgeSplit modifier...
- Heightmaps
- Mesh Editing Techniques broken link
- Object Extrusion and Procedural Objects broken link
- Loops Corkscrews Problem
- Loopings Problem
- Knots in Curves Problem
- ZeTool
- DupliFrames Modeling I
- DupliFrames Modeling II
- Dupliframes
- Spin Modeling : Blender3d Club
- Spin and Spin Dup - Needs a lot more explanation
- Automatized BevOb
- Extrusion along a Path using BevOb
- Path Extrusion
- DupliVerts
- Limit DupliVerts
- Types of Handles for Bezier Curves
- Beveled Cube (pdf tutorial)
- Joining/Separating Parts of a Mesh
- Extrusion Controlled by IPO
- Basic objects
- Modelling Techniques and Strategies
- Easily Remove Orphan Edges and Vertices
- Non-destructive bevel effect
- "Cage" Technique Tutorial
- Creating Fire - broken link
[edit] Nurbs and Subsurface Modeling
- Subsurface modeling tutorial
- IPOs, Lattices, Nurbs & Stuff
- Cross-Sections
- Curve Resolution
- Weight Parameter
- OrderU, UniformU and EndpointU
- Curves -n- Bevels
- Making a Hole in Subsurf
- Subsurf Edge Rolling - Round
- Subsurf Edge Rolling - Square
- Modeling with lattices - a fork
- Subsurf modeling 2
- Metaballs
- Abstract SubSurf modeling I
[edit] Specific Object Modeling
- Sponge Bob : Blender3d Club
- Double-Helix
- Turtle
- Leaf Shader Tutorial
- Sears-Roebuck Dairy Barn
- Golf Ball
- Celtic Knot
- Simple Tree
- Making a pedestal
- Building a Castle(broken)
- Ice Cube (pdf tutorial)
- Water I (pdf tutorial)
- Water II (pdf tutorial)
- Space Pod (dead link)
- Grass (link moved)
- Bongo Creature
- Spiral Stairs (All blenderwars links dead)
- Waste Basket(Domain Expired)
- Beveled Cube
- Simple Box
- Fountain with Moving Water
- Track Creation (Broken Link)
- Dolphin
- Dice
- Logo
- Cutting through steel
- Roller Coaster
- Roller Coster Cobra
- Modelling a Glass
- Ocean View
- Solar Systems for beginners
- Chair
- Spiral Stair (pdf tutorial)
- Lighthouse
- Landscape
- Landscapes Easy (
- Cloth Tutorial (dead link) archived version
- Cup
- Cola cane
- Candle
- Volcano
- Orbital Logo
- Realistic Planet
- Landscape Cartoon (pdf tutorial)
- Text
- Text Part 1: Manipulate Text
[edit] Human
- Head Modeling
- Head Modeling & Texturing Tutorial
- Head (link broken)(Part 1 of 12-part Flash Tutorial)
- Hand Palm
- Make Human: Modeling a New Target
- Eyes
- Hair Tutorial
- Real Hair with Blender 3D (link broken)
- Texturing Skin using Vertex Painting and Repeating Image Textures (link broken)
- Wikipedia: Human Body Proportions
[edit] Cars
- Creating a Toon Car (Broken Link)
[edit] Texture Mapping
- Video - Basic Materials
- Making a Lightsaber with Halos (link repaired!)
- The Unofficial Texturing Tutorial
- Material Indice Tutorial
- Raytraced Transparency and Refraction
- Chrome and Shiny Metal Surfaces
- Texturing a castle (Broken link)
- Texturing Tutorial (NOTE: For the game Total Annihilation, not really a general tut)
- Textures in OrCo mode
- Textures for Allosaurus (Broken link)
- Texturing Part I [Broken Link]
- Texturing Part II [Broken Link]
- Texturing a Ship [Broken Link]
- Material Indices
- Textures Channels
- Textures Mapping
- Specular Color
- The Color
- Materials in Blender
- Alpha, Bump, and Specular image textures
- Specular Maps : Blender3d Club
- Image Textures
- Decals
- Chrome
- Alpha Masks
- Skies I[Dead Link]
- Skies II[Dead Link]
- Basic Texturing 2 (Java tutorial) (Broken Link)
- Textures with Alpha
- Textures with Bumpmapping
- Using More Than One Color
- Adding Color To Your Shapes
- Using Textures and Bumpmapping Them
- Texture Mapping Tutorial (pictures ok now 18/03/2006)
- Environment Mapping (pictures ok now 18/03/2006)
- Mapping Caracter
- Creation and Mapping
- Displacement Mapping
- Game Sprites
- Stencilling Textures
- Using Texture Stencils
[edit] UV Mapping
- Video - UV Mapping
- Intermediate and Advanced UV Mapping * exposed
- UV Mapping & Texturing
- Sub-Surf and UV-Texturing problem
- UV Texture Skinning[Dead Link]
- Character UV Textures[Dead Link]
- UV Texturing in Blender
- Tuhopuu UV editor mapping[Dead Link]
- UV Mapping
- Complex material for a sword
- UV Mapping a road and box
- Create a Software Box (involves UV Mapping)
[edit] Animated Textures
- Video - Changing Colors Of Objects Mid Animation
- Blender TexMesh Tutorial * exposed
- animating masks for simulating ice freeze
- Animated Procedural Textures (pdf tutorial)
[edit] Nodes
[edit] 2D Texture Painting Techniques
This part isn't about using Blender, but about necessary 2D knowledge for advanced Blender users.
- Steven Stahlberg's Tutorials * exposed
- Dirty Metal Texture
- Gritty Pipelines
- Digital Painting
- NWN Texturing Tutorials
- Fixing Lighting Irregulaties in Self-Tiling Maps
- Texture Map for the Iris of the Eye
- Airplane Texture Tutorial
- Game Skinning Tips
- Game Lighting Basics I
- Game Lighting Basics II
- Texturing with Gimp
[edit] Lighting, Shadows and Rendering
- Light - a detailed tutorial
- Yafray as an Integrated External Renderer
- Basic 3 Point Lighting
- Radiosity I
- Radiosity II
- Ramp Shaders
- Simulating Radiosity
- Caustic Sampler Tutorial
- Shadows Control
- The 'World' buttons within Blender
- Mastering Shadows
- Ambient Occlusion
- Area Lights
- Depth of Field(dead link)
- Soft Lights (pdf tutorial)
- Blender's Mist
- Basic Lighting
- Optimizing Renders
- Flares
- Toon Shading Broken Link
- Simple Gold Ring with Caustics
[edit] Armatures and IK
- Video - Basic Armatures
- Dancing Flor * exposed
- Animation Workshop II * exposed
- Using Ipo driven shape keys to correct deformations in joints * exposed
- Animation recode project
- Action Constraints tutorial made easy
- Rigged Character
- Driven Hand Rig
- Constrained Mechanics
- Armatures Tutorial (Dead link)
- Animation using Armatures
- Ikas Blender 3D - Introduction
- Constrained Mechanics
- Using Armatures
- Making and Using Armatures
- Character Animation tools (broken link ?)
- IK Solver Constraint
- Softbody for Rigged Characters
- Rigging limbs that can twist
- Rigging tricks
- IKA Tutorial
[edit] Animation
- Weight Painting : Blender3d Club
- Learn Animation
- Video - Animation Basics
- Simple Animation
- Basic Keyframing
- Effects
- Character Animation
- Run Cycle (Non Blender specific)
- Lip Sync I
- Lip Sync II
- Walking Blues
- Non Linear Action Editor - NLA I
- Non Linear Action Editor - NLA II
- Wave Effect
- Build Effect
- Animation effects
- Plane Following a Path
- Object Following a Path
- Cyclic Animation
- Animating Materials
- Walking Tutorial
- Change Cameras during an Animation
- Camera Tracking With Additional Roll Constraint
- Shape Keys / PDF: Blender3d Club
- Eye Tracking : Blender3d Club
- Simple Armature Animation : Blender3d Club
[edit] Particles
- Everything about particles
- Video - Particle Basics
- Video - Grass with Particles
- Video - Explosions with Particles and the Explode Modifier
- Particle Interaction
- Static Particles
- Static Particle Effect
- Particles Effect
- Making a Fireplace (down 06.08.2006)-(still down 08.15.2009)
- Making a Fountain With Particles
- Dust Particles
- Flames
- Liquid
- Explosions
- Smoke
- Making a Rain Effect
- Particle and field basics
[edit] Fluid Simulation
[edit] Compositing
[edit] Game Engine
- Rigid Body Constraints : Blender3d Club
- Video - Blender Game Engine Basics
- Video - Making Dominoes
- Game Engine Development
- New fully integrated game engine?
- Game Blender Documentation (Last modified 13. 07. 2001)
- #GameBlender
- Walkthrough Tutorial
- Overlay Scenes
- Walking Tutorial
- Make a Menu
- Flipper (Broken Link)
- Armatures in the Game Engine
- Multilevel Maze
- Creating Boulders that make the map restart when hit
- Mouse Look 1st Person. Options include capping, invert mouse pitch and adjust mouse sensitivity.
- Viewports. Creating a split screen.
- Python game functions. Sample Code Included. Updated to 2.48
- Car Setup. Use Bullet Physics vehicle wrapper.
- Using Blender to host/contain a storyboard
[edit] Python and Plugins
- Python Lessons * exposed dead link
- Make Hair * exposed
- Povanim Export Script
- AI Path Importer
- 3D-No Plugins; Put your 3D Blender space on web!
- Randomizer Script
- Embedding the 3D web plugin in a web page
- Different Useful Scripts
- AfterGlow, Polyline, Hitchcock ZoomEffect, ...
- Dynamica
- BlendSaber
- Lsystem tree maker
- Python Scripting for Procedural Animation
- Focalblur - A Matter of Depth
- Python API Introduction
- Python API, Making a Square Mesh
- Python API, Iterations
- Python API, Automating Vertex Creation
- Python API, Automating Face Creation
- Python API, Making Potatoid
- Python Script, To build an Empty for EnvMap
- Python Script, Bezier Curves Import
- Python Script, Paths import
- Python Script, Importing Adobe Illustrator Format
- Python Script, Lionhead The Movies .msh import/export
- Python Script, Mesh Explosion
- Python Script, Level Of Detail
- Python Script, Wire Shadows and extrusions
- Python Script, Changing the active camera instantly
- Subsurface Scattering in Blender
- Using the Superficial Scattering Script
- City Block Genarator
- Blender Camera Calibration with Live Camera
- Import-export different formats, Different Generators, etc...
- Horn Extrude
- Mesh shaker and tutorial
- Batch STL
- Vertices to a Curve Converter
- Zutils, Z-Buffer Utilities
- Setting Vertex Colors with Python
[edit] Using other Programs with Blender
- YafRay
- Verse
- SPE - Python IDE for Blender
- Wings 3D Subdivision Modeler
- Verse Gimp-Blender Plugin
- Kerkythea Renderer
- Equinox 3D
- Wings3D, a Quick and Accurate UVmapping Tool for Blender
- Povray export
- Adobe Illustrator Paths import
- Inkscape SVG import
- Using Blender content in PowerPoint 2000
- Ter2Blend
- Batch Processing Images
- BVH Info
- Stereogram
- Importing VRML
- Creating Quicktime VRs
- Blender, Python and Mac OS X
- Stylistic Rendering
- Voodoo Camera Tracker
- Lionhead The Movies
- Using Blender with IMVU IMVU - Information
[edit] Distributed Computing
- BURP - Big and Ugly Rendering Project
- Global Rendering-Farm
- OS X Distributed Blender Network Rendering with Xgrid (Incorrect link?)
- Bfarm Distributed Rendering via Internet
- Powua Blender renderfarm
[edit] Maybe someday ...
[edit] Video Tutorials
- Blender Underground
- Official Blender Video Tutorials
- Super3boy's Blender Tutorials
- Greybeard's Blender Video Tutorials
- Series of short VTuts that explain basic details
- lessons on Blender 3d (broken link)
[edit] Blender WikiBooks
- Blender 3D: Blending Into Python
- Blender 3D: HotKeys
- Blender 3D: Import and Render a SolidWorks Model
- Blender 3D: MemoBook * exposed
- Blender 3D: Noob to Pro
- All Blender WikiBooks Modules
[edit] FAQ
- Blender FAQ (Generated on September 24, 2001)
- Blender Tips
[edit] Repository
This section is not about tutorials, but you can find here different useful stuff for your Blender.
[edit] Blueprints
- http://blueprints.onnovanbraam.com/ (broken link)
- http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw_1w.html War Planes
- http://www.suurland.com/ All sorts of cars
- http://jpracing.racerplanet.com/ Cars, Trucks, Buses
[edit] Materials
[edit] Models
[edit] Photos
[edit] Textures
- Textures Library
- Mayang's Free Textures Hi-Res
- Jeremey Engleman's Public Textures Hi-Res
- Image*After Free Images Hi-Res
- Free Textures Mid-Res
- Sky Maps
[edit] Miscellaneous
CG artists must see or read:
- How to succeed in Animation
- Bitter History of 3D Business
- Blender Art Gallery
- Classical Film and Video Knowledge Base
- Quick Tips in Design&GFX
[edit] Open Movies
- Orange [broken link]
- NaNo - Blender Internet Virtual Movie Studio
[edit] IRC
- irc://irc.freenode.net/blender
- irc://irc.freenode.net/blenderchat
- irc://irc.freenode.net/blenderclasses
- irc://irc.freenode.net/blenderqa
- irc://irc.freenode.net/blendercoders
- irc://irc.freenode.net/blenderwiki
- irc://irc.freenode.net/gameblenderdev
- irc://irc.freenode.net/gameblender
- irc://irc.freenode.net/verse
[edit] Tests
[edit] Other Lists
Please read more about on talk page.
[edit] Tutorials
- blenderartists.org * exposed
- Categorized list of Blender 3D Tutorials
- A Monolingual List of Tutorials
- A Multilingual List of Tutorials
- Dave Jarvis' Blender Tutorials
- Blender Tutorials/Ebooks in PDF format
- Dark Scarab Tutorials
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Blender3d Club : Tutorials, samples, Links.
- SurfnLearn.com : Blender 3D Tutorials
- Blender 3D Links & Resources
- Blender Heads around the Globe(Where live other Blenders?)
- Blenderart MagazineMirror 1,M2,M3
- Blender Classroom Tutorial
- Blender Tutorials Search Engine
- Blender Basics 2nd ed - excellent classroom course
- BlenderMasters - Many resources for blender users
[edit] About
This links list is language filtered and extended version of personal collection originally provided by IamInnocent. So if you looking for tutorials in other languages check this link at www.elYsiun.com.
- German Blenders should have a look at http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Tutorial_Linkliste
If you want to add Blender tutorial link in some other language you can add it temporary on talk page. We will later made such WikiBooks in other languages too.
Thank you all who contributed to this nice and useful links collection! Feel free to add your name or link if you think you need to be mentioned here.