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Blender Beginner's Knowledge Test

This Blender knowledge test will, hopefully, be a fun challenge - even for more advanced users. My hopes are that it will serve to help you get an idea of some of the things you might want to review or learn. The test includes multiple choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, matching, videos, and images.

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Cutting a Hole in Your Mesh

Here's a quick video showing how to cut a hole in your mesh. This technique is useful for creating very clean holes, without the mess that can sometimes result from using booleans.

Rated: with 4852 hits  Added on: Nov 02, 2006

HTML Tutorial: Neon Effect in Blender

Here's a quick newbie-friendly tutorial showing how to create a nice neon sign effect.

Rated: with 3091 hits  Added on: Nov 02, 2006

Blender 2.4 Indigo 0.5 Tutorial

comprehensive tutorial for using Indigo, the freeware, bias-free renderer with blender.

Rated: with 3206 hits  Added on: Sep 11, 2006

Making of 'Old Man'

Making of the picture 'Old Man' modeling done in Blender and Z-brush, unwrapping done in blender, texture and post done in Photoshop.

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X-Ray Effect In Blender

demonstrates a meathod of making an Xray effect using blender compositing.

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Using vertex painting to blend textures

USes vertex pain in tblender to blend textures.

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Building a Spiral Stair

One of Blender's features is its ability to use animations as a tool for modeling. Strange as this may sound, it is often a very powerful technique. This tutorial describes building a spiral stair. Using traditional methods, this would require many steps to model, but once you grasp how a moving object can represent the final result, it becomes a lot easier.

Rated: with 4995 hits  Added on: Aug 10, 2006

Global Illumination

This tutorial describes different Global Illumination methods that are available with Yafray.

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Blender Hair/Fur & Feathers

Hair using the blender particle system, covers the most useful controls and how to texture and place the hair.

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MATERIALS WITHIN BLENDER

Tutorial covering 4 aspects of materials in blender: Color, Speculars, Mapping, and Channels.

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The 'World' buttons within Blender

Comprehensive tutorial on the 'world' settings in blender

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The Unofficial Hair Tutorial

Explains a meathod of how to modle and rig polygon hair in blender

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Real Hair with Blender 3D

This tutorial teaches a meathod of making polygon hair using planes and the dupliver function in Blender

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Yafray as an Integrated External Renderer

This tutorial shows the steps needed to take advantage of the Yafray renderer in Blender as well as the how and when to use the different type of Yafray GI with the Blender lights or HDR.

Rated: with 6881 hits  Added on: Jul 30, 2006

Blender - Landscapes Tutorial

quickly model complex outdoor landscapes within Blender, without messing with specific tools like Bryce or Terragen. We'll work on the basis of Height Maps, exactly as do these two softwares.

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Water texture tutorial

Walks throught creating a water texture in Blender based on observation.

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Area lights

The main usage for area lights (in order to answer to a very frequently asked question by many beginners) is achieving shadows with soft borders. But they are also useful for simulating the lighting of a supermarket, a computer screen or a cloudy outdoor.

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Making a rain effect

Simulating rain for still images or for animation is a frequent topic from beginners. This tutorial will try to show a simple way for getting good looking results.

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User Interface

This tutorial will save you weeks of frustration by explaining the basics of Blender's user interface. It will not explain every button or even every window in detail (that is where the Blender manual comes in), but instead let you see the basic idea behind it.

Rated: with 1349 hits  Added on: Jul 30, 2006