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Official Blender Documentation
Almost all Manuals you will find in latest official Blender Manual Books. For additional tutorials look below this topic.
Blender MediaWiki * exposed
Documentation at Blender3D.org
Interface
User Interface
Blender Interface Theme Repository
Basic Editing
Blender Hotkeys
Blender Hotkeys II
Basic Hotkeys (Java tutorial)
Navigating in 3D Space
Product Presentation
A short overview of functionality
Basic Blender
Rotation, Scaling and Layers Tutorial
Appending Textures
Basic Blender
Basic Blender Interface (Java tutorial)
Basic Interface
Basic Loading and Saving (Java tutorial)
Basic Parenting (broken pictures links: 7 March 2005)
Basic Scene (Java tutorial)
Blender Multimedia
Changing Cameras
Changing Views
First Impression
Getting Started
Removing Orphan Vertices
Seeing Textures with Alt-Z
The Camera
Stereoscopic camera for editing
Mesh Modeling
DupliVerts Tutorial
Heightmaps
Mesh Editing Techniques
Object Extrusion and Procedural Objects
Loops Corkscrews Problem
Loopings Problem
Knots in Curves Problem
ZeTool
DupliFrames Modeling I
DupliFrames Modeling II
Dupliframes
Spin and Spin Dup
Automatized BevOb
Extrusion along a Path using BevOb
Path Extrusion
DupliVerts
Limit DupliVerts
Types of Handles for Bezier Curves
Blender Booleans (broken pictures links: 7 March 2005)
Beveled Cube (pdf tutorial)
Joining/Separating Parts of a Mesh
Extrusion Controlled by IPO
Basic objects
Modelling Techniques and Strategies
To Remove Easily Orfan Edges and Vertices
Non-destructive bevel effect
Nurbs and Subsurface Modeling
IPOs, Lattices, Nurbs & Stuff
Cross-Sections
Curve Resolution
Weight Parameter
OrderU, UniformU and EndpointU
Curves -n- Bevels
Subsurf Modeling
Making a Hole in Subsurf
Subsurf Edge Rolling – Round
Subsurf Edge Rolling – Square
Modeling a fork (broken pictures links: 7 March 2005)
Modeling with lattices – a fork
Subsurf modeling 2
Metaballs
Abstract SubSurf modeling I
Specific Object Modeling
Double-Helix
Sword (Missing)
Turtle
Leaf Shader Tutorial
Balcony and Fire Escape (Broken picture links, 2/1 2006)
Oscilloscope (MISSING?)
Sears-Roebuck Dairy Barn
Golf Ball
Celtic Knot
Simple Tree
Making a pedestal
Building a Castle
Ice Cube (pdf tutorial)
Water I (pdf tutorial)
Water II (pdf tutorial)
Space Pod
Grass
Bongo Creature
Spiral Stairs
Waste Basket
Beveled Cube
Simple Box
Fountain with Moving Water
Track Creation
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 (broken link)
Cup
Cola cane
Candle
Volcano
Orbital Logo
Realistic Planet
Landscape Cartoon (pdf tutorial)
Text
Human
Head Modeling
Head Modeling & Texturing Tutorial
Head (Part 1 of 12-part Flash Tutorial)
Get a Head
Hand Palm
LowPoly Leg Modeling
Make Human: Modeling a New Target
Eyes
Hair Tutorial
Real Hair with Blender 3D
Female Character
Clothes for humans (broken link)
Texturing Skin using Vertex Painting and Repeating Image Textures
Cars
Porsche 550 * exposed
Car IV small (broken link 4 May 2007)
Car V F1 (broken link 4 May 2007)
Creating a Toon Car
Texture Mapping
Texturing Tutorial (pdf tutorial) * exposed
Making a Lightsaber with Halos
The Unofficial Texturing Tutorial
Material Indice Tutorial
Raytraced Transparency and Refraction
Chrome and Shiny Metal Surfaces
Texturing a castle
Texturing Tutorial
Textures in OrCo mode
Textures for Allosaurus
Chrome Effect
Texturing Part I
Texturing Part II
Texturing a Ship
Material Indices
Textures Channels
Textures Mapping
Specular Color
The Color
Materials in Blender
Alpha, Bump, and Specular image textures
Image Textures
Decals
Chrome
Alpha Masks
Skies I
Skies II
Shockwave (broken link 1 March 2006)
Texture Types in Blender (broken link 2.23.2006)
Basic Texturing
Basic Texturing 2 (Java tutorial)
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
UV Mapping
Intermediate and Advanced UV Mapping * exposed
UV Mapping & Texturing
Sub-Surf and UV-Texturing problem
UV Texture Skinning
Character UV Textures
UV Mapping a Head
UV Texturing in Blender
Tuhopuu UV editor mapping
UV Mapping
Complex material for a sword
Animated Textures
Blender TexMesh Tutorial * exposed
animating masks for simulating ice freeze
Animated Procedural Textures (pdf tutorial)
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
Advance Painting and Weathering Techniques for Train Textures
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
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
Light Types (Broken Link 5 May 2009)
The 'World' buttons within Blender
Mastering Shadows
Ambient Occlusion
Area Lights
Batmanish Spot Logo (broken pictures links; 7 March 2005)
Depth of Field
Radiosity (Broken Link 11.19.2005)
Different Lighting Methods
Soft Lights (pdf tutorial)
Blender's Mist
Basic Lighting
Optimizing Renders
Flares
Toon Shading
Simple Gold Ring with Caustics
Armatures and IK
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
Animation using Armatures
Ikas Blender 3D – Introduction
Constrained Mechanics
Using Armatures
Making and Using Armatures
Character Animation tools
IK Solver Constraint
Softbody for Rigged Characters
Rigging limbs that can twist
Rigging tricks
IKA Tutorial
Animation
Simple Animation
Basic Keyframing
Effects
Character Animation
Run Cycle (Non Blender specific)
Lip Sync I
Lip Sync II
Camera Switchinglink broken?
Walking Blues
Non Linear Action Editor – NLA I
Non Linear Action Editor – NLA II
Wave Effect
Build Effect
Animation effects
Seascape (pdf tutorial)
Flag Creation in Blender (pdf tutorial)
Plane Following a Path
Object Following a Path
Cyclic Animation
Blending into Wireframe (broken pictures links; 7 March 2005)
Animating Materials
Walking Tutorial
Tracking Cameras to Paths
Relative Vertex Keys (RVKs)
Change Cameras during an Animation
Camera Tracking With Additional Roll Constraint
Using the game engine and physics to position objects
Particles
Particle Interaction
Static Particles
Static Particle Effect
Particles Effect
Making a Fireplace
Making a Fountain With Particles
Dust Particles
Flames
Liquid
Explosions
Smoke
Making a Rain Effect
Particle and field basics
Fluid Simulation
Fluid Simulation Basics
Fluid Tutorial
Compositing
Matching Real Lighting
CGI/Live Action Interaction
Compositing CG and Live Action in Blender
Game Engine
Game Engine Developing Team broken link
New fully integrated game engine?
Game Blender Documentation (Last modified 13 July 2001)
#GameBlender
Walkthrough Tutorial
Overlay Scenes
Walking Tutorial
Make a Menu
Flipper
Armatures in the Game Engine
Multilevel Maze
Creating Boulders that make the map restart when hit
Python and Plugins
Python Lessons * exposed
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
Python Scripting Part I
Python Scripting Part II
Python Scripting Part III
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, 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
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
Miniature UV mapped building for Lionhead's The Movies game
Distributed Computing
BURP – Big and Ugly Rendering Project
Render Planet
Global Rendering-Farm
OS X Distributed Blender Network Rendering with Xgrid
Bfarm Distributed Rendering via Internet
Maybe someday ...
LightRay
Toxic
Video Tutorials
Official Blender Video Tutorials
Greybeard's Blender Video Tutorials
Series of short VTuts that explain basic details
Blender WikiBooks
Blender 3D: Blending Into Python * exposed
Blender 3D: HotKeys
Blender 3D: Import and Render a SolidWorks Model
Blender 3D: MemoBook
Blender 3D: Noob to Pro
All Blender WikiBooks Modules
FAQ
Blender FAQ (Generated on September 24, 2001)
Blender Tips
Repository
This section is not about tutorials, but you can find here different useful stuff for your Blender.
Blueprints
cgworld.ru * exposed
blueprints.onnovanbraam.com
smcars.net
boats
old cars
War Planes
All sorts of cars
Materials
Sonix' Material Library(esp. Cars)
Models
blendermodels.katorlegaz.com
Photos
Human Photo References
Brain scan
Textures
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
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
Open Movies
www.blenderprojects.com
Orange
NaNo – Blender Internet Virtual Movie Studio
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
Tests
Blender Benchmarks
Other Lists
Please read more about on talk page.
Tutorials
blenderartists.org * exposed
A Monolingual List of Tutorials
A Multilingual List of Tutorials
A List of Introductory Tutorials
Categorized list of Blender 3D Tutorials
Miscellaneous
Blender 3D Links & Resources
Blender Heads around the Globe(Where do other Blenders live?)
Blenderart MagazineMirror 1,M2,M3
Blender Classroom Tutorial
Blender tutorials
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