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Blender Tutorials

• Download Blender
• The Blender User Manual
• Blender.org Tutorials
• An Introduction to Blender: A Book for Beginners (free PDF)
• Blender Basics, 4th Ed. (free PDF, written for High School Blender beginners)
• Introduction to Character Animation (free PDF)
• Blender Artists Community, Tutorials
• Blender Nation, Tutorials
• Blender Art Magazine
• Free Resources for Becoming an Advanced Animator with Blender

• Lynda.com Blender 2.6 Essential Training

The movies below are courtesy of Dr. Jim Rowan of Georgia Gwinnett College

• General issues

  The online Blender 2.59 ManualClick Here!
  HOW TO: Set up the Mouse and fly around the modelClickHere
  HOW TO: Start Blender 2.5ClickHere
  HOW TO: Reset Blender to factory settingsClickHere
  HOW TO: Save a Blender project ClickHere
  HOW TO: Make a camera view windowClickHere
  HOW TO: Add and Delete ObjectsClickHere
  HOW TO: Add color to the objects(s)ClickHere
  HOW TO: Change the output file formatClickHere
  HOW TO: Render the scene as a jpeg and save that rendered image on the desktop ClickHere
  HOW TO: Place an image on a Blender objectClickHere
  HOW TO: Add an image as a texture to an object ClickHere
  HOW TO: Place a plane behind your objects so that you can see shadowsClickHere

  Translating, scaling and rotating objects

  HOW TO: Select, grab, move, scale and rotate objectsClickHere
  HOW TO: Use manipulator modes to select, grab, move, scale and rotate objectsClickHere

  Animating objects

  HOW TO: Animate the cameraClickHere
  HOW TO: Animate a lampClickHere
  HOW TO: Change the frame rate of an animationClickHere
  HOW TO: Save a rendered animation as a quicktime movieClickHere
  HOW TO: Manipulate the aspect ratio and render sizeClickHere
  HOW TO: Set keyframes to animate translation, scaling and rotationClickHere

  Modifying objects in Edit rather than Object mode

  HOW TO: Change from OBJECT to EDIT mode & modify the shape of objects(s)ClickHere
  HOW TO: Use edit mode and block grab to modify an object’s vertices individuallyClickHere

  Creating interesting shapes using Boolean operators

  HOW TO: Do a Boolean Intersection and a Boolean Union Operation on two objects(s)ClickHere
  HOW TO: Do both Boolean Difference Operations on two objects(s) ClickHere

  Using Parent/Child relationships between objects

  HOW TO: Use Parent/Child connections between objectsClickHere
  HOW TO: Childing a spotlight to a cube, rotating the cube, childing the cube to a sphere, translating the sphereClickHere