Blender Tutorials

This is a list of recommended tutorials for Blender. If you know a good tutorial and cannot find it here, just add it to the list.

Orxonox Blender Tutorials

• Getting Started with Blender - Helpful, if you have never worked with Blender before.
• Texturing with Blender - Showing you how to unwrap your model and create texture for it.
• Smoothing with Blender - Learn how to smooth your Object, so it looks less chiseled.
• Object Export With Blender - Exporting models for Orxonox
• Blender Hotkey Reference - A short list of useful hotkey for the average modeler.
• Blender Knowledge Base and FAQ

External Links

Tutorials for Beginners

• ​Blender User Interface - Learn about the User Interface
• ​Interface concept - Video tutorial about the interface
• ​3D Viewport - Another video tutorial about how to navigate in 3d space.
• ​Noob to Pro - A well-arranged set of beginner's tutorials and a very good place to start learning. Definitely worth looking at.

Modeling

• ​Edge Tools - An article from the Blender documentation on the use of advanced edge tools.

Texturing

• ​UV Mapping & Texturing - Learn the basics about uv-mapping here. Probably good to understand the concept of uv-mapping.
• ​How to unwrap a Spaceship
• ​LSCM UV Mapping - Video tutorial about uv-mapping your model.

Animation

• ​Key Frames and IPO Curves - Learn how to animate objects with this video tutorial.
• ​Tufts Animation Tutorials - 11 Video Tutorials on Animation as Real Media files.

Technical

• ​Smooth Groups - A short article about smooth groups in Games. Good explanation, but a strange solution.

Resources

• ​Blender Wiki - The official Blender wiki.
• ​Blender Hotkey Reference - Which was the correct key?
• ​Official Blender tutorial archive
• ​Blender video turorials archive