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Blender Tutorials

Very Basics of Modeling

• ​user interface tutorial - know your user interface, short intruduction to the UI.
• ​In depth blender interface tutorials - more interface tutorials
• ​snowman - modeling a simple snow man: creating primitives, simple modifications, assigning material and render scene.
• ​videotutorials - some basic video tutorials
• ​hillside - creating a hillside (terrain): using planes, materials and textures.
• ​building a castle - little advanced modeling, still using primitives.
• ​texturing castle - assigning materials and textures to the castle.
• Model a toon car: ​here - Beginner tutorial, introduction to all basic functions like selecting, scaling, extrude, smooth, etc.
• ​25 blender tricks - video tutorial with some tricks

Advanced Modeling

Persons

• Model a face: ​here - Advanced but not too complicated
• Head modeling: ​here - Very advanced tutorial, uses subsurfaces
• ​Very advanced character animation - Winner of the international blender contest, gives some tutorials about char anim.
• ​subsurface modeling - some simple aliens to model

Buildings

• ​high tech corridor - modeling a high tech corridor, using extrusion, duplication of objects, lens flares, bumpmapping
• ​organic looking cave - modeling an organic looking cave with the skinning tools, surface tools, cross sections
• ​cage technique - The described technique works by selecting and hiding faces in an object and then extruding

Vehicles

• ​Model a Toyota Calica - Loading bitmaps in the 3D viewports, tracing them, mesh extrusion, normal correction and using subdivision surfaces
• ​Another car modeling tutorial - He talks about issues such as composition, textures, colors and lighting and while (or maybe because) he does not go into many technical details this is a very interesting read.

Environment

• ​Cloud creation - a tutorial on faking really nice looking volumetric clouds. It covers working with textures on particle systems, lighting them well and then cheating a bit.

Very Advanced Modeling

• ​creating normal maps - It explains how to accurately map the features of a high-resolution model on a lower resolution model by using normal maps, a feature that has been added in Blender 2.36. The result is pretty cool but be warned: there’s quite a bit of work involved.