Check out my home-grown tutorials and links to many more I have found useful.
Blender Tutorials and Files
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| Some Test Images with settings and sample files of Blender Ambient Occlusion and Yafray Skydome with different lights and settings. |
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Rigged Blender Character based on Blender's Suzanne Monkey Head Primative Object (or is that primate object?) Rigging a character can be a mind bending experience. Here is a character you can play with. Attention! - requires blender testing builds dated 082005 or newer - should be compatable with upcoming Bledner 2.4 - uses features not available in 2.37a Get the .blend file here |
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Making sense of Flat image texture mapping in Blender |
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Frame/Time Counter Display for Blender Not really a tutorial, but if you want to ID your animation frames with a frame or time counter, you can put one or all of these counters infront of your camera and render away. Get the .blend file here |
The Most Useful Sites I have Found
and Top Software Picks
Character Animation
keithlango.com - A must for anyone learning the art and science of character animation!
10secondclub.net - The 10 Second Club is a monthly character animation competition.
Blender Open Source 3D Animation Software
blender.org - Blender main website
elysiun.com - Blender community user forums
Softimage XSI
softimage.com - Softimage main site
xsibase.com - Softimage user community forums
edharriss.com - Tons of Softimage Tutorials
Must-have Open Source Software, freeware, and shareware
Blender - 3D modeling and animation
Gimp - 2D image creation manipulation
Nvu - web page authoring
Mozilla/Firefox - web browser - web authoring
Accutrans3D -3D model conversion
VirtualDub - video format conversion - dubbing
Rad Video Tools - video format conversion
Irfanview - image viewer, manipulator, thumbnailer, web gallery creator
3D Training
3Dbuzz.com - Video training Modules for many 3D animation package, photoshop, programing, etc
and Top Software Picks
Character Animation
keithlango.com - A must for anyone learning the art and science of character animation!
10secondclub.net - The 10 Second Club is a monthly character animation competition.
Blender Open Source 3D Animation Software
blender.org - Blender main website
elysiun.com - Blender community user forums
Softimage XSI
softimage.com - Softimage main site
xsibase.com - Softimage user community forums
edharriss.com - Tons of Softimage Tutorials
Must-have Open Source Software, freeware, and shareware
Blender - 3D modeling and animation
Gimp - 2D image creation manipulation
Nvu - web page authoring
Mozilla/Firefox - web browser - web authoring
Accutrans3D -3D model conversion
VirtualDub - video format conversion - dubbing
Rad Video Tools - video format conversion
Irfanview - image viewer, manipulator, thumbnailer, web gallery creator
3D Training
3Dbuzz.com - Video training Modules for many 3D animation package, photoshop, programing, etc