Tutorials

Blender Tutorials

Welcome to every increasing list of the Blender Tutorials!

This page is maintained by Jonathan Williamson and Andrew Price. If you would like to add your tutorial to the list, please send us an email!

Getting Started

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Getting Started with Blender

This tutorial series is aimed at the absolute beginner and takes you through everything from downloading and installing to modeling to lighting to render.

Introduction to the interface

A complete introduction to the blender interface. Discover how to navigate around blender, use the panels, customize the interface and change shortcuts.

Create a bunch of balloons

Welome to Blender! Create a cheerful bunch of colourful balloons against a sky background. This beginner tutorial teaches the basics of modeling, materials, lighting, rendering, and compositing.

Blender Beginners Course

A HUGE collection of video tutorials aimed at helping new users wrap their head around the basics of Blender.

Materials

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Introduction to Cycles Materials

Walks you through how to use the new materials in Blender's new render engine: Cycles. [Feature is still experimental]

How to Create Puddles

Discover an easy method for creating realistic puddles in Blender using on textures. This tutorial is perfect for outdoor weather scenes or even just a spill.

Creating an Eyeball

Make use of a clever texturing technique to create this fairly realistic looking eyeball.

Dynamics and Simulations

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Making Hair in Blender

In this Blender 2.5 tutorial, Ben Simonds gives you a full rundown on creating hair with Blender Particle Strand system.

Creating an Ink Drop Effect

This tutorial for Blender 2.5 takes you through how to create an ink drop effect with the smoke simulator.

Introduction to Fluid Particles

In this Blender 2.5 tutorial you are given an introduction to Blender's SPH fluid particle system. This tutorial covers creating the fluids, collisions, and more.

Dissovle Objects with Particles

This tutorial showcases how to dissolve objects using particle systems and forcefields.

Introduction to Cloth Simulation

Introduction to basic cloth simulations in Blender 2.5.

Game Engine

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Creating a Simple Game Character

In this first section of this Blender 2.5 Video Tutorial, I cover the creation of a lowpoly model, texturing, rigging, animating, and bringing it into the game engine with basic forward and back controls, as well as turning left and right, and running. Part 2 and 3 cover even more aspects of the game engine.

Environment Animation in Blender 2.5

This tutorial goes through techniques to rig and animate props and environment objects that you need full control over.

Modeling

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Modeling a Subway Tunnel

In this tutorial, Andrew Price shows how to model a underground subway tunnel in Blender 2.5.

Modeling a Landscape with the ANT Landscape Add-on

In this tutorial for Blender 2.5, Jonathan Williamson demonstrates how to use the ANT Landscape Generator Add-on to easily create vast landscapes.

Model a Realistic Tree

Discover how to model a lowpoly tree from scratch in Blender 2.5. Uses simple shapes and alpha masked leaves to achieve a realistic result.

Understanding Head Topology

Arguably the most important aspect in modeling is the topology. This tutorial takes a look at the topology of the human head, and how to go about modeling it yourself.

Animation

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Rigging Mechanical Pistons

This tutorials shows how to rig a mechanical piston for automatic deformation and easy animating.

Crash Course in Armatures

Rigging master Lee Salvemini gives a rapid fire crash course in using Armatures in Blender 2.5

Introduction to Animation in Blender 2.5

This tutorial gives an overview of the animation tools used in the new Blender 2.5. It includes comparisons from 2.49, and goes through new features.

Creating a bouncy ball rig

Learn how to create a basic rig to control the squash and stretch of a sphere as it�s bouncing, and also demonstrate a bounce cycle.

Light

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Lighting a Human Head Bust

In this Blender 2.5 tutorial, Jonathan Williamson goes through three different lighting setups to showcase a base in different styles.

Creating a Microscopic Virus Effect

In this Blender 2.5 video tutorial we take a look at how to create a microscopic virus effect in a few short steps.

The tutorials covers modeling, materials, lighting, and some simple compositing.

Master Lighting

The ultimate guide to understanding how lighting works in Blender. Explains everything from basic 3-point lighting setups to complex hollywood style lighting rigs.

Mesh Lighting

In this tutorial, and, after a brief introduction to the new interface and locations of different features, we�ll build a small scene and light it with AAO and mesh lighting.

Compositing

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How to Create Lightning

Add energy and excitement to your scene with natures most dangerous force: Lightning! Discover the methods used to model a complex lightning bolt.

Rendering a Light Saber

It's on most peoples list of things-to-make-before-I-die. This tutorial focuses in on setting up a node network to create the glowing blade effect of a light saber.