Making Rain
Simulating rain for still images or for animation is a frequent topic from beginners. This tutorial will try to show a simple way for getting good looking results.
Append
If you've been Blendering for a while you have probably run in to the problem that you're working on this cool animation, but what you'd really want is that one model you created three weeks ago. You have the model, spent an entire weekend on making it just right, and now you want to use it again without having to model it all over again. Here's a little 'how to' on appending from other .blend files.
Controlling Particle Motion
I want to teach you how to command particles where to go. This unique Blender feature use the eighth texture channel to calculate the particles movement. I will divide this tutorial in two parts: in the first part I will tell you how to get "solid" particle movement, and in the second how to make particles go in the turbulence using texture.
Particle System Shadows
See Blender Tutorial Guide 2, Chapter 8: Static Particles. Those plants don't cast shadows, and that's pretty dumb-looking when we're aiming for photorealism. But by careful use of image textures and mapping, we can work around that.
Candle
A candle is one of the basic light sources you will need in your scenes, especially when you situate them in the Middle Ages. This tutorial shows how to make the basic shape of a candle and a simple flame.
Skies without the Truman Effect - Part I
Is it possible to achieve realistic skies in Blender ? Of course it is. In this mini-tutorial we are going to set a realistic sky in a Blender scene by using the basic Blender's World options. Are you ready ?
First Steps with Python
This article introduces the reader to Python scripting withBlender.
Disclaimer: it is intended for programmer n00bs (and/or python scripter n00bs), and shouldn't learn anything new to actual python scripters.
But those are welcomed to post comments to the article in order to help the other readers.