Blender/External resources


 * http://www.blender.org/ - Official Blender website

Documentation

 * The Blender Manual
 * Blender Basics- 3rd Edition - Classroom based tutorial book
 * Essential Blender Full book on learning Blender
 * Materials in Blender
 * Fluid simulations in Blender
 * Byte of Python
 * Official Blender 2.0 Guide (Google Books)

Tutorial Websites

 * Blender Tutorials - The Blender tutorial site
 * CGCookie - Excellent source of tutorials teaching Blender
 * Categorized tutorials for Blender

Tutorials

 * A lighting tutorial
 * Another lighting tutorial
 * A few tutorials
 * Realistic portrait tutorial (large)
 * Character animation tutorial

Blogs

 * Blender Newbies blog

Forums

 * http://www.blender.org/forum/ - Blender Forum
 * BlenderArtists.org - An extremely popular forum among Blender artists

Useful Threads

 * Grass in Blender
 * Rendering skin in Blender
 * Blender sculpt mode

Models

 * Blendswap - Large collection of free Blender models
 * Free models


 * Yobi3D - 3D model search engine and see results in 3D

Animations/Rigs

 * Otto - Free rigged character
 * Several other free rigged characters

Textures

 * SemiCuro Java texture generator
 * Public domain textures

Plugins

 * Labyrinthe 3d Maze Generator
 * Ivy Generator - A "creeping ivy generator" for Blender

Development

 * Interview with Blender's founder
 * Blender for architecture
 * Blender cloth development

Rendering

 * Big ugly rendering project
 * Distriblend Distributed Blender Rendering Project

Tools

 * InnerWorld - A terrain generator for Blender

FAQ

 * Mesh editing FAQ

Demonstrations

 * Fluid demonstration
 * Youtube: Fluid sim video

Other courses

 * 3D Animation (Sam Hinton, 2008, University of Canberra)
 * Blender 3D Design (by Neal Hirsig) - Course intended to offer an introduction to 3-D modeling and animation