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Blender 3D

Noob to Pro

Blender 3D: Noob to Pro
Unit 1 - Background: Knowing before Making; What Blender Can Do; 3D Geometry; Coordinate Transformations; Orthographic Views; Perspective Views; Coordinate Spaces in Blender; Overview; Keystroke, Button, and Menu Notation; Non-standard Input Devices; Operating System-specific Issues; Blender User Interface; Blender Windowing System; User Preferences Windows; Properties Window; 3D View Windows; Object Mode
Unit 2 - Basic Modeling and Shading: Meshes and Edit Mode; Normals and Shading; More Mesh Editing Techniques; Quickie Lighting; Quickie Model; Quickie Render; Enter the World; Understanding the Camera; Improving Your House; Extruding a Simple Person; Smoothing Your Simple Person; Improving Your Simple Person; Spinning a Simple Hat; Putting the Hat on the Person; Overview; Quickie Material; Multiple Materials per Object; Metal Versus Plastic; Texture Settings; Image Textures; Procedural Textures; Quickie Texture; Halo Materials; Blender Memory Management; Using Bones; Mountains out of Molehills; Modeling a Volcano; Penguins from Spheres; Dicing With Depth (Dice Modeling); Model a Goblet; Model a Silver Goblet; Model a Silver Goblet Another Way; Spin a goblet; Light a Silver Goblet (Early look at lighting); Simple Vehicle; Simple Vehicle: Wheel; Simple Vehicle: MudTires; Simple Vehicle: Seat; Simple Vehicle: Rocket Launcher; Simple Vehicle: Body; Simple Vehicle: Some Assembly Required; Modeling a 3D Parachute in Blender; Model a Low Poly Head; Building a House; Pipe joints; Lighting Suzanne: Introductory one lamp lighting; Overview; Intro to Bézier Curves; Bevelling a Curve; NURBS Patches; Deforming Meshes using the Curve Modifier; The Empty Object; Background Images; Aligning Vertices with a Guide Image; Modeling a Fox from Guide Images; Using Bézier Curve to Model a 3D logo from a 2D logo; Subsurface Scattering; Ray Tracing; Using Textures; Using a texture to make a material partially transparent; Creating Basic Seawater; Mountains Out Of Molehills 2; Basic Carpet Texture; The Rusty Ball; Creating Pixar-looking eyes; Procedural Eyeball; Putting It All Together: A Dragon!
Unit 3 - Broadening Horizons: The UV/Image Editor; UV Map Basics; Realistic Eyes In Blender; Beginning Lighting; Understanding Real Lights; Understanding Blender Lights; Basic Lighting Rigs; Faked Global Illumination with Blender internal; Practising Good Parenting; Overview; Introduction to Keyframing; The Ways of the Animator; Animation Editors; Introducing the Graph Editor; Animation Rendering; Lattice Modifier; Bouncing Ball with Lattice; Creating Basic Water Animation; Flying Through a Canyon; Using the Sequencer to Compile Frames into an Animation; Further Rendering Options; Overview; Fire; Fur; Fireworks; Particles forming Shapes; Billboard Animation; Soft Body Animation; Simple Cloth Animation; Soft Body with Wind; Blender Game Engine Basics- Rolling Ball; Platformer: Controls and Movement; Maze: Force and Multiple Levels; Platformer: Improving the Physics; How to Make an Executable; Build a Skybox; Basic Mouse Pointer; Text in BGE; Platformer: Creating the Engine with Python
Unit 4 - Taking Off with Advanced Tutorials: Introduction; Anatomy Of An Addon; A User Interface For Your Addon; Adding A Custom Property; A Separately Installable Addon; Object, Action, Settings; Overview; High Dynamic Range imaging (HDRi); Creating a Light Probe; Landscape Modeling with Heightmaps; How to Do Procedural Landscape Modeling; Landscape Modeling I: Basic Terrain; Landscape Modeling II: Texture Stenciling; Landscape Modeling III: Exporting as a Heightmap; Bump Mapping; Normal Mapping; Texture Normals; Color Map Normals; Introduction; Texture Nodes; Material Nodes; Compositing; Further Compositing: A Portal Effect; Advanced Rendering; Introduction to Cycles; A Glass Material in Cycles; Dealing with Firefles in Cycles; Firefles in Cycles, Continued; Procedural Eyeball in Cycles; Introduction to Freestyle; Overview; Introduction; Guided Tour:; Armature Object; Armature Object in Object Mode; Armature Object in Edit Mode; Armature Object in Pose mode; Mesh Object; Connection between Armature and Mesh; Envelope; Vertex Groups & Weight Paint; Shape Keys; Lip-Sync with Shape Keys; Constraints; Copy Location; Copy Rotation; Track-To; Floor; Locked Track; Follow Path; Stretch-To; IK Solver; Timeline Window; IPO Window; Data Type; NLA Window; Introduction To NLA Editor; The Stride feature; Relative Vertex Keys; Working Example: Bob; Building the Rig; Deform the Mesh; Create a Walk Cycle; Working example: Piston, Rod and Crank; Working example: Cutting Through Steel; Overview; Advanced Game Engine Techniques (GUI); Creating Pop-Up Menus; Creating Dropping Menus; The "5-Layer" Button; Creating Object Outlines; Advanced Game Engine Techniques (Python); Hacking Blender; Introduction to Game Engine Source
Appendices: Glossary; Frequently Asked Questions; Tutorial Links List; Hotkeys; Output Formats; Image Portfolio; Blender Glossary; Materials Directory: Every Material Known To Man; Sources of free 3D models; All Blueprints Links; Materials, Textures, Photos; Asking for Help; Tips for a Successful Project; Modeling Realistically; Modeling tips; Cheat the 3D; Performance vs. Quality; Modeling a Gingerbread Man; Modeling a simple space-ship; GIMP); Part 1 - Preparing the Scene; Creating Weapons based on 2D Images; Modeling with Meta Balls; Match Moving; Match Moving/Motion Tracking with Icarus and Blender; Create a Clayman; Organic Modeling; Understanding the Fluid Simulator; Creating a jewel in Blender; Modeling a picture; Modeling with the Spin Tool; Spin Tool Introduction; Illustrative Example: Model a Wine Glass; Creating Ogg-Theora movies using Blender; Creating animated GIFs using Blender and Gimp; 3D Tiling Backgrounds For The Web; Cool Things That Aren't That Obvious in Blender; Troubleshooting; Creating Blender Libraries; Add some depth with stereo; Ways to create a "fluffy" effect (materials and lights); Human Body; Rendering Information; Using Blender Libraries; Beginning Modeling Final Project; Using Inkscape to make advanced Bezier curves; Light Mapping; Platonic Solids; Polygonal Modeling; Box Modeling; Illustrative example: Model a Chair (Swan Chair); Model a Chair-Preparations; Model a Chair-The Seat; Model a Chair-The Feet; Illustrative Example: Modeling a Simple Human Character; Modeling a Human Character - Preparations; Modeling a Human Character - Modeling; Polygon by Polygon modeling; Animation Notes and FAQ; Customization; Mist - Make Objects Opaque; Blender 3D: Noob to Pro
Unit 1 - Background: Knowing before Making; What Blender Can Do; 3D Geometry; Coordinate Transformations; Orthographic Views; Perspective Views; Coordinate Spaces in Blender; Overview; Keystroke, Button, and Menu Notation; Non-standard Input Devices; Operating System-specific Issues; Blender User Interface; Blender Windowing System; User Preferences Windows; Properties Window; 3D View Windows; Object Mode
Unit 2 - Basic Modeling and Shading: Meshes and Edit Mode; Normals and Shading; More Mesh Editing Techniques; Quickie Lighting; Quickie Model; Quickie Render; Enter the World; Understanding the Camera; Improving Your House; Extruding a Simple Person; Smoothing Your Simple Person; Improving Your Simple Person; Spinning a Simple Hat; Putting the Hat on the Person; Overview; Quickie Material; Multiple Materials per Object; Metal Versus Plastic; Texture Settings; Image Textures; Procedural Textures; Quickie Texture; Halo Materials; Blender Memory Management; Using Bones; Mountains out of Molehills; Modeling a Volcano; Penguins from Spheres; Dicing With Depth (Dice Modeling); Model a Goblet; Model a Silver Goblet; Model a Silver Goblet Another Way; Spin a goblet; Light a Silver Goblet (Early look at lighting); Simple Vehicle; Simple Vehicle: Wheel; Simple Vehicle: MudTires; Simple Vehicle: Seat; Simple Vehicle: Rocket Launcher; Simple Vehicle: Body; Simple Vehicle: Some Assembly Required; Modeling a 3D Parachute in Blender; Model a Low Poly Head; Building a House; Pipe joints; Lighting Suzanne: Introductory one lamp lighting; Overview; Intro to Bézier Curves; Bevelling a Curve; NURBS Patches; Deforming Meshes using the Curve Modifier; The Empty Object; Background Images; Aligning Vertices with a Guide Image; Modeling a Fox from Guide Images; Using Bézier Curve to Model a 3D logo from a 2D logo; Subsurface Scattering; Ray Tracing; Using Textures; Using a texture to make a material partially transparent; Creating Basic Seawater; Mountains Out Of Molehills 2; Basic Carpet Texture; The Rusty Ball; Creating Pixar-looking eyes; Procedural Eyeball; Putting It All Together: A Dragon!
Unit 3 - Broadening Horizons: The UV/Image Editor; UV Map Basics; Realistic Eyes In Blender; Beginning Lighting; Understanding Real Lights; Understanding Blender Lights; Basic Lighting Rigs; Faked Global Illumination with Blender internal; Practising Good Parenting; Overview; Introduction to Keyframing; The Ways of the Animator; Animation Editors; Introducing the Graph Editor; Animation Rendering; Lattice Modifier; Bouncing Ball with Lattice; Creating Basic Water Animation; Flying Through a Canyon; Using the Sequencer to Compile Frames into an Animation; Further Rendering Options; Overview; Fire; Fur; Fireworks; Particles forming Shapes; Billboard Animation; Soft Body Animation; Simple Cloth Animation; Soft Body with Wind; Blender Game Engine Basics- Rolling Ball; Platformer: Controls and Movement; Maze: Force and Multiple Levels; Platformer: Improving the Physics; How to Make an Executable; Build a Skybox; Basic Mouse Pointer; Text in BGE; Platformer: Creating the Engine with Python
Unit 4 - Taking Off with Advanced Tutorials: Introduction; Anatomy Of An Addon; A User Interface For Your Addon; Adding A Custom Property; A Separately Installable Addon; Object, Action, Settings; Overview; High Dynamic Range imaging (HDRi); Creating a Light Probe; Landscape Modeling with Heightmaps; How to Do Procedural Landscape Modeling; Landscape Modeling I: Basic Terrain; Landscape Modeling II: Texture Stenciling; Landscape Modeling III: Exporting as a Heightmap; Bump Mapping; Normal Mapping; Texture Normals; Color Map Normals; Introduction; Texture Nodes; Material Nodes; Compositing; Further Compositing: A Portal Effect; Advanced Rendering; Introduction to Cycles; A Glass Material in Cycles; Dealing with Firefles in Cycles; Firefles in Cycles, Continued; Procedural Eyeball in Cycles; Introduction to Freestyle; Overview; Introduction; Guided Tour:; Armature Object; Armature Object in Object Mode; Armature Object in Edit Mode; Armature Object in Pose mode; Mesh Object; Connection between Armature and Mesh; Envelope; Vertex Groups & Weight Paint; Shape Keys; Lip-Sync with Shape Keys; Constraints; Copy Location; Copy Rotation; Track-To; Floor; Locked Track; Follow Path; Stretch-To; IK Solver; Timeline Window; IPO Window; Data Type; NLA Window; Introduction To NLA Editor; The Stride feature; Relative Vertex Keys; Working Example: Bob; Building the Rig; Deform the Mesh; Create a Walk Cycle; Working example: Piston, Rod and Crank; Working example: Cutting Through Steel; Overview; Advanced Game Engine Techniques (GUI); Creating Pop-Up Menus; Creating Dropping Menus; The "5-Layer" Button; Creating Object Outlines; Advanced Game Engine Techniques (Python); Hacking Blender; Introduction to Game Engine Source
Appendices: Glossary; Frequently Asked Questions; Tutorial Links List; Hotkeys; Output Formats; Image Portfolio; Blender Glossary; Materials Directory: Every Material Known To Man; Sources of free 3D models; All Blueprints Links; Materials, Textures, Photos; Asking for Help; Tips for a Successful Project; Modeling Realistically; Modeling tips; Cheat the 3D; Performance vs. Quality; Modeling a Gingerbread Man; Modeling a simple space-ship; GIMP); Part 1 - Preparing the Scene; Creating Weapons based on 2D Images; Modeling with Meta Balls; Match Moving; Match Moving/Motion Tracking with Icarus and Blender; Create a Clayman; Organic Modeling; Understanding the Fluid Simulator; Creating a jewel in Blender; Modeling a picture; Modeling with the Spin Tool; Spin Tool Introduction; Illustrative Example: Model a Wine Glass; Creating Ogg-Theora movies using Blender; Creating animated GIFs using Blender and Gimp; 3D Tiling Backgrounds For The Web; Cool Things That Aren't That Obvious in Blender; Troubleshooting; Creating Blender Libraries; Add some depth with stereo; Ways to create a "fluffy" effect (materials and lights); Human Body; Rendering Information; Using Blender Libraries; Beginning Modeling Final Project; Using Inkscape to make advanced Bezier curves; Light Mapping; Platonic Solids; Polygonal Modeling; Box Modeling; Illustrative example: Model a Chair (Swan Chair); Model a Chair-Preparations; Model a Chair-The Seat; Model a Chair-The Feet; Illustrative Example: Modeling a Simple Human Character; Modeling a Human Character - Preparations; Modeling a Human Character - Modeling; Polygon by Polygon modeling; Animation Notes and FAQ; Customization; Mist - Make Objects Opaque; Blender 3D: Noob to Pro
Unit 1 - Background: Knowing before Making; What Blender Can Do; 3D Geometry; Coordinate Transformations; Orthographic Views; Perspective Views; Coordinate Spaces in Blender; Overview; Keystroke, Button, and Menu Notation; Non-standard Input Devices; Operating System-specific Issues; Blender User Interface; Blender Windowing System; User Preferences Windows; Properties Window; 3D View Windows; Object Mode
Unit 2 - Basic Modeling and Shading: Meshes and Edit Mode; Normals and Shading; More Mesh Editing Techniques; Quickie Lighting; Quickie Model; Quickie Render; Enter the World; Understanding the Camera; Improving Your House; Extruding a Simple Person; Smoothing Your Simple Person; Improving Your Simple Person; Spinning a Simple Hat; Putting the Hat on the Person; Overview; Quickie Material; Multiple Materials per Object; Metal Versus Plastic; Texture Settings; Image Textures; Procedural Textures; Quickie Texture; Halo Materials; Blender Memory Management; Using Bones; Mountains out of Molehills; Modeling a Volcano; Penguins from Spheres; Dicing With Depth (Dice Modeling); Model a Goblet; Model a Silver Goblet; Model a Silver Goblet Another Way; Spin a goblet; Light a Silver Goblet (Early look at lighting); Simple Vehicle; Simple Vehicle: Wheel; Simple Vehicle: MudTires; Simple Vehicle: Seat; Simple Vehicle: Rocket Launcher; Simple Vehicle: Body; Simple Vehicle: Some Assembly Required; Modeling a 3D Parachute in Blender; Model a Low Poly Head; Building a House; Pipe joints; Lighting Suzanne: Introductory one lamp lighting; Overview; Intro to Bézier Curves; Bevelling a Curve; NURBS Patches; Deforming Meshes using the Curve Modifier; The Empty Object; Background Images; Aligning Vertices with a Guide Image; Modeling a Fox from Guide Images; Using Bézier Curve to Model a 3D logo from a 2D logo; Subsurface Scattering; Ray Tracing; Using Textures; Using a texture to make a material partially transparent; Creating Basic Seawater; Mountains Out Of Molehills 2; Basic Carpet Texture; The Rusty Ball; Creating Pixar-looking eyes; Procedural Eyeball; Putting It All Together: A Dragon!
Unit 3 - Broadening Horizons: The UV/Image Editor; UV Map Basics; Realistic Eyes In Blender; Beginning Lighting; Understanding Real Lights; Understanding Blender Lights; Basic Lighting Rigs; Faked Global Illumination with Blender internal; Practising Good Parenting; Overview; Introduction to Keyframing; The Ways of the Animator; Animation Editors; Introducing the Graph Editor; Animation Rendering; Lattice Modifier; Bouncing Ball with Lattice; Creating Basic Water Animation; Flying Through a Canyon; Using the Sequencer to Compile Frames into an Animation; Further Rendering Options; Overview; Fire; Fur; Fireworks; Particles forming Shapes; Billboard Animation; Soft Body Animation; Simple Cloth Animation; Soft Body with Wind; Blender Game Engine Basics- Rolling Ball; Platformer: Controls and Movement; Maze: Force and Multiple Levels; Platformer: Improving the Physics; How to Make an Executable; Build a Skybox; Basic Mouse Pointer; Text in BGE; Platformer: Creating the Engine with Python
Unit 4 - Taking Off with Advanced Tutorials: Introduction; Anatomy Of An Addon; A User Interface For Your Addon; Adding A Custom Property; A Separately Installable Addon; Object, Action, Settings; Overview; High Dynamic Range imaging (HDRi); Creating a Light Probe; Landscape Modeling with Heightmaps; How to Do Procedural Landscape Modeling; Landscape Modeling I: Basic Terrain; Landscape Modeling II: Texture Stenciling; Landscape Modeling III: Exporting as a Heightmap; Bump Mapping; Normal Mapping; Texture Normals; Color Map Normals; Introduction; Texture Nodes; Material Nodes; Compositing; Further Compositing: A Portal Effect; Advanced Rendering; Introduction to Cycles; A Glass Material in Cycles; Dealing with Firefles in Cycles; Firefles in Cycles, Continued; Procedural Eyeball in Cycles; Introduction to Freestyle; Overview; Introduction; Guided Tour:; Armature Object; Armature Object in Object Mode; Armature Object in Edit Mode; Armature Object in Pose mode; Mesh Object; Connection between Armature and Mesh; Envelope; Vertex Groups & Weight Paint; Shape Keys; Lip-Sync with Shape Keys; Constraints; Copy Location; Copy Rotation; Track-To; Floor; Locked Track; Follow Path; Stretch-To; IK Solver; Timeline Window; IPO Window; Data Type; NLA Window; Introduction To NLA Editor; The Stride feature; Relative Vertex Keys; Working Example: Bob; Building the Rig; Deform the Mesh; Create a Walk Cycle; Working example: Piston, Rod and Crank; Working example: Cutting Through Steel; Overview; Advanced Game Engine Techniques (GUI); Creating Pop-Up Menus; Creating Dropping Menus; The "5-Layer" Button; Creating Object Outlines; Advanced Game Engine Techniques (Python); Hacking Blender; Introduction to Game Engine Source
Appendices: Glossary; Frequently Asked Questions; Tutorial Links List; Hotkeys; Output Formats; Image Portfolio; Blender Glossary; Materials Directory: Every Material Known To Man; Sources of free 3D models; All Blueprints Links; Materials, Textures, Photos; Asking for Help; Tips for a Successful Project; Modeling Realistically; Modeling tips; Cheat the 3D; Performance vs. Quality; Modeling a Gingerbread Man; Modeling a simple space-ship; GIMP); Part 1 - Preparing the Scene; Creating Weapons based on 2D Images; Modeling with Meta Balls; Match Moving; Match Moving/Motion Tracking with Icarus and Blender; Create a Clayman; Organic Modeling; Understanding the Fluid Simulator; Creating a jewel in Blender; Modeling a picture; Modeling with the Spin Tool; Spin Tool Introduction; Illustrative Example: Model a Wine Glass; Creating Ogg-Theora movies using Blender; Creating animated GIFs using Blender and Gimp; 3D Tiling Backgrounds For The Web; Cool Things That Aren't That Obvious in Blender; Troubleshooting; Creating Blender Libraries; Add some depth with stereo; Ways to create a "fluffy" effect (materials and lights); Human Body; Rendering Information; Using Blender Libraries; Beginning Modeling Final Project; Using Inkscape to make advanced Bezier curves; Light Mapping; Platonic Solids; Polygonal Modeling; Box Modeling; Illustrative example: Model a Chair (Swan Chair); Model a Chair-Preparations; Model a Chair-The Seat; Model a Chair-The Feet; Illustrative Example: Modeling a Simple Human Character; Modeling a Human Character - Preparations; Modeling a Human Character - Modeling; Polygon by Polygon modeling; Animation Notes and FAQ; Customization; Mist - Make Objects Opaque