I love Blender, and with the advent of Blender 2.5 alpha 2 I have been working through lots of tutorials to get up to speed with its new features (of which there are many). Here is a list of tutorial sites that I would recommend to everyone who is serious about 3D modelling. Most of these you have to pay for, but they are well worth it.
CGCookie Blender
http://www.blendercookie.com/
Lots of great tutorials, going through creating a dragon, showing how to model a hand, head, eyeball, porsche, a mechanic, and many other tips and techniques and shapes. Read more...
Blender is a fantastic program – I love it. It is an open source, 3D package that does so much more.
However, there are several scripts that you can use to really help you create things within Blender. These Blender scripts are also free, and are created in Python. Here is a list of Blender scripts that I would recommend everyone check out…
Trees
Blender people
Cloud generator
Dungeon generator
Suicidator city engine
Have fun!
Every so often i come across sites that give away free icons, textures, etc. I particularly look out for free textures, as i use them in my 3D and actionscript work.
So i thought, let’s put it in a blog and share it around. Here are a list of web sites that i have found.
If anyone has any others, let me know.
free icons
List of free texture sites
food textures
free vector glass buttons
useful textures
more textures
lovetextures.com
chicago reference pack
various patterns
free illustrator patterns Read more...
One of the applications that I keep an eye on is an open source app called Blender. I think it is a fantastic 3D application.
But it does a lot more – particles, games, physics, compositing, and so on.
Previously it suffered from a non-standard interface, and so was quite difficult for newbies to download and just run with it.
However there is a new version coming out, version 2.5, which is in alpha at the moment, and I would recommend anyone who is into 3D to download Blender 2.5 alpha and play with it. Read more...