Then of course moving forward to more difficult ones and then once I get a hang of the general tools I would search by category such as figure modeling, light source, environment modeling, adding color, etc, etc.

That would be my suggestion.

And about Neils comments. I do agree to an extent about Flash but there is no real cross platform alternative. I recant that. There probably are but do not come pre-installed on many computers or browsers. Blender is based on the Open-source concept, but having a video player that is open source is just going to have to be downloaded anyways whether it is Flash or some other player, Open source or not. The simple fact is that yes over 90% of video players and browsers use or integrate Flash player into their systems. Flash has been around for many, many years and probably will stay the industry norm for media players. They have the formula down to practically a science. I have seen many media players come and go yet the only cross-browser, cross-platform media player that has stayed a float is Flash.
The tutorial videos can be in Flash but if you animate your 3D render project, put it in any format that you want. There is no getting around it. Flash is the norm. Whether want to download the player or not, tutorials will continue to be made in Flash. If you don’t support that get an open source Flash renderer or player.
Like Hitechboy722 has mentioned, the world has moved on with accepting Flash as an viable option for video play. If not Flash people would have to download another program just to make their videos in. Another program to learn when people already know how to use a product that has been around for years.

Thanks

Perhaps I’m missing something, but I use Firefox (open source) and I seem to be able to play flash fine.
granted I’m using it on a windows machine, but a little research (Google) makes it clear that some people do use firefox on linux (also open source) and have no problems playing flash. (granted there were a fair number of hits about people having issues with that, but there seemed to be plenty of people having no problems)

Maybe I’m just confused about what you are calling “open source system”

Good too to know what “medium” (I use that term very loosely, just because I can’t think of a better one at the moment!) the tutorial is in. For me, for example, youtube videos are useless, as they are not downloadable and I don’t have access to the internet from home.

An indication of difficulty may be helpful, but will always be somewhat subjective.
A list of techniques covered in the tutorial would probably be more help than a ’simple’ difficulty level – or an indication of assumed prior knowledge.

Blender works on Linux, because there are resources dedicated to making it happen so, not because of ideology alone. Same goes for any platform that is supported by Blender. It is about resources.

If a tutorial maker decides that flash is the best resource for them, then it is their choice, and that should be respected as such, too (as much as the choice of people to not use flash).

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All in all, the list looks very impressive. Yet I’m sure that there’s a whole lot more out there to be found! I commend filmmakeriq on their effort. And thanks!

/Nathan

@Hitechboy722: How do yo objectively measure merit? You can’t. On the other hand, it’s quite clear that Flash is *not* a great medium for tutorials, since they can’t be watched on an open source system. That’s just a fact.