Terry Wallwork reviews Johnny Blender, a 'Twenty-Eight part series on the complete creation of a character in Blender, from a single polygon to a fully-rigged and textured character. You can either watch these tutorials for free on YouTube, or order a DVD – for each sold DVD, a donation will be made to the Blender Foundation.

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cmiVFX Have released another 'Mammoth' videotutorial by Sebastian König. Like his previous tutorials (Organic Modeling Techniques, Blender Unwrapping and Baking, and Blender Texturing) this one looks very impressive. It sells for $19.95.

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David Ward has just finished a great DVD. We wrote earlier about his detailed youtube series- its now complete, online and also available on DVD. Plus, just to add to it, hes even helping out the Blender Foundation!

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Big changes are afoot in the Blender community and it seems like everyone is preparing for it in his own way. Tutorials publisher CGCookies.com have announced a *very* comprehensive training series for Blender 2.5.

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The Macquairie ICT Innovation Centre in Sydney, Australia has published a series of freely introductory video tutorials for high school students.

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Sebastian König has created two new video-tutorials for cmiVFX. The topics are unwrapping+baking and texture-painting. Note: cmiVFX provides on-line streaming video tutorials – not DVD's.

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Lynda.com, a major tutorials website, have just added Blender to their program and released a 9-hour Blender video training by Roger Wickes.

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cmiVFX have announced their second Blender training video. This one is created by Sebastian König (see also Sebastian's other videos on BlenderNation) and focuses on organic modeling techniques such as sculpting, weight mapping, retopology and shrink wrapping.

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From blender.org: "After tests with English subtitles – which didn't work at all – we decided to produce [the Venom's Lab DVD] with 2 audio tracks, Spanish and English.". That is a most excellent decision guys! It will make the DVD much, much, much more useful for everybody. PLUS we get to hear Venom's cool English/Spanish accent as a bonus :)

(PS: if you haven't seen it yet, check out the cool Venom's Lab trailer)

The Blender Foundation has announced a new training DVD called 'Venom's Lab!' by Yo Frankie! team member Pablo Vazquez.

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Another quality tutorial from CGCookie, this one is by Kernon Dillon and its about using some neat techniques in Blender to 'paint' objects into a scene.

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Guess what? Jonathan Williamson has done it again! This time he brings us a 6 part series on head modeling, completely free to watch online. Check it out here!

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Jonathan Williamson from Montage Studio has had a tutorial featured on the CGcookie website. The video tutorial covers a handy usage for the recently added shrink wrap modifier, applying it to the fast and simple creation of clothes for a human model.

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Gunter Hannig aka zapman has written an excellent in-depth review of Carsten Wartmann's 'Blender DVD Seminar'.

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German DVD tutoring publisher Video2Brain released a DVD called "Blender Video-Training".

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From Montage Studio this new DVD (currently only available in download form) is set to be part of a series of exercises that will walk newer users through modeling, texturing and animating in Blender.

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Endi2 has made a great trio of timelapses demonstrating sculpting a head, retopologizing the resulting mesh and the mesh with a normal map applied in a GLSL enabled 3D view. I found the head sculpting video particularly good. Really they were all great to watch. Find the videos here.

Visit the cgtalk thread about the videos here.

This extensive tutorial set, created by the renowned Blender artist Andy Goralczyk, teaches artists how to craft a fully finished 3D animated scene. Tracking the evolution of an idea from creation to final render – and beyond. The result of the tutorials is an epic 90 second trailer.

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