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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Super-awesome facial rigging tutorial by David Ward, available now at BlenderCookie.com!  This tutorial teaches you how to rig an alien face: head, mouth, and eye – even how to do "sticky eyeballs." :)

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BlenderGuru's Andrew Price explains how to create an effective depth of field effect with the Blender node editor.

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Nice tutorial by Jeff LaMarche on how to prepare Blender files for shapeways 3D printer output.

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A team of no less than four five people worked on this year's Suzanne Awards: Bassam Kurdali, Kursad Karatas, Jarred De Beer, Pablo Vazquez and Jan Morgenstern. Bassam writes about the creative process of the production.

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"Kroni has been working on some lighting tutorials and has published two. The lighting setup is done with blender's internal render engine."

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Derrick Sesson (cganim8or) has spent a lot of time making a bunch of 50+ tutorials on youtube lately.

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An *extensive* video tutorial teaching you how to create your own Manga Character.

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In his latest video, Paul Caggegi covers a number of tips including camera rigging and asset management.

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Allan Brito has published a mini-tutorial on how to use FreeStyle rendering in the current 2.50 builds.

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Blender Newbies have published a three part video tutorial on creating a low-poly cartoon hand.

Links

• Video Tutorial: Basic Hand Structure for 3D Modeling
• Video Tutorial: Basic Blocking for a 3D Cartoon Hand
• Video Tutorial: Finishing the Low-Poly 3D Cartoon Hand

Kursad wrote: "I have made couple tutorials covering basic points about modelling a finger and hands in general. These are the first part of the actual hand modelling tutorial which I will prepare next week . There might be some slight audio issues that I am hoping to fix next week as well :)  "

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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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Do you need help with modeling and animating a human character? Then take a look at this generic tutorial on 'Articulation'.

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Following up on his previous tutorial on camera changes during an animation, Kernon Dillon now explains how to add transitions using the Sequence Editor.

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The upcoming Yafaray 0.1.2 will support IES light files (explained here). Allan Brito explains how to use them.

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Geeks3d.com have published an in-detail tutorial on UV mapping in Blender. It also explains how to work with seams and how to export your UV layout to a paint program like the GIMP.

This article teaches you how to make your renders appear physically correct. Some tricks are very simple and give a real boost to the end result.

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