CGtuts+, the new CG tutorials site opened today by the Envato Network, if offering their first Blender tutorial on Low-Poly modeling and the creation of normal maps. If you're interested in writing for them: they pay $150 for tutorials. Maybe that's a nice way to make some more money with Blender for you?

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3DTotal.com features a series of 4 videotutorials that are a great introduction to Blender. Highly recommended for new users!

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A 22-minute videotutorial explaining all the tips and tricks for creating nice looking grass. As a bonus, it'll also explain how to animate it and you can download the .blend.

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• The Secret to Creating Realistic Grass

Jonathan Williamson has done it again!  Check out this two-part tutorial on creating a teddy bear, complete with modeling and setting up a procedural burlap material.

Create a Teddy Bear Part 1

Create a Teddy Bear Part 2

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Sebastian König has created a videtutorial for CGCookie about using curves in Blender, "Working with Curves in Blender".  It's a good overview of using curves and I learned from it!

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Have you ever wondered how to create alpha masks for compositing in Blender?  Well, Philippe Roubal has written an explanation on how to do rotoscopoing and matte painting in Blender, so check it out now!

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CGCookie.com has published yet another great videotutorial by Jonathan Williamson – the guy is a tutorial MACHINE!

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A car wheel is a difficult thing to model. In this two part, 50 minute videotutorial, Andrew Price shows how its done.

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Learn how to prepare models in Blender (including UV mapping), export them to Collada and import them into Papervision3D in this 22 minute videotutorial. Very well made, very informative.

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Kamil Kuklo describes the creation of his work '15 minutes of glory' in detail.

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Robert Burke, the author of the 'Precision Modelling PDF Guide', has published an interesting article on the modeling and rigging of a mechanical guide.

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Katsbits.com use the sculpt tool to make a house look a LOT older.

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BlenderGuru.com, the new site of freelance Blender artist Andrew Price, has published a list of 25 useful Blender tricks.  A couple of them made me go 'wah!', so even after ten years of using Blender there's plenty to learn ;-) Check it out.

Kernon has posted a  a tutorial on efficient preview rendering at CG Cookie.

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Paul Caggegi from the Process Diary has posted another useful videotutorial, this time on landscape sculpting.

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FilmmakerIQ.com have published a list of a whopping 555 Blender tutorials.

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In this tutorial from Kernon Dillon,  he'll show you  how simple it is to drastically effect the look and feel of your renders by applying textures to lighting.

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The particle systems documentation on the Blender.org wiki has been completely updated. Please note that this documentation covers the particles from 2.46 and higher.

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