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

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• 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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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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Danny Gonzalez does a good job explaining how to do camera tracking with Voodoo in this two-part videotutorial.

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In this videotutorial, Totally Blended looks at the clever use of IPO curves to control motion and to duplicate it to other objects. Recommended for new Blender users.

Link

• IPO Curves

Here's an easy way to change cameras during your animation without using the sequence editor.

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Jonathan Williamson creates great videotutorials – they're always easy to follow and listen to (I always find a good voice and good pace are always paramount for a good videotutorial). Today, he explains the retopology tool in detail.

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Looking for a way to create a highly detailed, yet low-poly terrain for use in the Blender game engine? Then try this videotutorial by Roberto Roch.

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Rigging the face can be as difficult and as time-consuming as rigging an entire body. In this demonstration, Paul Caggegi takes two techniques – bone and lattice deformations – to produce a very flexible and versatile rig for a character's face.

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In this video tutorial, Kernon Dillon explains how to enhance your reflections by using High Dynamic Range Images.

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British Blender artist Sumit Sarkar has published a timelapse video of the creation of Ganesh, a Hindu deiti. He also created twelve extensive video tutorials on character creation. You may remember Sumit from his live 'Blender, HipHop and Curry' performance earlier this year.

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