Here’s a good videotutorial by the Process Diary that’ll explain many rigging concepts. If you’re an absolute rigging beginner, I recommend you read up on a few tutorials first – some good links are included in the article.

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Pepe-School-Land students are doing some awesome modeling and animation in Blender as evidenced by these videos. The demo reel has a mixture of work done in Blender and other programs and is well worth watching. A Blender icon will appear in the lower left hand corner of the demo  to designate work completed in Blender.

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Here’s a good demonstration by Allan Brito of ‘light groups’, a feature of LuxRender that makes it very easy to tweak the settings of the lights in your scene. (Remember to turn on ‘HD’ once you’re over at Vimeo).

Ever wondered how to set up the new video textures feature in the Blender Game Engine?  Dennis has written a easy to follow tutorial on exactly how to do it.

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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.

Link

• 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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