Kernon Dillon from BlenderNewbie has published a three-part videotutorial on the creation of a magic wand particles effect.

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BlenderTips.com contains a large number of video and text tutorials. If you're new to Blender this may be an excellent way to get up to speed quickly.

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Learn how to make great looking trees in this 30 minute videotutorial by Andrew Price.

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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).

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

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Paul Caggegi is working on an animation series in Blender. He's keeping a diary of his progress. This month's edition is very well produced and certainly worth watching!

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Clément Granjon has updated his Hologram tutorial with a 30-minute videotutorial.

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Award winning animator and the director of Elephants Dream, Bassam Kurdali, has begun production on his latest short 5min film entitled 'Tube'. The project has been in pre-production for several months and is now heading into the production phase.

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Jonathan Williamson (Mr. Bomb/shadowdragon) of Montage Studio will be teaching his second live 3-hour class (in the series of 3 classes,) continuing on the character model he blocked out in the first lesson. Once again the live class will be held at Blenducation. The class starts Saturday, March 7, with an entry fee of $20 (USD) for the class.

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