Remember Dave Ward's funny animations we posted last year? Well, Dave is now working on a rather large videotutorial on the development of a detailed character. So far, he has published eleven parts and is this only covers the modeling!

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A new videotutorial by Kernon Dillon for CGCookie.com. It uses the same technique as we covered earlier in 'Non-photorealistic rendering: Painting with Polygons'.

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The Durian marketing department (if they have one ;-) is slowly starting to wake up. Today, David Revoy revealed a preview of a concept art painting time-lapse video which will be included on the Durian DVD. He uses Mypaint / Alchemy and Gimp on Linux.

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CGCookie have compiled a huge set of video tutorials and sample files by Jonathan Williamson.

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Don't look at the rather hideous sample video; this 30-minute videotutorial on Blender fluids by Greg Dunn is actually a rather good introduction.

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This 45 minute video tutorial by Pelle Johnsen takes a simple stone to carefully illustrate the process of applying several UV maps to a real-time object.

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Yet another handy tutorial from Jonathan Williamson, this one is about how to use projection painting, a new feature in 2.49.

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In these two videos, Garet Gratien shows an easy technique to model a dog. " This technique makes it possible to work without exceeding 500.000 faces."

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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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