If you speak Portuguese, there is a very good set of tutorials for Blender, created by a Brazilian user called tioilmo. All videos are hosted at YouTube, and there are 30 videos available.

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Ian Elsner is sharing some of his thoughts on modeling and animating while working on his movie, 'Eros', in a series of video monologues. Interestingly enough, he recorded three episodes while on holiday in Greece and China.

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Here's another excellent videotutorial by Blendernewbies' Kernon Dillon. This time, he dives into the topic of applying and positioning texture decals in Blender.

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Blender and its predecessor Traces were originally developed on an SGI, so here's a tutorial with a bit of history attached.

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A very good video tutorial has been released by Montage Studio, showing the entire process for modeling a Lowpoly character with Blender, for using in game projects. The video has a total running time of approximately 50 min, and it`s in high quality 1024 x 768.

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As the Blender community continues to grow by leaps and bounds, there can never be enough tutorials that cover the basics. Apollos has started a tutorial series on Blender basics that has high production qualities and looks very promising.

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spaghettimoon.co.uk has a collection of tutorials available for your learning pleasure. What lead us to the website were some tutorials we discovered that involved the creation of a character in Blender.
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Maybe you've heard the whispers in the air of the new features being developed. One of the most noticed by many involves some updates being made to the internal rendering engine. Specifically, the edition of more rendering controls that now allow the creation of caustic effects.

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This may be a look into the past for some. But for others I'm sure these videos will be new and insightful.

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There is no better way to learn Blender than stepping into a simple project. And this tutorial will let you do just that.

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Recently, we introduced The Structure of Man, a video series that covered drawing the human body. Now we've come across another excellent resource for learning the craft.

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Well-known animator Daniel Martinez Lara from Pepeland.com has started experimenting with Blender, and he has already posted a way cool video-tutorial on using normal nodes in the compositor to achieve real-time lighting (the tutorial is meant to play without sound, in case you're wondering).

We were all excited to be contacted by Daniel and he was kind enough to answer a few of our burning questions about his work and how it involves Blender.

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If you're not satisfied with Blender's built-in chroma-keying notes or if you'd like to have more control over them, then check out this 11-minute videotutorial on color difference keying by Dave Weese.

Update (26/04/08): this tutorial is no longer available; please read 'Keying Hair in Blender' instead.

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Kernon has been steadily creating new videotutorials. And even though he's a writer here at BlenderNation, he's either too shy or too modest (I'm voting for the latter one) to publish about any of them! Anyway, here's his latest tutorial: creating glint effects in Blender with Halo effects. The method allows for exact placement of glints in your images.

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Its an incredible time to get into Blender, especially with all of the available learning resources. Lets look at one of these resources. A head modeling training DVD from Jonathan Williamson (aka:mr_bomb) that covers every aspect of modeling the female head. You may remember Jonathan's head and ear modeling videos well this is a leap above that and we'll take an insiders look at what can be found on this excellent resource.

When we first heard about this DVD we pinned Jonathan down to ask him a few questions under the spotlight.

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You may remember David Revoy from his short 'Little Fairy'. He has now published a series of videotutorials on character design. In no less than 9 separate tutorials (most of them around 9 minutes long), David takes you through the entire process of drawing, modeling, texturing and rendering a little Dragon.

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Alexandre Rangel has created a four-hour Portuguese videotutorial that introduces you to Blender modeling and texturing by using a Honda Shadow motorbike as an example. For only R$35 (about $16) you can download the eight chapters, reference images and .blend files.

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When creating a 3D model or scene its often a good idea to begin with a sketch in 2D. Meaning pencil and paper. But perhaps you are lacking in drawing skills. Have no fear! Blendernation is here!

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