Using soft bodies and a wind force you can take a lowly plane with a very simple texture and make it look like a realistically billowing flag.

Learn about the techniques that I use in order to create this Chevy Camaro. The techniques shown can be applied to many other cars, vehicles, and other models. This tutorial is very detailed, reaching a length of 7 pages. There is also a PDF available, in case you wish to work offline.

Most professional cameras these days come with a built-in ‘Rule of Thirds’ function that overlays a 3×3 grid. So why not set up blender to do the same?

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Because you never know who you might sit next to on the bus…

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A videotutorial on how to make fire with an ascending heat effect. It was my first tutorial and I have to admit that it would definetly not be same, if I made it again. But this is not going to happen and it is still a nice technique. So I don’t want to hold it back from you.

A nice zoom technique where a focused object keeps its original size, but you see more and more of the background. You often see that in films and thats why I called it ‘cinematic zoom’ first. Later on I was told that its actually called a ’vertigo zoom’.

A videotutorial on how to make a teleportation effect including boolean modifiers, different layers and composite nodes.

A videotutorial on how to make breaking glass with the explode modifier and the particle system.

This videotutorial explains how to make a portal effect in Blender using multiple layers and composite nodes.

André Luan Chiquetto Nascimento (Brutto AVT) has published on his personal website a tutorial for Sunflow newbies. The tutorial covers the basic steps to render an simple scene and introduces the sintax of a sunflow file.