The snapping tool in Blender allows you to snap your mesh selection to any other vertice, edge, face, or volume. This is a very handy technique for precision modeling.

Fear plantation no more! Making trees are now easier than ever with the new Curve to Tree script. Watch this video tutorial to learn how!

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Learn the basics about the video sequencer and how to use it, then make a slide show with a bunch of different transitions!

In this article, we’ll see how to create an image render not with the use of external renderers but with Blender’s native internal renderer.  We’ll look at how powerful the internal renderer is and how we can achieve similar results with that of dedicated renderers from tweaking light settings until the final compositing.

Preview rendering can greatly speed up your workflow by allowing you to preview your scene within the viewport, from any angle and at low resolution as opposed to rendering the full scene anytime you check your progress.

In this tutorial we’ll take a look at how you can create a library of reusable composite nodes. It takes time to create node setups, and often the work is repetitive, so let’s see what can be done to be more efficient.

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 breaking glass with the explode modifier and the particle system.

A beginner book that covers the basics of Blender in a classroom format. 22 chapters with exercises designed to be completed in 1-2 one-hour class periods. Chapters are kept short (1-4 pages for most) and designed to only cover more commonly used features to get you “up-and-running” and comfortable with Blender. 146 pages. Free for use. The book can be downloaded as a complete pdf file or downloaded as individual chapters from the Central Dauphin High School Website.