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!

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.

Here is a brief overview of some of the changes and additions to Blender 2.5. Keep in mind, 2.5 is still under heavy development and many things will be added/changed. That being said, what has been done so far is incredible!

Although most scripts that run from Blender – either included when you install the application or 3rd party scripts created or downloaded – don’t necessarily need the Python API to be installed, you may, during the course of using Blender 3D, find that a number of the more ‘complex’ Python *.py scripts don’t run reporting various ‘runtime’ errors.

This tutorial discusses how to set up the Python path under Windows OS.

This Tutorial explains how to make a Genius Tablet work in Linux, and it also explains how to make Pressure sensitivity work with Blender. This information is valid for any other tablet too.

This tutorial takes a look at how to set up a wire render in Blender.

The Mirror Modifier can be extremely helpful in modeling objects with Symmetry.