In this Blender tutorial, we’ll take a look at how to enhance your reflections by using High Dynamic Range Images.

This 3-part video tutorial series will show you how to create a magic wand particles effect, the sort of visual effect you might see when a “magic wand” is waved. This will be similar to a “pixie” dust effect, although not so complicated. In Part 2, we’ll take a look at how to create the particle system that will be used with the sprite graphics created in Part 1.

Normal maps are widely used in games to make low poly models look high poly. In this tutorial you will learn how to create a high res Skull model, generate a normal map from that model and learn how to apply this to its low poly version.

Techniques covered in this tutorial include multires sculpting, baking a normal map, baking ambient occlusion and applying the maps to a low poly model.

This tutorial uses the free and open source Blender suite. If you’re new to 3D, following this tutorial in Blender is an excellent way for beginners to get started. (Don’t worry – this tutorial has plenty of techniques for more advanced users too!)

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

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Highlights some of the techniques used to approximate a linear workflow in blender. While its mainly targeted at tackling several linux problems its main ideas still hold true for all platforms.

I have created a breakdown of the steps I used to achieve an old worn gold material. It describes and highlights some aspects of the luxrender material system.

Learn how to create animated texturemaps. A very cool tutorial but not for absolute beginners.

Creating the snowflake pattern using simple poly-modeling techniques along with Blender’s Mirror modifier and Spin tool

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.

Perfect for advertisements, logos and animations! This tutorial teaches you useful techniques such as modelling with curves, creating a glow effect and making a curve emit light.

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