Blender resources
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Blender Tutorials
Youtube
Blender Foundation
Introductory Blender tutorials and the official Blender Foundation Youtube channel.
Grant Abbit
Grant Abbit creates tutorials focused on full projects from start to finish, sometimes over many videos.
Ducky 3D
Lots of self contained tutorials that range between 10 - 15 min long. Most of these are focused on effects, materials and rendering. Some touch on modeling and texturing.
Curtis Holt
Like Ducky 3D, Curtis Holt focuses on materials and effects and shares valuable tips. His plugged video is called “The best way to learn Blender 2.8”.
Blender Guru
Large array of tutorials for all kinds of techniques in Blender.
Ian Hubert
Quick and humorous tutorials that are sometimes only a minute long. For more advanced users.
Paul O Caggegi
Paul specializes in NPR shading and compositing workflows as well as using the Grease Pencil tool.
Specializes in procedural workflows and nodes for geometry, textures, and surface materials.
LinkedIn Learning
Introduction to Blender 2.8 for Beginners
Very general introduction videos to learn Blender basics.
Add-ons, plugins
Essential Tools
Materials and Shaders
Assets and Materials Library
Recommended Add-on Lists
Animation
Rigging Characters
Cloud rendering
- https://www.conciergerender.com/
- Cost-effective cloud rendering solution
- https://render.st/