23 simple, useful blender tutorials you may have missed

Over the past few weeks, my inbox has been growing with requests for specific blender tutorials. I’ve met a lot of these requests, but unfortunately I can’t complete them all. So if I haven’t made the tutorial you requested, my apologies.

The good news however is that a lot of the tutorials that have been requested have already been made by other members of the community.

I’ve compiled this list of the most useful blender tutorials that I know of. I’ve gathered these from various sources including vimeo channels, twitter, forums, youtube and other insider sites that I know of.

I hope you can take something from it!

1. Creating a glow and falloff effect
 

2. Creating an atmospheric effect in Blender’s compositor

3. Animating a Pumpjack using Constraints

4. Destroying a Mesh With External Particles

5. Animating Cracks

6. Learning 3-point Lighting

7. Creating a studio backdrop

8. Adding extra detail with the Displacement Modifier

9. How to create masks in the compositor

10. Using the Array Modifier to create Spin Duplicates

11. Adding custom brush keystrokes

12. How to Download a Test Build

13. Lighting in Blender

14. Creating an eyeball

15. Using Mesh Lighting in Blender 2.5

16. Modeling a Palm Tree

17. Modeling a realtime stone

18. Creating a wooden barrel

19. Terrain sculpting

20. Texture Splattering

21. Setting up a blender spline

22. Creating texture maps of trees

23. How to use Angularmaps

Hopefully there’s something in there you can use! If you know of another blender tutorial that needs some love, post it in the comments and I’ll add it.

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About Andrew Price

I like long walks on the beach and yelling out during movies. My cat's name is dog, and my dog's name is cat. I am hilarious. I like Blender.

63 Responses to “23 simple, useful blender tutorials you may have missed”

  1. jithin May 3, 2010 at 11:29 am #

    Yeah ! That was really useful.

  2. Ib May 8, 2010 at 7:26 am #

    hi, i keep having a problem with d tutorials downloaded each time i want to play it, it keep telling me that the application not found. please what is the right application and how do i download it, thanks.

  3. Jono May 13, 2010 at 6:58 pm #

    Please can we get the glow and fallof picture in higher resolution cuz it is impossible to read…

  4. andre.roesti May 18, 2010 at 5:42 am #

    @Jono: You don’t need the Image in a higher resolution, the Title is a Link. Click on it and you will get to a tutorial that explains the whole process. ;-)

  5. Chad Kendall May 20, 2010 at 9:42 am #

    Hi:

    I am wondering if you could make a tutorial on how to make a DVD case?

    Thanks

  6. pixnlove May 21, 2010 at 5:33 am #

    And there Andrew goes,
    gathering very useful stuff again,
    won’t you never stop man…
    That is brill!

    thanks again.

  7. Aaron Smithey July 24, 2010 at 8:27 am #

    I’d love to see a tutorial on animating a sky with clouds for an architectural exterior animation. Just the basics on the work flow, how to get something nice and how it would work with real world scale.

    Thansks,

    Aaron

  8. manshan September 13, 2010 at 12:14 pm #

    13 is dead

  9. Alexander October 13, 2010 at 2:22 am #

    hei i just have to say love your tuts, I am 13 years old and I am from Norway, your tuts is so easy to follow, when i grow up i want to be a designer and your tuts have get me startet ;P

  10. Wasabi December 4, 2010 at 8:19 am #

    Hi grate Stuff hire, but i have problems with the “4. Destroying a Mesh With External Particles”, because in Blender 2.55 i dosn’t find any reactor type by the Partikelsystems.

    Also it sems that many of this Tutorials for blender 2.48 and older.

  11. Karthikeyan May 11, 2011 at 7:19 am #

    Andrew, I am desperately is in need of your help!!!

    I tried the 4th one (“Destroying a Mesh With External Particles”) nearly 16 times and i am not getting the actual result…..

    Suzzane is not breaking immediately after collision but later….even worse it doesnt break but gets “sprayed”!!!
    Can you help or can you put a tutorial on this….

    THANKS a lot….for all the tutorials ( for those you gave and for those to be given)

    Karts,India.

  12. Jonathan August 12, 2011 at 12:14 am #

    I watched your video that you did of the collapsing highrise building and have ever since been wondering on how you did the rubble placement. I know that you used the physics engine…I think.. lol I think a tutorial on how to do what you did with the rubble would be a great addition to your tutorial set!

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