Wow, what a year! We’ve seen some massive changes to blender in 2011, along with some massive tutorials right here 
So to round up the year, here’s the Top 10 Tutorials from 2011:
10. How to Make a Realistic Asteroid
9. Create a Realistic Water Simulation
8. Create an Eye Catching Energy Drink Advertisement
7. Create Realistic Outdoor Lighting
6. Create a Flame Thrower
5. Smash an iPhone
4. Create a Realistic Earth
3. Introduction to Rigging
2. Introduction to Cycles
1. Create an Underground Subway Scene
Thanks for sticking around and making this year a blast!
I normally don’t share my new years resolution, but since you’re all here, let’s talk…
Blender Guru’s Goals for 2012
- Cycles focused – More and more tutorials geared towards Cycles
- New Product range – Textures, models etc.
- New staff
What else should be on the list?
Here’s to new year of blender tutorials! 
ANDU Y U NO POST NU TUTORIAL!
Lol. Apologies for the quietness around here
I’m moving to South Korea in 4 days and will stay there all year, so I’ve been a little bit preoccupied making sure I have everything in order.
A new tutorial will be posted in 2 weeks when I have settled in.
Thanks for your patience
Moving in with your girlfriend I presume? That’s awesome! Best of luck out there and play loads of starcraft!!
Yer gonna visit my girlfriend and meet her parents for the first time. Wish me luck lol
Good luck Andrew
when will you do the focused critique? 2 weeks?
uah oah. meeting the parents.
can you speak Korean?
good luck on the move…can image its a headache..I have moved across continents in my travels…can feel your pain…..thanks for everything you do for us fans…..
Meet the parents?! Andrew is going to get some focused critique right there
Best of luck!
I wonder if you’ll be in a place to observe old, traditional architecture or objects/scenes unique to S. Korea? Better than looking at someone’s vacation slides, tutorials that can’t be seen anywhere else (nor understood in the English-specking world) seems a great attraction to new tutorials!
have lots of fun, thanks 4 the tutorials this year!!
It was a great year for blender and this year will be twice as good^^.
Hell yeah!
I have no doubts 2012 will be a monster Blender Guru year, thanks and best wishes!
I am learning heaps from the Nature Academy, just what I needed!
Damned i forgot one thing in the Survey.
I want like to see an Special Effect Academy.
With stuff like Shieldsystems, Laser- or Plasmablaster, Deathray, Energy aura like in DBZ or a good locking Attack out of any Anime (Kame-Hame-Ha)
sorry i meant looking not locking. Damned auto correction.
You are moving to Korea? Awesome! Andrew? Do/make pictures, many pictures, please!
Good luck with that to you and your girlfriend!
andrew, i know a tutorial you can make, a 2012 doomsday short, 10 – 15 sec of total doomsday, fire, deathstars and stuff. make it apocalyptic and i bet your name will be forever in the glory of fame.
LOL @ the cat destroying the birthday card, epic… and good luck with the move Andrew.
I just want to thank you Andrew for everything you taught me in such a quality manner. Really, it’s just amazing. Good luck and best wishes!
can you do something with making a realistic moon scene?
” don’t normally sure my goals, but since you’re already here, let’s talk about 2012:”
I think you mean “share”.
Good luck in your move, see you on the other side!
Haha, I love the reward for the survey, and I am not a cat person.
Great year for Blender and an excellent year for Blender Guru. Thanks for all your hard work Andrew; looking forward to more in 2012!
Good Luck! Have much fun there!
Hi Andrew! I just feel i have to thank you for your tutorials and for keeping a site like Blenderguru alive. I installed my first version 2.46 in 2008 and i never looked back. But 2011 was really a turning point for me since i discovered your tutorials. Now im looking forward to your cycles tuts(i already have 2.61 on my pc)
Thanks for being a buddy and for teaching me.
You’r tutorials are a real pleasure to watch. You’r humor, lightheartedness and comments on why or how you decide on a technique are great.
The only criticism I have is that partway through a tutorial you sometimes start to rush without explaining why you are doing what you’re doing, although I’ve heard you catch yourself a couple of times.
Excellent job with Blender Guru and good luck in South Korea.
Andrew,
First of all! Happy New Year!
Your tutorials just rocks. I am far from pro in Blender, but what is important for me in your tutorials that: “I always get nice, aestethic and pleasing results when finished, while learning at moderate speed some new goodies. Unfortunately it is not always like that with some other tutorials, where guys just show off or what is worse: results of tutorial suck, but they something like “well, you will put up this together to get something nice, i do not have time in this tutorial to do it”
Good luck with moving!
I like Create a Realistic Earth. very good one.
Thank for tutorial.
One question,
How to add some ocean splash effect when the waves hit the rock (landscape)?
just like in movie “2012″
Good luck “meet the parents” lol
I can’t wait for this year to end because I know that and the and there will be a lot of amazing tutorials and I will have learned so much!
Good luck! And happy new year!
loved the cat!
That was an awesome cat!
I’d love to see a series of tuts on sci-fi stuff like animated laser shots, moving light sabers and forcefields. But that’s just because I’m really into sci-fi…
Good luck on the move…. I guess.
You should do some more things like the energy drink, the glass with water, and the outdoor scene. Those were interesting…
I don’t know about that apocalyptic idea. xD
Anyone know what the developers are working on? They should make a cheesburger one of the stock mesh objects, like the monkey. (IDK what to call them…)
Her name is Suzanne, and they are called primitives.
Visiting her parents for a YEAR, uh, I hope you are not living with her- unless you Australians call your wives girlfriends.
good luck with the parents! and – if i may ask – when would
))
you like to start the “blender wedding scene competition”?
…and of course a happy new year to everyone!
If I may, I’d love to see you tackle the new Camera/Object tracking features in Blender. and maybe something where you take us through the making of a VFX shot from beginning to end. Thanks for all the great stuff in 2011!
Good luck and watch out for those angry northerners. Maybe you could design a tutorial on how to shake hands.
Thank you very much for your tutorials!!!!
And good luck in Korea!!!!
Wow, moving to South Korea. That’s real far out, have fun.
Interesting to see you will be using Cycles for everything. Cycles can’t render hair yet, as far as I know. So if you would want to render hair, well, I dunno.
Just wondering, what do you mean by new staff?
Cheers Andrew,
Jahnu
Cher ANDREW ; Merci ! pour tous tes didacticiels
( dommage qu’ils ne soient pas traduit en FRANCAIS , mais bon … ) .
Je te souhaites une heureuse et bonne Annéé ! ! !
First of all HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012!
I just want to thank you Andrew for everything you taught me in such a quality manner.
Till Today’s date whatever I know about blender, is because of you.
Thank you for all the tutorials, suggestions, critics & advice.
Good luck and best wishes!
Hey Andrew really you’re begining a good year. Wow Korea. Good Luck, Have Fun, Enjoy it and take many many pictures please and share with us
Hello everyone – Last year was indeed awesome! So much changed – i remember the first tutorial from andrew i saw – bout the BMW rim – your teaching style was way stiffer than nowadays ;D And the way you teach always makes us look forward to the next tutorial.
Recently i also thought about making a few tutorials. However it’s more dificult then i thought ;/. Irecorded a test tutorial so to say and wanted to ask if you guys could check it out and give me some feedback – i’m swiss so english is quite a challenge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd30gmGu95E&context=C3485694ADOEgsToPDskLsdAhlwDGzNg8hP_6lUHUK
Happy 2012!
@Andrew if the guru himself could even give me some tips – that would be awesome!
Andrew your tutorials viu.agradeço got me away by force of will and for sharing all this treasure more than a top 10 but top one thousand, one thousand quality thanks again!
Happy new year and best wishes for 2012.
Yes,
happy new year, and good luck at all for 2012 from me too.
hey andrew, do you thing you could do a series on re-creating a scene from the movie 2012! (the L.A. scene).
Is there any chance you could still show how to render & light scenes with the blender internal? Not everyone has a super fast graphics card/cpu that can handle it.
Anxious for the sci fi academy!
I just learned about this energy drink tutorial, which was something I’ve been looking for for a while. Now, I’ve found the thing that’s going to occupy the rest of my day.
At first I thought you it said N.Korea.What a relief.How long are you going to live in S. Korea?
This year is going to be EPIC with all the new tuts and stuff that is gonna come out. Hope you get time to teach us how to make some fireworks with cycles. >.<
Good luck on going to S.Korea meeting the parents.
Thx for all the tutorials.
Now, what I would like to see is some interior architecture tutorials, like bedrooms and living rooms, complete with texturing and photorealistic cycles rendering.
So we can finally kick 3ds max butt
Maybe you’ll get inspiration to make a tutorial about game in blender from korean games andrew…or tutorial in Nature Academy, how to make a scene in Jeju island
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Hey you said “Regular fortnightly tutorials” and it has been 15 days since your last tut
That’s a smart answer to a tirkcy question