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Camera Mapping an Island

In this tutorial you’ll learn creative techniques for transforming a photograph into a 3-dimensional scene with depth. This was the 3rd place entry in our February 2013 video tutorial contest. More...

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Freestyle Sketchy Look

Learn how to give your renders a sketchy look using the new Freestyle feature. This tutorial was an honorable mention in our Blender 2.67 video tutorial contest. More contests will be held with each...

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Creating a Grand Piano

Learn how model and render a grand piano. This tutorial was an honorable mention in our Blender 2.67 video tutorial contest. More contests will be held with each new release of Blender. Follow us on...

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Freestyle Tutorial

Learn how the new freestyle feature works. This tutorial was 2nd Place in our Blender 2.67 video tutorial contest. More contests will be held with each new release of Blender. Follow us on facebook to...

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How to Make Explosions

Learn how to create an awesome explosion using Blender. This tutorial was 1st Place in our Blender 2.67 video tutorial contest. More contests will be held with each new release of Blender. Follow us on...

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Character Creation Vol.3 [BONUS - Texture Wipe Effect Tutorial!]

Download the file for this tutorial here: Blend File In this tutorial overview I’ll go through a texture wipe effect that I used in the trailer for my latest training DVD ‘Character Creation Volume 3...

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Render a Leaf on Water in Cycles

Jordan McCracken shows you how to render a leaf floating on water in Cycles. This tutorial was an honorable mention in our Blender 2.69 video tutorial contest. More contests will be held with each new...

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Break a Window in Blender

Steven Lund shows you how to use tracking to create an animation of a 3D baseball smashing through a window in real life footage. This tutorial was first place in our Blender 2.69 video tutorial...

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How to Create Volumetric Clouds in Cycles

Jordan McCracken shows you how to create volumetric clouds and render them with Cycles. This tutorial was Third Place in our Blender 2.7 tutorial contest. More contests will be held with each new...

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Create a Snowy Forest River

Steven Lund shows you how to create a beautiful wintery forest scene. This tutorial was First Place in our Blender 2.7 tutorial contest. More contests will be held with each new release of Blender....

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Blender Giveaway – Cycles Shader : Prime Elements

Do you find that you create the same cycles shader setups again and again? Or perhaps you could do with a resource file to use as a starting point to build up some cool and complex shaders? If so, I’m...

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Creating a Basketball Part 2

Part 2 – Texturing and Rendering in Cycles Click here for Part 1 on modeling and UV unwrapping Download the project files here Download the HDR image here

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Creating a Basketball in Blender

Part 1 – Modeling and UV Unwrapping (Part 2 is below this) Part 2 – Texturing and Rendering in Cycles Download the project files here Download the HDR image here

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Create a High-Poly Snow-Covered Tree

Thomas Cairns shows you how to add a layer of snow on tree branches. This tutorial was Third Place in our Blender 2.74 tutorial contest. More contests will be held with each new release of Blender....

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Create a Kitchen in Blender

AnandhaRaja shows you how to create a complete kitchen in Blender. This tutorial was Second Place in our Blender 2.74 tutorial contest. More contests will be held with each new release of Blender....

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Creating your own Matcaps (a cool way to viz characters in Blender)

Learn how to make our own ‘matcaps’! A great way to not only visualize models for sculpting and modeling but also animating and putting a scene together in the viewport! [Download the characters and...

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Realtime PBR in Blender

  After this PBR video you’ll know… ● An amazing great indie game project using Blender > Unreal Engine 4 = Swarm : Manchester. ;D ● Several realtime PBR solutions for Blender that emulate the...

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Clouds Flythrough | Cycles Blender Tutorial

  After this Flythrough video you’ll know… ● How to use a particle system to create a starfield. ● How to create a star with built in streaks no compositing required. ● Faking volumetrics with an...

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Cycles Baking | Blender Tutorial

  After this Baking video you’ll know… ● The dark side of procedural texturing ● The solution to speed up those render times – Baking! ● A checklist of things needed for a successful bake. ● Getting...

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Create a Snowy Forest River

Steven Lund shows you how to create a beautiful wintery forest scene. This tutorial was First Place in our Blender 2.7 tutorial contest. More contests will be held with each new release of Blender....

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