Blender is powerful 3D modeling application that is Open source, Although the GUI does take some getting use to, here is a basic tutorial to get you started as well as the normal Blender Tutorials.
I’ve been playing around with “Stop Motion” animation with the kids, and found a few tutorials on how to use Blender for Stop motion and Video Sequencing. There is also some nice stuff on Animateclay, Brickfilms and BlenderGuru. Here’s how you can render Lego from LeoCAD in Blender, plus some tutorials on the basics of LeoCAD.
There are a number of good sites for Blender:
- Blender Underground has a good resources page, and tutorials.
- Blender Nation has news and tutorials.
- Blender Artists has a Forum, Gallery and Tutorials.
- Blender Art Magazine.
- Blender Videos.
- Blender Cookie has some Good tutorials.
- Adventures in Blender has reviews of DVDs / Books
- Blender 3D Model Repository / Library
- CGTextures is a good library of Textures
