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Blender 3D - Are you looking for Support

Tuesday, April 15 2008 - blender, art-and-design

Over the last few months I have been picking up on my Blender skills and really starting to get some good work done. What I did find though is that there is a giant wealth of knowledge out there if you know where to find it.

So with this in mind I have collected a small collection of Links and resources where budding new Blender 3D Artists can go to find all the support that they will need.

Blender 3D Links

• Blender 3D - Home of Blender 3D
• Download Blender 3D - This is where you can Download Blender 3D
• BlenderNation - The primary source of Blender 3D News and Events.
• Blender Art Magazine - A Bi-Monthly online (And Downloadable) Magazine with the main goal of providing quality learning content for the blender community, from the efforts of the community itself.
• Blender Model Repository - The official Blender 3D Model Repository.

Tutorial Sites

• Blender Underground - Great selection of video tutorials to get you started.
• Blender Newbies - Good collection of tutorials for the newbee to the Blender 3D World.
• SciFi-Meshes - SciFi-Meshes has a good tutorial collection on getting started with Blender 3D, it goes through all of the basics in an easy to read format.
• Learn Blender 3D - A good collection of Web Based Video tutorials for the Blender 3D Application, these tutorials will help anyone getting started with Blender.
• Virtual Realm Blender 3D Tutorials - My little collection of Blender 3D Tutorials with an XNA Twist.

Support for Blender 3D

• Blender 3D Development Forums - This is the main Forum for all things related to the Development of Blender 3D
• BlenderArtists.org - This is one of the more popular general support forums for Blender 3D, it is also a good place to show off your work.
• CGSociety, Society of Digital Artists - This is a good resources for all your General CG needs.
• CGSociety Blender 3D Forum - This is an Application Specific forum on CGSociety that deals with the needs of Blender 3D Artists.
• Blender Underground Forums- Good General support forum for Blender Underground's Tutorials and General Blender Discussions.
• Blender Newbies Support Forum - General Support for Blender 3D and the Blender Newbies Tutorials.

And off course we can not forget the Artist's Corner forum on Creators.

As always if you do know of anymore that could be added to the list please comment so that this list can grow.