Tutorial Mega Thread

CG Cookie($-ish)

CG Cookie began as a general training website for all 3D software
It still sort of is, but it’s clear that they shifted their focus to Blender and 2D concept art
What makes CG cookie as iconic to the blender community as it is today is the shear quality and quantity of tutorials.

It has a paid subscription it calls “Citizenship”
But if you can’t afford it(or if you can but don’t feel like paying for anything)

You can take advantage of what some might call one of the most cannibalistic business moves ever.
Right next to making a really useful plugin that people would pay 70$ for and then making the plugin’s repository free,
Which is…
The CG Cookie archive
All of what used to be considered premium 5-7 years ago, is now 100% free.

Things like

Are now 100% free in the archive

Not entirely sure whether it actually hurts the company as much I think it does,

Who knows maybe this is some sort of new psychological marketing tactic that’s designed to guilt trip people to buying citizenship
(If it is, it seems to be working ;))

CynicatPro
https://yt3.ggpht.com/-b-KSQ-436zM/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/-lUKZnG6hWM/s100-c-k-no-rj-c0xffffff/photo.jpg

CynicatPro has made a name for himself by being the guy who, for better or for worse, started the “PBR” craze in the Blender community.
He’s a fun guy to listen to, one of the few people who can make a video about how light physics work and not be boring.

And it’s not just PBR and shading he does,

He made a neato video about converting real world terrain into Blender meshes
On top of being a great tutor he’s also a great environment artist

Definitely go subscribe to him

Blender Guru


Blender Guru is a pretty prominent website in the Blender community
Andrew Price, the owner/founder of the website definitely deserves the attention.

It’s a really great site
The best way I found to describe Blender Guru is to basically say that it’s the “GreyscaleGorrilla” of the Blender community

Charismatic owner
Excellently made products (Even if the marketing is sometimes…a bit too… patronizing?)
Excellent Tutorials

Since this thread is about the tutorials I’ll talk about those

His tutorials are for Intermediate - Advanced level users that want to learn something new
You wont see him make a tutorial for making a cup(except for that one time he did), but you’ll see him and his crew tackle complicated things like snow and interior lighting

He also runs a paid course called the “Architecture Academy”
I hear it’s really good, and judging from the results of the people who took the course, I’m inclined to believe the people who say it’s good.

And even better he runs(…or… used to run :frowning: ) a podcast, a great one at that.

The unscripted nature of the podcast just makes it so funny

Also he apparently started a stormin the Blender community about the UI, so if you see anyone having what seems to be… “hatred” towards him, that might be a reason as to why the person feels that way. Personally I don’t care that much.

Creative Shrimp
http://www.creativeshrimp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/creative-shrimp-gleb-alexandrov1.png

Creative Shrimp is run by Gleb Alexandrov
And as something made by Gleb Alexandrov, you know it’s going to be good, and you’re not wrong,
the site keeps getting better every time I look at it.

On a broad sense the site is more or less Blender Guru but Aimed at Advanced users and with Gleb’s quirky personality layered on top of it.

He sells two things,
A Space VFX Course
A Realistic Lighting E-Book
Honestly, what more could you ask for :slight_smile:

BlenderBrit

This guy’s relatively new but he’s just great. He’s pretty descriptive and shows you how to get to the end result, quickly

CG Geek
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The best way I can describe CG geek is,
A hard core blender tutor
He does everything in blender, no photoshop or gimp or after effects none of that crap.
Pure blender
He gets you from a to b, even if it takes 6,30 min videos
And that’s great.
If you followed the tutorial correctly, your end result, will be what you saw in the video.
He sells some asset packs but hell,
he couldn’t resist showing you how to make it in a video :slight_smile:

If you think that Blender Guru is misleading with it’s great thumbnails but not so great result.
Then maybe CG geek is your guy

Bandyte (Formerly 3D Bandit)
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I don’t know why this guy isn’t more noticed in the blender community but bandyte is awesome
The procedural materials that he shows you how to make look amazing.

Definitely give this channel a look.

XRG13

One of the two(idk how many people make hand painted tutorials :stuck_out_tongue: ) people who make only hand painted tutorials.
He has this one really really good sword tutorial

Not many people like Hand painted stuff but there’s still a large demand for them because some people make games in not so impressive game engines(or not so impressive platforms ) or they just like how hand painted stuff looks like. Like overwatch

Onelvxe
https://blenderartists.org/forum/customavatars/avatar228187_2.gif

Onelvxe decided to do the writing for me, how nice of them!

ONELVXE Studios is an open production studio that creates custom visuals, campaigns, music, and designs for brands, corporate clients, musicians, and designers around the world. It’s goals include funding and actively developing Blender 3D, as well as elevating Blender as an open-source production ready alternative to industry standard toolsets. Lastly, ONELVXE provides training on how to use Blender in a production pipeline, advanced topics like Animation Nodes and MoGraph, as well as proper, physically accurate material/shader creation.

Even more lists(may or may not be blender related)

Joseph Raccoon’s list
Polycount Wiki
Artstation

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<shameless plug> ONELVXE Studios https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCastC3ywL7qDE9XrWWxpEZw

I only update once every ten thousand years, but I do hand-painted workflows that not many other Blender tutorial authors cover. My UV unwrapping video seems to be the most popular, though – I don’t even know why.

Oh yes, I almost forgot about your tutorial, XRG

Your tut(and Blender Gurus podcast) is what got me into blender in the first place.

@Onelvxe

I use your blender startup scene everyday, I liked you “pipeline” tutorial

I’ll add it

Hi there,
haven’t provided too many videos yet but more will be available in the coming weeks & months as I recently revived my “Blender Plaza” baby :slight_smile:

My aim is to provide high quality Blender video tutorials, well planned, with professional voice over & audio quality (people seem to like my voice - in fact I have a trained voice with about 20 years of experience using it professionally)


thanks
Marco

I have a channel too :smiley:
should I post it here?

Some of these will be very nonblender

Facial Topology


12 principles of Animation

Anatomy

Facial anatomy

For those interested in converting medical scans to 3d prints
http://www.embodi3d.com/tutorials.html

Normal Maps (Some of these may be dated)
http://www.zarria.net/nrmphoto/nrmphoto.html
http://blog.digitaltutors.com/bump-normal-and-displacement-maps/
http://bencloward.com/tutorials_normal_maps1.shtml

Blend modes for photoshop (useful for using the image editor)

Rigging and Articulation (Also learn your bone anatomy for this)
http://www.hippydrome.com/

(( Mild NSFW )) Learn to draw, it will only help! (seriously do 2 quick sketches a day, it helps)

Modeling an Anime character in blender ( He breaks some conventions of topology but he also delivers a finished product)

wonder what happened to blenderhub… was an awesome resource to find blender tutorials.

Nice to see such a constructive thread! Hope it will help many!

Blender Cloud has extremely good material!

For me personally CGCookie was life-changing experience and the beginning of my transition to Blender. The free UI videos were what pulled me in followed by a membership which was best value I ever paid. I am saddened though that their new site is very difficult to navigate, everything is hidden and 10 clicks away. When I go on their site I have absolutely no idea what they are offering, I have no overview of their libraries, all I see is a “become a member”. 2 minutes of confused browsing and i leave.

In contrast I really like Digital Tutors for Blender or any other software. Site is super intuitive to use with instant searches, browsing by categories, great tutorials. You get full overview, free videos and previews of paid ones. You’ll certainly understand what membership will be about.

Lastly Andrews(BlenderGuru) tutorials are worth a lot of praise! He is the person who validated Blender for me when I was only weighing jumping the ship from max/maya. You have a lot of foss skeptical colleagues yet when one sees the amazing and realistic things this guy can do while making it look like walk in the park with Blender, then opinions quickly change.

All in all I wish the best for people who are taking time to help others!

As for users, don’t be afraid to subscribe to paid material ( i once was ), 1 month membership for 10$ can save you a year in the dark.

@Mmax

Oh yeah sure you can post it here

@marco
Great, I’ll add it to the list

@Joseph

Okay I mean we don’t have to be exclusive to blender and only blender.
Any helpful video in max is a helpful video for blender IMO.

@Brilliant

Seemed like a great website, how’d it fail?

@CG strive

Oh yeah, same here. Blender guru is what sold me to blender(and XRG’s sword tutorial too)
And CG cookie was great… not sure why they decided to change it so dramatically
Let’s just hope that they won’t do the same mistake with Blender artists.

You want a good starting point? You may want to have a look at the list of Blender Foundation Certified Trainers on the Blender Network.

Also, I might have a few tutorials floating around out there. :stuck_out_tongue:

cg cookie has two links on the front page that can take you to their courses:

https://cgcookie.com/courses/

or

https://cgcookie.com/flows/

I guess they are a bit hard to spot from that front page though.

-George

here is my channel, I’m not a real tutor, but sometime I like to share.

YOUTUBE CHANNEL

Continuation

Gnoman Workshop($$$)
https://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/assets/gnomonSchool_Logo-dd6d955cc596af6b72508dabe160fe57c1c721be8579a1517d91beec0ca93b1c.pngNow I never used the Gnoman Workshop but according to Andrew Price , it’s a really really good site. I’m inclined to believe him due to it’s instructors. although it’s not blender related,
Vertex Magazine (Some times NSFW)
https://static-2.gumroad.com/res/gumroad/5282351276595/asset_previews/34afa82ce4efe3ea47763eb19f1b03f3/retina/Cover2.jpg

Now the vertex magazine is not really blender exclusive(I think it doesn’t even acknowledge blender’s existence…), it’s… game art in general
It’s a free magazine that’s honestly better than any edition 3D world magazine, it doesn’t tell you that you “need” the brand new pixologic Zbrush 4r7™ patch because you’ll never be able to make art without it!
Everything that “needs” cry engine 3 or photoshop can mostly be done in blender hassle free.
It’s a must have for a game artist, an absolute must have.

Even if you are not a game artist in edition 2 you get this really really nice cloth tutorial

Beware though, it assumes that you already know the technicalities of 3d software

You have really good artists like Wiktor Ohman and Tor Frick featured in the magazine.

I said sometimes it’s NSFW because some people around here believe that swearing is bad… Well a lot of the artists in this magazine are very very liberal with their language.

Arrimus3D
https://yt3.ggpht.com/-HZIxHHvaQvk/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/eiDdb2WBwd8/s100-c-k-no-rj-c0xffffff/photo.jpg
Now he isn’t the most entertaining tutor in the world but I’d wager he’s the most informative
He uses max(and occasionally Zbrush) and I think he posts Bi-Weekly(I think)
But everything(And I do mean, everything) he teaches can be used in blender as well
And if you want to learn what real subdivision modelling looks like, without cheating with displacement maps, well… he’s your guy

BlenderPlaza
https://blenderartists.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=448365&d=1470734901

I never heard of BlenderPlaza before,but man am I glad that he came here and posted a link to his channel

His “10 Useful Blender Shortcuts” video is really really good.

That video alone is worth a watch, even me who used blender for quite a while I didn’t know half of those shortcuts.

Digital Tutors ($$$)
http://assets2.digitaltutors.com/images/guest/sunset/if/pluralsight-creative.png

Now I don’t agree with Andrew Price’s idea that paid stuff is always better than free stuff,
but most of the time they are at least good and descriptive.
I refuse to call them “Pluralsight creative” :confused:

I… never watched any of their tutorials but according to CGStrive ,The maker of this masterpiece so you know his(…or her) opinion is worth something.

Also their lineup doesn’t stop(or start) with blender, they teach almost every software on the book, even XNA… yeah, XNA.

Mmmax
https://blenderartists.org/forum/customavatars/avatar37702_2.gif

This guy worked in Dark souls 3(He also used blender to make characters for the game at some point), it shows in his work.
He prefers blender to max.

Now he isn’t necessarily a “tutor” but his time lapse of him sculpting can teach you a lot… It’s one hour so you are bound to pick up something.

Also check out his Artstation

I took a CG Workshop once that was really good, so I’d recommend them as well! http://www.cgsociety.org/training/

I also made quite a few videos about random Blender topics before I started at CG Cookie: http://www.blenderhd.com/tutorials/

Hope that helps

@Jonathan

Of course, I don’t know how I missed you the first time.

Learned a lot from Blender HD

This ones just ingenious

Absolutely unconventional way of making stylized textures

http://polycount.com/discussion/175127/tutorial-create-stylized-textures-in-blender?

VSE video editing and some compositing advice for Blender at my channel

There are also demonstrations of some motion graphics techniques that are a bit less typical.

then why put them in a thread specifically about Blender tutors?