Blender virgin

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Hello all,

My name is John, been working in the videogames industry as an animator/modeler(though not anymore) for… HUMPF:o 9 years.

Anyway, thought it was time for me to work on a home project using Blender but hey guess what…

I know nothing about Blender! Well, I actually started learning a bit of it the other day.

Anyway, I would love to hear from you with your suggestions as to where to look for tuts, etc.

Peace

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welcome to elysiun and blenderworld :slight_smile:

here can you find the docs:
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Documentation.628.0.html

and in the “Blender General”-forum they have a tutorialthread/list:
https://blenderartists.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13380

and to get help with using Blender, is to ask questions mostly in “Blender General”:
https://blenderartists.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=7

good luck, and I am curious to see what you can come up with :wink:

kind regards,
ztonzy - one of the administrators

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Actually I’d recommend the wiki for the documentation since it is much closer to up to date.

http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Main_Page

Also instead of using 2.37a you might want to use 2.40 cvs version (either use the alpha or better would be to wait a few days for our beta release…).

It has much superior animation tools, and a number of nice improvements in standard tools such as modeling, uv unwrapping, texturing, and rendering quality.

LetterRip

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I’m probably about a week further along than you in Blender, and I really, really recommend Greybeard’s video tutorials.
http://www.ibiblio.org/bvidtute/
They’re the best thing for getting off the ground in any reasonable time. After that, you can start to check out the tutorials listed above. I also got the paper manual, and found it to be basically similar to the online stuff (but a little older) and really useful for referring to when not actually at the computer.

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All you need is a Blender First Steps Survival Kit (and love)
https://blenderartists.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=508985#508985

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Oh wow, such response in so little time, that is really cool ! :smiley:

Thanks a lot for all the links, pointers, etc.

I can see there’s a lot of studying ahead but this is pretty exciting stuff.

Now, I’m waiting for the day when I’ll RMB click at work and wonder why it’s not working… :wink:

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My biggest suggestion is… Learn the hotkeys! Probably one of the most critical early things to do.

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You may find this hotkey map usefull :slight_smile:
: http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Reference/Hotkey_Map