With Blender moving forward so quickly, it's hard for people who write tutorials and such to stay current, so some of these links provide material that is slightly dated, like the Blender Basics Book. However, because it is so well written and provides information on so much that is current, this Central Dauphin High School effort does deserve mention.

Another source of information is the blenderartists.org site. Whilst perhaps not the most congenial atmosphere to ask questions - one tends to get ignored at worst if the consensus is that the question is one a bit of searching would have answered, unlike here on Rendo - it's a great place to lurk and read-read-read. People are doing some cutting-edge stuff on there so if your brain can absorb it all (and some stuff is admittedly way over my pointy-little head :biggrin: ) it's one of the most informative sites out there.

Then, of course, there's Andrew Price. He's got a lot of free stuff, which - as a newbie - I'd be doing first before getting stuck into some of the rather pricy courses he offers.

Another little goldmine is youtube... just do a search for, say, "blender cycles", for example. This will keep you busy for a month or more, particularly if you have a day job.

Despite the old prevailing attitude that Blender is "too hard to learn" "too complicated" and other such nonsense, it is one of the better documented and explored applications out there. Incredibly talented people have set up brilliant blogs on how to do really exciting things with all the newest Blender technology, like Cycles and some of the modifiers (Ocean comes to mind)... this list is mindboggling in scope.

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