Compiled by Cristóbal Vila - Latest update: August 29, 2025
TRAINING - SHADING, LIGHTING & RENDERING
TRAINING - GENERAL [TOP]
Blender Reference Manual — Blender Manual
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Christopher 3D - YouTube - Fantastic tutorials - Probably THE BEST!!!
A simple scene for total Blender beginners
Using Blender's Curve Pen Tool
Geometry nodes! Create product variations easily, Part 2
Connect two objects using the Data Transfer modifier
Parenting doesn't have to be tough! Duplicating groups of objects in Blender
Shading and render
3 Tips for better renderings in Blender 3.4 (visto)
0:00 Introduction
0:13 Batch render multiple cameras
2:20 Custom Noise reduction
7:06 Custom Save custom render settings in the default configuration
About Blender's Specular Channel
Demystifying Blender's Specular Channel! How Specular relates to the Roughness channel
Specular Reflections & Variable Roughness(parcialmente visto)
Specularity and Roughness, Part 2. Dealing with excessively strong reflections
Using Anisotropic Reflections in Blender
Caustics & Filter Glossy in Blender 3.1
Blender 3.2 Shadow Caustics & how to get raytraced caustics
Path Guiding in Blender 3.4, Better Caustics and Less Noise
An energy conserving technology preview
Get proper energy conserving materials in Cycles
Nested Dielectrics, the key to better fluid filled objects
Prevent color problems when saving in PNG or JPEG2000 from Blender
Frame Shifting in Blender for better architectural renderings
3 Point Lighting, Inverse Square Falloff, Gamma Correction, Filmic and More!
Better light sampling, the Light Tree!
Exciting Render Updates in Blender 4.0!
Sculpt & Scatter: Nature Scene with Geometry Nodes (Part 1) - YouTube
Sculpt & Scatter: Nature Scene with Geometry Nodes (Part 2) - YouTube
Rotate Rotation node, a second way to align your scatter to a surface and randomize it! - YouTube
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My Tutorials - YouTube - Ilir Beqiri Tutorials on Geometry Nodes, YouTube List
hbitproject - YouTube - Making of modeling classic architecture
How to use instances the right way - YouTube
Blender Secrets e-Book - MINE!
"Just updated my E-book, it's finally 2000+ pages.
Q2 2024 - Tutorial repository - “I watched 3000h of tutorials and sorted them for you (WIP)
Demo Files — blender.org - Lots of Assets ready to download and test - FABULOUS
Ryan King Art - YouTube - Many tutorials. Making simple renders, but to the point (discovered by tuto about transparency and glass with EEVEE in 4.2).
Macro Photorealism in Blender - Learn how I created this realistic macro animation in 5 minutes - I cover photogrammetry techniques, optimizing geometry, setting up adaptive displacement in Blender, adding extra detail, lighting tips, procedural animation for the ant, and general beginner friendly tips for more realistic renders. In the end I cover the final step to really push these macro renders to the next level.
World Building in Blender - Ian Hubert - The master, the Wizard, the Legend!
20 Essential Tools │ Creating an Animated Film in Blender
0:31 Viewport Framing
0:59 Isolating Objects
1:16 Viewer Node
1:31 Viewport Focal Length
1:46 3D Cursor
2:14 Select by Shortest Path
2:32 Correct Face Attributes
2:45 Ray Visibility
3:10 Lighting Nodes
3:28 Online Manual
3:43 Linking
4:14 Camera Shakify
4:42 Noise Modifiers
5:18 Select Similar
6:00 Randomising
6:21 Delta Transform
6:41 IK Constraints
7:38 FaceIt
8:08 Node Wrangler
8:34 First Person
PIOTR KRYŃSKI
ArtStation - Piotr Krynski - A great MASTER from Poland for Concept Art using Blender & Photoshop.
Concept Art for Games & Movies in Blender + BLEND FILES - $80 - 10h of narrated content + another bonus 3h of narrated content + BLEND SCENES
Efficient Environment Design for Blender - $60 - Everything about creating environments in Blender - 10 hours of narrated content, going through the whole process, from sketching out comps and ideas,
to creating assets/texturing, mixing in scans, to building (and optimizing!) huge and detailed scenes in Blender, and wrapping it up at the end with Blender Real-Time Compositor (for post processing :)
TRAINING - GEOMETRY NODES [TOP]
Geometry Nodes from Scratch - Blender Studio - DONE
Ducky 3D - YouTube (recomended by Víctor Feliz)
The BEST Way To Learn Blender in 2023!! - YouTube - Interesting tips on how to learn, for free and paying
Abstract Sci-Fi Animation in Blender 3D - YouTube (DOWNLOADED - Meh…, see if I can extract something, more procedural)
Build a Simple Network in Geometry Nodes (Blender Abstract tutorial) - YouTube (DOWNLOADED - DONE)
Sci-Fi Environment Animation in Blender & Eevee - YouTube (DOWNLOADED - DONE)
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ERINDALE
erindale.xyz | creating quality Blender content and tutorials | Patreon - Download all free scenes
Procedural Modelling Masterclasses for Blender 4 (MINE!) Erindale recommends Medina > Chhat > Pancho > Solar Trees
1 - Medina Airport Columns - Modelling Masterclass
2 - Chhatrapati Airport Columns - Modelling Masterclass
3 - Pancho Arena Canopy - Modelling Masterclass
4 - Solar Trees Marketplace - Modelling Masterclass
Select What You Want in Geometry Nodes - Blender Tutorial - YouTube - VERY GOOD (DOWNLOADED)
Control ANYTHING with Geometry Nodes! - You can use vertex parenting to control an empty and then use drivers from the empty's location to drive literally anything in Blender
Meta Balls with Geometry Nodes - The Joy of Proceduralism - Process of building our own custom metaballs inside Geometry Nodes
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HARRY BLENDS
harry blends - YouTube - VERY GOOD - SEE ALL - About Blender in general, and especially Geometry Nodes. Analysis of the new nodes in recent versions
An animated guide to the Random Value geometry node in Blender
A guide to attributes & fields - blender geometry nodes
Node shortcuts & the geometry node editor
Simulate Your Grease Pencil with Geometry Nodes
Actually animate with geometry nodes
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ILIR BEQIRI
Creative Coding - Torus Knot + Text Animation With Geometry Nodes - YouTube
Torus Knot + Text Animation - Scene $3 (MINE)
Creative Coding - Motion Graphics With Geometry Nodes - YouTube
Creative Coding - Motion Design With Geometry Nodes - Scene $3 (MINE)
Numeric Attribute Visualizer in Geometry Nodes - Scene $5 (MINE)
How To Trim Cyclic Splines In Blender Geometry Nodes (DOWNLOADED, gratis) WONDERFUL: Animating closed splines
How To Render Curves And Edges As Grease Pencil Strokes - Geometry Nodes - YouTube (DOWNLOADED)
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SEANTERELLE
Seanterelle - Blender animations - Finished scenes, ready to download and their respective tutorials on YT - GREAT
Loop Knit (Blender Tutorial) (weaving to create wool fabric - WONDERFUL, complex and powerful, based on a Houdini tutorial)
Loop Knit (finished scene, $10)
Delaunay Triangulation (Geometry Nodes Tutorial)
Delaunay Triangulation (finished scene, $10)
Inflated Text using Geometry Nodes Tutorial
Inflated Text (finished scene, $10)
Bubble Simulation (Blender Tutorial)
Bubble Simulation (finished scene, $10)
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ENTAGMA
GeometryNodes – Entagma (good, but complex)
Procedural Crystal Generator - With detailed geometry with internal crystal structures and then use a dispersion shader in Cycles
Interesting also for the Better Crystal Shader creation
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POLYFJORD
Making a Procedural Trail Simulation in Blender 4.4 - procedural trail effect using Geometry Nodes in Blender 4.4! We'll be animating an object using our mouse cursor and capturing the movement in real-time using auto-keying!
3D tracking will never be the same for me again… - How to use the tools to create a perfectly tracked 3D environment using your smartphone camera, but also shares links to the (free) tools he used, including a script he wrote, which you can download and use 100% free
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CHEUQS
Create Houdini Like Flowers in Blender Tutorial (cloth sim)
Make Blooming Roses in Blender Geo Nodes
Houdini Like Plant Growth in Blender Tutorial (Geo Nodes)
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Stray Creations - YouTube - Tutorials, tools & Projects
10 Geometry Nodes HACKS in Blender (+ free download) - YouTube (DOWNLOADED) - Projects: 10 Geometry Node HACKS - Project File
Cartesian Caramel - YouTube - About Geometry Nodes and also about Shader Nodes
Lego Set Assembly (Blender 3.5 Effect) - YouTube (DOWNLOADED tutorial & scene - TO DO)
Master Procedural Grass Creation - Blender 4.2 Tutorial - YouTube - Geometry Nodes - Could be nice as an exercise for my course. Much more realistic grass
Open Class - YouTube - About Blender in general, and especially Geometry Nodes, with 218 videos - Metaballs Facts
Create a Handy Circular Array Node with Blender Geometry Nodes (interesting to recreate it in the course. Maybe it can be updated)
quickly select any corner in a rectangle to round and keep it procedural - See the answers, which simplify the process. DO IT - And recreate in the course
Sanctus - Blender Procedural - YouTube (tutoriales en español)
Tips, design-patterns and strategies for clean and performant geometry-nodes setups, drawing inspiration from programming best practices (Twitter thread)
Using matrix Nodes x Blender 4.2 to create a blooming flower
Viscous Realm (has a lot of short videos, quite famous, check them out further)
Satisfying animation in blender - we will take advantage of the face normals (interesting to recreate it in the course)
Isometric room animation - Tutorial and link to download scene (interesting to recreate it in the course)
Check Out a "Disgustingly Satisfying" Blender-Made Jiggle Deformer - Interesting procedural setups, with screenshots of the nodes
Gizmos // Blender 4.3 Tutorial - How to create our own “better primitives” with the new gizmos and GN-Tools in Blender 4.3
Yesway Channel - Great and nice tutorial videos, not extremely complex, more “simple things”, but very well presented.
Make index node useful - How to make the Index Node actually useful in Blender Geometry Nodes! I’ll show you how to control scaling, create smooth animations, and reorder instances easily
Vector math is EASY when you SEE it with Blender and Geometry Nodes - What vectors are, why they’re so crucial, and how to use the most important vector math operations in a visual and intuitive way
Procedural Growing Neuron Fractal for Blender (tutorial) - Free // Node - 2 EUR
Make tracks around objects in seconds - With the use of the convex hull feature its easy to make tracks follow a wheel set
Geometry Nodes for profesional Jewelry design - 22m32s Tutorial
Brute force approach to fine jewelry design — Blender Conference 2024
Create, save and reuse our Custom Nodes
Blender Secrets - Using Node Groups with the Asset Browser - YouTube
How To Use Asset Library & Custom Group in Blender Tutorial - YouTube
How to Make a Geometry Node Asset Library - Blender 3.6 - YouTube
You CAN put Geometry Nodes into the Asset Browser - YouTube
Make your own custom modifiers and tools in Blender 4.0! - YouTube
WEAK… Meh…
Every Node in Blender Geometry Nodes | Geometry pt.1 - YouTube (DOWNLOADED - Somewhat incomplete, scattered)
Every Node in Geometry Nodes pt.2 | Blender 3.5 - YouTube (DOWNLOADED - Somewhat incomplete, scattered)
EVERY Node in Geometry Nodes pt.3 | Blender 3.6 - YouTube (DOWNLOADED - Somewhat incomplete, scattered)
CURSO de GEOMETRY NODES en Blender - Introducción a Geometry Nodes - YouTube (español, hecho… flojito)
I wish I knew this before using Geometry Nodes (Blender) - YouTube (DOWNLOADED - Poor)
Specifically about Math Node
Math Node - Blender 4.1 Manual - All Math nodes explained
Every Blender Math Node Explained: Greater Than - YouTube
Every Blender Math Node Explained - Modulo - YouTube
Every Blender Math Node Explained - Ping Pong - YouTube
Every Blender Math Node Explained - Dot Product - YouTube
Visualization for each mode of math node with set position node (Geometrh nodes, Blender) - YouTube (TO DO)
(check comments, they may explain other procedures)
TRAINING - SHADING, LIGHTS & RENDER [TOP]
Alex Pearce - YouTube - Good tutorials, ie: How to create and access custom Node Groups in all your Blender Projects!
BLENDER BEGINNINGS Episodio 3: Diseño - Pestañas de propiedades - HERE explains what to use the TEXTURES tab for (it is currently very little used, as mentioned HERE)
Blender Insight - To learn about materials, patterns and shaders - By Joakim Tornhill, creator of PatternMaker - (kind of mini Designer)
Cartesian Caramel - About Geometry Nodes and also about Shader Nodes
Complete Guide of Hand Painting Game Assets in Blender with Ucupaint
Cycles is better than you think... by Turpal Alex Saytiev — Blender Conference 2024 <<< Watch it ASAP
Free Mini-course on Color Grading With Render Raw - Course Free - Render Raw - Color Correction & Effect - Add-On $25
How I Made a 2D-Looking Cat Animation Scene in Blender!
How Ian Hubert Hacked VFX (and you can too!)
How To Combine Normal Maps Correctly (Adding Texture Detail, Blender Tutorial)
How to make next-level procedural materials in Blender
I wish I knew this before using Image Textures (Blender) (DOWNLOADED, poor, too long for the little it explains… already seen)
Procedural Shading: Fundamentals and Beyond
Procedural Dynamic Paint - Tutorial and showcasing the new features and improvements introduced in Procedural Dynamic Paint v2.1 for GN
Remake BLOOM menu in Blender 4.2
This Blender Shader is the Secret to Magical 3D Art - Extremely good to have a good understanding of the whole Shader Node Tree
Using Blender like Substance Designer
Creating a sparking constellations with shader nodes - 20 min video tutorial by Celestial Maze
Blender hair full walkthrough - LIST WITH 5 VIDEOS - Includes link to free Gumroad project files
01 - Mesh preparation and guide curves
02 - Initial interpolation and clumps for the bangs
03 - Pony tail and hair band trick
BLENDER - DAVINCI RESOLVE
Blender to Resolve: a Freemium Video Course
According to Roberto, these two guys are better for Resolve:
TRAINING - SCULPTING [TOP]
Sculpt a Realistic Head in Blender
TRAINING - RIGGING [TOP]
Amazingly EASY Way To Rig Characters in Blender 4.1 - YouTube (a “complete course” on rigging in just a few minutes) - DOWNLOADED
Completely Rigging A Character (5 MINUTES!) - DOWNLOADED
Let's Learn Blender!: Character Rigging 101 (Armatures, Bones, & IK) - DOWNLOADED
Rigging isn't Scary - This is a good walkthrough of rigging in Blender from easier to more advanced and its free - FULL LIST
Hardsurface rigging - Several very interesting tutorials on hard-surface rigs. Some with links to UNRIGGED scenes to download and practice.
Kryonic Art - Scenes with rigging examples, ready to use and above all to learn (DOWNLOADED)
How can you use bones to animate buttons on 3D models - Short video on Instagram, can be very useful
Animate Wings The Easy Way - how to create a simple wing rig which is easily controlled with just ONE master controller
RELATED (and answer with tip to fix rotation problem): The reason why the bone rotates when you map it to the scale is radians, so 1 = 57°, pi = 180° etc.
Beginners Guide to Rigging - 6 part tutorial series by Dikko
I animated the PIXAR Lamp - A Blender rigging tutorial - How to rig the Pixar Lamp with a few IK rigs in Blender - An exercise for understanding mechanical rigging
TRAINING - GREASE PENCIL [TOP]
Blender 2D Animation Basics for Beginners - Grease pencil guide
Create Procedural Animation using Grease Pencil Nodes - Use geometry nodes and Grease Pencil to create a procedural looping arcs animation
TRAINING - UV [TOP]
Christopher 3D
Create metallic toothpaste packaging, Part 1: Modeling and UV mapping - YouTube
PART 4. UV map the seat cushion of a mid-century modern chair. - YouTube
Mirror UVs Quick Tip - YouTube
Shampoo Bottle Part 3, UV mapping, texturing, lighting, & rendering - YouTube
Blender Packaging Tutorial: 2 Label UV Mapping - YouTube
Dieline to 3D, part 2. UV unwrapping and initial folding tutorial - YouTube
Blender's "Follow Active Quads" UV Mapping Feature - YouTube
TRAINING - SCRIPTING - PYTHON [TOP]
Not specifically Blender - Maybe I could merge all the general Python info I have for Modo here?
Scripting for Artists - Blender Studio
CG Python Academy - 3D artists learning Blender Python.
Blender Python - Scripting Series - YouTube - Darkfall, “Learn Blender Python for Beginners”
Blender Python Tutorial : Shortcut / Custom Keymap [learn python for beginners] - YouTube
Add-on Tutorial - Blender 4.1 Manual (including a “Your First Add-on” section)
GitHub - Pullusb/How_to_install_Blender_addons: How to install Blender addons - the complete guide
Creative Coding in Blender 2.92: A Primer | by Jeremy Behreandt | Medium
Lidia Martinez - Matemáticas para programadores
A suite of concise explanations and examples covering vectors, rotors, and other things in 3D
How to Derive the Equations of 3D Surfaces of Arbitrary Complexity and Model Them in Blender - Covers first the math approach, and then how to implement in Blender
How I animate 3Blue1Brown | A Manim demo with Ben Sparks - YouTube (see links to Manim Python app below video)
Vectors & Dot Product • Math for Game Devs [Part 1] - Extensive video by Freya Holmér (3h 16m)
INFO - MODO TO BLENDER [TOP]
Modo to Blender modeling questions - Support / Modeling - Blender Artists Community
C4D + Modo -> Blender - Basic Dummy Questions - Support / Other Software - Blender Artists Community