Looking for new Blender tutorials

Fengol

Since I last looked at Blender a couple of years ago it's changed quite a bit but the tutorials I'm finding are for the old on.

Does anyone has some good tutorials for the new setup of Blender, including UV mapping and some simple animation?

Alternatively can anyone recommend a modeling package for building simple scenery?

edg3

May I recommend XSI Mod Tool?

dawate on MSDN made a series of videos "Guitar Matey" which is a fantastic start-to-finish on building, texturing, and animating a model using XSI mod tool.

Merrik

This was my main resource when I was learning blender.
http://cgcookie.com/blender/

Some of the tutorials require a subscription, but there are plenty of awesome free ones.

[edit] There are also some great Unity tutorials.
http://cgcookie.com/

Fengol

You know what I'm thinking; since we have some good artists in the community now, we should run a day workshop for modelling, UV mapping and a little animating. Nothing big mind you but surely we can get some papercraft models going? Are any artists keen to run this kind of thing in 2013?

Fengol

I'm learning to model!



Thanks for the CGCookie link, some of the videos were useful particularly Tip: Using the Knife Modeling Tool in Blender and Shoe Modeling in Blender – Part 01 because they show the keys they use and you can gleam some more functionality than the video's focus.

Otherwise I found this cheatsheet useful. It's for 2.5 but I haven't found a function I can't do yet (not that I'm using the full capacity of Blender).

Finally, thanks to @Gazza_N for showing me how to do UV modelling when he was last in SA. I couldn't remember the specifics but I found my way soon enough and I couldn't have done it without his help.

FYI, the modelling I'm doing is basic stuff to get Cute Thief going.

Tachyon

What piece are you building here? Is the bottom half supposed to be in shadow?

Fengol

It's a simple tower, they're gonna be land marks for the player to coordinate themselves around the city

Fengol

As I've been learning I've been keeping a Blender 2.6 Cheatsheet & Tips which I'm happy to share with anyone interested. It's far from complete can could probably do with a couple of pictures but I like the idea of a manual explaining things from a game developers perspective and requirements

Pomb

In an attempt to learn Blender I came across this site - http://www.blenderguru.com/ - which has a bunch of pretty looking pixels made in Blender.
I'm finding the manual more useful than any of the tutorials I've watched so far, apart from the rigify tutorials I've found on YouTube.