Learning About Blender

Tutorials

• Blender 3D: Noob to Pro Tutorial

• An Engineers Guide to Blender -- Also as "Precision Modelling PDF Guide"

• Precision modelling for architecture with Blender

• Free Online Book On Blender: Solid 3D Rendering/Animation Lessons

My Work

• STL beveled cube output

Notes

• Blender 2.41 seems to be the last Mac OS X 1.2.8 compatible binary release -- (Even though it says 10.3—actually, maybe not, it seems to die on render.)

• Issues with Defocus node in compositor due to spewing lots of progress updates into system logs (short term solution render in background): CMP_defocus.c, G_Global_Variable, creator.c, render.py -- Starts a background Blender Render from Script

• Generate H264 with QuickTime and avoid a white screen and only sound (disable flags:loop ):

I found the solution: when you choose the H264 option from "Preset" AVI and 
a couple of other options are offered. If you then change to Quicktime 
(under "Format") those other AVI options remain in the menu - the don't 
appear if you select H264 from the "Format" menu directly... Under those 
other AVI options there is one (flags:loop) that causes the problem, 
disabling solves it.

Video editing with Blender

• Video editing with Blender -- introductory tutorial with lots of screenshots

• Video overlays / composite in Blender

• Video as cube face texture in Blender