31 brilliant Blender tutorials

10. Animate text in Blender

This brilliant text effect Blender walk through comes from the team at tutor4U. The video demonstrates how to make an animation of vines growing to form a word and techniques that might be helpful when creating your own 3D typography. 

11. 17 top tips for modelling a complex 3D city scene

Creating a city scene is hard work, but these tips break the process down


Creating a detailed city scene is no small undertaking, and requires a significant amount of repetitive, and sometimes boring, modelling actions. Rather than just enumerating point by point what he's doing, in this 3D World tutorial Mateusz Wielgus breaks down his workflow into pieces and presents them as a series of general steps and tips that you can easily follow.

12. Create a morph between two shapes

Morphing an object from one shape to another smoothly is an impressive 3D trick to be able to pull off, and in this quick tutorial from Blender Nation you'll learn not one but two different techniques for creating an amazing shape-shifting effect.

13. Create a low-poly abstract scene

A low-poly look is an on-trend aesthetic to aim for, and this tutorial from Blender Skool will teach you everything you need to know about creating a striking low-poly abstract scene. To help you along it includes a finished .blend file to work with, and photo editing nodes.

14. Create a spaceship

In this two-part video-based Blender tutorial from Blender Guru, you'll learn how to model a concept spaceship; how to use your own sketches as reference; and how a combination of modifiers can aid you in modelling. The Blender Guru site also has concept sketches and the finished .blend file to help you get to grips with it. And you can find part two here.

15. Create a 3D cup of coffee

In this complete video project by Oliver Villar on Blend Tuts you'll learn some modelling tricks, and how to create simple and not so simple node materials in the Cycles render engine.

16. Create a realistic planet Earth

This tutorial uses several textures from NASA to create a realistic planet Earth using Blender Cycles. The tutorial from Blender Guru shows you how to create easy texture mapping for spheres; how to use maps to make more convincing materials; how to create a realistic sunflare entirely in Blender; and how to add glow, colour grading and a warp effect in the compositor.

17. Make a Minion

This video tutorial from Blender for Noobs is for intermediate Blender users, and covers the modelling process to create a simple version of a Minion character from the Despicable Me movies. After modelling the Minion, you'll see how to set up the camera, backdrop and lighting to finish off with a render.

18. Make realistic bread

In this easy-to-follow tutorial, discover how to make tasty-looking bread in Blender, using displacement, subsurf scattering and more.

19. Model a low-poly T-Rex

Create your own Jurassic Park with this easy to follow tutorial

Create your own Jurassic Park with this easy to follow tutorial


20. Animate a flame using materials

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Follow this technique to create an amazing flame animation


21. Create a Tron-inspired light cycle effect

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C'mon, who doesn't love a Tron light cycle?


22. Create an energetic fire and water scene


23. How to enhance a game level environment


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