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Blender resources and links

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These resources are strictly for blender, other art based and niche resources will be in different articles.

Links

  Best of the best Blender websites.

Free

Blender:  The obvious place to go.

Blender Manual:  Duh. . . 

Blender Guru:  Run by; Andrew Price is the go to place for blender.  His tutorials are amazing and easy to follow, his videos are clean and well done.  Hes also the creator of the well known doughnut tutorial.

CG Cookie:  CG Cookie is a great place for both free and paid content.  They have an easy to follow beginners guide (free) and all the other tutorials you'll ever need.  They have live streams, blogs and communities on there site.
 
Blender Artists:  This is your mega community, it has everything you need from news, portfolios, support, contests and jobs.
 
Blender Nation:  Blender nation is a good place for relevant tutorials, art and development.

Hot Keys:   Blender is hard to use at first.  Hotkeys are NESSASARY, for a fast pace work flow and quality of life.

CocoFur:   Courses, tuts, models, textures, etc. . . They got it (I think, honestly haven't really dug into there sight yet.)

Paid

Blender Cloud:  Blender cloud Blenders official subscription.  This will give you access to ~1500 textures as well as fully rigged and production ready characters, HDRI's, services, training and more!
 
PluralSight:  This website provides very professional and outlined tutorials for all your artistic needs.  They offer a 10 day free trial.
 


You tubers

My best and most used YouTube channels for blender.

Blender Guru:  Not only does he have a website, but also a very help full YouTube channel :)

Blender:  Blenders official YouTube channel, just follow it. . .

 CG Cookie:  These people cover anything and everything Blender, there tutorials are very well done andy easy to follow.

 Blender Developers:  Pretty similar to CG Cookie, but a little bit more technical and news based.

 CG Geek:  Another reliable source.

 CG Boost:  Another reliable source.

Midge Sinnaeve:  This guy is ridiculous. . . Dose a lot of modifier based art work and makes you rethink how you can use blender, check him out!

Mandala Motion:   Great Daily Blender quick tips!

Gleb Alexandrov (Creative Shrimp):  Great quick tips and lighting videos.

 YanSculpts:  Stylized character sculpting

 Danny Mac 3d:  Multi software character artist

Derek Elliott:  Materials and product design.

Jayanam:  Blender techniques and basic modeling.

Olav3D Tutorials:  Easy physics based channel.


Discords

If you have discord, run to these now, if not install Discord. (Install)

Blender:  Outstanding community for anything Blender.

 3d Modeling:  Great community for 3d modelers.

Flipped Normals:   Best art discord around.
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