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Introduction

Installing Blender

The Interface: Interface Concepts; Keyboard and Mouse; Window System; Window Types; Screens (Workspace Layouts); Scenes; Configuration; Contexts; Menus; Panels; Buttons and Controls

Your First Animation: Your First Animation in 30 + 30 Minutes Part I; Your First Animation in 30 + 30 Minutes Part II

The Vital Functions: File Open/Save, Quick Render, Default UI; User Preferences; Undo and Redo; Blender's Library and Data System; Help Me! Help Me!

Interaction in 3D

Introduction
Navigating in 3D Space: Introduction; Using the 3D View; 3D View Options; Camera View; Layers; Local or Global View

Manipulation in 3D Space: Introduction; Hotkeys; Manipulators; Manual/Gestures; Axis Locking; Pivot Points; Proportional Edit; Transform Orientations; Transform Properties

Scene Management

Working with Scenes

The Outliner Window

Appending and Linking

Modelling

Introduction
Objects: Objects; Selecting in Object Mode; Editing Objects; Groups and Parenting; Duplication; Tracking
Meshes: Meshes; Mesh Structures; Mesh Primitives; Mesh Smoothing; Selecting Meshes; Basic Mesh Tools; Advanced Mesh Tools; Edge and Face Tools; Snap to Mesh; Vertex Groups; Weight Paint; Subdivision Surfaces; Multi Resolution Mesh; SculptMode; Retopo

Curves: Curves; Editing Curves; Curves Deform
Surfaces: Surfaces; Editing Surfaces; Surfaces Skinning
Text: Editing Text
Meta Objects: Meta Objects; Editing Meta Objects
Duplication: Duplicate at Vertices (Dupliverts); Duplicate for each Frame (Dupliframes)
Scripts: Modelling Scripts

Modifiers & Deformation

Particle Instance

Lighting

Introduction
Lamp Types: Lamp Types and Common Options; Lamp; Spot Lamp; Area Lamp; Hemi Lamp; Sun Lamp
Lighting Rigs: Lighting Rigs

Shadows and Halos: Raytraced Shadows; Buffer Shadows; Volumetric Halos
Radiosity: Introduction; Radiosity Rendering; Radiosity Baking

(see also Materials->Ambient Light)

(see also Worlds->Ambient Occlusion)

Materials

Using Materials

Material Preview

Diffuse Shaders

Specular Shaders

Material Options

Raytraced Reflections

Raytraced Transparency

Multiple Materials

Window-Node Editor

General-Using Nodes

Material Node Types

Subsurface Scattering (SSS)

Textures

Texture Channels

Bump and Normal Maps

Displacement Maps

Texture Options: Texture Options; Procedural Textures; Image Textures; Animated Image Textures; Environment Maps; Texture Plugins

UV Unwrapping & Texturing

Using Vertex Paint

UV Unwrapping Explained

Unwrapping a Mesh

Editing the UV Layout

Using Images as UV Textures

Using Texture Paint

Worlds & Backgrounds

World Background

Ambient Occlusion

Animation Basics

Introduction
General Principles and Tools: Ipo Types; Creating Ipo Keyframes; Editing Ipo Curves and Keyframes; The Timeline - The Timeline Window

Animation by Moving Objects Around: Following a Path; Changing Object Layers

Animation by Basic Deformation: Available Deformations; Shape Keys; Absolute Shape Keys; Deforming by a Lattice
Other Resources: Reference: Editing Ipos; BSOD: Constraints and Axis Locks; Hook Modifier to animate mesh deformation

Character Animation & Armatures

Armature Objects

Editing Armatures

Posing Armatures

Inverse Kinematics

Mesh Skin Weighting

The Action Editor

Non Linear Animation

Constraints

Constraint Stack

Rigid Body Joint

Advanced Animation

Python Ipo Drivers

Effects & Physical Simulation

Static Particles (Hair and Fur)

Force Fields & Deflection

Rendering

Output Panel Options

Oversampling (Antialiasing)

Rendering Options

Rendering Animations

Using Render Layers

The Render Passes

Perspective (Architectural) Rendering

Preparing Your Work for Video

Rendering From Command Line

Tips to Speed Up Rendering and Avoid / Work-Around Render Crash

Compositing

Introduction; Compositing Node Editor Window; General-Using Compositing Nodes; Using Nodes for Composition
Compositing Nodes: Compositing Nodes; Input Nodes; Output Nodes; Color Nodes; Vector Nodes; Filter Nodes; Convertor Nodes; Matte Nodes; Distortion Nodes

Common composition node setups: Using Vector Blur; Using Nodes to Blur Your Background; Using Nodes to Simulate Depth of Field (DOF); Using Nodes to Enhance Photographs

Video Sequence Editing

Video Sequence Screen Layout

VSE Preview Modes

Using the Video Sequence Editor

Using Built-in Effects

Using Plugin Effects

Common Tasks and Workflow: Working with Blender for Video Editing; Organizing your Video Files; Examples of Video Editing
Audio Support: Audio Sequences

Extending Blender

Bundled Scripts

Python Scripting

Blender's Plugins System

Other Resources: Catalog of all Scripts

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