25 Tutorials To Get You Started With Blender

If you are an aspiring Graphic designer you should be already familiar with blender by now, but if you are thinking about being a game developer or a graphic designer you should know that Blender is not only the best free and open source choice but also rivals all commercial 3d applications out there. You can look at two very detailed comparison here and here. Blender is the only free 3d application compared against the heavyweight industry favorites like 3d max (which costs around $5000+) and the only second application to support all three major operating system.

Why Blender?

* Its free. Better than paying $5000 for a software.
* It rivals commercial software both in functions and features.
* Small installation footprint of 9mb. AutoCAD needs 2GB.
* Large community support with last version generating 800,000+ downloads.
* Intuitive user interface.
* Python scripting API for game logic.
* Third party free plug-in, textures, renderers and scripts available.

In simple words, and with all due respect to GIMP, Blender is closer to commercial products in terms of performance and features than GIMP is to Photoshop.

Hopefully these beginners tutorials of Blender will start your journey towards becoming the next rockstar graphic designer.

http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2009/02/19/25-tutorials-to-get-you-started-with-blender/

50 Tutorials To Get You Started With Gimp

Gimp has been famously known as the “poor man’s Photoshop”, and perhaps rightfully so. That’s a complement Gimp won’t mind taking. While it would be an unfair comparison to make between Gimp and Photoshop, Gimp can easily meet needs of most amateur image editors out there and then some. Since its release in 1995 Gimp has come a long way in to being the most powerful image editing tool freely available out there. With these tutorials we hope to vanish some of the doubts you might have had about Gimp’s ability as a powerful image editor.

http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2009/02/09/50-tutorials-to-get-you-started-with-gimp/