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I hadn't noticed these before - but for those of you who want some blender tutorials try these.

Saves me having to do them!

Getting Started with Blender

Modelling, Materials, Lights

Plus more on the left menu on these pages...

I'm off to check them out now... yippee!

Ya those are good ones.
And there is lots of support if you guys need help too.
Ha. I heard someone say Blender doesn't make stuff that looks very good.
This is still not the best Blender can do! ( I still consider myself a novice.)

I just watched the one on UV mapping - hey there's a whole new way of doing this - with edges and pinning and a bunch of stuff I'm going to have to learn - plus a script that exports your map guide as a targa! Saves me having to do a screen capture... ah blender, the ever improving ever evolving free 3D.

Ya , I never understood UV mapping until I worked through that tut. There is another one on editing together movie sequences that blew me away too.(now I can't find it )
Then I discovered one on raytracing(!), and , and, and....
Its amazing that so much can fit into such a small program!

I used the Sequence editor in blender to edit the Initiation trailer - which was pretty cool to layer up those flying titles as a scene (non rendering) creating mattes for the various transitions as well as dissolves, and finally adding sound.

Hate to try and do anything beyond 40 seconds with sound, as you have to preload that once by pressing play - and on my P4 with 256 MB Ram it took a while.

Hey! I didn't find how to add sound....
Which pane has the controls???

And you can do rough mixing... you add the sound file in the sequence window (I think, I'll have to check later... at the desktop machine at home)

Oh.
It's probably that line in the 'ADD' menu that says 'Audio'......
(the tut in the documentation is pre-2.3)