I’ve been fooling around with Blender for years and it is exciting to see this 3D and animation software grow and improve. There is a huge, highly involved user community. As of February 2012, Blender was at version 2.62 and it keeps adding more and more quality features.
Blender Resources
Blender, The Official Site
BlenderCookie.com, tutorials
BlenderGuru, tutorials
BlenderNerd, tutorials
BlenderArtists, Blender community
Blender VSE,Blender Video Sequence Editor
Blender Tutorials
Dynamic Paint tutorial by Miika Hämäläinen
Animation Studios using Blender
Gecko Animation, They have an amazing demo reel.
Ponder Studios, Check out the YouTube channel.
Blender News
Blender Developers, The Rock Stars of the Blender Community
There are many, many developers who have contributed to the creation of Blender. In my Blender explorations I have come across a few that I would like to recognise here. I hope to give credit to more as I find them on the Internet. I love you guys and all the work you do. Thanks.
Ton Roosendaal, Creator and Founder
Brecht van Lommel, Cycles Renderer
Matt Ebb, Wrote the Blender/3delight exporter
Miika Hämäläinen, Dynamic Paint and Smoke Simulation
Todd McIntosh, Ocean Simulation
i’ve tried to use blender too. weird.
Yeah, it does not have a very intuitive user interface. It took me many tries to just learn the basics.