There are many excellent resources available on the Web to provide you with additional information on almost any Blender subject you can think of. The following is not an exhaustive list, but hopes to give you some good starting points. A general word of advice might be appropriate here, especially for novices: use the Internet to your advantage and do some research before you ask questions on forums. Blender users (and developers) are quite a friendly and helpful bunch but on many forums, simple questions remain unanswered because people feel that the answers can simply be found on the Web or by searching in the forum archives itself and do not warrant the time to answer them. This may be disappointing sometimes, but many of these disappointments may be prevented by some research in advance.
Blender's home page is an important source of information and the following pages should be considered a must read:
- www.blender.org: The home page with news on Blender developments.
- wiki.blender.org: The wiki that contains the manual, tutorials, and links to resources.
Some general Blender-related forums are worth noticing as they attract the attention of a large part of the Blender community:
- www.blenderartists.org: It hosts a number of forums. Of special relevance to readers of this book, is the forum on Python and Plug-ins where both novices and experienced Blender hackers will find a helpful crowd to assist with scripting-related issues. The author of this book can be found here as well, under his "varkenvarken" nickname.
- www.blendernation.com: This site tries to be the central hub of all Blender-related news and succeeds quite well at it. Its RSS feed is a useful addition to your browser navigation bar to stay up-to-date.