Resources around Blender.

Are you new to Blender? Or you just want to discover new channels, discord communities or sites? This article is made for you, I will try to gather here an agglomeration of links that I consider useful. This page will be updated (I hope) in the future as I discover new things. Feel free to add new links in the comments section below.

The main

Official website :

• Blender.org : Official website.
• The Official doc, and the Python API.
• The Wiki.
• Blender Cloud : Monthly subscription allowing access to training and source files.

Forums :

• blender.stackexchange.com Stack exchange dedicated to blender. Support forum.
• Blender artist Most famous blender forum.
• Blender.community Grouping of sub-forums from different languages and backgrounds.
• devtalk.blender.org Discussion about blender development or its modules.
• developper.blender.org a forum for planning development, or reporting bugs. This space is not used for debates/discussions.

Blog :

• blender.org press Informs about the news around blender.
• code.blender.org software updates, roadmap.
• BlenderNation Community blog (main news blog about blender)
• Blender Cookie Site of trainings for blender.

Other networks :

• Youtube : Blender , Developpers, Cloud, Studio
• Twitter : Blender, Cloud, Conférence,
• Reddit
• Facebook
• Instagram

List of lists

Others before me have already made lists, and much better sorted / exhaustive than me if you really want a lot of content, I can only recommend you to go take a look at these lists.

• Blender Bible : A very long list of tutorials classified by theme.
• Ressources from Creativeshrimp : How can we not mention Gleb Alexandrov's list? You will find software, blogs, forums, sites, etc. The list is a bit old for some links.
• Blender-addons : A list of blender addons.
• There is also this topic which references a lot of interesting links.

Discords

Here I will reference several discords without necessarily being related to blender. Discord has a lot of communities and the possibility of chat or voice, or simply sharing images/files easily make its use very satisfying.

• Blender Discord : (renamed OpenVFX) Biggest discord around Blender, lot of help.
• Blender-Discord : Blender Community, made from sheepit.
• Blender Discord : (they have no originality in their names) Contests, wip presentation, and mutual help.
• BNPR : Non Photorealistic Renders.
• CG Art Café : A blender community originaly from blender cookie.
• 3D Modeling Server : Multisoftware (after all, polygons are polygons).
• Sketchfab : Officiel discord of Sketchfab .
• MDC) et anglaise): Motion designer community.
• 3D Scanning : Best community about photogrammetry.
• Unreal Slackers : Unreal engine community.
• Armory3D : Discord about Armory3D and ArmoryPaint.
• ArtLounge : Community driven 3D modeling/rendering
• The Library : List lot of others discord
• Lighting & Rendering : Multiple software discord
• Poly Haven : Discord from Hdri, Textures et 3Dmodels Haven.
• Multi-user : To participate in collaborative modeling of multi user addon.
• Pidgeon Lab : Creator of the addon Super open image denoiser and super fast render. (EN)
• 80 Level : Discord of 80.lv. (EN)
• Prismatica : Gamdev community from Prismatica channel.
• erindale.xyz : Community of Erindale.
• Curtis Holt : Community of Curtis Holt.
• Captain Dissilusion : go see his channel if you don't know.