Decided to do another of these, since I'm behind on my posting.  Here we are: 1. I've gotten a request to do a tutorial on Jason the Jumper (if anyone remembers him)!  I won't get too technical, but here are some major points: a) Start out with some basic shapes. In this case, I started out with a subdivided cube.  b) Extruding is essential (using the E button in Blender).  I've heard from one of my books that the Extrude function is possibly the most useful tool in the whole of Blender. c) Make a rough version. The Subdivide Modifier is a great help with smoothing out a final version. For anyone interested, here's a more step-by-step version of how I made it (excluding the face).  It assumes you already know the basics of Blender; if this wasn't what you were looking for, there's a much more detailed walkthrough on a gingerbread man on Blender's wiki (the original page doesn't exist before, but it's on the Internet Archive). Here'

I've been in college for the last few months, so now I have a lot of catching up to do.  For now, though, I'll start with my relatively new video, Clash of the Jedi! Done with virtually no budget and an entire production team of two people, this was my most advanced project yet from After Effects.  I made the lightsabers by going to Effect --> Beam, although there are many more complicated ways to make them.  I got the fire effect from an excellent tutorial here , and the force jumps/knocking back were made by taking masks (in this case kind of like making selections) of the people and moving them.  I feel like this was my first "real" project, in the sense that it had music and multiple camera angles.  Hope to do more in the future!