Other Resources

The Blender community is full of help. Here's a list of some great learning and other resources:

Tutorials:

BlenderCookie - probably the largest collection of video tutorials available

BlenderLinks - a list of links to various Blender 2.5 tutorials

Blender Guru - Great collection of neat tutorials

blender nerd - good selection of tutorials

itchy animation's Lighting Tutorials - a very thorough set of lighting tutorials

cgshark - a smaller website, but still some high quality tutorials

BlenderArtists Forums - a huge active forum for all newbies :)

Forever Blender - cool site with written documentation

Textures:

CGTextures - huge library of image textures. Free account gets you a 15MB quota.

Texture Warehouse - another source for image textures