Blender is a free and open source 3D animation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline--modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. Blender is cross-platform and runs equally well on Linux, Windows and Macintosh computers.

Blender Animation is an open source, 3D animation tool designed to build visual effects for movies, games, printed models, or other simulation applications. It uses 3D modeling to create realistic effects across the entire 3D pipeline from modeling to rendering to video editing. It's a community project with input from hundreds of community members. It features production level camera and object tracking, a wide array of modeling tools (including full N-gon support), and a powerful built-in tracer engine (Cycles). It allows you to draw 2D directly in the program and contains high-level support for character animation

In this course you will learn to use nodes interms of adding shaders textures and many more.You will learn the basics of making photo realistic image textures,you will learn also a few texture tricks to speed up your animating process.You will also find a few tricks in the course to practice with and use in other parts of your animation journey .This course will be very good to people especially beginners as they will get new insight into the blender world as I have included some tips and tricks which will be useful within your learning period.This course will be free and try as much to get out all the information you need Hope you enjoy and learn and gain alot of experience form the course