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Quick tutorials on how to use the completely free computer graphics editing software Blender.

Both entertaining and informative, targeted at somewhat experienced blender users, but since they are also entertaining, anyone can watch them.

CG Matters other channel.

More fast and entertaining Blender tutorials.

A channel about investing where they look at studies in an attempt to better understand how the average person should invest if they want to maximize their gains.

Also runs a podcast called the rational reminder.

General sciency entertainment.

Fun and informative.

History and technical background on movie production and special effects.

Debunks fake videos.

The back to the future special is really good.

Has a Bill Nye the science guy vibe.

General science, history and other intellectual stuff. High quality content.

A doctor who talks about issues faced in the medical field among other things. Great stuff.

Random tutorials on programming. A lot of stuff in pything. Stuff on machine learning, sentiment analysis, computer vision etc.

This dude is crazy, and he makes a lot of outlandish claims, but he also does drop some real information.

I now know how to make high explosives because of him... Thanks! I am probably on a list now.

Extra Credits is a great channel for getting ideas about ‘game design’. Not from a technical perspective, but from a design perspective. They ask questions about why games make the choices they do, and talk about the ramifications of those choices. A lot of this applies to things beyond games.

They also do Extra Credits History which is interesting as well.

Sciency entertainment

Dude worked for blizzard for a while. Great artist, has a series for teaching drawing. If you want to learn how to draw using photoshop and a drawing tablet, this is probably the guy you want to follow. Though I would say you don’t want his videos, you want his classes on gumroad.

Does a lot of tutorials on how to do certain video editing tricks using Adobe After Effects.

Cool. Very cool if you are into video editing.

Teaches you how to use Resolve, a free video editing software.

Teaches how to use FL studio for music production. FL studio is not ‘free’, but it is worth the price of entry. I use it on every project where I need to alter sound.

A little complicated to learn though. This guy helps reduce that difficulty a bit.

History, politics. Attempts to be unbiased. Dad jokes.

Fun and informative about different ‘crafty’ processes for fabrication.

I love games, but I would be into more real world game theories. Here is hoping he does more of those.

Combining my love of video games and my love of hacking together technology. Very funny on top of everything else.

An interesting dude. A Canadian Journalist. Long form videos and very much opinion based, but seems pretty knowledgeable.

VIsualizations of general relativity among other things. Does a good job of explaining the subject. Best I have seen anyways.