Fantastic and Formative Fractal Tutorials

Throughout the years fractal art has seen great progressive strides, and because the fractal community has always had such a positive attitude of mentorship and collaboration, a lot of that progress has been documented in the form of step-by-step tutorials! Below is a collection of my favorites.

I realized as I was putting this together that it served as a sort of map for all the talented folks who have graced me with their wisdom and knowledge over the 16 years I've been on DeviantArt. So I'm adding those people below - hardly a complete list, but should mention most people. If you have a tutorial you would like added to this collection, or know of a resource or even a person that has shaped your work or contributed to the community over the years, feel free to Comment below!

A special thanks to all that have contributed to , especially the Fractal Art section!

Recently developed techniques currently being explored by the fractal community, much of which can be found in the Structured IFS Tutorial Collection by tatasz.
Filling GlynnSim3 by tatasz
Double Bubble Tut by piethein21
Double Bubble Advanced Tweaking by tatasz, buildling on piethein21's Double Bubble Tutorial
Hybrids tutorial by piethein21
10 Ways of Blurring a Bubble (flamepack, plastic) by piethein21
Multiple Loops Fractals by tatasz
Blurring Techniques - Part 1 by tatasz
Blurring Techniques - Part 2 by tatasz
Hypertile Basics by tatasz
Inverting Things with Spherical by tatasz
Hypershift by tatasz

Methods that influenced Recent Developments and are still in use due to their timeless look and incredible flexibility.

loonie tutorial by piethein21
Linked Xform Tutorial by piethein21
Apophysis 3D Blooms Tutorial by lindelokse, who thanks muzucya for an inspiring flame, Xyrus-02 and zy0rg for refinement and corrections, and OutsideFate, fractal2cry, ChaosFissure, Wi6791lly and FarDareisMai for beta-testing the tutorial.
Apophysis Blooms Tutorial by lindelokse, based on the Blob Spirals tutorial by Zueuk.
Foci and Unpolar Tutorial by pillemaster
Painting a Fractal, Part 1 by ChaosFissure
Painting a Fractal 2 by ChaosFissure
Tutorial - Splits elliptic by SaTaNiA in collaboration with Fiery-Fire
Circular Flame Tutorial or Unpolar+GlynnSim by pillemaster in collaboration with crux-ansata.
The Anti-Spiral Tutorial by FarDareisMai

Classics II - Apophysis and Chaotica:

Tutorial - Gnarls by SaTaNiA
SuperSmo Gnarl tutorial Apophysis by Epogh
EndlessFlameTutorial Apophysis by pillemaster
Tutorial: Understanding Crackle by pillemaster
Splits-Cylinder Tuto for Apo by Fiery-Fire, with credit to Meckie for the original technique
Apophysis - Linear Triangles by ChaosFissure
Splits-Ngon Tutorial by guagapunyaimel
Built-in Creativity: Apophysis Fractal Tutorial by guagapunyaimel
LazyJulian Apophysis Tutorial by lindelokse
Apo-Tuto Sphericals by Fiery-Fire
cpow-ring2 tutorial by guagapunyaimel
Apophysis Spherical-Disc Tut by heavenriver
Tutorial Portals Flames by SaTaNiA
Apo - Tiles_Tuto by Fiery-Fire
JWildfire Tutorials:

Simple Instructions to Tweaking JWildfire Fractals

Converting Apophysis Xaos to and from JWF
What does that button do?? Tutorial
Lazyjess and Julian
Polarizing
RecipTrees Tutorial

Tutorials by Andreas Maschke
Tutorials by Brad Stefanov
Tutorials by Martin Flink
Tutorials by Missy Gainer
Tutorials by Jane Spaulding
Tutorials by Robert Keen
Tutorials by Tracy Colello
Tutorials by Rick Sidwell
Tutorials by Julius Horsthuis
Mandelbulber User Manual
mandelbulber.com

aRTWORKbYgnbARNES For your numerous contributions over the years, including writings, tutorials, resources and art.

fraterchaos For being an excellent Mandelbulb3d mentor, introducing me to the program, numerous community contributions and tutorials throughout the years, and your art in Mandelbulb3d, Apophysis and Jwildfire to name a few.

dexploit For your detailed and thorough tutorials, resources, and community contributions over the years, as well as amazing projects and helping bring fractals to the fore in modern digital media.

Julius Horsthuis for your incredible work in the field, including sharing timeless art and animations with us, as well as resources and wisdom.

StephenSink For being a great leader in the Mandelbulb community and your many artistic and resource contributions.

phoenixkeyblack For your numerous contributions, including consolidating and consistently maintaining/hosting one of the Apophysis fractal community's most important resources, the Aposhack Plugin Pack

BoxTail For mentoring and teaching many in the community, including myself - thank you for the Double Flux lesson! - and consistently inspring us with stunning fractals and awesome Resources like gradients.

AmorinaAshton For your contributions over the years and being a part of the community.

MissyGainer For all your contributions throughout the years, being part of the community, and many tutorials and resources.

rsidwell For your many contributions over the years, including being part of the community, and offering tutorials and resources.

wolfepaw Thank you for your contributions and wonderful art throughout the years.

CopperScaleDragon For your amazing art, as well as JWildfire and Mandelbulb3d contributions and tutorials.

audiomonk For your awesome JWildfire art throughout the years.

MatthewHaggett For your excellent Mandelbulb3d and Mandelbulber contributions, art, and media over nearly a decade.

MarkJayBee For your contributions in numerous different types of art for over a decade, including Mandelbulb3d, Mandelbulber, Traditional Art, Photography and more.

ABlipinTime For your manny contributions and amazing art, as well as community participation since the days of old Aposhack.

RationalParadox For your amazing art, contributions, and community participation over nearly a decade.

Xantipa2 For your amazing art encompassing several different types of media, including Apopohysis, UltraFractal, Mandelbulb3d, mixed and digital media.

And many more, indluding these folks to be added as soon as I have a minute: