Sure!
Earliest example of me related to Blender would be when I saw a few demo reels on youtube in the summer of 2018. I’m not sure which video exactly was the one that hooked me up, but I do remember it was something about some buildings getting destroyed. After the summer of 2018., I basically had to put the whole idea of me doing anything with Blender on a backburner, since back then I didn’t have a PC. As I mentioned in my initial comment, I got my
first PC in the summer of 2019. and that’s when I actually started doing stuff. As much as I remember the first two things I ever did were two simple physics sims in Blender. Due to me being stupid and reformatting the wrong disk in 2021., I lost most of my early Blender stuff, including those two animations and a few of my early renders from 2021.
Here’s one of my earliest renders I still have (this one is from July 2021.)
Back to 2020., the big lock down happened, which suddenly gave me boatloads of free time. During the summer of 2020. was the time when I experimented the most with Blender, and which solidified my choice of wanting to continue to do 3D art as a hobby. The rest of 2020. and 2021. was quiet, the lock down was raised and I was busy again (high school), so I didn’t do very much till the summer of 2021. when I found the 3D Pokemon community from a Youtube vid made by the owner of the community. There I met loads of new people (that server was the first ever public discord server I entered), which helped me to stay inspired and determined to the craft. From there on I built my own PC, tried going out of my comfort zone with every render (eg. complex backgrounds, more expressive/complex character posing, etc.), got into uni, built a homelab server, which at the end got me here. I’d say I’m pretty happy of what I can show, but I think there’s always a place for more improvement.
For anyone new starting I’d recommend looking up tutorials, specially Blender Guru’s donut tutorial. I really think it’s the best and simplest way for a beginner to understand Blender. His tutorials really go deep and are really well made. Still, there’s a fair warning to be made - don’t just watch the video and recreate what the guy in the vid is doing, use the tutorial as a building grounds for your own project - give it a your own spin on the matter of the tutorial.
Yea, I’ve been doing renders way before genAI became generally available
Can you please narrate how you started ?
I shall be needing your help in my learning journey.
Sure! Earliest example of me related to Blender would be when I saw a few demo reels on youtube in the summer of 2018. I’m not sure which video exactly was the one that hooked me up, but I do remember it was something about some buildings getting destroyed. After the summer of 2018., I basically had to put the whole idea of me doing anything with Blender on a backburner, since back then I didn’t have a PC. As I mentioned in my initial comment, I got my first PC in the summer of 2019. and that’s when I actually started doing stuff. As much as I remember the first two things I ever did were two simple physics sims in Blender. Due to me being stupid and reformatting the wrong disk in 2021., I lost most of my early Blender stuff, including those two animations and a few of my early renders from 2021. Here’s one of my earliest renders I still have (this one is from July 2021.)
Back to 2020., the big lock down happened, which suddenly gave me boatloads of free time. During the summer of 2020. was the time when I experimented the most with Blender, and which solidified my choice of wanting to continue to do 3D art as a hobby. The rest of 2020. and 2021. was quiet, the lock down was raised and I was busy again (high school), so I didn’t do very much till the summer of 2021. when I found the 3D Pokemon community from a Youtube vid made by the owner of the community. There I met loads of new people (that server was the first ever public discord server I entered), which helped me to stay inspired and determined to the craft. From there on I built my own PC, tried going out of my comfort zone with every render (eg. complex backgrounds, more expressive/complex character posing, etc.), got into uni, built a homelab server, which at the end got me here. I’d say I’m pretty happy of what I can show, but I think there’s always a place for more improvement.
For anyone new starting I’d recommend looking up tutorials, specially Blender Guru’s donut tutorial. I really think it’s the best and simplest way for a beginner to understand Blender. His tutorials really go deep and are really well made. Still, there’s a fair warning to be made - don’t just watch the video and recreate what the guy in the vid is doing, use the tutorial as a building grounds for your own project - give it a your own spin on the matter of the tutorial.
Also, sorry for a late reply, long day.
So, you built your own PC ? You can build computers as well ?