Reply To: Are you new to CG Cookie? Say hi to your new Blender tribe! 🍪

[Lutz Floetenmeyer]

I’m not so very new to CGCookie but i hope it’s not too late to put a note down here. I’m 62 years old and fascinated by CG since i first got in contact with PC’s – that was 1989. Though the name “Computer graphics” was very basic this days. in 2011 an illness break through and i had to stop working. I earned money with teaching Guitar playing, singing and computer sciences. years later my dog ran into my knee and several injuries through me onto my couch. Bored as being bored can be i looked for flight simulators, found X-Plane and started to build air planes. I had to learn piloting ( indeed – the plane are so close to reality that one has to learn nearly everything a private pilot knows). And i met Blender! version 2.79. But it wasn’t love on the first view. But with 2.8 everything changed. Blender became fascinating, i did a lot to learn as much as i could, the youtube tutorials are very helpfull. Then Microsoft started the hype with it’s new simulator and with that they destroyed the simulator scene – how that? The Microsoft sim is a mess – 2,5 stars in reviews. But with the massive advertising before the release! the succeeded to convince so many customer to change to microsoft that other sims got in trouble. Because of the bad condition of the sim i decided to stop all plane developing.
Because of a genetic illness i can’t sleep most of my days and so i can work 10 -14 h a day with blender. I started to enter CGCookie because i got the feeling that i have to find structured teaching with this blender and so it is. CG Cookies is brillant the teachers as well. And believe i can say this: I once was a Certified Microsoft Trainer and earned my money with teaching and consulting for nearly three decades. But i have to admit: I have difficulties with following the lessons strictly. Why? Because i look around through the galleries, here on cgcookie, blender nation or where ever. and suddenly i discover a theme that fascinates me – a ship, a sword, or big themes like low poly – absolutely fascinating, from lovely cute to mathematicly strict (architecture). And so i wander through the lessons, picking a piece here, anther piece there, looking on youtube and so on. I know that it is not the best way but i love to feel inspired and working out this inspiration as well as i can – and becoming better by doing it once more – or once more. And that’s the point where i need others, audience, critics, to tell me whats good, what is not so good and what is even bad.