Reply To: how many people have gone from Noob to Pro with CG cookie
I’ve started 3D by curiosity with Rhinoceros 3D on november 2011 and switched to learning blender on the very beginning of august 2012.
I’ve subscribed to CGcookie as soon as I’ve opened blender and also got some books from the foundation.
This is one of my very first descent render in blender afetr a month I believe at that time from an OLd Cookie tutorial.
I’ve started my freelance career in march 2014 and rapidly become a BlenderFoundation Certified trainer as I wanted to be part of CGCOOKIE. Unfortunately it was just before they change their team management to in house tutors but that was fine. I’ve learnt most of what I know as fundamentals on CGcookie and I always pushed my students to go here because I believe (And I’ve seen a lot of tutorial) this is definitively the best place to learn blender for beginners and average users.
And if I was to be considered as an expert, I always enjoy coming back and wathc new and old tutorial because you always learn something and The CGCOOKIE crew always try to cover the BEST technic to answer specifical artistic issues.
I now make 100% of my living with blender as the spine software to my job (I was an Adobe illustrator and photoshop specialist in printing production) and combine it with After effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Audition, a bit of Zbrush and very few Substance stuff.
(I’m now secretly in love with @theluthier and stalking the blendermarket team for Marketing magic XD )