Reply To: How you got into cg
That’s awesome! The moment that you get your cg spark is always a great memory.
For me, it happened about a year ago when I got a summer internship at an architectural company. Initially, I was mainly in charge of picking photos for their social media page and taking out the trash. But after a week or two one of the employees gave me blueprints for a pavilion and a link to Jacob Lewis’s blender tutorials for absolute beginners. You can take a guess at which one of the photos below was my first project. My adviser didn’t care how bad it was because he knew that I was just starting out. But I was enamored with this magical software, that could make seemingly anything and everything in the most beautiful ways. Blender could even do fluid simulations! That blew my mind. It seemed like a giant toy box, where the only limit was how much you knew about the software. By the end of the summer I had watched so many tutorials that my models had improved significantly. Now that I’m on my second year of the internship, I finally bought a cgcookie membership (a longtime dream) and am looking forward to working my way to the top no matter how long it takes, if only to create my own sense of awe every time I look at the power of this awesome software. I’m going into my senior year of high school now, and I’m looking to follow a major that focuses on 3D modeling, like digital engineering or digital arts and sciences.
