Reply To: Ryan’s Progress

[Ryan Miller]

I’ve actually know about Blender since 2010 when I was scrolling through Youtube one night. I was really interested in learning more but life got in the way with a crappy job and a deployment to Afghanistan in the near future. After a crap deployment mostly leadership not backing me up and being treated like crap by active duty Army on the FOB I was assigned, I’m National Guard, I came back hating my MOS, unit, and most everyone around me so I decided to try my hand at blender again. I had built a beast of a rendering machine for the time AMD FX 8350 32GB RAM and 3 1080 Ti. All was going well at the time going to school for firefighting and working on learning Blender with Youtube tutorials when tragedy struck while coming home from drill I got into a car accident. I was fine but I lost my car and had to drop out of school as I couldn’t make it. I had to get a unreliable car and fall back on the skills I hated at the time to get a job. I lost all motivation to do anything and went into a deeper depression. Lucky for me I deployed again to Somalia where I meet the greatest group of people that actually noticed me and cared enough to do something about the problem and helped me back to reality. Now years later I’ve retired and was looking a hobby to occupy my time and here I am. I only found about CGCookie from watching one of your videos on Youtube and thought why not give a real go at it this time. If you are wondering I was a 25B IT Specialist and 25Q Multi Channel Transmission Systems Operator overseas I worked on the strategic networks supporting the operation of the FOBs. I was deployed 3 times in for 13 years and 100% disabled.