Reply To: Your CG routine – how do you keep up the pace ?
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My cases wasn’t a routine, but doing what was needed at the moment, and fixing my path along the way. I never had a schedule, or a plan. I just did it because I really loved using Blender.
About 2 years ago, I was trying to get into a 3D program in the army after showing my skills in Blender at a hackathon (I wasn’t using blender for 3-4 years at that time). My computer was very weak back than to use 3D and couldn’t handle more than 15k verts. Anything more than than and the computer froze and needed a reboot. And so I made for the hackathon only low poly models. A friend of mine who got to the program tutored and helped me in what was needed.
I later on found a local place that let me use their gaming pc for that purpose. It could handle high poly and rendering very well. And so I upgraded my Cgcookie to pro. And so I would spend virtually every waking moment on it. Until I would get exhausted and fall a sleep at some corner of the space.
My projects at the time were : plane, walking animation, and a chessboard
I highly recommend not doing this.
Upon reaching a certain level of skill. It became a lifestyle and obsession.
Any vacation time that lasted more than a weekend would be spent with at least 7 hours doing nothing but blender. I don’t have a routine, nor a regular schedule. I do it whenever I can because I enjoy it.
Overtime my projects were going aimlessly, doing werid thing in Blender and 2D art. At which my skills paced were staggering horribly as I wasn’t going towards any certain dicipline.
Later on I got into fightning animation. And decided to enter it more heavily and take it as a main dicipline.