Reply To: Your CG routine – how do you keep up the pace ?
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Analogy: 3D Art
Illiterate: You don’t know the difference between a vertex and an armature.
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That’s Brilliant (very funny 🙂 )! I like you’re analogy. For learning i’d say, don’t forget to experiment! Experimenting with various features you can learn and improve your understanding of they’re usage. And just be amazed what Blender can do. That’s also part of the learning process, not “just” watching the video’s. From experience, i’ve found various fancy things in modelling, texturing and shading that are worth remembering. If i get this “wow”-moment, i just take a screenshot of the settings so i will not forget it later. Because there are so many things to learn and combine, making a kind of library of (digital)notes and images may help you in the future and possibly re-understand things you’ve forgot.
In the matter of shading, its particulary useful to make a central Blenderfile with interesting materials. Like wierd texture combinations, glowing or transparent Fresnell and radomized circlepatterns.
You’ve stated that you’re not sure what direction you would want to go (maybe modelling) and you’re time is very valuable from what i understand. Perhaps its helpful for you to formulate a goal for the long run and make a checklist of the courses and learning flows wich help you to achieve it. It helps you to guide you to what you want. Atleast that’s what im doing, as the’re are so many things to see. Plus i also keep track of all previous activities to atleast be able to reflect back. Otherwise i’ll just wonder what the heck im doing these 2.5 years. Maybe that also works for you.