Are you new to CG Cookie? Say hi to your new Blender tribe! 🍪

[Ingmar Franz]

@cipheriszero Nice looking bar ! I especially like the idea with the ladder entrance 😊!

[ekalak chunngam]

@Ingmar Franz

Thank you. It needs a ladder because it is a secret basement bar.  😊 

[Ingmar Franz]

@cipheriszero That’s what I already supposed. But don’t tell anybody … 😉

[kevin]

Hello everybody !

My name is kevin and i live in the netherlands and have been working in construction for 10+ years.
I have always been fascinated by games and the amazing worlds in 3d space. I have taken a different route in life, quite my job and now i’m fulltime studying to become an environment artist all thanks to my lovely wife!! who has made all of this possible.

PS… CGCookie rocks !!

[Adrian Bellworthy]

Hey @blockblender ,

Its great to have you here in the cookie community.

Isn’t it great, having a wife that supports you, playing on the computer all day!

Absolutely, CG Cookie rocks!!

On the subject of rocks, you maybe interested in Modeling Video Game Assets in Blender , this course takes you through the stages of modeling a pile of rocks for game environment. Then the follow on course Texturing Game Assets in Blender , and also Using Game Assets in Unity .

Its an older course using an older version of Blender, but you can download older version from blender.org to follow along if you are unfamiliar with Blender’s UI.

You may have seen the community post a progress thread, its a great way to get feedback and keep track of your progress.

Also getting involved in the community by offering feedback and encouragement to others will help you in your own projects.

Grab a cookie and have fun.  🍪

[Wes Burke]

That’s inspiring and welcome to the Cookie! Looking forward to seeing what you create, and as Adrian asked I encourage you to ask questions and lean on those in your corner here. Happy Blending!

[kevin]

Thanks for the tips ! And yeah it’s great 😉 

I will look into it ! there is so much to do here on CG but feedback is everything, i will check out the community !

[Lutz Floetenmeyer]

I’m not so very new to CGCookie but i hope it’s not too late to put a note down here. I’m 62 years old and fascinated by CG since i first got in contact with PC’s – that was 1989. Though the name “Computer graphics” was very basic this days. in 2011 an illness break through and i had to stop working. I earned money with teaching Guitar playing, singing and computer sciences. years later my dog ran into my knee and several injuries through me onto my couch. Bored as being bored can be i looked for flight simulators, found X-Plane and started to build air planes. I had to learn piloting ( indeed – the plane are so close to reality that one has to learn nearly everything a private pilot knows). And i met Blender! version 2.79. But it wasn’t love on the first view. But with 2.8 everything changed. Blender became fascinating, i did a lot to learn as much as i could, the youtube tutorials are very helpfull. Then Microsoft started the hype with it’s new simulator and with that they destroyed the simulator scene – how that? The Microsoft sim is a mess – 2,5 stars in reviews. But with the massive advertising before the release! the succeeded to convince so many customer to change to microsoft that other sims got in trouble. Because of the bad condition of the sim i decided to stop all plane developing.
Because of a genetic illness i can’t sleep most of my days and so i can work 10 -14 h a day with blender. I started to enter CGCookie because i got the feeling that i have to find structured teaching with this blender and so it is. CG Cookies is brillant the teachers as well. And believe i can say this: I once was a Certified Microsoft Trainer and earned my money with teaching and consulting for nearly three decades. But i have to admit: I have difficulties with following the lessons strictly. Why? Because i look around through the galleries, here on cgcookie, blender nation or where ever. and suddenly i discover a theme that fascinates me – a ship, a sword, or big themes like low poly – absolutely fascinating, from lovely cute to mathematicly strict (architecture). And so i wander through the lessons, picking a piece here, anther piece there, looking on youtube and so on. I know that it is not the best way but i love to feel inspired and working out this inspiration as well as i can – and becoming better by doing it once more – or once more. And that’s the point where i need others, audience, critics, to tell me whats good, what is not so good and what is even bad.

[Lutz Floetenmeyer]

Here’s what i did for X-Plane

[Wes Burke]

Hey @cgfalcon,  thanks for sharing your story and CG Cookie is better because you’re a part of it!  🍪

We all learn differently. If skipping around keeps you engaged, interested, and motivated then this is the way.  From the video below it seems to be working. 🙂 Keep at it and excited to see what you create next. 

W

[Lutz Floetenmeyer]

Keep on my new dear friend, 4 children – that’s a lot of life. Motor cycling?  My heart starts beating faster, not of the adrenalin, but of sorrow – i lost two good friends – in a break of a second of unawareness. Keep on keeping us together, happy blending, Lutz (cgfalcon)

[Jonathan Clemons]

Greetings! I am not new to CGCookie, though I am somewhat new to the community. I am a disabled US veteran and had to relearn to use my arms after a severe injury in service. This lead me down the pathway towards artistic ventures. After failing out of an overly expensive online art school and some other life changes, I came across Blender and it has quite literally changed my life… and CGCookie has been involved in it. I am not an “expert” by any means. It’s been a slow and long road but as I built more experience and became confident with art in the last two years, my skills have improved by leaps and bounds.

[Wes Burke]

Hey @sulabri ,  nice to meet you and thanks for sharing your story. Sounds like you’ve overcome a lot, and you have the drive to keep pushing down the road. 3D can be incredibly overwhelming, inspiring you to throw things at the computer screen.  Heh, yet highly rewarding if you stick with it and keep at it. 

Looking forward to what you create next, and thanks for being part of this community! 

W

p.s. I was a US Coastie before diving into the realm of 3D. 

[Adrian Bellworthy]

Hi @sulabri ,

I find your story inspiring for us all, 

The perseverance to continue on the journey, regardless for how many default cubes life throws your way.

Just thought , 

When life gives you default cubes, make 3d models. ©2021

Great to see you in the CG Cookie community.

[Jonathan Lampel]

Good to see more Jonathans around here 🙂 Welcome and thank you for sharing your story! 

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