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

[Wendy Robinson]

You’re never to old to learn Blender. =D

[Max Blair]

  Hey I”m Max, I”m 35 and I’m on day 40 of learning Blender. I knew for a long time I wanted to do something in Graphics Design, but I wasn’t sure what. I started with JavaScript coding. Went through 75% of the course before stopping. It wasn’t really for me. I’m 85% sure Character Sculpting is what I want to do. I”ve learned the basics of Blender, did a few animation tutorials and modeling tutorials, and sculpted. I’m working on HUMAN course now and looking forward to learning everything I can from CGCookie and its community.

 

[lmz]

me new wassup

[Wendy Robinson]

COOL! That’s a lot like my story! Were you learning JavaScript on Khan Academy? That’s where I was learning it. Except I didn’t make it that far.   I was like 15% through the course.

[Jon Watt]

Hi everyone.

Im Jon, I’m 35 and from the UK. I’ve recently joined the community, having previously spent a few years using Cinema 4D as my primary 3D tool. I’d tried to move across to blender in the 2.8 update, and spent a while going through various tutorials on youtube, though with varying success (always ended up going back to Cinema 4D when I needed to do something fast).

I’ve just got myself a new job working with 3D again (after taking a break from it) and decided now would be a good time to focus my efforts on really learning and adopting blender as my primary modelling software. CGCookie seemed a great place to further my knowledge of 3D in general (this stagnated a bit, and I wanted to learn some more advanced techniques – such as what’s demonstrated in the HUMAN and Pot Head courses). I’m gradually bringing myself up to speed with the beginner stuff first, so hope to progress on to those in the coming weeks.

I’m a bit of a generalist – I love modelling and texturing, but i’m also keen to explore more animation and rigging concepts, and work more on my lighting & rendering.

Some of the previous work I’ve done:

A take on the famous Futurama head tank. Made with Blender, C4D and Substance Painter.

Wallet (modelled in C4D & Textured in Substance Painter)

High Res sculpt (using C4D for base mesh and Nomad for sculpt)

[Boris Matesa]

Hi everyone,

My name is Boris, I am married and have an awesome 4yr old son. As of recent I live in Ireland.  

I’ve worked mostly as receptionist but starting pandemic, I’ve decided to make a change in career path. Since my hobbies were mostly around games, art, board games, miniature painting etc. I’ve decided to try Blender, at first mostly because I was interested in 3d printing and wanted to do my own models. In the meantime after doing some courses from the other sites/youtube I’ve seen that the Blender and 3d is so vast and interesting that I got a bit lost. Took some time off as the life continued in it’s own unexpected ways, and now when the things settled a bit I’ve decided to go full into it. 

I was familiar before with Cg Cookie, and now have decided to join as I really like what I see so far!

Looking forward to meet you all, and to the journey which is Blender:)

[Wendy Robinson]

Welcome! I started using CGCookie in January to help with my Blender progress and I absolutely love it! Looking forward to seeing your progress! =D

[Boris Matesa]

Thanks!

I did the free part in January, just started the console thing and I love it. Posting as soon as done 😀

[Andy Perez-Caba]

Hello everyone! My name is Andy. I am a videographer and photographer living in Missouri. I have always been an artist and I started drawing at a very young age. I eventually transitioned more into photo and then video as my creative outlet at the age of 14, and that has been my focus ever since. But as I got older, I started missing that feeling of being able to draw something up from my imagination whenever and wherever I wanted to. There’s only so much you can do on a budget in the photo and video industry. Just the idea of how I would even start making these fantasy worlds in my head through photos was challenging! So, I needed to find a new outlet that would make this easier for me. But I knew learning to draw good again would take ages…So I thought, ‘what could I do to start bringing my ideas to life now?’ So, after some research, I decided to try to actually learn blender. As it seemed like the most flexible option and didn’t require me to buy any art supplies. So, after years (I never could finish a tutorial) of not attempting 3d art because I thought it was too hard, I finally finished the donut tutorial! I learned a ton and started making my own projects mostly every day since then. Now I am near 2 months into this journey and having a blast. I wanted to expand my knowledge so I could work in a studio one day. My dream is to do VFX and environmental work so I could fuse that with my love for photo and video.   I joined CGCookie to be able to do just that! So excited to join this wonderful community. 

[Adrian Bellworthy]

Welcome @pixeldot ,

The community here at CGCookie is awesome, I am sure you and your son will feel at home here.

Good luck on your Blender journey,

and we look forward to seeing what you create.

[Chuck Linsley]

I’ve already introduced myself over on Discord, but the welcome message suggested introducing myself here, too, so I will.

I’ve been using Blender for years, and I’ve been an unpaid member here for a while, but I just became a paid member to participate in Collab2022. My interests in Blender tend to focus toward human animation, clothing and jewelry design, architecture, and lighting/rendering. I’ve also used Blender a fair bit for modeling for 3D printing. (My printer is kind of small, so even if I download somebody else’s model for printing, I often end up using Blender to chop it into pieces to fit my printer, but I also often wind up customizing it to some degree.)

I learned a lot from the public YouTube content, and I’ve already gotten a couple of really useful tips from the Discord chat. Now that I’ve paid, I’m looking forward to the great course content and to sharing the things I’ve learned in the time I’ve been using Blender.

[Adrian Bellworthy]

Welcome to the cookie @bluewizard5119,

I thought I had seen you somewhere before, on the CGC Discord.

I am sure you will find the course content here at CGCookie well worth it, we also have the added bonus of the awesome community.
Feel free to ask questions whenever they arise, but also jump in and answer questions if you wish.
Everyone supporting each other in our community is something special, as you may have already experienced on Discord.

Amazing courses, awesome community,
And Collab2022 coming up your in for a real treat, I can testify that the Collabs are a excellent experience, you will not be disappointed.

Happy Blending!

Help yourself to a cookie, there’s more in the oven.

[Chuck Linsley]

Hi Adrian,

(For some reason, I don’t seem to be able to @-mention you.) I’ve only been on the Discord server a couple of days. Kent sent me the invitation with the Collab2022 info. I didn’t even know there was a Discord server before that, or I would have been there already. Even though I’m new, I’m already asking questions there, getting good answers, and answering questions where I know (or think I know 😉 ) the answer.

[Dave Paige]

Hello everyone, name is Dave. I’m going to date myself a bit. I started doing 3D way back in the mid to late 80s with a program called Videoscape 3D by Allen Hastings, which became Lightwave 3D with the NewTek video Toaster. Later it was released stand alone on Windows and became very popular for a while. I’m now an exec at NewTek but Lightwave has, mostly, faded into history. I’m now getting back into 3D again and have been enjoying learning Blender. I’ve watched tons of Youtube videos but decided it was time to invest in some paid content and take it even more seriously.

Dave

[Adrian Bellworthy]

Hi Dave!

Welcome to CG Cookie, you’ve had quite a journey in 3D and video production, it’s great to have you here at the Cookie. 

The 80’s was an exciting time in the 3d world for those of us who remember them. How great it would have been to of had a CG Cookie back then or even YouTube. 

Along with the great courses, by the best tutors, the CG Cookie community is awesome. You will find young and old(er), beginners to advanced users of Blender, who are all super helpful.

Reminiscing, a few friends, myself and a monthly computer magazine was about it for a 3D community back then, but it was so cool.

Help yourself to cookies, there is always more in the oven.

Happy Blending!

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