How did everyone get here?

[Blaine Jensen]

@boxergirl05 Welcome to CG Cookie!! Don’t feel bad about not running with the 2D. When I picked up blender, my original purpose was to be able to model better (if at all) for 3D Printing. Here we are, about 8-9 months later and I haven’t even thought about models for printing. Down the long, deep rabbit hole I dove. But discovered there was so many more things that peaked my interest over trying to make models for printing. It also rejuvenated my love for film, animation, and SFX that I had had as a teenager. 

The best part about blender (if you enjoy learning that is), is that you’re never done learning. There’s always faster ways or more efficient ways to do things, and always new things to learn. Looking forward to seeing your work in the gallery!

Cheers!

[Lindsey LaCombe]

Theebline, Thank you! I’m super happy with what I’m learning by getting “distracted” by 3D. I actually always wanted to learn 3D first anyways. I just never thought I would be able too. I have thoroughly proved my past self wrong I’m happy to say! I still want to learn 2D though. I am also an aspiring author and script writer. I have many ideas for thrilling tales of my own creation, but I have yet to produce anything tangible. I would love not only to turn my stories into 3D animations, but also 2D! I do have a tendency to get ahead of myself though so I am making sure I keep to a specific path, learning things one at a time! I hope I’m able to rise to the tasks of completing my goals, as they excite me greatly! Again thank you for being so welcoming! I hope my long form of explanation is not too much. I like writing, as I’ve mentioned :), and tend to go over board with large words and arranging the sentences for a more pleasing story reading experience. I don’t know if it works or not, but it fun and makes me happy ;b.         

[Leo]

I had a few attempts with blender in my past. 15 years ago I had a demo reel of Cinema4D somehow on my hard disk. I remember telling my mom back then that I wanted to do something like that. I was 14 or so.

But I can’t remember making anything in 3D at that time. I preferred to play games. 🙂

I just did some research. I still had an invoice email from 2018 from CGCookie in my inbox. That’s when I took “my first steps” with Blender. But I was very arrogant and thought after the first tutorials that I would animate the next Pixar movie, then quickly fell flat on my face and let it go again. Then I came back to Blender 3 years later (2021). I remember I was a student and had hardly any money, but I really wanted it and wanted to force myself into it with the 1-year subscription. I think I did it for 3 months and that feeling came back. I wanted too much, too quickly.

Now, 3 years later, a funny coincidence happened. I now work as a programmer for warehouse software and at the beginning of the year we planned to change our visualization. Instead of 2D, we wanted to switch to 3D and generate our objects in Blender

I hadn’t given it much thought in all those years, but I immediately said, “I’ll do it, I’ve got a bit of experience”. Since then I’ve been using Blender every day and having the time of my life. I don’t know why I didn’t have the fun back then that I have now or if I’ve changed in some ways or if it was just too forced back then and Blender just came to me now haha

To answer the actual question of how I got into CGCookie, I remember watching a video of Jonathan 6,7 years ago. I think it was about modeling a cup or something. I like how he teaches and explains things and then I wanted to see more videos. My parents also taught me early on that education is important and that you can achieve much more and faster with good teachers.

Happy blending : )

[Blaine Jensen]

@wod Good on ya! Some things just cant be forced. Sometimes you just need to be in that place for it to all click just right.

Totally agree about the teaching. A good teacher can go so far, and CG Cookie has a stacked roster! That was one of the biggest things for me too, I had tried so many different tutorials on youtube and it wasn’t until I found CG Cookie and Kent’s courses that I realized Blender is so much simpler when you have a instructor that walks you through what you’re doing opposed to just saying click this and set this setting to that. 

Cheers!

Blaine

[rob rees]

hey everyone I absolutely love the community feel and family feel of this site its amazinG!

I have always been into drawing and designing but never really locked myself down, I always loved the way Pixar and games and everything was put together but never would of thought you could learn to doit and it be so accessible

I started about 3 weeks ago by getting into 3D printing! like all things I like to delve deeper and try and learn where 3D prints came from and how they were made! lots of googling and YouTube brought me to blender. I was watching so many tutorials from so many people, one day CG Cookie popped up from somebody reviewing and reccomending the best places to learn from.

My day job is videography and I also do photography but now iv dipped my toe into this world I think I want to pursue it anyway possible, although I have no clue about it and id not know how to get any work from it, im going to try my best haha 

love

Viking 

[Blaine Jensen]

@TheVik1ng Welcome to the community! It really is a family here, everyone is willing to lend a hand when you’re stuck or give you some cheers on your most recent project. I also came here originally because of 3D printing. What printer did you get?

Anyway, you started at the right time! The Core courses just came out and they’re perfect to get you started! Also, if you haven’t gone through already, the Blender Basics course is a great start for just figuring your way around blender. It looks daunting, but I’m sure you’ll catch on fast. Not to different to photo editing or NLE software. Looks like a lot but you get in the swing of things fast. Check out the Sessions courses as well. Short 2hr builds that create stunning final renders. Not crazy advanced either so a great place to start once you’ve got your feet under you.

Happy Blending!

Blaine

[rob rees]

I have the Creality K1c I wanted the bigger one but decided to stay small. To be fair regardless of some reviews I saw it’s been solid and prints soooo good! Iv started printing for cosplay costumes for my photography 

[Blaine Jensen]

@TheVik1ng nice! I moved out of the Creality pipeline a few years ago. But my old Ender 3 pro (that I’ve heavily modded) is still a champ when I need it. But the best 3D printer, is whatever one you own. I have 3 different printers and they all do the same thing, with their own quirks. If you ever need help just reach out on the discord.

[Michael Tuni]

Found one of your videos on basics and explored further to find your game console course – really enjoying it.

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