Here's my advice for anyone hoping to improve their skills in Blender: 5 Tips for Learning Blender #1: Soak up tutorials The Blender of today has more users and more importantly. Anim8or! Which I downloaded it, dabbled around with and promptly quit after realizing there were no tutorials for it.īut a little more searching and I came across this image, created with 'Blender'.īut thankfully, your story doesn't have to be as long or painful. Then I saw Killer Bean 2, and after realizing it was made by one guy, I wondered if there was some free software somewhere that I could use.Ī quick search brought me to. It was also the year that I first discovered Blender.Įver since Toy Story I'd admired 3d animation, but always considered it an expensive professionals tool. Saddam was captured, and Facebook had just launched at Harvard. Way back in '04Īhh yes, the good old days of 2004. So in this post I'm going to answer the question I get asked the most, and then follow it with 5 Blender Tips on how you can accelerate your learning. The road to success is rarely discovered overnight, but it can be made shorter with the right advice. But sadly the answer is usually always, 'Well I took a few classes, bought some books and just practiced whenever I could.' And I always secretly hope that they'll whisper something about a magical pill that made them speak fluent Korean overnight. I'm in Korea now and everytime I come across another foreigner who speaks fluent Korean I ask 'Hey how did you get so good at Korean?'. When learning any new craft, it's natural to look to those with experience and ask for their 'story'. At least once a week I get an email like this: 'Hey Andrew, how did you learn blender? Do you have any tips?'

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