I am here to ask how can I get ideas?? It’s been almost a year since I stopped using blender, and I really miss it so much. I regret all the times not using blender. The problem is with ideas. I don’t know where to get my ideas from, and if I have one, I start with it, and leave it undone.
For me, if I have a helpful list on what to animate or model would be easy. Like I know this week I have this thing to do, next week I have to finish this idea… and so on.
Btw, I am not into character animation, but I would like to learn about rigid bodies, simulation and short videos. For modeling, I think anything for now, except characters.
I hope you can help me, at least give me some tips because I spend a huge effort on searching and looking for inspiration, but can’t start and finish stuff.
Plus, if I have a to-animate/model- list would be so easy for me. Example first few ones will be easy, and as I go further it will start challenging me. Listen, if I have a crystal clear list to do is ok. Because I had a year gap, so my ideas ran away and can’t simply express my feelings or thoughts. Oh yeah, I just remembered, I think after I do some renders from the list, then the ideas will surely come to my mind. I need a list
Please help me my beautiful artists as I am lost. I am waiting for the day where I be a great artist.
you can watch e.g. yt tutorials of experienced Blender users like e.g. Polyfjord. Rebuild their tutorials. Often i get inspiration of that. Or try to answer question here or e.g. on Stack exchange. There you could get ideas too.
When you’re in a creative slump, the only way to get out of it is to keep pushing yourself and do something creative every day. To get ideas, you could try:
Using a random word generator
finding a prompt list (I.e. inktober)
picking something random in your house every day and trying to model it
Another thing that may be helpful is joining the weekend challenges here. Whether you win or not, you get good practice modeling something from a prompt
Another trick is to … “make yourself a project plan, and stick to it.” You now have a deadline that you must meet. You lay out the steps that need to be completed, using a spreadsheet or free project-planning software (or MS-Project), and tell yourself that you simply have to stick to that, “because it’s your job.”
I actually found early on that one reason why I felt myself “wandering” and “unmotivated” about a project was because I did not have a plan for it. I felt like I was just wandering around in the dark, and in a very real sense I was.
The process of creating this project plan also helps you to think about the project from beginning to end in advance. It is also helpful, at least to me, to keep a diary or journal about whatever I did each day. (I use a loose-leaf notebook and a number-two pencil.) When you run into a question that you don’t have an answer to, write it down. Sometimes the very act of writing suggests an answer. But in any case, first capturing the question means that you can return to it at your leisure.
“Questions are like butterflies: stick a pin through them and fasten them to the board.”
