Looking for a few new 'buddies'.

Greetings all,

First of all, let me start with an introduction. I’m Chris, I am seventeen, and I live in England. Some of my interests include video editing, special effects, flash animation, and various other tidbits. I am currently working on a Maths GCSE to gain further qualifications in such subjects as programming, and other subjects heavily reliant on Maths.

Please do not propose to judge myself by my age alone, as I tend to be quite well spoken for my age, and I am far from immature. (At least I’d like to think so.)

I’ve been interested in modelling/animation for a little while now, to further the things I can do during video editing and such. After seeing a few examples of 3D work intergrated into video, I’ve decided it would be worth trying it.

I had saved up for quite some time, and got my hands on Maya - but decided that was way too advanced to jump straight onto that, and have since come across Blender - I wish I had done so much earlier, as it serves my needs perfectly, and best of all, is free!

I moderate various websites, and I run my own PC gaming website. I shall not post the links to either, as I am not yet a fully established member here, and I can fully understand that it will be considered advertising.

Well, albeit a brief introduction, I hope it’s enough to get a few of you interested in getting to know me. I’d quite like to make some friends on here, who are familiar with how Blender works, and wouldn’t mind answering a few of my questions now and then, either via PM on here, or an instant messaging program. I do not mind which, I would just like to get to know you all.

I’m not sure how active this site is, but I’m hoping to stick around. I won’t be much use for those with questions, as I am incredibly new myself, but I’ll try my best to give my comments on existing projects.

Frith,

Unconscious.

Welcome! This is generally a very active forum, so I expect that you’ll be quite happy. Have a good time, learn Blender, and beware of the dragon.

Welcome to the forums!

-Funddevi

Don’t worry I’m nearly three years younger than you.:yes:

People here are,most of the time, generally nice people.:wink:

-TMC

You’re probably older than 25-50% percent of people here =P

Welcome

You’re probably younger than 25-50% percent of people here =P

Welcome on board from me too.

Hello, I’m the Dragon PlantPerson mentioned, welcome to the community, Blender is growing by leaps and bounds and many new goodies may be soon going into an official Blender version in the near future.

Let me be the first to warn you that Plantperson and Cyborgdragon are kinda weird… :stuck_out_tongue:

hehe jk.

Man I am sure as long as you stay an are active here you will meet tons of people. Even some Celebs, like myself…and LohnS we are so cool women melt at the mention of our awesome 3d skillz!

hehe. Welcome!

Thanks guys! I was wondering when this thread would finally submit! I didn’t see that it had to be reviewed by moderators beforehand! Doh!

Does anyone have any good learning resources? I’m having a bit of trouble learning how to use Bezier Curves - see topic here: http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=160495

Hoping someone will be able to help, and thank you for all the friendly welcomes!

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro is a great recource for learning blender. more specific for what you asked: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Curve_and_Path_Modeling

also: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Modelling/Curves

haha yeah people are generally nice. just be patient sometimes lol. and read the wiki’s above they are the one of the greatest resources. :slight_smile:

http://www.screencast.com/users/Neal/folders/Flash/media/7d6f45d4-c6f5-4e36-af6a-a79f138b7e1c for bezier curves.

it is from the site http://www.gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html which is great for beginners. the main page look plain but one you start clicking on the bars you realize there really is alot there. it’s the tufts university corse online.

Pah! All these written tutorials are oldschool. Check out this Bezier curve video tute:

Welcome to the forums.

Welcome m8. Its good to have you here.

hey bud! welcome. I’ve got a complete Blender video course (100+ videos, full life-cycle from modeling to animation thru compositing and sequencing) coming on-line next week at lynda.com. Enjoy!

Planet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour

:stuck_out_tongue: Sense it out bro!

yeah, PP and CD may be a bit strange, but that goes for about 50% of the rest of the people here too.

In a way I guess that makes our portion normal :stuck_out_tongue:

God, we must all be so lonely.

welcome mate and have fun whit blender and the comunity :slight_smile: