Welcome to BA!
Thatâs very nice, especially for a first.
Thank you
I watched some tutorials for that btw.
I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend!
Thank you so muchâ¤ď¸
Better than my first project!
So I watched good tutorialsđ
Hey, itâs a very important part of learning!
On a side note, definitely donât develop too much of complex about tutorials. You donât want to remain too dependent on them, but on the other hand there isnât a single project Iâve completed, Iâm working on, or Iâve given up on, that hasnât used at least one tutorial. Imo itâs a sign of growth. After 3 years of seriously learning 3D as a generalist I try to have at least one element in a project Iâll need to learn for and a few elements I can point to and say âI did that all by myselfâ.
Disclaimer: Iâm a hobbyist and I have a non-traditional 3D job (Creating VR environments for my university). I donât work at a studio or anything (yet). Maybe someone with way more experience will say differently.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience.
In this point that I am right now I really can use a advise.
Tutorials are great, especially if you manage to find a series by a teacher whoâs actually good at teaching, has a sensible curriculum, and goes at a pace that works for you (not the easiest to find, but Blender has some good and even free courses available).
What I do after Iâve followed a tutorial, is to give myself âhomeworkâ â make a couple of things that are very similar, so it anchors the process more firmly. The trick is to not fall into the âtutorial trapâ (where you only follow tutorials), but to go out just a little bit on your own after each lesson. Then on to the next tutorial; rinse, lather, repeat. As time passes and you really comprehend the basics, you will only need tutorials for bits and pieces while largely doing your own projects. This learning path usually means that one probably canât work right away on the grand projects that one fantasizes about, but doing that too soon, without a firm foundation, can cause a lot of errors, blockage, aggravation and that doesnât help anything. Better to start simple and slowly build on that; constant positive reinforcement is important for self-study. Youâll get to the big projects eventually, and it wonât be half as frustrating.