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Many thanks! I'm not a blender user but I am an animation enthusiast, happy to be here.
Do you make animation videos ?
More of an editor than an animator- I've used sprites from video games and random gifs in my videos, but I don't draw them myself. Maybe someday, but I've got enough projects as is
Do you know anybody who creates 3D characters ?
How do you carry out your projects ?
Oh, I've been messing with Blender for a while now. Originally started in late 2019 after I got my first PC. It was a low end office PC, but considering that I managed to get it for free, since a local office company was getting rid of them and they needed it off of their hands anyway, it was good enough. I kinda started losing interest in it by the winter of 2019., for me Blender had a sharp learning curve, and it took me a long while to even learn the interface properly. The fact that Blender 2.8 came around at that time, and most of the tutorials around were still on 2.79 didn't help. Luckily, lockdown happened and I picked it up as a hobby again, and still going strong 'till this day.
In the meanwhile, I also managed to get into a really tight knit Pokemon 3D community on discord (around 100 people back then, nowadays around 300), which greatly helped and encouraged me to continue doing stuff. I usually don't really do animations, they're very time consuming for me and I'm busy with uni atm, but here are two animations I made a few years ago:
I loved your creations on bluesky. You can post your videos in this community π. You know how to do it ! Share your bluesky url here. I myself don't have an account on bluesky.
Alright, thank you very much! β€οΈ
Whatever you've done, l've got to go through all these.....
You've been toying with blender long before ai became widespread, right ??
Yea, I've been doing renders way before genAI became generally available
Can you please narrate how you started ?
I shall be needing your help in my learning journey.
Sure!
Earliest example of me related to Blender would be when I saw a few demo reels on youtube in the summer of 2018. I'm not sure which video exactly was the one that hooked me up, but I do remember it was something about some buildings getting destroyed. After the summer of 2018., I basically had to put the whole idea of me doing anything with Blender on a backburner, since back then I didn't have a PC. As I mentioned in my initial comment, I got my
first PC in the summer of 2019. and that's when I actually started doing stuff. As much as I remember the first two things I ever did were two simple physics sims in Blender. Due to me being stupid and reformatting the wrong disk in 2021., I lost most of my early Blender stuff, including those two animations and a few of my early renders from 2021.
Here's one of my earliest renders I still have (this one is from July 2021.)
Back to 2020., the big lock down happened, which suddenly gave me boatloads of free time. During the summer of 2020. was the time when I experimented the most with Blender, and which solidified my choice of wanting to continue to do 3D art as a hobby. The rest of 2020. and 2021. was quiet, the lock down was raised and I was busy again (high school), so I didn't do very much till the summer of 2021. when I found the 3D Pokemon community from a Youtube vid made by the owner of the community. There I met loads of new people (that server was the first ever public discord server I entered), which helped me to stay inspired and determined to the craft. From there on I built my own PC, tried going out of my comfort zone with every render (eg. complex backgrounds, more expressive/complex character posing, etc.), got into uni, built a homelab server, which at the end got me here. I'd say I'm pretty happy of what I can show, but I think there's always a place for more improvement.
For anyone new starting I'd recommend looking up tutorials, specially Blender Guru's donut tutorial. I really think it's the best and simplest way for a beginner to understand Blender. His tutorials really go deep and are really well made. Still, there's a fair warning to be made - don't just watch the video and recreate what the guy in the vid is doing, use the tutorial as a building grounds for your own project - give it a your own spin on the matter of the tutorial.
Also, sorry for a late reply, long day.
So, you built your own PC ? You can build computers as well ?
Yeah
It was a rather small community even by Reddit standards, but I loved r/daily3d. I'm not a regular Blender user, but I dabbled with it and had some fun and even posted a few submissions years ago. Not sure if something like that would gain much traction on Lemmy just yet. I'm not sure of any other active 3d modeling communities on Lemmy, but maybe it would be easier to get participation if there were a community that didn't just focus on one program, but 3d modeling as a whole. That being said, Blender would probably be the most popular choice on Lemmy due to it being open source. If there were to be enough interest, would you consider a daily or weekly prompt for users here?
You're most welcome to share your posts on 3D modelling in this community. I'm looking forward to learning from you allπππ
this post was submitted on 24 May 2025
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A community where budding animators can ask their questions while the pro would be guiding them. All kinds of visual artists are welcome in this space.
Open ended questions are always welcome in this community πππ
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