I was blown away by your arch viz scene. The closer I got to stuff, the more impressed I was at your attention to detail. Excellent work 👏

Thanks so much, Kent :)

You're a rockstar member - well deserved 👏

Yes! Online courses is what we do: cgcookie.com/p/library

We're honored to be part of your Blender journey :)

Glad you're apart of it!

The Piano is one of my favorites! There's more amazing shots in the full animation: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m37RdWOoq6uJaKM

Nedy! We are too :)

So far the CGC crew simply keeps an eye out and individually invites each artist to the reel candidate list...but maybe we should setup a submission process 🤔

I really appreciate your comment. Means a lot!

@@khtrammell It's evident how much you love the community, and we love you right back. ♥

@nikolaikai940 michaelscott-happy-cry.gif

Wardred! We're so glad you did. Thanks for the comment :)

"Mech" with a capital M!

haha you are correct. it's not the usual rehearsed + recorded course but certainly TONS of practical tips and insight embedded into the 40 hours.

Jaaaaake, my man! LOL this describes my actual workflow too 😅

I appreciate that sentiment. I hope you enjoy the course!

Sascha! If you do manage to watch the whole thing (hopefully not in a week's time though 😅) I would be very interested to know your thoughts.

Absolutely. Only halfway through the first, so a week might be tight 🤣

thanks! The team and I reminisce about this project fairly frequently. It has genuinely been the hilight of my career to this point.

You're welcome! I hope you enjoy and learn from it :)

You're welcome! Enjoy!

I hope you enjoy and learn from it!

aww thanks for you comment :)

Enjoy!

Admittedly I internalize this mostly as a failure to deliver on my part. So I appreciate you saying this :)

de nada!

what's not to love about mechs/robots, right??

Generally good gaming laptops = good blender laptops

@@khtrammell If you have extra $$$ I have also found M series Macs to work well with Blender. Pros: Better battery life than a Windows laptop Much snappier in regular tasks. I'm not sure if it's the integrated memory, OS design, or big/little chip design that gives it the responsiveness, but MACs seem much snappier than Windows right now. Overall a better experience than Windows 10/11 which, to me, is starting to resemble the add infested Yahoo - Very little adware compared to Windows Better screens than are often available on gaming laptops Equivalent screens on "business" class machines will run the price of those up, even in the PC world. Downsides: Cost. The memory upgrades I can understand as they're part of the chip itself - or the package, but they're still very expensive. The SSD upgrades just seem usurious, especially since you can't install your own M.2 SSDs Not Sures: The original M1 Macs were definitely being beaten by Nvidia, and maybe AMD mobile graphics cards. I'm not certain if that's true of the M4 or not. (Certainly the desktop cards will trounce it.). This changes so frequently I can only suggest checking performance websites when you're close to ready to buy. . . and also Blender's website for the render time breakdowns. Bottom line: You can get more raw power out of PCs for your $$$, especially if you get "cheaper" constructed gaming PCs with bulky plastic and large vents for cooling. You'll get bad battery life, they'll often be loud and hot, and I've had mixed luck on how long the components last. (Motherboard on a couple of them died on me either because of heat issues or flex issues.) A "good" Windows Laptop, like a Latitude, or high end Lenovo, that has a similar build quality to the MAC won't actually cost much less. It will often do many of the same things the Mac does - like soldered memory - with less justification. It won't be part of the chip or package, it'll just be standard DRAM modules soldered to the motherboard. I also find Dell's website, and HP's, much worse to navigate to find the specific laptops I want. A nice compromise would be a mid-range Mac with at least 16gb of ram, and as much SSD space as you can afford. Then save up for a Desktop to do renders on, if you decide you need it. This is based on my experience. I throw my laptop in my backpack every day, and it gets a fair bit of knocking around. If you're using it like a desktop most of the time, and just need the portability occasionally then the build quality may not be as important. The overheating *is* an issue, so I'd pay particular attention to that in any reviews.

Omg how did I not think of that for the caption???