Blender

Pretty good. I always dread making textures/materials and yet another project sits untouched for weeks. (Any tips welcome)

Yeah this should have been done in a proper CAD software but fuck it, i love blender. I call it the "PCB squeezer 8000" and that is all the explanation i can give.

Frustrating when I accidently switch something into another mode and cant figure out what the hell I did or how to get back to the state I am familiar with.

It is amazing that it is free and open source though, it feels like a gift so I dont get too tilted when I get frustrated.

My first experience with blender was my project being deleted because i forgot to save, my computer crashed and the folder where autosaves are in resets when you turn off the computer

🤣 Her face on the monitor says it all

I made a donut and it took me like 13 effing hours lmao

The Blender Guru doughnut tutorial is the winning starting tutorial IMHO.

EDIT: The one Ludrol linked to elsewhere in the comments.

It's hard as shit to learn, but once you learn enough you start to feel like a god capable of creating shapes at will.

That's as far as I've gotten. I did the donut tutorial, and then started playing with all the features I used during that tutorial, and now I can make shapes pretty good.

In a decade I might actually make something cool if I keep learning regularly.

The cables seem to have to few polygons and the monitor stand has a shape that's obviously created by subtracting two cylinder and a box from a bigger cylinder. Other than that, the wall and table texture and lighting looks realistic.
Is the reflection modeled or just a flat image? the fan looks 3D, but the face looks cut out.

I did this things like 3-5x

Modeling_a_Gingerbread_Man

In version 2.49!!! booya!

And watched a ton of youtube stuff.

Mostly fun actually, because I didn't really "need" to know anything, I just browsed around tried stuff.

I made a base human model and gave it a moving animation

I thought for a first try of someone who's never touched the software before it was actually really good

My dad, supportive as shit man in almost every situation, told me it looked like shit. Tbf it did

His cousin, who works professionally in Blender (did work on RWBY actually) said the same thing, but also blamed Blender for it and chuckled

I'm not really an artist to begin with, let alone a 3D sculptor, so I only cry a little when I use it

made this goobe's fur today

I made a game in Blender when it had the game engine built in. It worked great for a while. Then, when I updated to Windows 8.1 from 7, it stopped working entirely. Then, it started working again with Windows 10, but the colors were all messed up. And inexplicably, it works like new again. It's 4:3 ratio because that's what my monitor was at the time. Holy moly that was longer ago than I thought...

You shoot toxic waste at the sun by pressing space. You dodge it (you are the sun) with WASD. If the toxic waste collides, you get points. Risk-reward kinda thing. The more you press space, the more toxic waste is flying around, the more collisions, but harder to dodge.

There are three rounds that are exactly as long as the songs I chose as background music that I wrote years before I made the game. Haha!

There's an awesome secret level that I probably should have made easier to get to. Just play through the game and don't press space. Haha!

This is relevant to their struggle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obms-x-J6uA

There have been a few times where I'll sit down and say, "today will finally be the day I learn blender"

Then I open Fusion 360 or OnShape or TonkerCad

The face of anguish 🤣

Sometimes frustrating, sometimes fun, but it really depends on what I'm doing and if there are any tutorials available. Retopology has never been a good time but I do enjoy messing around with shaders.

I made karts for STK ;)

though they're horrible lol

Find a good beginner course on Udemy or one of the longer video series on YouTube.

https://www.udemy.com/course/blender-environments/

This was my first course. Got it on sale for 15$

I keep trying to make that doughnut. And maybe someday I will succeed - or not.

#ItGetsBetter

I keep text files that list the hotkeys I use for each specific job in Blender.

Some of my hobby work:

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/fn2MytE9X8s

The real frustrating part is when you understand that extending a geometry still creates the nodes but still work on the project having hundred if not thousands of duplicate nodes absolutely fking your work flow

Has no one caught that this is square hole? This is one of the most beautiful blender models I've ever seen.

Made a 3D model of a specifically bent wire. Single Bezier curve with some thickness. Never touched it since (2019).