Last year, I had already been learning how to use Blender, starting with the series 100 videos to learn Blender by Mykol and VCR1 from Vidéo Hors Service.
The first one consists of relatively short videos that dive into the details of the software. I did the modeling, textures, and the beginning of the modifiers.
I stopped at this 3D table with procedural textures.
For VHS, the teaching style seems more direct, with longer tutorials that lead to concrete results.
For the episode where we had to reproduce a character’s bust in 3D from drawings representing all the profiles, I chose Elsa from Frozen, who was very popular in my house at the time.
A few weeks later, I had to focus intensely on video editing, which seemed more accessible, notably for finding a job, starting with a long tutorial almost 4 hours long provided by freecodecamp.org, presenting all the features of DaVinci Resolve.
After that, I obviously went through Casey Faris’s tutorials. Motion Graphics, animated Suicide Squad logo, and invisible visual effects allowed me to strengthen the special effects aspect and therefore Fusion of the software.
As an aside, I was able to explore the power of Blackmagic Design’s software macros, which were very satisfying as a former web developer.
Later, while training in film editing techniques, I was able to create a trailer for an episode of the Netflix series Love, Death + Robots, Secret War.
As someone might say, it didn’t work, so back to 3D, with the previous videos where I get less of a feeling of very academic training, surely more suited to beginners, less impressive than jumping right in. I think I’ll go back to it to restructure my knowledge, which is relatively well-preserved despite not having touched Blender for ten months, apart from this little animation for a personal project.
And I watched a movie again at last:
Ella McCay
2025
Motchus
#1480 — 5/6
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