Hey Zach,
I have to tell you, I am super impressed with this course. More often than not when you follow a tutorial or something, it feels more like you copied something and barely learned anything. Well, you do, but it is rarely the case the principals stick and you feel like you can now start doing something similar on your own.
This is the big game changer here. Not only did I manage to fairly easily complete the course, what seemed hard in the beginning, judging by the result, but I also do feel super confident in all the things I learned and that I indeed now have a solid foundation to build upon.
Besides some changes in recent Blender versions, that made some light and shadow settings a bit more tricky, it was nice to follow. I enjoyed the structure as well, how you explained the basics and everything in theory first, before going into practice.
The only issue I have, after rendering everything that I have some pixels of white flickering randomly in some frames. But I guess I will share this in the last section and just ask about it. So all in all, amazing course and thanks a lot for getting me and so many others up to speed with Blender and 3D basics in general.
Best regards and hope, even though it is still Corona, you have a nice upcoming weekend.
Christian Glanzner
(Hätte das Ganze natürlich auch in deutsch schreiben können, aber da hier alles so schön englisch aufgebaut ist, bin ich mal bei englisch geblieben.)