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Stéphane NUFER
As I say in the title, I'm not an artist, but an engineer. I use a lot of CAD software and the result must almost always be a standard compliant blueprint. More and more often, as I grow with my experience, I use different kind of support to expose my ideas or project. Sketches, diagrams and things like unreal engine for reviewing a whole project. I'm always looking for some new way to communicate ideas ans make them fully understood by my audience.
I know Blender for a very long time and made several attempts to be a real user. And then came the 2.8 version which is awesome, much more easy to use than the previous ones. I attended some Blender workshop at the fablab in my city and decided that this time I would really try to get into it.
I watched a lot of tutorials on YouTube, and I really appreciate the ones made by CG Boost. So I decided to follow the Blender Launch Pad course. I found it really fitted for my needs as many fundamentals aspects are described. There are both technical points related to the software of course, but much know-how related information, which I used to set up "almost painlessly" my ideas with Blender.
For me this course is the perfect foundation for any who wants to express himself with Blender.
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Benjamin Leffler
*At the time of which I had taken this course, I had been using Blender 2.8. The course itself was taught in 2.78-2.79, however it is still able to teach the material needed in order to learn general sculpting within Blender, with a little searching due to slight changes in UI organization between versions.
This course was very beneficial towards learning how to sculpt within Blender, exposing students to a better understanding of character creation. This course goes through a crawl, walk, run method of which Zacharias goes through all of the menu options and tools, of which by myself would have probably missed. Afterwards, the practical exercises will teach the importance of sculpting and polygon management to keep your project file from running too slow. After taking this course, you will have a steady baseline understanding of sculpting within Blender, while feeling comfortable creating and experimenting with your own projects.
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John McGraw
I am an intermediate user, so I knew much of what was presented, but I still learned a few things throughout, and the videos were very enjoyable to watch. I wish I could have had access to this course as a beginner. The satisfaction of creating this great scene with such a simple work flow should be very motivating for any beginner.
Jeff Howe
Zach is a tremendous instructor. The course is thorough and clearly explained. Zach always refers to other lessons contained within the course where additional information can be found. As this is an introductory course there are a number of more advanced topics that are not included but I feel sure that these will be included in a future course which I look forward to.
George Jacob
Really enjoying the course so far into chapter 8 taken me 2 weeks but the videos have managed to keep me both entertained, amused and focused for that time.
So far learned a lot and more to learn from this box set another 7 chapters to go… I think the first 4 chapters will make a good reference to go back onto if I need to refer to any of the Blenders functions or tools.
Just wishing for more courses for Blender 2.8, they seem to be few in numbers.
Anyway any future course I'm sure to sign up I fear.
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Benjamin Leffler
3D animation had been something that I wanted to do for a long time, but with so many tutorials online such as YouTube, the teaching structure is often scattered, while not working on the fundamentals. From this launchpad course, Zacharias did an amazing job going through all of the basic parts of Blender that I would not even try to touch if I were to learn on my own. I feel fully confident in my new Blender abilities to be able to learn more advanced techniques with this program now!
