There are a number of platforms you can use to get started in 3D, and one of the most popular is Blender. Content powers the electronic marketplace, which touches nearly every industry in the world.

Game design, 3D printing, texturing, skinning, particle simulation, compositing-you name it. Content channels of all kinds are increasingly dependent on animation, visual effects, motion graphics, and VR. I'm now in the privileged position of turn down job prospects so that I can continue making tutorials for Blender Guru.New to Blender? Here’s what you need to know to get started using this powerful, free 3D creation suite.ģD modeling and computer graphics are skyrocketing in use. I could run Blender Guru fulltime by selling training products.Ī year later I released The Wow Factor (an eBook on using the Compositor), and made enough money in it's opening month of sales to quit my daytime job and do Blender Guru fulltime. People actually liked my work and my tutorials? And they wanted to pay me to write something about Blender?! Most striking of all, some where asking if I'd write a book! So I created - a site that would make tutorials, with the goal of using it to attract freelance work. But after a year of making tutorials, I still had none. I was lost and very seriously considered giving it up.īut when I attended the 2009 Blender conference, I was shocked to discover that people actually knew of me and loved my tutorials. I knew that I wanted to do 3D fulltime, but nobody was going to hire me with my sucky portfolio. This was usually because I was day dreaming about making something cool in Blender :P

In worked as a labourer on construction sites, but I was fired twice for not being 'switched on'.

When I finished high school I had no serious job prospects.

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