Very
nice isn't it ?
No no it's not the last NASA plane, it's just the result of
my first tests. For my defense i'd say i didn't try to build
something concrete (you're kidding !), i just experimented
to try this amazing "one floppy disk" software.
Frankly when i started it i didn't know where i had ended
up, being quite familiar with a few graphic softwares here
i have to admit that the design and different windows confused
me, i can even say that i almost got scared ! There's a lot
of buttons (easily a hundred), and the main color is dark
gray (it's calming for the eyes but not really funky you have
to admit), and most of all you really don't know where and
how to start. Luckily i was armed with the official guide
which is colorful and quite nice and easy to read, it also
has the great idea to start with a quickstart tutorial (do
this, do that, and without noticing you do a quick tour of
the basic functions, it's a bit the purpose of this site by
the way). So i did this tutorial and understood quite quickly
how this software worked, and finally i can say it doesn't
give a headache as i first thought. Then i experimented a
few buttons on my own to try to understand them and i came
up with this great piece of art. And finally i turned it off
because the headache had started to show up...
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To
conclude, i'd say that Blender gave me a good first impression,
for a free suite of 3D creation tools it seems quite powerful
and therefore deserves our attention. It's true that it's
got too many buttons, (especially when you know that everything
can be done through the keyboard), it's also true that it's
not really intuitive and that you probably need many hours
of use behind you to be able to produce something ok, but
this goes for almost every 2D and 3D packages, by the way
people who handle these softwares are often professionnals
and consequently make a living out of it (i point this out
for the true beginners in graphic softwares).
So i decided to keep on my training and that's good otherwise
this site wouldn't exist... ;-)
Tutorial 1 : let's start |
