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by hollisbrown 664 days ago
Thanks, and thanks for sharing, I love the idea and will think about it. Even though my intuition says it would be more productive if I put more time into adding content and polish to the existing concept, and people openend the actual software to practise their muscle memory.

I won't make this for other software, because I don't have that level of expertise for anything else. I've spent years helping other blender users, this is why I feel confident to author the information in this particular case.
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maroonblazer 664 days ago
Love your site!

I googled your name and 'blender' but didn't find any training resources online. I'm a new Blender user and am on the hunt for resources beyond BlenderGuru's Donut tutorial (which is great, btw).

Do you create any Blender educational content?

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samstave 664 days ago
This is awesome - I was a Master at Autocad for decades, and it was because of mastering keyboard shortcuts for every thing I did and having a vast ustom keyboard mapping. (When I was learning Autocad in the early 90s I read one book "The Abc's of Autocad" -- and I did every lesson in that book ~five times, which taught me all the keymappings and I never had to read another book on Autocad.)

To augment your learnings for blender here are my top:

@HarryBlends is #1 must Blender Binge:

https://www.youtube.com/@harryblends/videos

You can actually follow along with his vids - they are such amazing production quality.

https://www.youtube.com/@CartesianCaramel/videos <- hex unfolding is amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/@akanatinayoutube/videos <- young kid with great tutorials

Also, AI is fantastic at creating python snippets to do things, another HNer was asking about mapping the mouse for macOS and you can remap everything in blender using python (as its all python) --

And I have the bot reference where in the blender docs it got the python functions to map things: https://i.imgur.com/l1S8JaC.png

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hollisbrown 664 days ago
Its a pseudonym but I dont have any educational content in my real name either, this is my first attempt to contribute.

But the amount of quality content on youtube has been increasing steadily over the years, If I had to recommend 3, I'd say Grant Abbitt (Beginner), Erindale (Geonodes), Ian Hubert (for Inspiration).

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