And I was playing Need for Speed one night, and I was watching the car on the turntable, the select car screen, and I was like, oh man, I really want to make my own 3D car, that would be so cool, it’d feel like I’d own it, even though it’s virtual. And I was really into Need for Speed, those video games. I started in 2003, so I was 15 at the time. That’s entirely it – I was a poor high schooler. You can actually now draw in 3D, with Grease Pencil.ī&a: Why did you find yourself drawn to Blender originally?Īndrew Price: Because it was free. And there’s also a fully 2D animation pipeline. It was just little dots that you had to remember.

Previously Blender was limited to 20 layers and there was no naming. So, for example, in making an architectural scene, I’m working on one right now, and you can model the room, add in countertops and model drawers, and do this all with the real-time engine turned on, so you can see the reflections, and the texturing, you can paint, and do all this with your final render.īlender also has a proper layer system now. It’s called Eevee, and it functions pretty similarly to Marmoset, Unreal Engine, or any kind of real-time engine, and the big advantage is that it’s – unlike Marmoset or Unreal – it’s built into a fully functioning 3D application. The second biggest thing is the real-time rendering engine. That’s probably the biggest thing that I think will really help Blender.

Basically, there’s a guy there, William Reynish, who has spent the best part of probably about a year, figuring all this out, including how to keep the existing Blender users happy so that you can still use the shortcut method that people love, but then also introduce actual visible buttons that you can click on that behave the way people would expect.

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