A few years ago someone posted this on Reddit claiming to have made this character in blender. I thought that was really fucking dumb because it would take less than an hour and it was clearly ai. They argued with me when I said as much, so I did it myself in about 30 minutes to prove a point.

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[–] 2 points 23 hours ago* (4 children)

I've heard a few people say that the donut tutorial is not that good for beginners. Maybe it would be useful for you because you already have experience with other 3D creation apps, but for people new to 3D, I've seen recommendations for really basic tutorials for low poly modelling with basic texturing and lighting. The idea is that you acquire the core concepts doing something ultra simple, and then move on to other tutorials that more closely match what specific 3D subject you are trying to learn.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago

    Do the cgfast sword tutorial, its way better, actually feels like a proper teacher, great pacing, teaches the same sht as donut but its a sword for part of it, then you make a scene with the sword and a human model, it even covers some geometry nodes, basically by the end you'll feel semi confident modeling, rendering, animating, etc.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 16 hours ago (2 children)

    That's exactly what the donut tutorials are. How to create and edit basic shapes (in this case a torus), how to navigate the UI, how modifiers work, and basic rendering. The donut is not a complicated project, by design.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago (1 child)

    Donut just had no appeal for me, cg fast sword worked better, plus I like swords

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 21 minutes ago

    Whatever works for you. I did the donut back in the day but I'm a huge autist and didn't absorb a lot of it so I ended up doing a bunch of the tutorials. Ended up going back to the donut because it's a quick one.

    When I really started to get into blender I watched blenderguru's chair tutorial. It was an hour or two long but taught me most of the skills I used to make this post, and still use today. (I don't recommend his recent stuff though, he's fully pivoted to ai)

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