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Celebrating My Humble Beginnings with NVIDIA Studio
Celebrating 1-Year of Modelling on Blender
NVIDIA kicked off a challenge to students and digital artists to share their #CreatorJourney and how much their art and style has progressed. As an NVIDIA Studio Partner, I decided to show the evolution of my art style while sharing my story and giving advice on my Creator Journey thus far.
Links to the Instagram Post, Reel, and TikTok.
IG Post- 17k impressions
IG Reel- 35.2k views
The @Janice.Journal #CreatorJourney
I recently hit my 1-year mark of learning Blender. As I scrolled through my social feed and rewatched old TikToks/reels I made earlier in my Blender journey, I remembered back to my first time trying something new and how bad I was at it. I first tried making the infamous "Blender Donut" on my old Laptop. But because it was so old and outdated, it couldn't even get past making the sprinkles.
But I wasn't about to give up. I borrowed an old PC from my friend in hopes that I can run Blender without any problems. And it worked! At first, I was so excited to immediately get into it that I tried to bite off more than I can chew. I tried make a whole Blender city on my own after just one tutorial (spoiler warning: BIG MISTAKE). After taking a short break after being discouraged, I sucked it up and did nothing but re-create models, characters, and bedroom scenes for 3 months straight.
My attempt in building a 3D modeled city in Blender after 1 tutorial.
Getting the hang of Blender foundations by January 2022
Tiktok of me modeling a low-poly frog from scratch in April of 2022
After absorbing as many tutorials as possible, I decided to take another shot at making my own models and scenes. I referred back to a few tutorials and texture nodes here and there, but soon I realized I was making a lot of progress and creating models from scratch without having to look at tutorials.
Since then, I've continued learning a lot and sharing a lot. After I got comfortable with the basics, I started to have fun with making my own art, by doing art challenges and collabs.
And if there's one word of encouragement I can offer from what I've learned: It's never too late to learn.
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