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6 Years of Blender

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Here's a nice concept: Jimmy Widlund shows his progress as an artist from the moment he started using Blender.

I first started using Blender sometime in 2009. Back then we only had Blender 2.48 and rendering with "BI" was like the only option. It's really interesting to look back on the old work that I have made, to see some kind of development in Blender as well as myself as an Artist.
I hope you find this video interesting as well as encouraging. If you are new to Blender, just keep on practicing and you are bound to get better.

So I decided to make this video, which is a compilation of the projects I have worked on these past 6 years. Some of the pictures are in a very low resolution and have been upscaled. I had to dig up some of the images from http://Blenderarists.com because they are so old I didn't have them on my computer.
Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtAFrJk4XlE&feature=youtu.be

8 Comments

    • cekuhnen on

      was that Cycles ;) I noticed in the recent years since Cycles is out that the artwork quality jumped forward!

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  4. kram1032 on

    Great showcase of improvements! - The jump from '09 to '11 was especially drastic but there were other notable jumps of quality.
    One thing, though: The lighting. Jimmy Widlund, your modelling is great at this point and while your scenes tend to be minimalistic, they certainly aren't bad. But in almost all of these pictures you could have done a lot just by improving the lighting. It mostly was flat across the board. At the very end, the last two or three pictures, were an improvement on that as well, but there still is a long way to go.

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