Based on the way he talks, I presume he hasn't had much social interaction outside of the internet. That's not anything bad, but his voice sounds like it's quavering and he's ready to breakdown into tears or somethin
Hello from France ! 1) The ambient music is perfect! you couldn't have chosen better 2) The sound of your voice fits perfectly 3) It's super interesting to see your evolution over time All the best !
Wow! This really got me inspired to continue with my architecture rendering process. I really admire the consistency of the work throughout. Thank you for sharing!
I love the underwater sound design A+ on that... The crowd simulations, body doubles and tracking shots also look great... Good progress with modelling and animation. Looking forward to you future updates on your progress... Well done... 🔮😊
the constraint rules =) offset is dreaming in the Z translate. Unbelivable to saw young people like you playing with CGI ^^. Keep going in VFX. try to improve your realistic and pro aspect with good reference.
I love this though ahaha just parent the damn thing! I too animated objects then found they weren't moving the same because they all had different bezier curves
probably my words would be lost in this thousands of other comments , but What i want to say is thank you for sharing this with us it inspired me to work harder on my 3d work and i am so so soo proud of what you have achieved in this years . Good Job men amazing work and i hope to see more of your work in the future
Huge leap in quality in 2019. It's really interesting to see someone else progress. There's so much complexity in your later stuff. I wish I had your level of output. I'm too much of a stickler for details to get the sort of big projects you work on done. Always end up creating really simple objects myself and by the time I'm really stuck in I land a crappy admin job that takes up all my day. I love the tripod robot at 9:54. I need somebody to give me a good reason to make something like that.
There have definitely been stretches where I didn't make anything for months and felt pretty crappy about it. I guess in the end, as long as I'm making something even if it's garbage I enjoy the process. :)
your works are inspiring, you created what your mind says, most of us seek high end tutorials and endup knowing nothing....But you trained yourself with what you already knew, and you heard only your mind and creativity.....that itself is a great teaching to us.....
Amazing work Ian! It's a little bit rare but always good to find a Bionicle fan around here. I remember watching lots and lots of their CGI short movies repeatedly when younger. Wish you the best, keep rocking with those Toa models!
Thanks Eduardo! Indeed, it's good to meet another fan. :) The CGI shorts ended up being extremely inspirational for me. Especially this one: th-cam.com/video/mE_uox5w4VU/w-d-xo.html
That's so inspiring, I love it! It conveys the point that you don't have to be perfect from the start to me which I'm really struggling with. Thanks for sharing!
This might sound kind of tacky, but as I'm watching this, I'm kind of looking at you as something I could have been. Marvel was just kicking off when I was in middle school, and after watching the original Iron Man 1 and 2, I was really super inspired into learning how to do visual effects. I recorded myself doing silly acts all by myself and would bring them into Adobe After Effects and edit them so that they would look like if I was swinging around a lightsaber or shooting ki blasts like in Dragon Ball. That was all 2D animation that I picked up from just playing around with the software and watching tutorials on TH-cam, but then I found out about Blender and was super surprised you could do all of this for free and I was really hyped up about wanting to learn. Unfortunately, I was transitioning into high school at around that time, and actually joined a school club that had me stay after school and volunteer in weekends, so I just lost time more and more every day until I eventually had to abandon Visual Effects altogether. Honestly, my last, last project was the very picture I'm using as my profile picture, which honestly only took be about 5 minutes to make because I was so well versed in After Effects at the time, but like I said, I made that when I was 14, 10 years ago. I've been trying to get back into Blender, especially with all these big 2.8 updates, but I'd essentially be starting from scratch. I'm pretty well versed in Fusion 360, which is another 3D design software, but its more used for making mechanical things that one would 3D print. It serves an entirely different purpose than Blender, but I'd be at least somewhat familiar in modeling. Don't give up on your projects. Keep advancing. Keep innovating. Be glad that you know this craft.
I really appreciate this heartfelt comment Luciano. You are massively encouraging. While the teen years are really important, I think sometimes too much emphasis is placed on them. Just because you didn't learn something ten years ago doesn't mean you can't now. I wish you the best of luck in your blender adventures. :)
Hey y'all, I just found a video full of really good advice for people who are studying(and thinking of studying) 3d: th-cam.com/video/5OIcBbx8YcI/w-d-xo.html
I love your 2019 pictures, the one at 9:53 is one of the best robot designs I've ever seen! And some of the other pics remind me of old sci-fi book covers 😃
@@IanLetarte Oh right, the one with the knight! I had my browser window quite small and I didn't even notice that lol! 😋I thought it was like a War of the Worlds type robot, it's really eerie I love it 😊
I'm very new to all this and I'm still a little nervous about everything. But I gotta say, seeing the amazing things people like you can do in blender is intoxicating. I guess my worries are that I'll maybe never reach that point of God tier like you, but maybe one day.
Hey Ryan! I don't know, but it might be encouraging to hear; I was super unfocused in my learning process. I took a long time to learn a bunch of different areas of blender. If you know more specifically what you want to learn, then you can get better at it a lot faster. :)
Damn, I love your work! I tried out a friend's version of C4D back in 2008, he put it on my flash drive and installed it when I got home. Literally I could not even learn how to manipulate the cube and gave up after an hour of confusion. I did get Blender afterwards, I think it was version 2.4 something and, man, I really feel dumb now because I gave up moments after trying it out. Fast forward to last year, I got version 2.79 and found it super easy to navigate aside from right-clicking as selecting.. but regardless I only made the donut and an ammo box, then some assets like weapons and blocks for a couple games like 7 Days to Die and Skyrim. I still never got into animating anything, but that's literally as far as I got because of work. Your stuff really inspires me to get back at it because damn, your stuff from even 2012 is miles ahead of where I am currently. And your most recent work from 2019 is incredible! Keep it up!
@@IanLetarte Thanks! I've been trying to but it's difficult when I work so much. I do take every chance I get in the morning before work and before bed to juggle with mechanics here and there. Still a lot to learn
@@IanLetarte Now I noticed them lol, I honestly didn't even notice because I was focused more on what you were trying to do. Either way the focus of that clip is what matters and I still think you did a pretty good job bro
man! nice stuff! keep up the great work. And I like the narrative style in which you made this docu/vlog. One piece of advice from a 25 year experience 3D artist: Pay for dropbox and put everything there! 10 years ago somebody entered my house and stole my pc, laptop and harddisks... I lost all work made before that... Wish I could do a video like yours, but a lot of my old stuff is gone!
This is nice to see. I've seen some "see my transition from beginner to Pro in one year" kinda videos and it's quite annoying coz they are very misleading. This is honest and it shows that being good at CG takes time and requires patience. Thanks for sharing.
It's very inspiring to see the progress, and it must feel quite rewarding looking back at what you did and what you achieved. I wish I would have started learning Blender years ago when I was in my 20s. I'm learning it now but I kinda feel I'm late lol
Ive learned how to draw just recently and I was thinking about diving into Blender. I saw this video and I think maybe it would be better right now to keep a diary of my ideas in Illustrator. Like still images. Not animation or games. I can make characters, environments and game ideas in still images and leave animation and coding for later on. But still images is a good idea.
Love these vids where people show off their progress in long term. I'm studying somewhat a year or so, not much achieved if you compare how far people can go studying say programming when they go for money and can show off in very short time. In contrast your ideas of dream projects take years to complete and you often feel bad of yourself because of it. When you look how much time it takes for other people to become good in 3D it kinda feels better, start to realize it's not you the problem, it just come in waves and you need to learn how to catch them. Can take months to ride one, then nothing, then another wave. Nice vid, good taste in music. Cheers.
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Judging by the way you talk, you are a humble guy with a giant enthusiasm inside of you.
I wish I had one like you tbh
You could always adopt him.
@@HaxzploiD good idea. Would you be his mom then?
@@firdausasas7539 I am telling you this cause i AM his mom...
Based on the way he talks, I presume he hasn't had much social interaction outside of the internet.
That's not anything bad, but his voice sounds like it's quavering and he's ready to breakdown into tears or somethin
@@skorp265 Rather bold presumptions about a stranger on the internet...
His whole life is centered around legos.
facts lol
True story
I really like that you talk about the pictures to and not only show them.
2011: early 2000s cgi level of quality
2019: realism quality
its awesome to see this evolution vids makes me motivated, thanks
Considering the fact that all these was a one man job.... Man you really did good. Keep it up.
Hello from France !
1) The ambient music is perfect! you couldn't have chosen better
2) The sound of your voice fits perfectly
3) It's super interesting to see your evolution over time
All the best !
un compatriote !
It's amazing that you are still making videos and teaching the people that want to learn as you and many also did. This is very inspirational.
It's great that you saved and shared this process with us. And how well you have done! Congratulations 👏
That was great! Mate that movie is awesome. Just the voiceline: oh crap! when he looks around would be perfect :D
you done the best you can salute to your patience and hardwork
great job man. cool to see the years of dedication to honing your craft
Damn you're mesmerizing my eyes with those renders!
Wow! This really got me inspired to continue with my architecture rendering process. I really admire the consistency of the work throughout. Thank you for sharing!
this is so inspiring! i can't wait to get blender
Your progress from 2018 to 2019 is astounding!
You have done a great work in these 8 years. I really appreciate your skill full work. Keep it up.
Beautiful stuff! Interesting to see the progression. You are really honing your craft!
Really admire the ambition ! I think the Knight on the Mech is your best Render.
I love the underwater sound design A+ on that... The crowd simulations, body doubles and tracking shots also look great... Good progress with modelling and animation. Looking forward to you future updates on your progress...
Well done... 🔮😊
Thanks for sharing your journey Ian. It gives me inspiration to keep progressing in digital CG. I look forward to seeing more animations from you :)
Brilliant stuff, really enjoyed watching your progress. Look forward to seeing more.
Heck yea, thanks for sharing. Feeling more inspired and motivated to keep truckin'
WOW YOU'RE AN INSPIRATION
9:22 the light follows the robot
Hahah
the constraint rules =)
offset is dreaming in the Z translate.
Unbelivable to saw young people like you playing with CGI ^^.
Keep going in VFX. try to improve your realistic and pro aspect with good reference.
I love this though ahaha just parent the damn thing! I too animated objects then found they weren't moving the same because they all had different bezier curves
Definitely, your skills lie in making these gorgeous renders. Well done!
This is really..... awesome.
Thank you. :)
Man, I’ve started blender 2 years ago and this video is really inspiring for me. Thanks
Just keep it going, don’t stop learning
Great video ive just completed my second blender animation and its great fun... you've come so far ! Keep it up !!
probably my words would be lost in this thousands of other comments , but What i want to say is thank you for sharing this with us it inspired me to work harder on my 3d work and i am so so soo proud of what you have achieved in this years . Good Job men amazing work and i hope to see more of your work in the future
Thank you so much for your kind words! :)
Amazing dude! !! your progress inspires me!
man such a humble dude. keep sharing knowledge!
you did good! YOU SHOULD FINISH THE SCENE. i want to see
Good to know that someone would be interested. :) I have some ideas...
@@IanLetarte I loved the scene and its lighting
please complete it
Ian Letarte I would too
@@IanLetarte bro I freaking loved it,like seriously it was marvellous,definitely continue it or make something similar :)
@@IanLetarte I want to see more of it too!
This is incredibly inspiring! Thank you for putting this up.
Congratulations . Thanks for your example. Will try harder.
All I see is progression, that's the fundamental. Good job dude, I see prospect and I believe in you.
Huge leap in quality in 2019. It's really interesting to see someone else progress. There's so much complexity in your later stuff. I wish I had your level of output. I'm too much of a stickler for details to get the sort of big projects you work on done. Always end up creating really simple objects myself and by the time I'm really stuck in I land a crappy admin job that takes up all my day.
I love the tripod robot at 9:54. I need somebody to give me a good reason to make something like that.
There have definitely been stretches where I didn't make anything for months and felt pretty crappy about it. I guess in the end, as long as I'm making something even if it's garbage I enjoy the process. :)
Really good! Wishing you all the best mate!
That's funny, the tunnel at 1:07 looks very similar to mine when I started out following that tutorial!
your works are inspiring, you created what your mind says, most of us seek high end tutorials and endup knowing nothing....But you trained yourself with what you already knew, and you heard only your mind and creativity.....that itself is a great teaching to us.....
excellent job Dude, like the progress that you done
Amazing work Ian! It's a little bit rare but always good to find a Bionicle fan around here. I remember watching lots and lots of their CGI short movies repeatedly when younger. Wish you the best, keep rocking with those Toa models!
Thanks Eduardo! Indeed, it's good to meet another fan. :) The CGI shorts ended up being extremely inspirational for me. Especially this one: th-cam.com/video/mE_uox5w4VU/w-d-xo.html
you are amazing! you clearly have become a lot better at 3d modeling+animating! i am impressed!
Thanks Nemo! :)
That's so inspiring, I love it! It conveys the point that you don't have to be perfect from the start to me which I'm really struggling with. Thanks for sharing!
Love the model 7:25 -
Also, love the personality in this! Super humble and great progress!
Good job! You have made so much progress!
You are great and your progression in 3D is wonderful ;)
Can you please make tutorials for animation and tracking effects (without green screen) Your work is inspiring
It's Great see your growth through 8 years in 11 minutes. Cheers!
Awesome video! So cool to see your progression like that!
This might sound kind of tacky, but as I'm watching this, I'm kind of looking at you as something I could have been. Marvel was just kicking off when I was in middle school, and after watching the original Iron Man 1 and 2, I was really super inspired into learning how to do visual effects. I recorded myself doing silly acts all by myself and would bring them into Adobe After Effects and edit them so that they would look like if I was swinging around a lightsaber or shooting ki blasts like in Dragon Ball. That was all 2D animation that I picked up from just playing around with the software and watching tutorials on TH-cam, but then I found out about Blender and was super surprised you could do all of this for free and I was really hyped up about wanting to learn. Unfortunately, I was transitioning into high school at around that time, and actually joined a school club that had me stay after school and volunteer in weekends, so I just lost time more and more every day until I eventually had to abandon Visual Effects altogether. Honestly, my last, last project was the very picture I'm using as my profile picture, which honestly only took be about 5 minutes to make because I was so well versed in After Effects at the time, but like I said, I made that when I was 14, 10 years ago. I've been trying to get back into Blender, especially with all these big 2.8 updates, but I'd essentially be starting from scratch. I'm pretty well versed in Fusion 360, which is another 3D design software, but its more used for making mechanical things that one would 3D print. It serves an entirely different purpose than Blender, but I'd be at least somewhat familiar in modeling.
Don't give up on your projects. Keep advancing. Keep innovating. Be glad that you know this craft.
I really appreciate this heartfelt comment Luciano. You are massively encouraging. While the teen years are really important, I think sometimes too much emphasis is placed on them. Just because you didn't learn something ten years ago doesn't mean you can't now. I wish you the best of luck in your blender adventures. :)
Bionicle and Larry Boy. A man of quality.
Heheh
I'm motivated now, thanks
TQ To encourage all of us who are very beginner in 3d espescially for me .
Great work man. Thanks for sharing 👏👏
Really appreciate this thanks!
You deserve way more subs man! Awesome content and congrats on your progress!
Fantastic work! Inspiring stuff. Isn't CG fun? Imagine showing your old self what you are capable of now. Excellent video
this is much good for only 1 year!
dont stop studying blender!
from Brazil.
Hey y'all, I just found a video full of really good advice for people who are studying(and thinking of studying) 3d: th-cam.com/video/5OIcBbx8YcI/w-d-xo.html
Thank you, Just started in 3d modelling with Blender, Loved your video about progress in 8 years,
Excuse me but i wanted to know if you can work to create some animations for an indie game project
Thanks man
I love your 2019 pictures, the one at 9:53 is one of the best robot designs I've ever seen! And some of the other pics remind me of old sci-fi book covers 😃
tv head guy or walker knights? Thanks for the encouragement! :)
@@IanLetarte Oh right, the one with the knight! I had my browser window quite small and I didn't even notice that lol! 😋I thought it was like a War of the Worlds type robot, it's really eerie I love it 😊
@@Flatlegs They are designed roughly after the shape of a virus. ;) textbookofbacteriology.net/phagestructure.jpg
I'm very new to all this and I'm still a little nervous about everything. But I gotta say, seeing the amazing things people like you can do in blender is intoxicating. I guess my worries are that I'll maybe never reach that point of God tier like you, but maybe one day.
Hey Ryan! I don't know, but it might be encouraging to hear; I was super unfocused in my learning process. I took a long time to learn a bunch of different areas of blender. If you know more specifically what you want to learn, then you can get better at it a lot faster. :)
Wow this is amazing learning progress
Damn, I love your work!
I tried out a friend's version of C4D back in 2008, he put it on my flash drive and installed it when I got home. Literally I could not even learn how to manipulate the cube and gave up after an hour of confusion. I did get Blender afterwards, I think it was version 2.4 something and, man, I really feel dumb now because I gave up moments after trying it out. Fast forward to last year, I got version 2.79 and found it super easy to navigate aside from right-clicking as selecting.. but regardless I only made the donut and an ammo box, then some assets like weapons and blocks for a couple games like 7 Days to Die and Skyrim. I still never got into animating anything, but that's literally as far as I got because of work. Your stuff really inspires me to get back at it because damn, your stuff from even 2012 is miles ahead of where I am currently. And your most recent work from 2019 is incredible! Keep it up!
I remember trying 2.4x and quitting early on as well. I think it took me until 2.57 to get back on the bandwagon.
Give it another go. :)
@@IanLetarte Thanks! I've been trying to but it's difficult when I work so much. I do take every chance I get in the morning before work and before bed to juggle with mechanics here and there. Still a lot to learn
I've done 1 year and come along so much!
Can't wait to see what I can do in the future
Excited for you!
Great job, you've got a news subscriber
2013 the still images are really impressive, all of it is impressive but man that LOTR still is spot on!
Amazing Your persistence in progress and improvement is really inspiring :)
U r doing amazing brother....I wish to see more 😊
The transition in the clip of you jumping at 3:57 was so smooth! . Also the one at 10:05 looks beautiful!
At 3:57 don't look at the trees and clouds! :D But seriously, thank you. :)
@@IanLetarte Now I noticed them lol, I honestly didn't even notice because I was focused more on what you were trying to do. Either way the focus of that clip is what matters and I still think you did a pretty good job bro
man! nice stuff! keep up the great work. And I like the narrative style in which you made this docu/vlog. One piece of advice from a 25 year experience 3D artist: Pay for dropbox and put everything there! 10 years ago somebody entered my house and stole my pc, laptop and harddisks... I lost all work made before that... Wish I could do a video like yours, but a lot of my old stuff is gone!
Thanks Lucas! Yeah backing up stuff is the super important thing that no one wants to do xD I appreciate the advice.
Nice progress! You can really see that with 2018 all your learning started to pay off so that your work in 2019 is in a whole different ballpark.
Great progress! 2019 was a stellar year for you, what imaginative scenarios and characters!
This is nice to see. I've seen some "see my transition from beginner to Pro in one year" kinda videos and it's quite annoying coz they are very misleading. This is honest and it shows that being good at CG takes time and requires patience. Thanks for sharing.
And yet in 3 years you've done work much better than studios with an actual budget
good job on the progress! Keep up the good work!
this video is extremely inspirational, it is
Thanks Maze! :)
It's very inspiring to see the progress, and it must feel quite rewarding looking back at what you did and what you achieved. I wish I would have started learning Blender years ago when I was in my 20s. I'm learning it now but I kinda feel I'm late lol
Well done Ian!
You've got the moves geek-king. Keep 'em coming.
This is really cool! I am pretty new to blender, it is really cool to see your progress over time! I am going to watch your work!
Thanks for Showing Us.
I'm so proud of your progress man!
I am just starting my Blender journey now...
Your video was interesting to watch and I hope to progress like you have...
thank you your video helped me decide to continue to study 3D graphics
Great Progress
you have come along way, keep up the good work, imagine in 8 more years!
Cool! Can't wait to see second part!
Deserved my subscription buddy ! Well done
You so inspiring me not to give up.. Thanks
Ive learned how to draw just recently and I was thinking about diving into Blender. I saw this video and I think maybe it would be better right now to keep a diary of my ideas in Illustrator. Like still images. Not animation or games. I can make characters, environments and game ideas in still images and leave animation and coding for later on. But still images is a good idea.
thank you for sharing you are amazing keep going bro
Amazing work
This is really inspiring thanks for sharing
You are so welcome
your work is amazing!
Wow... Great 👏👏👏👍👍👍 Awesome, I wish i could do that in the future 😇
This was really inspiring, thanks so much for sharing!
very insiring, glad to watch
Love these vids where people show off their progress in long term.
I'm studying somewhat a year or so, not much achieved if you compare how far people can go studying say programming when they go for money and can show off in very short time.
In contrast your ideas of dream projects take years to complete and you often feel bad of yourself because of it. When you look how much time it takes for other people to become good in 3D it kinda feels better, start to realize it's not you the problem, it just come in waves and you need to learn how to catch them. Can take months to ride one, then nothing, then another wave.
Nice vid, good taste in music. Cheers.
Thanks Lumitex! I can really relate to what you saying.
So inspiring thank you!