I Forced Myself to Learn Blender - 100 Hour Progress 

"Hour 50: I realized all my stuff was garbage" - "Hour 97: disaster" -- this proves your story is true. Congratulations -- your end scene came out great !! I've been at it for 2 years now on weekends, and nowhere near that.

I literally watched this video, downloaded Blender and spent 3 hours learning the basics. Now I want to make a Blender background of whatever comes out of my imagination. thank you so much for the motivation!

This is amazing I didn’t realize you were going to insert yourself into the scene as a stream overlay! That’s awesome

First hour: first steps into the world. from hour 50: *literally transcending to godhood*

6:00 in and it hurts me to hear that nobody in any of those threads told you that you can recover lost files by going: file>External Data>Find Missing Files and selecting the folder where your textures were stored. Also, a psa to make it so you can move your files without corrupting everything: File>External Data> Automatically Pack Resources. This way any texture files you add will be saved as a copy in the data of your .blend file.

Good progress. FYI, if your camera is static with just a few moving elements, you can save a bunch of time by learning about render layers and compositing.

Honestly inspiring 👍

The finished product was pretty cool, and "Bad Apple" fit surprisingly well with the scene. Seems like gaining the skills is worth it in the long run.

This is amazing - I think you may have just created a learning and productivity hack. Do a 100h project - try reach the deadline and if you like it - keep learning - if you don't - move along to the next thing.

If that was done completely without no prior knowledge of Blender then that was very nice and yes, you should definitely continue developing your skills in Blender. Nice job!

That’s so cool man! Congratulations,I bet the final product was absolutely rewarding to you! Looks awesome!

I finished the donut tutorial and felt great, took a few weeks off to work on 2D animation stuff, and forgot 90% of the 3D stuff lol. Time to make a new donut. This was so cool to see. Glad you were able to get the textures working again.

Nice Job! Blender tip for saving files: Open up Blender, go to file, and then external data. There you can click on automatically pack resources. This will save all of textures and other exteral data in the project file, making reorganizing your files a lot easier.

I have nearly a thousand hours in blender and I’m going to say you’re amazing. You picked up so much so quickly that usually takes people so much longer to. The final result was great and you could really see the detail, especially in the computer. Good luck in your journey

This was so cool to watch through! Currently working through learning blender right now and haha it’s super relatable! Awesome progress and video!

Awesome! I like that you show the world, what results you get, if you get your head down and work! Keep going!

Your progress In the amount of time is amazing. Your final render came out incredible!

I'm a certified 3d artist and I don't learn this much in my 2 years journey keep it up!

OMG BRO,THAT LOOKS AWSOMEEEEEE!, The idea and textures are great

Amazing I love how you used the scene as your background now! ❤

As someone who's been modelling and texturing for well over 10 years, this is quite a phenomenal progression in just 100 hours. You should feel very proud of yourself :) As a tip though, if getting further into 3D is something you want to do, it would pay you early on to switch Blender's navigation style to "maya" in the user preferences. This is because that's what nearly every other piece of software uses as it's standard navigation. And since you might want to get into advanced texturing with Substance, advanced rendering with Marmoset or advanced cloth creation with Marvelous Designer, breaking the muscle memory early on it much easier than trying to do it after months or years of getting used to it (first hand experience there). Top work!

You got soooo much further than i did in 6 hours. I am still stumped on making basic things happen... I learned on my own that if you duplicate an object outside of object mode, it doesn't appear in my menu to the right... and it messed with me for awhile because I needed to do something specific with those duplicated objects so... yeah :( But man it's cool to see this. Incredible to see someone so dedicated. Very excited for you!! Edit: What a creative way to stream!! Wow!!

Right from the get go your scene set up and camera placement was really good imo. That's what I struggle with the most when making a scene

Very inspiring. Well done man!!! The results are incredible!

Impressive journey. I love that little detail of the scanlines on the chessboard at the end as well. Great stuff!

That’s so cool And creative you used your blender render for your stream background !

Incredible man. Your problem solving abilities are clear and present. I hope you had a blast and continue to fall down the blender rabbit hole.

Loved it!!!! I'm crawling through tutorials and these sort of things are the awesome-sauce I want to get to eventually. Thanks for the motivation.

I'm just a random person but i'm really proud of you and your achievement, it's really inspiring and thank you for making this video too because I know it is a lot of work to edit and record too while learning so much.

This was incredibly entertaining and impressive. I laughed a lot and feel inspired. From one Adam to another: well done!

wow well done, mate. great job on your 100 hour journey and kudos on making the video such a joy to follow along too. nice one

Nice job man. Honestly it’s hard to get that good that quick so be proud of yourself man.

Wow this is really cool! Awesome work! Can’t wait for the next one. Haha

That’s incredible. Hard to believe that was done in 100 hours. I would say don’t give up. .you’re a natural.

woah! Crazy good work! Congratz! I'm learning Unity rn and tutorials got me here.

All I can say is well done man, never seen your channel before but the dedication to go from nothing to something in blender is astonishing. Opened up blender and after effects and just closed it because it seemed impossible, but man, well done 😁😁

I've just started blender for the same reasons for making backgrounds for streaming! so much inspiriation!! that scene looks amazing, and documenting your journey is freaking awesome :D

Omg! This is so so beautiful! Thank youuuu for sharing. Just got started on Blender and well, everything looked soo strange.

Okay this is sick, good work bro. Inspiring video too, such massive progress in 100 hours!

Adam lol that ending was Epic.. good job man, your videos are a ton of fun

All this for a stream background makes it so much more awesome. Nice work!

This was mind-blowing. Well done and thanks for sharing the journey with us 👏🏽💯

That looks epic! This video was so entertaining, and also made me realize I don't wanna make compacted scenes in blender lol

I've never dared to venture past the first few hours of Blender, so this was cool to see the progression and how many hours it took someone else to learn different things. Your final product is incredible!

This is absolute amazing! I wanted to learn blender for years now and finaly decided that 2022 is the year i will finally learn it. So I stumbled upon your video and it gives me so much motivation! Thank you!

As someone who has only recently gotten into Blender in the last tow years, it's awesome to see how someone can overcome similar pitfalls and challenges that I had encountered. Keep up the good work bud!

That final product is so cool! Thats such a sweet idea for the backdrop!

This is truly incredible!! Such an amazing jump in skill in such a short amount of time! I'm finding this video on my journey to start learning blender for a multitude of projects. This really fired up my drive to just START!! Commit to an idea and see it through :) Thank you for your time and effort in making this video!

I remember watching this video a long time ago, and being blown away by the progress you made! I don’t have blender myself, I don’t even have a PC or laptop, but this will be the first thing I try if I ever get one. This is so impressive on so many levels, great work here!

This is just amazing! Always wanted to try out Blender, just looks so daunting. Keep up the great work.

Very impressive and ambitious! Congrats man

Well done video, very motivating, awesome scene. Earned yourself a sub. The fact that you also did all of this so your chess livestreams would look better is amazing ahah

That's so cool!! This gave me motivation because I just started learning. Thankyou!

I always enjoy watching people's progress when it comes to learning blender, as that can take while, but, when i noticed you were playing a Bad Apple remix by the end of the video, now i know you are a man of culture. Amazing! I hope you continue with it, and get better and better!

Excellent work! loved the final results, i want to learn blender too!

Thanks! I've been searching how to get it and this is brilliant :D

Amazing job man! As someone picking up Blender myself, you definitely seem to have a knack for learning this type of stuff - or maybe it's how you learn and decide what to practice. You document exactly what steps you use in the video (shapes, complex shapes, light, etc...). It would be great to know what tutorials if any you used too.

Thanks Adam - I've not tried Blender but much of your "learning curve" was familiar having learnt Sketchup in the last year and now tackling Unity. Thanks for sharing - you should definitely keep going - 3d modelling is a valuable skill for which the demand will continue to increase.

turned out so great. congratulations man.

Very cool. Well done. Lotsa hard work for sure.

This tutorial is amazing and you are really good at teaching !! great job sir !

You got to admire the sheer determination pushing this guy.

This is the first video I've seen from your channel and this is really creative and a very cool look at how to make you content different I really like the render and think you did a great job. 👍

Well done!! That's the 3D experience, doing something and then redoing it... but a little bit faster.

100 hours and you actually made something pretty cool - I'm impressed and motivated! Great video.

Found this video encouraging and inspiring for those of us getting started with Blender/3D. Short term my goal is to focus on character design, modeling and animation, but after doing some basic tutorials and learning of environments, lighting and stuff I realize there's lots more to Blender than you realize. Plus I've got an additional motivation: after 25 years in web development, I'm eager to switch to something else to put food on the table and I think 3d is my ticket, as demand will likely increase over time. Thanks for sharing 😀

Noway proper enjoyed that video dude, you earned a like and sub !!! Big motivation !

dude, awesome work! I've been looking at learing blender for the past week and you've convinced me to dive into it!

Impressive mate. Goes to show that anyone (who has an eye for design) can achieve huge leaps on their goals with just persistence. I feel like so many people give up as soon as they just feel slightly overwhelmed, not knowing that it's the standard feeling you get before you start ticking boxes. Well done.

This is awesome! Going to give Blender a try again tomorrow, made some simple objects but seeing your progression really motivates me to try again. Thanks man!

amazing work, for someone new to blender :D this is amazing, and the final result is great

Yeaah! That was really good, man :'D

Dude I am so impressed with this. Literally made me smile! Good work

You did pretty decent for a beginner. The reason you did well is you had a specific goal. You had seen someone put themselves in a scene so you actually had a scene in your head that you wanted to be in.

This looks amazing!!! Congrats

Amazing video! Also, I noticed the bar to be empty, you should do a 100 hours on random 3d characters hehe

Dude ngl you're truly talented!!

That looks awesome, and for just wanting a cool background for chess streams you definitely went above and beyond

Good stuff! Congratulations on 100 hours!

Amazing work man! Well done!

Blender has a missing material/file search function in menu File/External Data/Find Missing Files. Then just navigate where you think it was, even if it is an entire drive as it will iterate through the folders in your file structure. I also learned the hard way when I started to work with blender. This function is massive time saver.

I see a lot of work, effort, blood, sweat and maybe a little bit of your soul put into this project and even though you put 100hrs into this project its still impressive, it gave me some motivation but not enough to do thing of my own in Blender ^^" ANYWAY!!! love the video, liked the video and congratualtions you got yourself a new subscriber

Congraualtions on a job well done can not belive it took 2 days to render >_

The end product was amazing. Well done !

dude that's so sick especially if you're using it for streaming purposes. i want to start learning blender but it looks so overwhelming.

Thank you for being so clear and explaining with the right amount of complexity

Daang dude, this is crazy cool! I think you just motivated me to start learning blender now!

Wow thats inspiring , clear progress. Congrats man , it was worth it .

Just picked up Blender to add to my game design skills. Seeing the progress you made with the software from scratch is really reasurring. Great work!

for a beginner this is insanely good, not alot of people can do this you have the talent, keep it up!

Man!!!! This is insaneeeee.... What a wonderful work, I love it.

I love how motivating this is!!

This shows the power of Blender. Kind of similar to my journey recently. It's not easy... but still, if you are dedicated enough you'll be able to create some fantastic things within no time.

Great video, and final render looks epic! A shame the chess overlay covers the most detailed part. As someone new to 3D (~15 hours in), I'm wondering if you learned better by making your own scene and searching for solutions when encountering issues, or watched/read tutorials first and attempted to implement it into your scene after?

That's amazing work, have been working on a donut 3d model to start out with, I kind of backed out because as you say it can get pretty intimidating especially when you're trying to memorize shortcut keys which is basically a list longer than my arm. I'm impressed keep up with it.

I'm trying to get into blender and this was super inspiring. Great work!

incredible progress in such a short amount of time. I envy you. this skill is worth a lot of money.

With a basic knwoledge you did this man... congratulations!!! I just learned the basics of Blender, and I'm SO ready to model all the existing objects in the entire universe hehehe. Thank you for the video.

This style of video was honestly so sick. Love the concept