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hi andrew my name is brooke and i've been using blender for about five months now just on my apple macbook pro and my question is as somebody who wants to take their 3d work to the next level with blender what would you say are the minimum investments that i should make whether it be graphics cards or certain kinds of computers or any kind of gear that you would say is definitely worth the money spending and on the opposite side of that is there anything that you think people tend to waste their money on that's not necessarily essential to bringing their 3d work to that next point um yeah so that was a good question thanks yeah very good question brooke um you mentioned you've got a macbook macbook pro unfortunately my advice is uh graphics cards which is not very helpful for macbook pro users but graphics card nothing else really in terms of like value for money good purchases that artists should make um really comes close to graphics cards the reason being yes obviously your final render time will be lower um but more importantly your ability to work in the viewport in rendered view mode um and see uh in real time what's happening in your scene allows you to make thousands of creative decisions as opposed to working in wireframe mode because your graphics card is so slow doing a bunch of stuff and then hitting render and then you know getting distracted while it renders for two minutes and then coming back and going oh that's not what i need and you can go from like maybe making like three creative decisions a day to 3 000 creative decisions per hour when you have a graphics card um which is able to work in almost real time right so if you've got the money for it and you can find them available the 3090 is absolutely the best bang for your buck um it's uh like twice as fast i think as the previous one the one that i've got rtx titans at i think like half the price it is it is amazing we're entering into a new realm as i said for uh the the trends of 2021 to look out for i think uh real-time ray tracing like honest serious uh not a fakery real ray tracing being in the viewport with the optics denoiser it's it's there so it's uh it's an exciting time if you can get that then that will have a huge impact on uh on your on your output for sure but anyways the second half of your question was about what are the worst use the what are the things that people spend the money on that is uh the worst the worst purchases let's just say that okay um by far by far with not even close it is bad art schools okay which is important because most art schools are bad in my honest opinion um it is true there is probably nothing better for you that would help you have the biggest impact on your growth and success as an artist as finding an art teacher a mentor a coach who is really good and can give you targeted feedback to look at what's going wrong and what your problems and weaknesses are and addressing them so that you can get over that hurdle and and get to the next stage quicker rather than slaving over it for months while self-learning okay i totally recognize that and i see there is a huge value in art schools the problem is is that you as a beginner and as as somebody looking to to join in art school are in the worst possible situation to make that call of whether or not the art school is good because you know nothing about it it's like i i don't know anything about basketball okay and let's say there were basketball schools right um i would be in the worst position to make a decision on which basketball school was the best one for me because i don't know the first thing about basketball um i actually did thinking like five or six years as a kid but i've completely forgotten it okay um i wouldn't know the first thing about it so i my like what am i looking for i'm just going to be completely like it i just go up to like the salesman which let's let's be honest that's what the people the orientation people are they're salesmen and i'm just ready to be steamrolled by whatever you know words they want to throw at me and like show me the beautiful campuses and oh look at this and and then they throw in stuff like oh and one of the the alumni last year just got picked up by this uh you know amazing studio or going back to articles they always list the achievements of the alumni right why do they only list one or two students out of the last alumni that is a huge red flag okay the fact that you had 200 people graduate last year and you've only got one or two of them that are at a studio now that's a huge red flag but of course you don't think that and you're ready to you know you want to believe it's like that that poster that the ufo i want to believe when you're in that position when you've been sold on the beautiful campuses and the the facilities and the the amazing you know the thing and we've got better this and the other schools don't care about this we do you want to believe you want to go like yeah i could see myself coming here you know like coming on the bus or you know living in the the little boarding houses or whatever they call it the housing right you know maybe i'll meet my future husband or wife here you know like that kind of thought and you're sort of you're sold in it and you want to believe that when they they list that yeah this alumni just got picked up by pixar you go like wow i can do it i could get a job they don't you know your brain doesn't want to think about the other 199 students who they're not talking about that is criminal i mean honestly what what a lot of colleges are doing i think is borderline a scam um and they should know better and they probably do know better um the fact that that art is so it's so it's so hard to stand out it's it's it and it requires so much uh perseverance to punish yourself just get railroaded every single day you try it it's to go from like especially the early beginner stages i'm thinking specifically about 2d which is really really punishing it takes so much that that traction to get up that hill and then and you don't know at the start if you've never done it before if that's actually what you're interested in a lot of people do like they they just sign up for it right and it's uh yeah man it's i i really i don't know what to do about it i i don't know what to do about it i think um you know companies like the rookies that i've talked about um that do a sort of an independent judgment of art schools around the world and show their ranking in comparison to other art schools that's fantastic i think that's a that's a step in the right direction but there's got to be like thousands of schools that aren't even listed on the site which should tell you everything you need to know about those art schools right the fact that they're not listed on the industry standard website should tell you everything um it's not good it's not a good look um if you were looking to sign up to an art school i swear i'll do an episode on at some point but if you were looking to sign up for an article the things you could do to uh to ensure that the school you're gonna sign up for is a good one is first of all
Thanks for your comment Jerlene Gradwohl, have a nice day.
- Shelby Masher, Staff Member
number 5 looked like a hug study
Thanks Gerry your participation is very much appreciated
- Shelby Masher
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I've studied control systems at Whitworth University in Spokane and I am an expert in sociology of markets. I usually feel moody. My previous job was answering service operator I held this position for 3 years, I love talking about quizzes and painting. Huge fan of Lake Bell I practice swimming and collect cards.
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