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Captain Disillusion: World's Greatest Blenderer - Live at the Blender Conference 2018
Captain Disillusion's comedic talk at the 2018 Blender Conference recounts how he uses Blender as a production tool for his VFX-debunking web series. It is part case study and part love letter to the Blender community.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as an entertaining and inspiring Blender talk, and often links it in threads about learning Blender.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Captain Disillusion
- Topic
- blender
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
Great post. An essential Blender video to watch is Captain Disillusion's presentation at Blender Conf: [VIDEO]
hombre_fatal on Hacker News · 2019-07
In Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2MSome would say this amazing diss by Captain Disillusion at BlenderCon had something to do with the major interface changes in Blender 2.8. The entire presentation is hilarious but for the interface related bit I've linked to 21m15s here: [VIDEO]
lathiat on Hacker News · 2020-11
In Blender 2.91I can’t give you a good tutorial but this is a must watch for inspiration and laughs: “Captain Disillusion: World’s Greatest Blenderer - Live at the Blender Conference 2018” [VIDEO] Note for after: The UI has apparently been fixed
lathiat on Hacker News · 2022-10
In Ask HN: Recommend me a Blender course
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