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+  "text": "Hi everyone, thanks so much for joining this course. I'm very excited to have you here. First of all, let's introduce myself. My name is Zacharize Reinhardt, but you can simply call me Zach if you like. I'm the founder and lead instructor here at CGBoost and I started to learn 3D in 2004 with Blender and Cinema 4D. Since then I've created a lot of personal projects, but I also worked for roughly seven years as freelance 3D artist and as certified blender trainer creating a lot of client projects, animations, renderings and so on. And I also taught companies, freelancers and individuals on how to use blender. In 2018 I left my freelance career behind to fully focus on building up my online business called CGBoost. And my goal and mission at CGBoost is to help people pursuing their dreams to become a 3D artist and eventually making a living with what they are passionate about. Since 2010 I built up a YouTube channel. I published countless hours of Blender tutorials in German and later on in English. And besides of all this 3D stuff, which is also my hobby, I am a family father, I am married and I have two children and I also love to cook vegetarian and vegan food. So what will you learn in this course? The goal of this course is to take you from knowing nothing about Blender 2.8 and 3D in general to the point where you have a strong foundation which you can use to create your very own first 3D projects and that you will be able to tackle more advanced topics after watching this course. So 3D is a huge topic and we won't cover everything here, but we will cover all the important stuff which you need to get started. In the first chapters we will cover, let's face this, the boring topics, but they are necessary and in order to make them a little bit more fun to watch, I created a bunch of small 3D scenes which we will use to explain certain things. And under each lecture you can also download these scenes to play around with, which I highly recommend. After this we will get to the more exciting part. From this point we split the course into two sections, the fundamental section and the exercise section. So in the fundamental section you will learn about workflows, tools, features and all this stuff. And in the exercise chapters, you will learn how to use all this knowledge to work on an actual project. We will create this 3d animated scene from scratch in this course. So these chapters include stuff like modeling, we will create the car and the environment, then we will color the whole scenes with materials, we will add lighting, animation, we will use particle effects and then we will learn about rendering that means how to create images or videos from your animated 3D scene. For this animated car scene which we will create in this course, I picked this low-poly style which basically means that we create objects with very simple surfaces and this saves us a lot of time. It's not too complicated to create, but this still looks beautiful. So this art style is perfect for people starting out to create animations, tell their stories and so on. So you don't waste your time on learning how to create super realistic stuff, which takes a lot of time and practice to get right and also is way more complicated to animate and everything. For this first iteration of the course, I also decided to leave out some of the more advanced and complicated topics which are for example UV mapping, texturing, rigging, compositing and in general VFX stuff because I want to focus on the stuff which is really important to create scenes like you've seen here. After watching the course you will have the confidence and knowledge to learn all the other stuff way easier. Blender 2.8 comes with this new exciting wheel time render engine called EV. And since EV is really responsive, we see everything in wheel time in the 3D viewport of Blender. We will use EV basically for everything in this course. But Blender also ships with another render engine called Cycles, which is like a photorealistic renderer. So with this engine the image quality is much better but it also takes way more time to generate these images. But the good thing is nearly everything you will learn in this course you can also use for the cycles render engine and in the rendering fundamentals chapter we will also take a quick look into the cycles render engine so that you don't miss out any important stuff. Yeah if you have any questions along the way you can ask them in the comment section under each video. And you can also join the Facebook community for our students only. The link to this you can find below in the video description. And there you can ask questions, share renders and give or receive feedback from us or the other students. So don't hesitate to ask if you have any question. I will personally respond. So to get most out of this course, I recommend to watch each lecture carefully and follow all the exercises. Under each lecture you can find a download section where you can download all the important blender files which you can use to learn and practice with. And if you don't have internet access all the time you can also download the whole course including all project files in the download section at the end of this course. For people that are maybe a little bit more advanced and maybe don't want to watch everything I've marked some of the lessons with a little fire symbol that means that these are the most important lessons. So if you want to like quickly go through the whole course I at least recommend to watch these lessons. And if you have a hard time understanding English we also provide English captions that means you have to press the CC button in the video controls and there you can switch to the English captions. And if you download the course there are also caption files included. These are this SRT files which basically have the same name as each video file. And if you put both of these files into one folder and then for example play the videos with the VLC player then this will automatically use the caption file and shows this in the video, which is really convenient to use. So guys, without further words, let's get started and more important, have a lot of fun with this course.",
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