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Captain Disillusion: World's Greatest Blenderer - Live at the Blender Conference 2018

Captain Disillusion: World's Greatest Blenderer - Live at the Blender Conference 2018 on HackerTube: recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 5 separate months, 2019–2022.

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 Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as an entertaining and inspiring Blender talk, and often links it in threads about learning Blender.

people recommended it
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separate months
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strong recommendations
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discussed on HN
2019–2022
“this is a must watch for inspiration and laughs”
— lathiat, Oct 2022, in “Ask HN: Recommend me a Blender course”

What HN commenters said

5 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

lathiatOct 2022Strongly recommends

I 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” ▶ this video Note for after: The UI has apparently been fixed

in “Ask HN: Recommend me a Blender course” · View on HN

lathiatNov 2020Strongly recommends

Some 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: ▶ this video

in “Blender 2.91” · View on HN

hombre_fatalJul 2019Strongly recommends

Great post. An essential Blender video to watch is Captain Disillusion's presentation at Blender Conf: ▶ this video

in “Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M” · View on HN

xmprtDec 2021Recommends

I really enjoyed this talk by Captain Disillusion at the Blender Conference 2018 where he goes over some of that - ▶ this video

in “Blender 3.0” · View on HN

theclawOct 2019Recommends

For those not aware Captain Disillusion is an impressively well produced youtube series mimicking the vibe of 90's kids TV, but for an adult audience. The Captain uses Blender for the 3D effects in his videos, and did a great presentation at the Blender conference last year [0]. The type of effect used to create these candy words is covered in the "Marble Sorting Machine" video [link] [0] ▶ this video

in “Show HN: Make a video of any word forming out of candy” · View on HN

Topics & tags

Animation & visual effectsStand-up & sketch comedyblendervfx3d animationconference talkcaptain disillusion