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

Captain Disillusion · 2.8M views · 2018-11-08 · 41:44

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Overview

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.

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

Recommended by 4 HN people across 5 months · HN mentions 2019–2022

Topics

Animation & visual effects Stand-up & sketch comedy

What people said

lathiat · 2022-10 · Strong recommendation
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” [VIDEO] Note for after: The UI has apparently been fixed
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lathiat · 2020-11 · Strong recommendation
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: [VIDEO]
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hombre_fatal · 2019-07 · Strong recommendation
Great post. An essential Blender video to watch is Captain Disillusion's presentation at Blender Conf: [VIDEO]
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