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- 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 Zacharias Reinhardt

but you can simply call me Zach if you like.

I'm the founder and lead instructor here at CG Boost.

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 a 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 CG Boost.

And my goal and mission at CG Boost 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 put 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 childrens.

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 take on 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 it,

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 splitted 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 other stuff.

And in the exercise sectors 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 the 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 your 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 it's 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, the effects stuff.

Because I wanna 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.

Blended 2.8 comes with this new exciting

realtime render engine called EEVEE.

And since EEVEE is really responsive,

we see everything in real time

in the 3D view port of Blender.

We will use EEVEE basically for everything in this course

but Blender also ships with another render engine

called Cycles.

Which is like a photo realistic 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 comments 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 wanna 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 wanna 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 these 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.