{"id":4564,"date":"2016-03-16T15:35:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T19:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/?p=4564"},"modified":"2016-03-21T18:18:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T22:18:57","slug":"blender-1-year-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/blender-1-year-later","title":{"rendered":"Blender &#8211; 1 Year Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week marks the one year anniversary of when I decided to finally buckle down and dive into Blender. Looking back, can see how much I have learned and I&#8217;m quite happy with how far I have come. Comfy with all the departments. I do miss my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/blender-everyday-day-1\">old desk<\/a> though.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4565\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4565\" class=\"wp-image-4565\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/blenderFaceCrop.jpg\" alt=\"blenderFaceCrop\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/blenderFaceCrop.jpg 360w, http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/blenderFaceCrop-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/blenderFaceCrop-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4565\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">my render \/ comp test<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Excuses aside, I can tell you that things have not stopped progressing. I&#8217;ve developed a few new unique effects, played a LOT with rendering, and cleaned it all up in compositing. I&#8217;m blown away.\u00a0 I really am.<\/p>\n<p>One of the beautiful attributes of open software is that it grows with the community. Sometimes independently developed add-ons become features. Sometimes core features cause a complete overhaul. Through all this, the tool more and more represents the users.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Multiple times, I thought this software was reading my mind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The sky is the limit and development is accelerating. We are talking about multiple feature release sets per year, that aren&#8217;t just bug fixes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week marks the one year anniversary of when I decided to finally buckle down and dive into Blender. Looking back, can see how much I have learned and I&#8217;m quite happy with how far I have come. Comfy with all the departments. I do miss my old desk though. Excuses aside, I can tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,96],"class_list":["post-4564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blender","tag-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4564"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4582,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564\/revisions\/4582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}