"Hour 50: I realized all my stuff was garbage" - "Hour 97: disaster" -- this proves your story is true. Congratulations -- your end scene came out great !! I've been at it for 2 years now on weekends, and nowhere near that.

I literally watched this video, downloaded Blender and spent 3 hours learning the basics. Now I want to make a Blender background of whatever comes out of my imagination. thank you so much for the motivation!

This is amazing I didn’t realize you were going to insert yourself into the scene as a stream overlay! That’s awesome

Honestly inspiring 👍

6:00 in and it hurts me to hear that nobody in any of those threads told you that you can recover lost files by going: file>External Data>Find Missing Files and selecting the folder where your textures were stored. Also, a psa to make it so you can move your files without corrupting everything: File>External Data> Automatically Pack Resources. This way any texture files you add will be saved as a copy in the data of your .blend file.

Good progress. FYI, if your camera is static with just a few moving elements, you can save a bunch of time by learning about render layers and compositing.

First hour: first steps into the world. from hour 50: *literally transcending to godhood*

I finished the donut tutorial and felt great, took a few weeks off to work on 2D animation stuff, and forgot 90% of the 3D stuff lol. Time to make a new donut. This was so cool to see. Glad you were able to get the textures working again.

This is amazing - I think you may have just created a learning and productivity hack. Do a 100h project - try reach the deadline and if you like it - keep learning - if you don't - move along to the next thing.

If that was done completely without no prior knowledge of Blender then that was very nice and yes, you should definitely continue developing your skills in Blender. Nice job!

I'm a certified 3d artist and I don't learn this much in my 2 years journey keep it up!

The finished product was pretty cool, and "Bad Apple" fit surprisingly well with the scene. Seems like gaining the skills is worth it in the long run.

Nice Job! Blender tip for saving files: Open up Blender, go to file, and then external data. There you can click on automatically pack resources. This will save all of textures and other exteral data in the project file, making reorganizing your files a lot easier.

I have nearly a thousand hours in blender and I’m going to say you’re amazing. You picked up so much so quickly that usually takes people so much longer to. The final result was great and you could really see the detail, especially in the computer. Good luck in your journey

That’s so cool man! Congratulations,I bet the final product was absolutely rewarding to you! Looks awesome!

This was so cool to watch through! Currently working through learning blender right now and haha it’s super relatable! Awesome progress and video!

As someone who's been modelling and texturing for well over 10 years, this is quite a phenomenal progression in just 100 hours. You should feel very proud of yourself :) As a tip though, if getting further into 3D is something you want to do, it would pay you early on to switch Blender's navigation style to "maya" in the user preferences. This is because that's what nearly every other piece of software uses as it's standard navigation. And since you might want to get into advanced texturing with Substance, advanced rendering with Marmoset or advanced cloth creation with Marvelous Designer, breaking the muscle memory early on it much easier than trying to do it after months or years of getting used to it (first hand experience there). Top work!

You got soooo much further than i did in 6 hours. I am still stumped on making basic things happen... I learned on my own that if you duplicate an object outside of object mode, it doesn't appear in my menu to the right... and it messed with me for awhile because I needed to do something specific with those duplicated objects so... yeah :( But man it's cool to see this. Incredible to see someone so dedicated. Very excited for you!! Edit: What a creative way to stream!! Wow!!

As someone who has only recently gotten into Blender in the last tow years, it's awesome to see how someone can overcome similar pitfalls and challenges that I had encountered. Keep up the good work bud!

I've never dared to venture past the first few hours of Blender, so this was cool to see the progression and how many hours it took someone else to learn different things. Your final product is incredible!

Your progress In the amount of time is amazing. Your final render came out incredible!

I'm just a random person but i'm really proud of you and your achievement, it's really inspiring and thank you for making this video too because I know it is a lot of work to edit and record too while learning so much.

Amazing I love how you used the scene as your background now! ❤

Awesome! I like that you show the world, what results you get, if you get your head down and work! Keep going!

This is absolute amazing! I wanted to learn blender for years now and finaly decided that 2022 is the year i will finally learn it. So I stumbled upon your video and it gives me so much motivation! Thank you!

This was incredibly entertaining and impressive. I laughed a lot and feel inspired. From one Adam to another: well done!

Very inspiring. Well done man!!! The results are incredible!

OMG BRO,THAT LOOKS AWSOMEEEEEE!, The idea and textures are great

Impressive journey. I love that little detail of the scanlines on the chessboard at the end as well. Great stuff!

That’s incredible. Hard to believe that was done in 100 hours. I would say don’t give up. .you’re a natural.

Incredible man. Your problem solving abilities are clear and present. I hope you had a blast and continue to fall down the blender rabbit hole.

wow well done, mate. great job on your 100 hour journey and kudos on making the video such a joy to follow along too. nice one

I always enjoy watching people's progress when it comes to learning blender, as that can take while, but, when i noticed you were playing a Bad Apple remix by the end of the video, now i know you are a man of culture. Amazing! I hope you continue with it, and get better and better!

That’s so cool And creative you used your blender render for your stream background !

You got to admire the sheer determination pushing this guy.

This was mind-blowing. Well done and thanks for sharing the journey with us 👏🏽💯

Wow this is really cool! Awesome work! Can’t wait for the next one. Haha

Found this video encouraging and inspiring for those of us getting started with Blender/3D. Short term my goal is to focus on character design, modeling and animation, but after doing some basic tutorials and learning of environments, lighting and stuff I realize there's lots more to Blender than you realize. Plus I've got an additional motivation: after 25 years in web development, I'm eager to switch to something else to put food on the table and I think 3d is my ticket, as demand will likely increase over time. Thanks for sharing 😀

I've just started blender for the same reasons for making backgrounds for streaming! so much inspiriation!! that scene looks amazing, and documenting your journey is freaking awesome :D

This is awesome! Going to give Blender a try again tomorrow, made some simple objects but seeing your progression really motivates me to try again. Thanks man!

This is just amazing! Always wanted to try out Blender, just looks so daunting. Keep up the great work.

Thanks Adam - I've not tried Blender but much of your "learning curve" was familiar having learnt Sketchup in the last year and now tackling Unity. Thanks for sharing - you should definitely keep going - 3d modelling is a valuable skill for which the demand will continue to increase.

All I can say is well done man, never seen your channel before but the dedication to go from nothing to something in blender is astonishing. Opened up blender and after effects and just closed it because it seemed impossible, but man, well done 😁😁

I remember watching this video a long time ago, and being blown away by the progress you made! I don’t have blender myself, I don’t even have a PC or laptop, but this will be the first thing I try if I ever get one. This is so impressive on so many levels, great work here!

All this for a stream background makes it so much more awesome. Nice work!

Omg! This is so so beautiful! Thank youuuu for sharing. Just got started on Blender and well, everything looked soo strange.

Okay this is sick, good work bro. Inspiring video too, such massive progress in 100 hours!

Nice job man. Honestly it’s hard to get that good that quick so be proud of yourself man.

Amazing job man! As someone picking up Blender myself, you definitely seem to have a knack for learning this type of stuff - or maybe it's how you learn and decide what to practice. You document exactly what steps you use in the video (shapes, complex shapes, light, etc...). It would be great to know what tutorials if any you used too.

100 hours and you actually made something pretty cool - I'm impressed and motivated! Great video.

Loved it!!!! I'm crawling through tutorials and these sort of things are the awesome-sauce I want to get to eventually. Thanks for the motivation.

That looks epic! This video was so entertaining, and also made me realize I don't wanna make compacted scenes in blender lol

Impressive mate. Goes to show that anyone (who has an eye for design) can achieve huge leaps on their goals with just persistence. I feel like so many people give up as soon as they just feel slightly overwhelmed, not knowing that it's the standard feeling you get before you start ticking boxes. Well done.

incredible progress in such a short amount of time. I envy you. this skill is worth a lot of money.

This is truly incredible!! Such an amazing jump in skill in such a short amount of time! I'm finding this video on my journey to start learning blender for a multitude of projects. This really fired up my drive to just START!! Commit to an idea and see it through :) Thank you for your time and effort in making this video!

woah! Crazy good work! Congratz! I'm learning Unity rn and tutorials got me here.

Oh my god, this progress! I tried getting into blender several times now (always unsuccessful) and can't believe how you could make a 100 hour project with no knowledge of blender! Your Motivation must have been imeasurable. Have a nice day

I downloaded blender just last night and started working on a "simple" 3d logo. I was having headaches almost immediately. Finding your video today has given me a lot of motivation to keep grinding. I'll set a timer every time I work and see what I can accomplish after a hundred hours. Thank you for sharing, king!

Right from the get go your scene set up and camera placement was really good imo. That's what I struggle with the most when making a scene

Well done video, very motivating, awesome scene. Earned yourself a sub. The fact that you also did all of this so your chess livestreams would look better is amazing ahah

He did a scene that was a million times more complex than what I could do after 4 years of Blender!!!

This shows the power of Blender. Kind of similar to my journey recently. It's not easy... but still, if you are dedicated enough you'll be able to create some fantastic things within no time.

That's so cool!! This gave me motivation because I just started learning. Thankyou!

I've always wanted to try Blender in a while but afraid it'd be tough and never gave it a go. This gave me motivation, I'll start with the basics.

I see a lot of work, effort, blood, sweat and maybe a little bit of your soul put into this project and even though you put 100hrs into this project its still impressive, it gave me some motivation but not enough to do thing of my own in Blender ^^" ANYWAY!!! love the video, liked the video and congratualtions you got yourself a new subscriber

I have taken several runs at Blender, but apparently don't have the patience to learn it. I really don't have a need for it with the type of content I produce, so there was no overwhelming push to learn it. I do congratulate you on sticking with it and completing a project. I am sure you will do many more. Cheers.

Adam lol that ending was Epic.. good job man, your videos are a ton of fun

I'm really struggling with Blender. Spent about 15 hours with it so far. This gives me motivation to continue. Thank you!

With a basic knwoledge you did this man... congratulations!!! I just learned the basics of Blender, and I'm SO ready to model all the existing objects in the entire universe hehehe. Thank you for the video.

Goddammit. This is amazing. One thing I'll say: doing this project back to back is probably the reason why you improved so much. 100 hours split into a few hours here and there can get you, at most, a donut. Ask me how I know.

Very impressive and ambitious! Congrats man

Excellent work! loved the final results, i want to learn blender too!

Just picked up Blender to add to my game design skills. Seeing the progress you made with the software from scratch is really reasurring. Great work!

Dude I am so impressed with this. Literally made me smile! Good work

That final product is so cool! Thats such a sweet idea for the backdrop!

Yeaah! That was really good, man :'D

This tutorial is amazing and you are really good at teaching !! great job sir !

You did pretty decent for a beginner. The reason you did well is you had a specific goal. You had seen someone put themselves in a scene so you actually had a scene in your head that you wanted to be in.

wow! Great commitment and a great job! Im just starting to learn myself.

Good stuff! Congratulations on 100 hours!

Great job! it might be useful for you to know that after you move your files, you can use: file-external data- find missing files. it'll automatically update all the scene's textures with the new location. If you want to then consolidate them into one location, you can pack all resources (same menu), and then unpack into blend file directory.

I’m switching career fields from software engineering to 3D modeling because of the freedom to model anything desirable in any given field (video games, CA, architecture, etc) and always dreamed of creating models for video game devs to use. This project you did is very similar to where I want to be. I just started but the learning curve is huge in the course I’m using. However it’s still very interesting for me more then computer science. I’ll hope to get similar results in my first 100 hours

Well done!! That's the 3D experience, doing something and then redoing it... but a little bit faster.

Wow thats inspiring , clear progress. Congrats man , it was worth it .

for a beginner this is insanely good, not alot of people can do this you have the talent, keep it up!

Dude ngl you're truly talented!!

Amazing work man! Well done!

Bruh. Awesome progress for your first project! You challenged yourself and stuck with it. The reason most people fail is because they burn out before they see the results they expected from day one. and choose to give up instead of persevering It doesn't work like that. Good Job!!!!!!!

dude that's so sick especially if you're using it for streaming purposes. i want to start learning blender but it looks so overwhelming.

Wow amazing job! Doing this in 100 hours is incredible! Very inspiring I’ve recently been going through a course on character animation this is very fueling to me amazing work! Very well done!

You're goood ! Congrats. I will try to make your journey myself, but I still have to think about a personal project I will enjoy making. Thanks for the hints. I knew that a personal project making will work on learning Blender, and you proved it. 100 hours, it's awesome, congrats !

Good job on this. And thank you. I have been looking into learning Blender for something I wanted to do. You have shown me that I simply don't have the time to learn Blender like I would like to. It took you 100 hours to get from 0 experience to a 15 second segment which is very impressive. But I simply don't have that kind of time. Blender is obviously very powerful. Nice work.

That looks awesome, and for just wanting a cool background for chess streams you definitely went above and beyond

Great video, and final render looks epic! A shame the chess overlay covers the most detailed part. As someone new to 3D (~15 hours in), I'm wondering if you learned better by making your own scene and searching for solutions when encountering issues, or watched/read tutorials first and attempted to implement it into your scene after?

Man!!!! This is insaneeeee.... What a wonderful work, I love it.

This is the first video I've seen from your channel and this is really creative and a very cool look at how to make you content different I really like the render and think you did a great job. 👍

This was really cool and inspiring to watch. I have just started trying to learn how to use photoshop and it’s really motivating to see something picking up something totally new

Blender has a missing material/file search function in menu File/External Data/Find Missing Files. Then just navigate where you think it was, even if it is an entire drive as it will iterate through the folders in your file structure. I also learned the hard way when I started to work with blender. This function is massive time saver.

Wow! Well done Adam! =D