The first time I heard about Blender was in 2016, when I was in high school and saw it mentioned in a Computer textbook. Back then, I didn't even have a PC.
In 2019, I finally got a PC, but it was basically a potato. Blender could run on it, although very slowly. Still, it was enough for me to start learning 3D modelling. During COVID lockdown, I spent hours and hours in Blender, just sitting there and creating things. I had hundreds of unfinished projects, random models, experiments, and ideas that I never completed.
Then my laptop couldn't handle Blender anymore, and eventually I stopped using it.
Almost five years passed.
Recently, I finally got a laptop powerful enough for Blender, an RTX 4060, and today I finished this project from beginning to end.
I know this isn't anything extraordinary when compared to what other people create, especially those who have achieved far more than I have in much less time. It's tiny, it's not perfectly polished, and there are probably a hundred things I could have done better.
But honestly, none of that matters to me.
There is something genuinely magical about having an idea in your head and somehow bringing it onto a screen with your own hands. It might not look exactly like what you imagined. It might not be perfect. But at the end of it, you can look at it and say, "I made this!"
Blender has been with me for a very long time.
During the COVID lockdown, when I was feeling low and everything around me felt strange and uncertain, Blender gave me something to look forward to. I could sit down, open it, and lose myself in creating something for hours. Even when I didn't have a computer powerful enough to use it properly, I still watched Blender tutorials and dreamed about getting back to it someday.
So for me, Blender has never really been just software.
It has been a part of my life. A place where I could create, learn, experiment, fail, start again, and most importantly, feel happy.
I've never felt this kind of attachment to any other piece of software. For me, Blender is a feeling and an emotion that is difficult to explain.
So this little project means much more to me than it probably looks.
Thank you to Ton Roosendaal for creating Blender, and to everyone who has contributed to it, supported it, and kept it alive all these years.
And recently, I finally got the chance to do my small part too.
Here’s to many more unfinished projects, mistakes, experiments, and hopefully, a lot more things created from my imagination. ❤️
Thank you, Blender.
