Blender Type Test

ABOUT YOU

1. Name

2. Blender experience

3. Previous experience

Modeling Sculpting Animation Character Animation Materials / Shading Lighting Rendering Geometry Nodes Simulation VFX Architecture / Environments Nothing yet Other

4. What would you like to learn or explore during the course?

5. Which topics interest you most?

Modeling Animation Characters Environments Architecture Materials Lighting Geometry Nodes Simulations VFX Experimental / Weird Stuff I don't know yet

YOUR COMPUTER

6. Which operating system will you use for the course?

Windows macOS Linux Other

7. What kind of computer will you use?

Desktop PC Laptop MacBook Other

8. If you know them: what are your CPU, GPU and RAM?

Don't worry if you don't know. You can leave this blank.

THE COMPLETELY SCIENTIFIC BLENDER PERSONALITY TEST™

The following questions will determine your Blender personality.

The methodology has not been reviewed by any scientists.

1. You open Blender and see a completely empty scene. What is your first thought?

Perfect. Time to start modeling. I wonder what happens if I press this. This lighting is going to be terrible. This scene needs movement. I could probably make all of this procedurally. We could build an entire world here.

2. You have to create a chair. What do you do?

Carefully model it with clean topology. Start pushing vertices around and see what happens. Make the chair look amazing with lighting. Make the chair move. Figure out how to generate 500 chairs with Geometry Nodes. Build the entire room around it.

3. Which sentence sounds most reasonable to you?

Every edge loop should have a purpose. I don't know what I did, but it looks cool. The model is fine. The lighting is the problem. The object is boring because it isn't moving. This could probably be done with nodes. The scene needs more buildings.

4. You have 30 minutes to create something interesting. What do you do?

Plan what I'm going to make. Start immediately and figure it out along the way. Set up a dramatic camera and lighting. Animate something. Build a system that creates something unpredictable. Make the biggest scene possible.

5. Which of these would ruin your day the most?

Messy topology. A boring result. Bad lighting. A completely static scene. A node setup that doesn't work. An empty environment.

6. You are allowed to bring one Blender object into the real world. What do you choose?

A perfectly modeled cube. Some strange geometry I accidentally created. A really good lamp. A fully animated character. A mysterious object generated entirely with nodes. An entire city.

7. Your Blender file has become extremely slow. What do you do?

Clean up the scene. Continue anyway. Turn off everything except the camera and lights. Bake the animation. Optimize the node setup. Delete some buildings. Reluctantly.

8. Which Blender feature would you most like to have in real life?

Perfect topology. Undo. Infinite lighting control. Timeline controls for reality. Geometry Nodes. Duplicate.

9. Someone looks at your Blender project and asks: “What is this supposed to be?”

It's a carefully constructed 3D model. I don't know yet. Look at the lighting. Wait until it starts moving. It's actually a procedural system. This is just one district.

10. It is 2:47 AM and you finally get the render you wanted. What do you do?

Check the topology one last time. Make another version just to see what happens. Save the render immediately. Animate another shot. Think of five ways to make it procedural. Realize the scene could be much larger.

Lucas Trautmann

BLENDER — FIND YOUR TYPE