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Captain Disillusion: World's Greatest Blenderer - Live at the Blender Conference 2018

Captain Disillusion · talk · Watch on YouTube

Animation & visual effectsStand-up & sketch comedy

What it is

Captain Disillusion's comedic talk at the 2018 Blender Conference recounts how he uses Blender as a production tool for his VFX-debunking web series. It is part case study and part love letter to the Blender community.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as an entertaining and inspiring Blender talk, and often links it in threads about learning Blender.

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 5 different months
  • 3 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “An essential Blender video to watch is Captain Disillusion's presentation at Blender Conf”

    Essential Blender conference presentation.

    hombre_fatal, 2019-07 · Strong recommendation · in “Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M”

  2. “The entire presentation is hilarious”

    Hilarious talk that critiqued Blender's interface.

    lathiat, 2020-11 · Strong recommendation · in “Blender 2.91”

  3. “did a great presentation at the Blender conference last year”

    Captain Disillusion's great presentation at the Blender conference.

    theclaw, 2019-10 · Recommendation · in “Show HN: Make a video of any word forming out of candy”

  4. “I really enjoyed this talk by Captain Disillusion at the Blender Conference 2018”

    Enjoyable talk by Captain Disillusion at Blender Conference.

    xmprt, 2021-12 · Recommendation · in “Blender 3.0”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: blender, vfx, 3d animation, conference talk, captain disillusion

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