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@cwebber I did the donut tutorial and found it to be a pretty good intro. What don't you like about him?

@octorine @cwebber I don't want to speak for Christine but personally as someone who followed him for several years now..

he has an attitude about "woke", he makes hitler jokes, I think there's some misogyny, and he's an AI apologist

otherwise good tutorials I guess 🙃

@octorine @dannotdaniel @cwebber
Besides all those very valid points, his explanations themselves are not very good.

Lots of 'do this for your render to look better' without going into even a basic explanation of what it actually does.

I used to teach Blender at a local college, and I always had to pay close attention to students who saw his content because they would think they know far more than they actually did, and then panic when they realize they're behind the rest of the class.

@dannotdaniel @octorine @cwebber

Don't forget that he's an NFT bro who sold NFTs of his donuts to people! Oh, and he's more than a gen-AI apologist: he literally did a panel at BCON about why you should use generative-AI in Blender, only to make himself look like an idiot because the generated sh!t looked worse than the human-made stuff.

@Eeveecraft @octorine @cwebber

I saw the video of his talk. Cringe to say the least

they must have really wanted him on the AI bus because poliigon is all hand-crafted assets, I honestly wish he just told whoever asked him to prop it up to take a hike. That would have looked good for poliigon, I think anyway

@dannotdaniel @octorine @cwebber oh so that's why he made a whole talk about liking to draw tradwives