About

My name is Andrew Price and I run Blender Guru. I am 21 years old and live in Brisbane, Australia.

As well as updating Blender Guru, I fill my days working as a debt collector for Toyota. My job entails calling customers who haven’t paid their bills and trying to convince them why they should

In the lobby at work

In my part time, I also serve as a Reservist for the Australia Army. I train on Tuesday nights and some weekends.

When I’m not talking on the phone or shooting guns, I’m lifting weights at the gym. My dream is to one day weigh 90kg, but I can’t seem to break 80kg!

In August last year, I went to a party of a mutual friend and met my now girlfriend, Chloe Lim. She knows all about my obsession with blender, but doesn’t mind as long as it doesn’t cut into our “together time”

When did you start using Blender?

I started using blender 8 years ago, because I wanted to learn how to make cool looking 3d cars.

I queried google for “free 3d software” and came across this image on blender.org:

So sexy...

I was hooked.

Upon seeing this image I made a silent vow to learn the software well enough until I could create a car like this.

How did you learn Blender?

My first week with Blender could best be described as embarrassing. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. In fact, if you check my post history on blenderartists.org you can see what a true burden I was to the community:

*groan* Another thread by redbyte.

My learning style was the very definition of “play it by ear”. I randomly floated from tutorial to tutorial, finishing some and abandoning others until I could finally make something on my own. As I recall it was a cube man.

Through constant practice and learning new things I eventually nailed the basics and moved onto bigger projects and finally developed my own art style.

4 years into my learning process, and I was finally able to accomplish the dream I set out to achieve:

Why Blender Guru?

I started Blender Guru in April last year as a way to raise my profile as a freelancing artist. I had heard that creating tutorials was the best way to get work so I registered the domain, blenderguru.com and started writing.

However it wasn’t until I attended the Blender conference in 2009, that my goal changed.

I was overwhelmed at the response I received. People who I had never met before were coming up to me, shaking my hand, and asking me when the next tutorial would be released. I was flabbergasted!

So from that day forth, I decided to make education my primary focus.

I am currently writing my first commercial eBook called, ‘The Wow Factor’, which you will hear me mention more of in the coming weeks.