Good morning! How to get certified in Blender.
Does the Blender Foundation do this?
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robertson
21 Jul 2023
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nubnubbud
I would go as far as to say, requiring certification for using an art tool is pretty toxic. Like, if you were a painter, and someone asked if you were certified for paintbrush and canvas, you'd wait for the punchline. If someone is asking you for official certification to make art... I wouldn't trust them to know what I do, as an employee.
if you do something where people need to be sure your work is safe, I.E. materials handling, or architectural engineering, or electrical engineering, yeah, get certified for sure. But using an art program? As far as I know (saw the program in college), certifying users is something that Autodesk started, as a company used by governments, in order to emotionally manipulate managers and CEO's into thinking their tools' users were "more professional" than the competition.
blender had one for a bit, but there was no interest, because there's no right way to use or learn blender, nor is most anyone that uses blender looking for some extra label to sound like a better artist. As far as I'm concerned, being "officially certified" for art, just means taking part in elitism over your fellow artists, but that's just my opinion.
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robertsonAuthor
We have to agree that to be a good designer in this respect we don't need confirmation. Good work is our key showing what we can accomplish.
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nubnubbud
beyond that, all the certification is, is certifying WHERE or WHO you learned it from, not exactly WHAT you learned, or if you learned it. and probably that the "where" uses a method the company approves.
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I would go as far as to say, requiring certification for using an art tool is pretty toxic. Like, if you were a painter, and someone asked if you were certified for paintbrush and canvas, you'd wait for the punchline. If someone is asking you for official certification to make art... I wouldn't trust them to know what I do, as an employee.
if you do something where people need to be sure your work is safe, I.E. materials handling, or architectural engineering, or electrical engineering, yeah, get certified for sure. But using an art program? As far as I know (saw the program in college), certifying users is something that Autodesk started, as a company used by governments, in order to emotionally manipulate managers and CEO's into thinking their tools' users were "more professional" than the competition.
blender had one for a bit, but there was no interest, because there's no right way to use or learn blender, nor is most anyone that uses blender looking for some extra label to sound like a better artist. As far as I'm concerned, being "officially certified" for art, just means taking part in elitism over your fellow artists, but that's just my opinion.
We have to agree that to be a good designer in this respect we don't need confirmation. Good work is our key showing what we can accomplish.
beyond that, all the certification is, is certifying WHERE or WHO you learned it from, not exactly WHAT you learned, or if you learned it. and probably that the "where" uses a method the company approves.
They did in the past, but it wasn't popular so they closed program: archive.blender.org/lists/bf-education/2019-September/002037.html
Thank you very much!