Recently retired 2013, I decided to pick up an old hobby I never really had time to develop, CGI on Cinema 4D However when I found out how much it would cost to upgrade my old version, I had a rethink and decided to learn Blender and spend the budget on building a machine specifically to run it.
Building the machine was the easy part, works fine. Blender I find is, until you get on top of it, like taking an elephant through a bone china car wash but I stuck at it and now I feel just about ready to begin.
At this time I am mostly concentrating on still images and I have already blundered into one on-going issue, render engines:
For the moment and for the purpose of learning, I have concentrated on the Blender Internal, I have reservations about Cycles GPU memory limitations so as and when I need to move to a more developed renderer, one thing at a time.
Yours
BeerJedi