Respect! You achieved far more than I did in probably my first 1000 hours. Those final results were amazing! PS. thanks for the shoutout :)

Watching you spend 100 hours learning blender was so much easier and faster than spending 100 hours learning blender.

Hansi's projects looked like something out of a game Martina's projects looked like something out of a movie Loved both ❤

Watching this as a professional 3d artist was really eye-opening, realising I could've learned blender much faster than I actually did. I never actually realised how helpful the tutorials are, but from your results they look incredibly useful - that dungeon door is similar quality to what took me around 3 months to learn to do.

what better way to procrastinate than to watch nerdforge

Seriously, can we give Hansi a hand. We all know how crazy talented Martina is, but Hansi really did a great job! 👏👏👏 He's so good at the more realistic aspects which meshes so well with Martina's fantasy side. A perfect combo!

I really think this shows just how productive you can be, in 3D and many other things, when you have clear goals and especially something at stake. Gotta find your motivation and focus wherever you can!

I love Martina’s wizard tower concept, and I feel like that’s what sold it to a lot of people. But the environment that Hansi created and the overall feel was so amazing!

Martina making the losing donut then nailing the fantasy stuff makes sense with her skill sets and huge quanitity of model making experience. The fact Hansi won the donut challenge also bodes well if he's spending the next week making all the food...

I love when Hansi is in videos too! He's really charismatic and your chemistry is amazing. You guys are great, keep making amazing content !

Can we all just please take a second to appreciate how cute they are as a couple, such a nice chemistry and superfunny to watch them together ❤️

Not only are Nerdforge videos literal eye candy. I mean I think there are many of us who were made fun of for being crafty and nerdy and associating the two, but now watch them thriiiiiive. But they’re also couple goals af

Martinas design and Hansis texturing and lightning are the perfect match. I would love to see a combined project in the future

Both of your final designs are incredible, for just 100 hours in Blender! Remarkable work 👏😎 ..would love to see them 3D Printed in multi-colors 👀

Well done, Martina! Hansie, seriously, you CAN draw. I've been slowly learning how to draw in my spare time for two years now and I am NOWHERE as good as you are. You clearly have talent, so keep practising (preaches to self). I can't wait to see what you do next! P.S. You two are so adorable together.

This is kind of a vindication for me: for years I have been encouraging 3d artists who I know to learn how to draw traditionally. Dude, your stuff was really cool. Don't get me wrong. I think that the young lady's ability to execute her ideas and elaborate on them in 2d made a very noticeable difference in the quality of what she produced. Great and very inspiring video. Thanks.

As an animation student/3D modeler myself, I'm impressed and proud that you both learned to use a software from scratch in just a few days. I wish Hansi knew about displacement and normal maps for the 3rd project. This would've saved him a lot of work.

You should do a Part 2 of this video, it was amazing :D You could do a project together, where Martina starts with the scetch, Hansi then does the modelling, Marthina the Texturing etc. So that you guys always switch after a step. I think it would be really interesting to see how similar your minds are, when it comes to doing a piece of art together.

Pro tip for 3D modellers who can't draw: Photo bash something together from a ton of other concept art like you're Dr Frankenstien and then make your own simplified sketch by tracing on top of your photo bash.

the fact that your thumbnail isn't a clickbait, and you guys actually made it, in this short period of time is amazing

As a Blender user, I always forget how tough it was to learn every hotkey. It's like a memory I'm trying to erase...

As a new Blender user: 1. This software is truly AMAZING! 2. Following tutorials is one thing.. putting yourself alone in front of an empty project is a complete different story, you realize how complex it is, modelling, materials, lighting, etc. 3. What a beautiful couple you are!

I love so so much how Martina is on a timer and has a deadline but still uses time to make a mood board. Sign of a true artist. This is a great challenge you should do more!

Actually I don't know which one I would have chosen 'cause Martina's tower looks so cool and whimsical but Hansi's little house is so cosy and cute, and the texture looks amazing 🥺

would be nice to see a combo project where she designs and he sculpts. I feel like their skill level in blender is similar but her designs catch your eye better. on the other hand I like how he does lighting

As a game artist, it's amazing to watch how much you achived in 100 hours of learning Blender. That is seriously impressive. And this shows once more that you don't have to go to art school to learn game development. Everything you need to learn, you can find online

i spent 24h learning blender and i learned nothing 😂😂😂

I've tried learning Blender several times and it can be so tricky to get the hang of. Lots of hotkeys and tricks you need to know. This has motivated me to give it another try and maybe this time I can make the knowledge stick! Great video!

Hansi's final piece looks like a more practical model that would be great for a D&D campaign or even like the kind of houses that Martina's Wizard Tower would have like as a nearby village. Always neat to see what yall come up with, well done to both of you! :D

I have known Blender for a long time, but you guys are the reason why I bought myself a 3D printer. You have had the 3D printers for a long time but finally learn Blender. I feel like there's some sort of cosmic balance in this. Thank you so much for your inspirational videos!

Self teaching Blender. That moment when you start to break through the wall between frustration and finally understanding how it works. That's a special moment. How frustrating was it for the two of you, knowing what one thing you needed to be able to do, but then you have to figure out what language to even use when searching the internet for instructions or tutorials that actually describe how to do that thing? Not that there isn't a wealth of resources, but every video goes through the steps so fast that you don't even know what they did and so you have to keep re-watching. I'm still not sure if I am a bad student or if there are a lot of bad teachers out there, but I'm making my way and designing things that I want to 3D print and that was my goal all along.

The designs were fantastic, but I found myself just enjoying watching the two of you interact. You're so much fun! Every time I watch your videos I feel like I'd love to just hang out with you. You're such a wholesome and quirky couple. This is what UKposts...no, the WORLD needs 💚 💙 💜

Did we enjoy this? Really you have to ask? Not only is it always enjoyable to watch both of you incredibly talented people create, but this time, we get the added bonus of watching you expand your skill sets, and try something completely new for yourselves. Always a pleasure to see you have a new post!

Hansi did an amazing job with all the texturing and stuff on his models! Martina had more fun with shapes, but considering Hansi not being an artist he did so well in Blender its truly awe-inspiring. Like legitimately I have avoided 3d modelling for years bc its so scary but he really inspired me to wanna try it out again.

I loved watching you two do this. You're incredible artists, explorers, and really awesome as a couple and team. Thanks! It's so rare to see people show their learning like this.

That was your first 100 hours in Blender? I am in complete awe of what you accomplished in such a short time. Those models were truly amazing. I love your playfulness and energy, too. Definitely top-notch entertainment in my book.

:honorable slow clap: Both of you guys are excellent digital content creators. What a feat to learn Blender from scratch, then produce 3 polished and beautiful designs each in just 100 hours. Great work Hansi recovering after that reset. Martina, your artwork is always next level. Thanks for taking us along on your journey. It never gets old. ❣

I love how well your strengths combine! IMO Martina is a great designer and she can draw amazing things, but I feel like Hansi really got the upper hand at texturing. Those bricks on the "failed" project were amazing! I can't begin to imagine what would happen if you two combined your respective strengths

I love watching you two work together! I really do learn something new in every video.

I really enjoyed this! I'm just now starting out blender and trying to appreciate my little victories and progress. It was super cool watching you guys learn so much and devote yourself to something so heavily and have it all come out looking great!

It's good that Hansi has finally got his stage confidence and tapped into his inner showman 🙂

Seeing how you guys customized each tutorial project (the differently colored donuts, the differently designed doors) and how it reflects how you two choose to wear your hair really hit me with how true to yourself and your tastes you guys live. It’s honestly incredibly inspiring!

This was by far one of the best challenges to watch! Looks like you two had a lot of fun!...Also what did that golden donut taste like? It looked pretty good!

this was so inspiring to see with two-ish simple tutorials how far you can come in blender! Makes it feel much more achievable!

This was such a good idea!! Also the donut and not making dinner are great incentives lol. Edit: I love that at the start of the challenge you are like "IM GONNA CRUSH THEM" and when you see each others results you are super constructive and porud and not competitive at all

Hey, thanks for the shout-out to my channel you added in the description! 👍‍

i've been wanting to teach myself how to use blender for the longest time and have had so much frustration trying to learn so honestly this video from you is a god sent. so encouraging, empowering, and awesome to see you conquer this and gives me motivation and hope that i can do it too. thanks!

I just started learning Blender, and this is really encouraging that you're capable of this amazing quality in such a short time! I'm gonna power through some projects!

I love how Hansi is more present in this video than others, its really nice to see !!

Im convinced that they both never run out of ideas

I love that even in a competition, they are so supportive of each other. Great job guys!!!

First vid I’ve seen of you guys, you’re amazing!! My attention span is normally way too short for these type of vids but yall made it so entertaining so I’m a new sub🫶🏼

Jeez you guys have such a diverse set of skills and can try anything Good job and thanks for the upload

Martina: "there's something about a sketch that I have turned into a 3D space, that's so freaking cool" Also martina: *has been building elaborate dioramas from sketches for a very long time*

Those good drawing & art fundamentals help so much with 3D modeling/texturing. Good job by both of you!

That was so fun! We need more of these challenges with you two!

I honestly loved Hansi's style! There was something kind of whimsical about the last two that was very cool!

I've been learning blender now for around 3 years you both did very well!! Congrats. Also Hansi I think using the decimate modifier on all the bricks could have helped with the crashing you were experiencing.

I hope there will be a part 2. As a blender noob, this was very fun to watch 🙃

This was so inspiring! I love how encouraging you guys are with each other’s designs. I’m a video game composer but this really inspires me to take up Blender

I really enjoyed watching this. As always, Martina's artistry showed through, but it was wonderful to see Hansi for so much of the video and doing something artistic. He's increadibly creative in electronics and circuitry, but seeing his artistry was just wonderful. I'd like to see more of Hansi doing things like this too, alongside Martina.

Both designs in the 2nd and 3rd round are amazing, and Hanzi's design for round 3 was absolutely amazing for only half the time since he restarted. They're both wonderful!

I’m proud of how crazy you guys went with the designs and creativity. Good job!

Seeing people spend a few days learning what took me years to teach myself is kind of a punch in the gut. Nice work!

Martina and Hansi are such good competitors yet super supportive sports. Bravo to you both! I need to open blender and not close it right away myself. 💕👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Yooo! This was fun. I primarily use Blender for game models. But WOW. If I didn't know for sure that I suck at art before, I sure do now. It's insane what someone with artistic talent can do with Blender and only a little bit of time. I've been at it for a couple years making derpy low poly things, but I was just blown away by the progress ya'll were able to make. Then at the end she was like 'oh, I made a shader for that..' what?! lol omg.. the shader graph still looks like something that belongs on an alien spaceship to me. I just can't make sense of it at all. So yeah, I would say that definitively you were both able to do better and learn Blender in more depth in 100 hours than I have after a couple years. Love that she mentioned the transition from real world 3D space was mostly just 'omg hotkeys' but otherwise it's awesome because copy+paste! For me, also the undo button. lol. I definitely agree and have tried to convince my mom to try digital art by describing it the same way. A Blender hotkey cheatsheet is also awesomely helpful to have open. Very well done, and hope to see more!

I think your excitement for Blender is inspiring. I no longer have access to Maya and I'm trying to learn this as fast as possible. Thanks!

I like both of the final results! Every Project is so beautiful in it's own way! I watched this video as inspiration and motivation, before I start into tutorials. I tried to work with blender once and failed xD. But now I want to give it another try and I really enjoyed, watching you two, getting into it!

I teached blender for over 20 years and that moment when the barrier breaks and the flow starts is always amazing for the student and the teacher. Congratulations 👏🎉

I'm impressed. I've been trying to learn blender for decades, and you guys do it in 100 hours. So much talent you both have, great work!

That was fun to watch! I've been wanting to learn Blender for a while myself. Maybe I'll finally get to it, you two are a good inspiration! Would be lovely to see a follow-up collaboration, you each have some things you're extra good at in there.

This was truly inspirational.! Great models, I love Hansen's lighting. I'm done with the donut and will try the second tutorial

This was SUCH a fun video to watch! I love seeing the dynamic between both of you

0:00 Intro 1:33 Challenge 1 (Donut) 2:35 Comparing 3:38 Challenge 2 (Dungeon Door) 5:37 Comparing 7:00 Challenge 3 (Wizard Tower) 12:30 Sponsor 13:12 Comparing

This is my first time here and just love this! It's like a the modern love of the Inception movie (a happy version) where you two learn and create together. I hope I can do this in the future too! Subscribed and off to watch the rest!

I really enjoy all your work. Love your energy and enthusiasm. I think you are super talented and I love your imagination. Also love the fact that you don't just show the final product but also show your mistakes. Loved this challenge!!!! Super fun to watch 👍

Ahah love this, Martina and Hansi trying to trash talk and then being the sweetest to each other at the reveal 😂 Love doesn't lie!!

Hansi did so good! I kinda expected Martina would win but I was surprised by his performance!!! I think if he keeps working on it he's going to be amazing in very little time!! Great job to both keepers of the nerdforge, you're awesome ♥️♥️♥️♥️!!!

I really love those 100h projects, it really is giving me another perspective. to look at my projects that I want to work on and you guys inspired me a lot!

Love your channel! Your videos always leaves me with a smile on my face :). So talented both of you, keep up the good work!

This was so fun to watch! I hope you guys do more of these kind of challenges together cuz is so fun to see you both! Great video, you are both so creative!

Guys!! This was so much fun to watch both your creative sides!! I'd love to see you two do more of these! Of course nothing can compare to when you build or paint something in real life but this was so fun to watch. Please do some more challenges like this. I love to see the differences in you both. Hansi, I think you kicked it out of the park! Don't ever underestimate yourself, your better then you think you are!! I think you did a wonderful job!! Martina you did an awesome job!! You guys have different styles and I think both were equally as good as the other just different styles. YES!!! If love to see more of you challenging each other with this software!!

eeeeeeeek! ive been trying to learn blender for two years so i can design my own characters, and this has given me so much inspration, especially because you guys are my favorite youtube chanel and i will always look up to you.

Thank You for doing this video. I Have been wanting to learn or at least dip my toes into blender for a while. I appreciate this video and the links to the tutorials, to help anyone aspiring to learn this is just wonderful. Thanks for inspiring me!

So cool! I've started learning 3d modeling as well, and I can share the feeling of being overwhelmed at first. 100 hours and where you guys both ended up is amazing! Well done!

I watched this the day it was posted, but I've been watching a few older vids recently. I just finished watching the old Natural Nerd mini fridge build. Some people might say that Martina's hair is shocking, but I know better. Getting used to her hair after all these later videos, but THEN running across her with "normal" locks is a shock. Also, I just realized I got to see her bracers do their magic. I don't think there was anything wrong with her teeth before, but I know when you are sensitive about something, getting it addressed is so wonderful. In that vein, congrats Martina on getting your teefies all straightened! More than that though, getting the braces off in general. My younger sister had them and her mouth was always cut up. Kudos! I also chuckled at their wonder of reaching 1 million subs (10,000 ...lol...balloon shortages ftl!) and cake party. If you had only known in just 1 year it would more than double.

omg i LOVE the energy that is brought from you guys... KEEP IT UP!! :D

Awesome video. Blender is so amazing! Your computer creations are very impressive. Both your Blender models are excellent.

You guys are so inspirational! I am a graduated 3D artist, but still unemployed because of recent industry laid-off and junior job crisis, so I ve been feeling quite down. And your enormous energy to just go for it and learn something new and interesting gives me my own inspiration and desire to develop my skills further and do some 3D work also for fun because I love it and not only cus its my future and only job Thank you so much guys

I love seeing artists from other fields try CG and blender, and watch how many/what things they do manually. It's such an interesting peek at their thought process. Also she nailed it! The path of success is to come up with shaders to do the work for you lol

That time lapse behind Martina with the window in front of her turning to night...... (chef's kiss)

Beautiful work on both your parts. Blender looks like fun. I enjoyed seeing Hansi in front of the camera for a change. And INTO THE AM's got an amazing selection of graphic shirts. I could eat them instead of donuts, and I love my donuts.

Everything Martina makes is always awesome, and I think Hansi's building looks like a Dwarven tavern from Lord of the Rings, way to go guys loved every minute.

I have to say this was amazing. I have been learning Blender for a few years, and you both did so amazingly. I personally love the cottage because it looks 3D printable (which is what I am trying to focus on) but the wizard tower made such a great setting and image.

That looked fun, I want to go back and relearn "Bryce" a 3d environmental software I started using years ago in my Graphic design beginning. Always enjoy seeing you both support and push each other in these challenges.

Watched every bit of this video. I admire your hard work and enjoyment when you create stuff and edit your videos! You inspire me so thank you for that!

i love that even tho they’re competing against each other they’re still super supportive of each other’s work TT

I am just so in awe of both of your artworks! Working with a new to you program is not the easiest thing to do. I am glad that I have the choice of working with traditional art methods and to leave digital workflow for others! I had to switch to the computer to stay hired for freelance work, but I am just so happy that I have retired from active job seeking! I hope you are able to continue to create using both/all methods for your art journey.

This was amazing! I’ve been using Blender since forever and I’m amazed at how quickly both of you managed to pick it up. It’s definitely obvious that Blender has gotten a lot friendlier for beginners because I don’t think 100 hours is much experience for 3D software and yet you’ve both done incredible work! Clearly - it also shows just how talented both of you are - congratulations. PS: learning hot keys becomes SUBSTANTIALLY easier when you (ironically) learn A LOT of programs. You’d actually be Amazed at how many shortcuts actually make sense under the context of their usage (sometimes even shared amongst softwares of the same kind). So maybe actually try to learn more softwares and you’ll get over that detail you mentioned. Hahaha! At least that was my experience. Anyways cheers! This video is amazing 🙏🏼

you're entertaining people while learning and having fun, this is amazing.