The Blue Inversion Podcast

Blue Inversion started as a 3D artist at age 14. Using only open-source software he slowly began expanding into animation, design and music. Simultaneously honing his programming skills to start selling plugins and shaders under the name “Boundless Blending”

The constant feeling of disconnect from academia, made me quit college in 2019 and go all in with my entrepreneurship DNA. I start fresh, with the new name Blue Inversion.

I wear several hats - Artist, Programmer, Musician along with the business side of how all these fit together as a cohesive singular identity.

Remember all this is happening from my bedroom, in a small town, with no investors or credit line. The complete antithesis to the silicon valley dream. The entire thing is simply powered by the internet and people like you who invest and believe in my work.

And together with you, I dream to make Blue Inversion the biggest brand one day.

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Blue Inversion is a multimedia studio.

We  make audio-visual projects for brands and companies around the world.  We  start from a concept and take it to the finished product. We do  everything from the visuals, animation and sound design.

Apart from taking freelance/contract work as a studio – Blue Inversion also makes music, has courses on creative software on YouTube, a Podcast, a Email Newsletter and a line of 3D software plugins.

Every year, I will make a short video describing my year and what I plan  to do next. This is the first one in this annual series. Thanks for  being a part of the community this year. Cheers :)

In this episode, I talk about two schools of thought on mastery. Mastery  as in skills, trying to learn new software, etc. I explain some ideas I  borrow from both of them and how I am trying a related experiment in  the next couple weeks.

Art series for this episode : "Introspect" | Personal Work

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

Artists mentioned today : Beeple (Mike Winkelmann), Vitaly Bulgarov

Vitaly is my main source of inspiration for sabbaticals and art in general. Here is a clip from the Art Cafe Podcast where he talks about sabbaticals.

Software mentioned today : Moi 3D, 3D Coat, Krita, Blender (of course).

Get notified when the shaders are out, follow my Gumroad.

Thanks for listening,

-Sayan

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/SayanMondalBBlending

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Today, I talk about 4 things that beginner blender artists should focus  on. These are my personal experiences and small nuggets of guidance I  have picked up over the years. I hope to keep adding more parts to this  as I organize more tips together. Hope you enjoy today's episode.

Artwork for this episode : "death crash” | Personal Work

x Goal / Project driven learning with deadlines... 

x Downsides of Blender being a full 3D-suite...  

x Teaching is the best way to learn... 

x Don't forget to have fun along the way.

NOTES:

Blender Artists' Forum

Software mentioned : Zbrush, Substance, Marvelous Designer.

The Real Dunning-Kruger Graph and more.

Thanks for listening,

-Sayan

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Best way to keep with Blue Inversion is to follow the weekly newsletter.

Newsletter: https://bit.ly/34Jgqnn

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/SayanMondalBBlending

Twitter: https://twitter.com/blueinversionx

In this episode, I talk about the time I finally decided to switch over  to Linux from Windows, for Blender. I am happy how today's artwork  turned out. It is also the first episode on Linux, which excites me as a  Linux hobbyist. Many more episodes on Linux to follow. Hope you enjoy  today's episode!

Artwork for this episode : "dissipate memories” | Personal Work

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

x    The Linux Distro I use on my blender workstation & Why.

x    What I hated about Windows.

x    How Linux introduced me to OS-level scripting

x    My Blender + Linux experience.

NOTES:

I mention Linux Mint, Arch Linux and Ubuntu Studio among the Linux distros.

Blender (duh!) and Krita among the software mentioned.

Even Guardian wrote an article on the Windows update issue.

Thanks for listening,

-Sayan

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Best way to keep with Blue Inversion is to follow the weekly newsletter.

Newsletter: https://bit.ly/34Jgqnn

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/SayanMondalBBlending

Twitter: https://twitter.com/blueinversionx

In this episode, I talk about how personal art can help discover your  true artistic style. We discuss how the everydays have sort of shaped a  new theme for my works. I touch on "art series" - an attempt to organize  my artworks a little bit.

Artwork for this episode : "PTSD” | Personal Work

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

Kolkata wikipedia page.

My hometown - Berhampore.

The college that I attended for a short time - Scottish Church College.

My personal ArtStation.

Thanks for listening,

-Sayan

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Best way to keep with Blue Inversion is to follow the weekly newsletter.

Newsletter: https://bit.ly/34Jgqnn

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/SayanMondalBBlending

Twitter: https://twitter.com/blueinversionx

In this episode, I explore some of my honest thoughts on A.I. and machine learning - the positive and the negative. How I prepare and react to it. We also dive into concept art in this context.

Artwork for this episode : "no mail since january ” | Personal Work

The presentation where Elon Musk talks about a brain implant.

Thanks for listening,

-Sayan

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Best way to keep with Blue Inversion is to follow the weekly newsletter.

Newsletter: https://bit.ly/34Jgqnn

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/SayanMondalBBlending

Twitter: https://twitter.com/blueinversionx

On this second episode, I touch on the topic of inspiration and motivation. I thought it would be the perfect time to remind myself of these concepts, so that I do not fall into the trap of skipping a day. I hope you find some value out of it.

Artwork for this episode : ” do not wake him up ” | Personal Work

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

NOTES:

We talk about Instagram, ArtStation, Tumblr and Pinterest. You most probably heard of them. But I am still linking them to their websites, just in case.

Trello and Evernote for taking down text notes. 

PureRef free reference management software.

Thanks for listening!

-Sayan

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Best way to keep with Blue Inversion is to follow the weekly newsletter.

Newsletter: https://bit.ly/34Jgqnn

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/SayanMondalBBlending

Twitter: https://twitter.com/blueinversionx

In this episode I discuss my story - how I came to know about Blender. The format goes like this: I play a time-lapse video of my latest artwork and talk through it. I picked up the topic for this episode myself, but I plan to start incorporating questions or suggestions from the community in future. 

Artwork for this episode : " do not wake him up " | Personal Work

Artwork available on ArtStation.

I am gonna release an artwork every weekday.

Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) has been making an artwork everyday for more than a decade now. He is a big inspiration for this. Since I am starting out with the podcast now, I hope to improve in speaking more naturally as well as getting better at making art.

If you have been with me since 2015, thank you first of all. So if you are wondering what happened to the old show SAYAN CALLING - it is still up on SoundCloud and you can listen to them. But that podcast is dead. Blue Inversion Podcast, i.e. this one is the primary podcast now. Interviews, if any will be on this podcast.

Shout out Rico, Sebastian and Richard from the old podcast. I look forward to bringing them back on sometime in the future. I gotta catch up with you guys again and also get my Skype connection smooth enough to do the call-ins. Till then hope you guys take care if you happen to stumble upon this episode before I catch up on the DMs ;)

Let me know guys how you got started, what your story is. Leave a comment if the platform allows for it. I'll try my best to keep up with all podcast distributors.

-Sayan.

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Best way to keep with Blue Inversion is to follow the weekly newsletter.

Newsletter: https://bit.ly/34Jgqnn

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/SayanMondalBBlending

Twitter: https://twitter.com/blueinversionx