Oh yeah I definitely understand what you mean, you just want to enjoy your free time after work. That's why I think it's important that a job accommodates you in what you want to learn as well. If you can work with the techniques you want, and are able to apply these on the product your company is working on, that's sort of the holy grail. But unfortunately work at an agency or start up often involves putting out a lot of fires as well. This might be an interesting topic for a new blogpost..
Anyhow! I love WebGL! I restrained myself from diving into it as of yet, because I'm sure I'll lose myself for quite some evenings, haha. Do you have any recommendations for tutorials, etc? And do you have anything online on codepen or such? Would love to see some!
Oh yeah, WebGL is a rabbit hole!
It depends on how deep you want to go - and the beauty of the ecosystem in 2017 is that there are plenty of tools that let you have fun with the fluffiest abstractions, all the way down to the rawest hardcore low-level - in the same framework.
I actually wrote an intro to WebVR (and, implicitly, WebGL) a little while back that covers that exact gamut which might be a good starting point to get the lay of the land:
In terms of personal stuff, it's been a while since I undertook any major projects (again, day job, etc.), but I like to doodle semi-frequently and post stuff on my website. Here's something I just made yesterday - a 3D variation to Dan Shiffman's excellent 10print video: michaelhazani.com/10%C2%B3print/
Oh yeah I definitely understand what you mean, you just want to enjoy your free time after work. That's why I think it's important that a job accommodates you in what you want to learn as well. If you can work with the techniques you want, and are able to apply these on the product your company is working on, that's sort of the holy grail. But unfortunately work at an agency or start up often involves putting out a lot of fires as well. This might be an interesting topic for a new blogpost..
Anyhow! I love WebGL! I restrained myself from diving into it as of yet, because I'm sure I'll lose myself for quite some evenings, haha. Do you have any recommendations for tutorials, etc? And do you have anything online on codepen or such? Would love to see some!
Oh yeah, WebGL is a rabbit hole!
It depends on how deep you want to go - and the beauty of the ecosystem in 2017 is that there are plenty of tools that let you have fun with the fluffiest abstractions, all the way down to the rawest hardcore low-level - in the same framework.
I actually wrote an intro to WebVR (and, implicitly, WebGL) a little while back that covers that exact gamut which might be a good starting point to get the lay of the land:
virtualrealitypop.com/getting-star...
In terms of personal stuff, it's been a while since I undertook any major projects (again, day job, etc.), but I like to doodle semi-frequently and post stuff on my website. Here's something I just made yesterday - a 3D variation to Dan Shiffman's excellent 10print video:
michaelhazani.com/10%C2%B3print/
Have fun with WebGL! It's quite addictive!
I've been wanting to get into WebGL!