I Finally Tried Blender And Made This 

took me 2 years to finally finish this project the least you could do is check it out artstation.com/artwork/49PVA8 thanks for the love

This was insanely good! I'm just starting to get into Blender and I want to get to a point where I can make my own animated short films. This was wild! What an inspiration!

It's refreshing seeing how you go about creating such a complex character. The details are absolutely gorgeous. Very inspiring!

Now that's some serious artistic motivation. Hope it brings you more opportunity brother

J, You don't know how excited this video has gotten me. 1 year ago I flunked out of 3d art school after YEARS of learning just to land a dead end job. this video really resparked the love I had for 3d art years ago and I'm gonna start making something not unlike this now. Thank you!

Amazing! Great work!

great final results ! kudos !

THANKS FOR SHARING. This is really so well done, informative and inspiring!

You are silly talented. Fun to watch! Thank you.

love your blender work . subscribed

I can really relate to and appreciate what you said at the end of the video. I don't even have average skills and experience in all the 3D stuff we are trying to achieve. Learning and practicing new things doesn't take much time initially, but when you attempt to apply what you've learned before with a few extra steps or when you learn and use more difficult techniques, you might find it extremely challenging to make progress. I always remind myself that I can do other things. This helps me feel motivated to improve in what I'm doing. If it takes a long time, it takes a long time.

Dude, you truly are an inspiration for me when it comes to personal projects. I, and probably a lot of us, get sucked into the daily grind and forget to have fun with our own work. This piece turned out SUPER good too! And, you learned so many new tools in the process! We should all take note! Can't wait to see the next one!

Thank you for making this awesome content! You're videos are very helpful to me as I continue to work on my first character artist portfolio. Also thanks for sharing your zbrush layout it has been super helpful too!

Holy Hell !! You never cease to amaze me with your art J. Reaching this level of mastery is my dream.

I'd never expected I'd see the day Blender stands so fiercely agaisnt Maya, and I'm so happy I never gave up on this wonderful software

Loved the leathers combinations, great costume design.

Glad you made the transition to Blender, a Zbrush/Blender combo es deadly for Character Design

Very inspirational! Love how you elucidate your process, very insightful. Great job as always! 🙏

Outstanding! Amazing work.

The design update section was very helpful. cheers.

Your journey is impressive! I remember been watching a eye tutorial in zbrush from you back in 2016~2017. I'm not practicing anymore but i keep watching your incredible works. Very well done!

This tut is just great!!

that's is insane work and there is still a lot to put in it, 3d realistc art is crazy

Awesome video! thank you so musch.

Awesome dude! Thanks for sharing the knowledge 🙏🏽

Incredible work, man! Great advice and perspective at the end too. Very cool.

This video was incredibly inspiring, thanks. As a beginner artist who started learning Blender about two years ago and has sunk most of that time on a single project, sometimes I feel like I'm too slow and it's like I'm not cut for working as a 3D artist. Seeing that even pros can take a while to finish their personal projects puts me at ease. All the best to you J, keep on making incredible art!

That shot of you after exporting out all the decimated models. I felt that. Amazing work J! Always a treat to watch your tutorials 💙

Hell yeah, love these character breakdowns, cool to see your take on different types of characters and other software packages Hope youre doing well J!

Amazing stuff.... Impressive how you switch between 3d programs.... Pure gold Hill!

Ahh! Your projects always motivate me! Great job, it turned out amazing! 😆

Very impressive! That's true passion to your craft

incredible!!

Dude. Top level stuff. Seriously well done!

What a great work man!! Awesome 👏

It is Just amazing!!!!

all the best

Insane detail.

Completely awesome! Great content as usual!

Such an awesome video and awesome detailed character. Thanks for sharing your process as always, super helpful

I have Blender, play around with it, I always wanted to learn it… this video helps inspire me.

All the best

It's always so rad seeing other artists do they thing...this is nothing short of awesomeness...Thanks for sharing.💙

inspirational.. @26:30 totally agree and loved what u said..

Incredible work!!! 😮❤

Fellow, high respect for your efforts! I am myself just staring in Blender making a character I've long dreamed about, and your advice to take time and have patience during the process cannot be overstated. Thanks for being here, love your art!

I got no words man just blown away with your art🙌🙌🙌 I was waiting for your new vid to come out and this one 🔥

Loved this walk through - thanks.

I'm hoping to see more Blender related content on your channel. Especially some actual sculpting

It turned out amazing! Your work is really inspiring. 😯

Awesome!

Great work as always. Thanks for sharing!

all tre bestttttttt

Awesome video, also thanks for that last part, as someone with a portfolio full of wips and abandoned projects, I get what you're trying to say 😂😅

Your work is awesome as always!

Woooow the realism

Bravo!

Looks like he would fit perfectly in the Witcher world!!! Soo cool!! So inspiring:)

Amazing result😊😊😊

Oh my! You are a true artist.

Man this is fantastic, your stubbornness is really inspiring!

Perfect ending and speech i need that man❤🎉

Man you touched the skies,,,, Great work and so realistic

Very beautiful work man ! Thank you so much for your words and your works ! cheers from France

Amazing video as usual Thanks for the nice moment!!

you're a talented dude

I actually prefer the first hair style you showed. Overall this character looks super badass :)

Great contribution. Great tutorial. You have my like. Thank you so much. Greetings

Yea, nice work. 😎

okay epic project epic character and amazing commentary i learnt quite a bit! Im just starting out using blender for my own workflow and its really amazing what you can do with it! Okay but hot take tho you've essentially made Alt Reality Hiccup and i cant unsee it. Thanks for making such an amazing and informative video it truly inspired me! especially when you talked abt telling a story through your characters i always viewed character art and design as such each character has their story to tell in their design just gotta be real nerdy abt it.

Deserves Soooooo Mucchhhhhh more tham 40K views

J you are a big inspiration to me. You make me feel like getting a job in the game industry isn't an impossible dream. I just started watching you recently but now I sculpt everyday while I play your videos on my other monitor. I just want to say thank you for giving me hope again and for starting this channel 13 years.

Man your works are dope

Cool project, I was just myself recently experimenting with using high poly objects with no UV's and just sending the powlypaint straight to Blender instead of using Substance or Marmoset for textures. I think the poly painting tools are vastly overlooked and I'd definitely like to see more of that !

You did a great job on the suit and looks very nice, the only thing to improve uppon is the anatomy of the face a bit and shaders for it and for the eyes, for blender there is an addon to make realistic eyes and you can use that if you want, great work overall

Very Inspiring!!! Just wow!!!

everything will be good

Awesome Project! Love your videos man!

Wow! Absolutely awesome 🔥

mostly we wanna lower the problem as much as possible. is the detail on cloth or the detail on skin full body which one more annouy? from begin sculpting to baking it. then throw to Render.

So awesome sir.. I have learnt so many things from you video.. ❤️❤️😊

not even a 3d artist but i love your work and the style of videos you make. so inspiring and motivating to watch you work through the struggles of the workflow, i hope you're doing well and i hope we have many more videos to look forward to! :D

That was amazing journey I love it thank you for sharing

Great stuff! Would you ever consider modeling environments for a video? I'd be very interested to see your approach to something like that and how all of your experience would carry over.

worked on it for 2 years... this is absolute mood XD (also, puts dragon on chest... yes, drake knight rises!)

Educational and pleasant at the same time. Who knew?

Fkin awesome! Would be great if you talk a bit about your thoughts on the diferences and pros/cons with your normal workflow in maya.

every single time i watch your new uploaded video i learn something new; and i can say your existance makes this world a better place to live, which this is exactly the pupose of the entire living. TYSM

This is an amazing piece!

The eyes coulda been blinking. Fantastic work regardless.

Thanks!

good job

this is Epic ❤❤❤

The quality of this video and the artwork is so high it is hard to compete!

That project is absolutely Awesome! and very inspirational, Congratulation J, you are right, the Sky is the limit, but to be honest I think the Graphic card always on us world will be limited for moving massive highly detailed elements and also at the rendering moment too, thanks to show us the entire process 💯

I’m so glad I found your channel. I do have a question about your personal projects. Do you do game ready characters often or do you focus more on just character design like high poly sculpts and save game ready for work related characters? I’m still learning and getting into the industry and character design is my favorite aspect of games and stories. I did watch your video about portfolios and what to focus on, and was wondering just how often one like myself should do a full character from start to finish as opposed to high poly sculpts and character ideas? Thanks again for your content, you always have amazing advice and I love seeing artists workflows from start to finish. I’ve been considering getting back into blender after using Maya for so many years.

Love this one….setup tour plsss

hey JHill, any chance you can make a video on painting skin weights? Its supposed to be simple but I hate it and don't know which software is best to do it.

Pure Awesomeness!!!

you're an inspiration