Move From Maya To Blender (In Under 30min) blender tutorial for maya artists 

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Yes, it's a real pain point. My team feels it a lot as we have to use both Maya and Blender all the time. Bouncing between them takes a lot of mental gymnastics.

​@@CBaileyFilm ... when you said resist using the 'Industry Compatible'... I wanted to scream. its called 'Industry Compatible' because literally everything other than blender uses most of those keymaps in there tools. if like @MrPanncakes said "I really wish someone could make tutorials using industry standard keys." I think more non-hobbyist would transition to blender. I remember how long it even too blender to add the keymap preset, literal years. Autodesk pushes cheap student software on student to get you hooked on tools you will never be able to afford and that bad. Main problem: you will always be able to remap blender easily. but not all industry standard software are easily remapped. Does that make Industry standard worse? probably, will you be forced to us those keymaps like that in a job yes. Ultimately if your going to be a hobbyist, its fine. if you plan to work in a non-contractor, professional setting, it would behoove you not to be comfortable with industry standard. I've been to mutiple interviews where they sat me down and had me model or animate for about 30mins in front of them. you cant say, "oh what's the hot keys for this software?" Biggest offenders of hotkeys that made no sense. Older Blender, and ZBrush.

I used pay for Maya LT at home. but now I'm transitioning to blender. its has not be a easy process.

​@@CBaileyFilm Isn't there a Keymap Preset for industry standard? Idk why you don't use it immediately

@@kraney195 If you watched the video, you would know why he doesnt

Godess... Doin' godess things ;)

Almost every other tool uses those hotkeys, in fact...Blender's aversion to being user friendly is exactly why it never really cracked the industry when it should have been a contender a decade ago.

Need help blending the pain away just hit me up. I started on maya then after that max now im a blender artist.

@@anubis8370 I refuse to use the blender hotkeys cause i can navigate much easier with the maya controls. its built in from all the many years. Something really useful that i can't find is that f3 shortcut to search for commands. how do i find that without hitting f3?

@Zombies Eat Jerky your right but in this project I'm working on, its cel shading I need. If you every worked with the nightmare that is arnold toon shader or maya toon shader you know the problems. So doing toon shading is my goal which got me looking at blender again.

I love Blender but Modeling in it is such a pain compared to Maya. When I try to migrate back to Maya I miss the "G" move feature. My brain/muscle memory is a true mess.

​@@VeraFX For that I adopted an hybrid of the "Industry compatible keymap" with the rest of Blender hotkeys, so I wouldn't miss out on the tutorials and community support.

Blender is loved by hipsters. Serious grownups use Maya.

Yea because he was showcasing the way you use the 3D cursor and how to use the search menu in Blender but that's not the fastest way to snap any object to vertex. You can change to vertex snap on the top and then move the object and it will snap (shift+tab to on and off the snap). Also, it's very very obvious that you can basically customize the hotkeys in Blender to work more like Maya or something even better than that, so using the default shortcuts as an excuse is kinda lame. Most pro blender users who are working at big studios like CD project red, Bungie etc. they don't use the absolute vanilla blender workflow and shortcuts because it's infinitely customizable with addons and custom shortcuts. Blender bob actually has probably a better video showing how to switch to blender from maya with some decent customization and hotkey changes.

@@gregorybennings8718 seriously, I hate that I fell for Blender stan lies about how great and fast and noob-friendly Blender is. It's an awful mess, more confusing and poorly thought, and despite all the updates and hype, nothing changes, the chasm between Blender and software for pros is still huge

Because there are 10x more tutorials. 😀 Thats the advantage of a free software: More people want to learn it, more people watch tutorials, more tutorials are made because the creator gets more views (= money).

😂

So go to preferences > keymap and change the dropdown to "industry compatible" you'll get your alt key and "f" to focus back. To be honest the hot keys aren't the selling point for me with Blender, eevee is. But this video isn't really about selling it - it's more about how to add it to your tool-kit if you already know maya.

Maya + UE5 is way better than Blender (unless you wanna do 3D sculpting)

You can use the snap tool for snapping objects as well but he's just showing one use of it

@Zombies Eat Jerky what a psychopath are you

Most industries wont restrict you to using a software as long as you achieve the final result that they want. Provided they have the software purchased. Blender is good as it is "free" to use compared to the other modelling softwares

Hope not, Blender sucks so much

If you are looking to get into big AAA studios, then you need to know Maya most likely since they have specific tools they have developed for maya and all other things and they have no reason to change their workflows that are working alright. And besides, you will be working with many many people who uses maya so if you are using blender, it will make the collaborative work harder. But if you are looking to work at small indie studios, chances are you can work in blender, maya, max….etc as long as you can do the job.

@@tomoyaogawa4485 Thank you for responding. I've been learning Blender all this time but I think I'm going to switch my intention is to make this my career.

@@joelt7869 I think there is plenty of tutorials on how to learn Maya :)

Instead of wasting time with Blender, why not go for Houdini instead if you dont like Maya?

Yeah, I remember trying to learn Softimage and getting really painful RSI in a day. The instructor from Softimage even made fun of me, and that put me off the software forever. In my experience it's pretty much the same attitude with Blender. I rely on a narrow TKL keyboard in order to keep my RSI pain down, so I had to remap some of the numpad keys in Blender for that to work. There are still some functions I can't get remapped though. In the past, if you mention this to the Blender devs their reply has mostly been in the tone of: "No, YOU have to change, because WE know whats RIGHT", which is really provocative I think. I hope they don't have this attitude any longer.

Typical Blender thing. Same reason why for many years Blender had right click selection as default. They think they can do everything differently and do everything better then rest of the world. Sadly they are only right when it comes to that "differently" part.

I mean blender is pretty old and was before Maya was a thing so.,..

@@ProjectAtlasmodling its about the same. It was compiled for SGI in 1998, same as Maya. But it was not at all what it is today. It wasn't even interactive at first. And animation didn't really exist until 2000-2001. Nevertheless they completely revamped the UI in v2.8 in 2019, they had the chance to change it then.

@@noxlupi1 And if you count Maya being born out of Power Animator it's even older. A bit of a stretch I know but lots of legacy that carried over to Maya :)

RIP

Blender does have relatively easier weight painting via edit mode.

@@BFMProjectDevelopment Is that a plug-in or native?

Yes, not having "F" for focus is a real miss. It's much nicer having that close by. The rest of the hotkeys have grown on me though, and I find I enjoy the flow. You can actually add F as a keymap for focus in the preferences. I often do that.

you can use alt if you click on emulate 3 button mouse in the preference.

at this point - don't, learn blender trust me

@@BrentonWoods774 I already know blender

Go back to 2008

@Zombies Eat Jerky More jobs in 2008.. Yes! But now, probably just those bigly studios that make for hollywood like the movie "Cars", where the team leaders are 50-60 y/olds (I'm assuming you are too) who probably never heard of Blender and live in their rusty bubble!! 😂😂

Maya is piss easy to learn the basics, basically everything is easier and better and works in the sort of way you would expect it to. It crashes way too often though. There are a lot of legacy features that wouldnt be there in all honestly if it wasn’t dependent on a subscription model (the shatter function must be the same since they made the first ice age movie) but whenever they release something new they do knock it out of the park. Just use blender for what you need to tho, it can be great for geometry nodes and maybe rendering if you dont want to pay the redshift license .

This clown is back again.

do you work in a studio? If you're making indie games, 400 dollars for one year isn't too bad for Maya. Pirating is way too risky nowadays, virus' are rampant. Im planning on using Blender for indie projects... has more than anything I need from what Ive seen. I used Maya for many years, and most features arent needed for small basic games. Id rather put that money towards something else, like maybe zbrush... or assets.

Blender is improving really fast with geometry nodes, they are doing that everything nodes project that is really going to make way more powerful than Maya. I've used both Maya and blender and the only nice thing I can say about Maya is how well it performs under a large of amount of geometry in the viewport

I am a Hobbyist with 3D as a side so Blender is good enough for me, but I would probably use Maya or Max if it were my career. Either way, even as a a hobbyist, I need ZBrush and Substance Painter to do their respective work. Sculpting in Blender never sat with me and still does not.

Naaaah I work in thr industry and even the AAA studios are using Blender, I use Maya more than 4 years and now I have to change to Blender because Maya it's getting very very expensive and Blender it's a ver good replacement even in a professional way.

Lol. “It’s not time”

Because it’s free

Just because of the modifiers… my Maya files are full of duplicate meshes that I keep just in case I need to go to something. Also redoing stuff because of client feedback. With blender I can work in a non destructive way which can be a big time saver. Although I’ve been trying to move to blender for awhile now but I’m not managing to do it. My brains and muscle memory are just so used to maya that I give up very easily. Also uvs in blender are horrible compared to maya

​@@gahb4326if you want the ultimate non destructive workflow i can advise you to check out the modeler plugin for houdini. You get the best of both world with shortcuts and many tools added or adapted to "classical" modeling while retaining the node tree, making it really easy to edit anything.

What? Maya is way more intuitive and easier to use, Blender is awful, user friendly my arse