Switching to Blender 2.8 for Advanced 3D Artists 

I've been using Blender for 7 years (2.8 for a couple of months) and still learned some new things from this :D

As a 42-year-old guy from China, self learning blender to make my dream as a 3D artist, flippednormals is my paradise to learn stuffs, also brought your tutorials as well to learn zbrush and substance painter. If we have such good tutorials in Chinese that would help us a lot, especially for our film industry developments. You know, in China, lots of tutorials are really not that good. I am very happy to see you guys making such good and free tutorials for us, it really helps. Also, I am new to blender and love it so much. Hope you can produce more tutorials like character development, retopo, texture baking, substance painter 2 blender workflow, rendering, rigging, animation, compositing etc. I definetely will support you guys and brought all the tutorials. I want to learn the whole process! Thank you! P.S. we have a lot of good programmers in China, and I do believe we can be a force to help develope more addons for Blender, also like combining with motion tracking, facial tracking hardwares, there is really a lot of possibilities for blender to be more easy to learn to apply for both commercial and film. Finally, sorry for my poor English, hope I did not say something wrong hahahahahaha! :)

Tip for speeding up your workflow: Q is your Quick Favorite menu, it is view context sensitive i.e. different quick favorites will show if you are in object or edit mode. If you know you will use Grid Fill a lot, and you don't really want to go through the trouble of setting up custom hotkeys for it since it doesn't have a hotkey by default, you could go into edit mode, find it under the Face menu, right click it and add it to Quick Favorites! Highly recommended for applying transforms or all the origin stuff, saves you time going into the menus and no hotkey hassle, just hit Q :)

25:07 *jaw droped, mindblown*

I'm an intermediate Blender user that has never used any other 3D software before but I still learnt something I didn't know, that you can reset values by hovering over and pressing Back Space. Totally worth it.

20+ year Lightwaver here. Excited about everything Blender has to offer.

I was about to quit trying to learn blender until I found this video. Thanks a lot for sharing!!!

Great, many people will benefit from this.

finally transiting to Blender as main Modeling tool professionally, that tutorial is super helpful, thanks guys !

Getting the whole studio to switch thanks to this vid!!! Thanks Guys!

I never watched a flipped normal video from start to end other than this one. It is extremely helpful for someone like me who has been using Maya for years and not really keen on starting from scratch making a donut or an apple. This video is jam-packed with extremely useful techniques and hotkeys (I believe even for people who already know how to use Blender). Thanks a million for this epic video ;)

I'm learning Blender 4.0, comming from 3ds Max and Mudbox. This tutorial is still relevant! Great, short information for people who are changing Software. Makes the transfer realle a bit smoother. Thank you for making this video! -very useful!

I'd advise new (yet 3d experienced) Blender users to check out the preference options for zooming - Navigation > Zoom > Zoom Methed - use 'Continue' the first option - it's ace! Literally one of my favourite things about Blender is it's super smooth interaction; once you've tried Continue, everything else will seem wrong and clunky!

Blender really needs to adopt Maya's D & V pivot shortcuts.

Ah, yes, this is what I needed. I'm used to Maya, Max and C4D and all the useless "beginner tutorials" were getting on my nerves like crazy.

Ctrl+f will give you the grid fill and you won't have to search. It's faster.

This is my current journey, I've been using Maya for years, and now prepping asset to bring to the blender world. Thanks for this

What I love the most about this is the description timestamps. because when I forget something I can just click em. Thanks for that and thanks for the tutorial X

I am so jealous that you mentioned everything I knew about blender for the last 2 years plus so many tips and tricks but in one video! very helpful tutorial! this would be the video I would make If I should make a blender tutorial and I am very happy that you guys believed and committed to Blender!....I really like the pivot around a given vertex/edge/face

You Guys, thank you soo much for this. This will help a lot of new comers or those who want to try or to switch to blender. Thank you for helping out the community.

Started learning blender 1 week ago. Its great. Eevee runs on my 2012 macbook pro and this is nuts

WOOOOOOOO, Just went through all of that, took like 4 pages of notes. Thank you, I am surprised you guys remember all of this on the spot. So pretty much BLENDER is it's own little world, just like ZBRUSH.

31:51 I'd never thought that kind of options are in the keymap menu. Thanks, you saved my day.

I'm using 3ds max since 3D Studio R3, and I was hoping for a tutorial like this since 2.8 came out. And finally grab my attention. Thanks for this.

Great video! I'm two weeks into my Blender switch, and this would'be been a much better start for me! Still learned quite a bit. Only thing I would add as critical knowledge: Alt + Middle-Click focuses the viewport where you click. (Like frame selected) (Not sure you mentioned it but I use it constantly now and makes navigating a breeze)

Since there will be a lot of pro users here i want to share this powerful tip that I've only heard mentioned a few times. It's a feature in blender I've never seen in another program. Everyone is familiar with the modifier keys Shift, Ctrl, and Alt. If you are customizing your hotkeys it is possible to set any key to be a modifier key. I personally use ~. ~ +A or ~+C, etc. In the hot key editor, under where most keys say Press and next to the check box for Cm, there is a grey box, click that box and set your key. Hope this helps someone.

You might have mentioned this later but when your talking about collections. They can be used like a groups (provided I understand properly, I've never used Maya) You can right click on the collection and click 'select objects' Or if you select an object in the collection and press 'shift G' it brings up the menu for selecting different types of 'groups' and collections is one of those. One of the cool things is the menu pops up with the last option you selected from the list under your cursor. Glad to see you guys doing more Blender tutorials!

this time you really made me watch a full 50 minutes video about blender Great explanation tx

Great, thank you very much. Tipp: At 3:25 you say translations, scale and rotate "need" to be done in object mode. You can also do them in edit mode, and that has the advantage that you don't need to apply those transforms. The object mode I am only using with the modifiers or addons made especially for the object mode, e.g. Fluent and Speedflow.

For anyone wondering, @ 28:31 the way to now move the origin point is “R.Ctrl .”

I've been struggling getting into Blender coming from C4D and this was a huge help, thanks Y'all!

This is so useful. Transitioned from Maya and I'm surprised how intuitive Blender is. Really good to just quickly get the lowdown.

Thank you guys. Need to learn this software!

I am a modeller/texturer and most of the time I work from home which means I have to rent Maya every time when I need it. Learning Blender will change this.... Thanks for the great video!

ive been wanting to get into blender for a long time after using zbrush, this video makes it much less intimidating. thanks!

been using blender for a while, still learned something from this. since you asked, I'd like to see sculpting onto a retopo'd mesh using the multi-res modifier. thanks!

Loopcut (Ctrl+R) then bevel tool (Ctrl+B) what a god send, been googling my ass off for that functionality. My guys.

You can move your origin point manually by going to the options pull down at the top right of the viewport and check on "affect only" "origins" and with the manipulator you can move the origin anywhere you want. Thanks for the video :)

Hover copy and hover paste. Hover the mouse over a value you want, copy it, hover over a second value and paste it. Works on colors too.

you are making me Love Blender :3

I would really appreciate a tutorial on industry standard settings. I refuse to use Blender standard settings as it will make it impossible for me to fluently switch between Unity or Unreal and Blender. I have worked with different sets of basic controls before, and it made all programs a pain in the ass. No way Blender standard settings are worth it if you work in more than one 3D program...

Thanks for this, I want to learn More about Blender

Love the video guys. Kinda wish that soft select had a visual heat map like Maya.

It is such a fantastic tutorial! Well done, FlippedNormals. Thank you for your efforts.

My favorite UI thing in Blender is the Quick Favorites menu. Just right click on almost _anything_ in the interface and you'll see an "Add to Quick Favorites" option. Pressing Q will pop up a list of all that you've added. It's context sensitive, too (so things related to editing will only show up in Edit Mode etc.). Some of fundamentals I always have in the Quick Favorites menu: Wireframe, Face Orientation, Lock Camera to View, and Auto Smooth.

Hello, I was a user of Maya and for me it was almost impossible to switch to Blender, but to adapt I had to activate the “Pie Menu” addons, it is quite similar to working in Maya. You should include that to change from Blender to Maya, it helped me a lot and I think that without that addon I would still use Maya and never have touched Blender. :)

Holy crap, thank you for making this video. I've been modeling professionally for about a decade now in Max and Modo, but have been eyeing up Blender recently. It is excruciatingly painful sifting through beginner tuts to find the info I care about.

Great video, even after a few years I learned some new things XD 28:30 You will be able to move the origin point in 2.81, more info in Blender Today #74.

we need more tutorials like this! I'm sick of "Beginner" spam

This ... this might be worth learning.

Yep. This video is exactly what I needed.

I ♥ Blender Finally it's catching on

This is a video that you should absolutely watch after your first 10-15 hours on Blender.

I made my own hotkey setup, neither blender nor the industry standard is fitting my needs :P

Really cool video - got me kickstarted pretty well! Thanks for sharing and keep up the great work!

I love you! Lol I’ve been wanting to switch for a while but just like you said it’s a slog trying to start from ground up in a new program...

Incredible usefull video, thank you

Really good presentation! Thanks to Andrew from Blender guru to share this.

HI guys, I am a 3ds max user for more than 15 years ( you can take a look to my channel to see what I do) and I am trying to switch to Blender but being honest, there are some things that I still miss from 3ds max, like the maxscript community and some amazing plugins out there, but talking about workflow, here are some of the things that come to my mind right now. 1. Materials are deleted if not used: This was one of my first surprises when moving to blender because I never heard of that before or even expected from any 3d softwares, so I started working on shaders and materials ( trying to create a personal material library to migrate my projects from max/maya to blender) and I spent a while creating materials and applying them to a simple shader ball to see how they looked... when I finish my day I just save the file and close it... my surprise was huge when only the latest material applied to the shader ball was there the next day I open the file and then I realized ( google it) that you need to apply all your materials to a real or "fake" object if you want to preserve them after closing the software... I know this could be useful to keep files smaller and clean but this was weir... 2. The splines: I know these days modeling with splines is not as popular as before, but I still think that 3ds max has the best spline workflow of any 3d software because it works similar to Autocad or even like Illustrator ( not as good as illustrator obviously), but Blender splines workflow is really confusing and not as intuitive as expected ( maybe it is more related to maya splines than 3ds max splines). 2. The snapping workflow: as you shown in your video, the origin and the 3d cursor are a very powerful combination, but in 3ds max you can just drag an object from a vertex to another object vertex without the need of changing the origin or 3d cursor or pivot ( like maya), its my personal opinion but I think it is faster in some cases and even more intuitive. 3. Selection Crossing: I dont know if I am missing something or if it is not possible to achieve this in Blender but in 3ds max this feature (auto window crossing) allow you to easily select Objects/SubObjects easier including or excluding by selection direction (if you do a selection region from left to right it will behave different than if you do the same region from right to left). 5. The Outliner: The Blender "outliner" is very powerful but there is something that bothers me and it is when I select something into the scene that is way deep into a hierarchy, it is hard to see into the "outliner" automatically, it only show a subtle "light grey" color into the parent object, I know I can press the "dot" key and it will show the object, but I dont get why I need to do that... maybe I am missing something here, but I expected that this behavior should be automatically or at least have an option to automatically expand children... 6. Object Size: Like you mentioned in your video I expected that I could change the size of a primitive whenever I need, but Blender only allow you to access those values on creation because after finish, it "collapse" the object, so if you need to do a further adjustment in size, you need to approach with another workflow... In conclusion, thanks guys for your videos, I am improving faster than I expected and each day I think I am closer to my goal of fully migrate to Blender for my personal projects ( I am just starting with modeling, but later I should take a look to animation, rigging and rendering to see how powerful it is).

Amazing reference video, and thank you so much for the timestamps.

This is very helpful

one very useful tip : add features to "quick favorites menu" by pressing right click on almost anything (toggle menus; modifires; set origin to object; etc. - "add to quick favorites" and than pressing "Q" in view port and use that chosen "quick favorites". you can create you own set of most often used features. highly recommend to work that way.

Im blown away with this software. Making a recent transition from C4D, since Maxon has been making some weird moves towards their older perpetual customers, as well as not developing quick enough... Big thanks for this awesome video!

I don't get it but at the same time I love it cuz I know Blender for over 10 years and all that work people put in to this software finally shows great it is. The amout of tutorials that are on youtube is growing and growing so quick and some many people actually see potential in this program, this is just insane how Blender developed during these years

Great tutorial to learn blender for beginners

Thank you so much. Just started blender now and got into a wall since all tutorials are from 2.79 backwards

omg this is so USEFUL. thank you

why dislike a video like this

Thanks you guys, this was the best surprise my life could get right now.

Fantastic rundown of Blender. Thank you!

Awesome, thanks guys. Just what I needed!

I have been waiting for this tutorial. Great!

EXCELLENT dude

I've been using Blender for years, but every video I watch there is one or two little things I didn't know. In this video I had no idea about alt+e (I always extrude 0 depth, then hit alt+s), and I didn't know you could double tap i for inset individual. I doubt there is any single Blender use that knows every single trick, so thanks for this video that allows us to tap into the hive mind a little :)

thank you

Good job, there were some shortcuts, tips and methods shown that I have not seen anywhere else. For Free software this is awesome, and like you said there is a lot of other stuff you didn't even touch on. I am a total noob in 3D, but this software makes me want to learn, pity it can't improve my creative side .. lol I just wish they would allow you to import Solidworks cad models, cause I can use that.

Thank you so much for this video!

Awesome tutorial as usual guys, thanks

Little information: Some shortcuts vary alot depending on the keyboard language you use. For example the cam pie menu is on Ö. Also keep in mind that some programs like Geforce Experience usually use Alt und a key (in this case Z) to open up, so either unistall them or change hotkeys. For the example I simply changed the xray in Blender to Alt + X.

Gonna wait for Blenders userbase to grow immensely and that will pressure autodesk to make maya "buy to own" again. Thank you all for your hard work guys! :D

nice pro tutorial .... finally some light on how many tricks contains blenderino.

Thanks guys

super helpful

sound great, thanks for this

Awesome, this will help for sure!

Exactly what I needed. Thanks!

Nicely done again .. this is a much-needed quick summary of Blender for folks experienced in 3D. Even after using Blender for years, I picked up a couple of things I never found before. I did have a chuckle, though, around 42:50, when *after* emphasizing the importance of Node Wrangler, you didn't (Ctrl-0) use it to mix your texture nodes, ( and that you didn't drag and drop an image into the texture from the file browser provided for that purpose in the workspace ) .. but then .. If you tried to cover everything, just how fast Blender can be, your 'summary' would be years long.

soo excited! time to level up now

just spent a couple of hours taking notes on this video. awesome stuff as always guys! thanks! sigh... i'm taking the notes to have them but it's really really hard for me to keep "on top of" blender while still using maya at work. i'd be very happy if most studios switched over to blender... then i'd be able to have a completely up to date version of my "work software" at home too. but until they do that, i'm probably still stuck with maya. i confuse hotkeys for maya and PHOTOSHOP as it is... not to mention my brain is cluttered with lightwave techniques from forever ago as well as zbrush (which is a pain in the ass because it's so different but i don't actually get to work with it all that often so that difference is a huuuuuge fucking deal because it's like learning ancient greek again when i have to drop in for a few moments)... trying to keep up with blender at the same time and i think my brain is just gonna pop. but i got your vid and i got my notes so if it ever happens, i'm ready! : )

Me: Spends the last year moving from Blender to Maya Everyone else: Have you seen Blender 2.8? Well, I guess I'll start reinstalling my add ons...

Awesome tutorial!

Awesome video. Thanks, guys. You could, now, do a video for each of the sections of this video :)

Great video guys, so much information in this one video... I learned loads. Personally, Im not switching to blender but using it on the side. I have found, I need familiarity of Autodesk products, so I need to use the gizmo. I haven't got endless memory for hotkeys so Quick favourites and right click menus are my friends. The best thing about blender is that it has its own style to be learned overtime, but it doesn't leave anyone out, especially those who are used to using Max, Maya and other similar programs. The worst thing is the damn Alt key and LMB drag :D.. that in maya would rotate around your model but in Blender is switch between orthographic views.

Man, Blender is hard! Been trying to follow you guys along, but man, Maya and Modo are way more simpler to learn.

Man i have tried two times before to switch from Max to Blender. Hope this time sticks xD

The one thing, that would have been really nice for you to tell us about, was the button to actually render the scene :P

Thanks for the video, I learned a lot and I now feel comfortable changing my main production software from Maya to Blender. Although I don't necessarily think that every single feature in Blender is going to be an improvement (mainly snapping from Maya just being more straightforward and faster), an incredible amount of features are absolute life savers that add lots of quality of life improvements. The video was great and the information was paced super well. At the end you asked for which pains were had changing to Blender and for me this would mostly come down to the hotkeys. The hotkeys seem to be based on the first letter of a function rather than efficiency and speed, which is what hotkeys are for. I feel that if Blender made a keymap that focussed around ergonomics rather than findability I would much sooner consider using it. However, with the standard keys being mapped like this, it isn't worth it for me. Important functions like the Knife and Inset tools are pretty far across the keyboard if your left hand is positioned around Alt and WASD. Also, using the Industry Compatible keymap seems to take out some of the fuctionality of some functions. Other than the default hotkeys, great software that has a definite edge over Maya. Thanks for helping me transition!

After all these years finally found a way to delete materials from blender scene.

I wish there was a video like that for animators... 99% blender tutorials are 3d modeling.

I love this new blender 2.8 so much really. It has really amazing new interface, which is well categorized. Btw. I just started learning maya and I can say its not much easy to learn, but it has so amazing possibilities. Amazing Features. Perfect for handling complex projects and more. But damn it takes time to learn it. I tried out all popular professional softwares over the years. I m learning houdini over 1 year and now I tried out maya and its so damn cool. It just needs a lot of practice to get started it good. Same for houdini.