My pc is also very very crappy i really wanna use blender but i cant cuz when i move any object it takes around 10 sec and then it lags and then it moves so much pain😭. I created a table and to render it i had to beg my friend , i transffered him the file and then he rendered it for me i wanna create alot like fluids sculpting but my pc cant om sed :(😭😢😢😢😭😭
+decent gpu/cpu Edit: alright alright, many have pointed out that having decent gpu/cpu are not necessary for learning, And I agree with that, so don't waste your time replying to my comment for the twentieth time
@@FrancoFrames 1. maya isn't free if you don't want to commit a crime 2. who said you NEED to buy plugins? they're just features. most stuff plugins do can be done with default blender, it just takes longer.
Blender is scary, but with the help of RU-vid video's I learned to create music video's and album art in less then a week. Yes, it's a simple abstract animation, with some glare and reacts to the music that runs for the whole length of the song, but It's a nice start. Next goal is create a background animation and the main abstract animation on top. Would be nice if I could just layer these animations in Blender. Would be nice to have a video about layering if it even is possible.
It is possible, using collections, view layers and compositing, here's a tutorial on collections ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u_yIGGhubZs.html
I work with Blender mabe 3 or 4 days and already made a sword model. Just by watching RU-vid tutorials, you can earn a huge amount of knowledge and all you have to do then is practicing. The biggest problem I have with UV-Editing and Texturing, but modeling itself isn't that much of a problem for me anymore. Always remember: NOTHING is impossible. If you really want to learn something and really try it, you WILL learn it. Back then when I was in school, I was so bad at drawing, that everyone, even my family and teachers said, that I will never be able to draw. But now, I draw faces, maps and more. I am still not VERY good, but not comparable with my drawing at school. The same goes with maths. I was so bad at maths, that because of this subect, I had to repeat a grade level. But now, I use maths in my Blender works and at work to practice it. From my experience, school destroys every fun and motivation for things, you might be born for. If you're a prodigy at maths, you won't figure it out before you're out of school. Because school eliminates every motivation for it. It's very sad but true. Next, I want to model a medieval city. I have high goals :D
Learning Blender is like a blender... if you stick your hand directly into it... you're probably not gonna have a good time. But, if you take it slow, and learn all the buttons, you'll get a beautiful smoothie.
One of my biggest problems was materials, textures, UV mapping, and all that. I came from Maya, and over there it was fairly simple and straightforward: you have an object. you go to the Hypershade. Create a new Lambert or whatever. apply it to the selected object, or however many objects you want. Done. it's on the object. When I came to Blender, I found you have to create material slots first for an object, there's a library, textures are in a different place as well. Navigating the properties panel was very confusing. All the extra steps seemed superfluous. I remember thinking: you have to save textures/images or they will be lost? really? wtf? it's not enough to just save the scene??? I still struggle with it.
Luckily I was so determined to not quit, I wrote down notes and everything, and the tutorials were so boring so I never watched them fully and I mostly learned through google and doing things myself
AT THE START YOU DESCRIBED ME! i downloaded blender, watched a few of blender's tutorials, thought it was too hard, then uninstalled it. a year later i started getting into unity game engine and had to learn blender to make models for my game. that was when i realized it's complicated, but pretty easy
I love how Blender Guru's videos are so famous they've become a meme. While giving an interview for a graphics community at my college, they asked me if I've, 'made the doughnut yet'. We laughed about it.
@@IWTBFOY Well I don't use Windows anymore so C4D is no longer and option. Until Blender 2.8 I would have said C4D, but the latest Blender releases are amazing.
I used to work with lightwave, and have an old version of it I got for free. I decided to get a more modern program, and tried Blender. After working with it for 20+ hours, and reading and watching hours of basic blender tutorials, I still cannot do simple manipulations of a box. I looked back and realized it took me just a few hours before I was modeling and rendering simple shapes in lightwave with no manual, but with blender, there's no hope with the multitude of instructions and tutorials. Blender is very eclectic and harder to learn than Lightwave or 3dsMax. Blender is by far the hardest of the three I have worked with.
Before Blender, my mind was a prison for all the ideas that I had. I was dreaming to have a sort of USB connection from my brain to computer to download and make visible all the things that I had on my mind. So, when I discovered Blender it was a sort of epiphany. Finally, I had a chance to set all my prisoners free. I will be forever thankful to Ton for making Blender.
Same and when I finally opened blender and finished blender guru’s donut tutorial I tried to make something from out of my imagination and failed miserably to make it look like how I imagined it so now I’m just spamming tutorials on RU-vid trying to learn how to do things properly.
You couldn't have said it any better! I imagine something and want to transfer it over to blender, however it ultimately fails! ( And then I give up and play videogames for a year. NOT GOOD!)
I saw the title and I jumped into the the video and quite frankly, I was once a believer of the difficult mastery of the software (I was taught Maya and 3DS max instead)... Then I tried with a few videos to help me... And now I absolutely love it!
Number 2 is so true and cuz blender is made with love, I've been using it for 5 years because of you and blender guru thank you CG Geek and blender guru
I've been a 3DsMAX guy since v04 and I found that easy to get into, like an old man into a warm bath but when a friend of mine suggested I use Blender instead (mainly because it was free and game design companies were jumping on board ) I downloaded it and gave it a try... *I panicked, shut it down and quickly deleted it off my hard drive.* Max had such a simplified menu system whereas Blender was like looking at the cockpit of a space shuttle. Even now, as I slowly get back to using Blender, I get that feeling of trepidation simply because it can do so much. I'm not going to let that stop me though! With the help of tutorials made by you and others, I look forward to posting my first models & animations made with Blender.
Blender is easy to use for me. It takes a month to understand all basic things however, learning shader nodes is a bit tough for me so I always watch tutorials.
Coming from maya there's an added layer that makes blender difficult. You know what you want to do but blender adds many steps to a lot of operations (like turning on edit mode, moving the cursor or not having literal transform groups for example). Many of the things you want to do have a different name so google won't help you find it. Lastly, if you're an advanced user sometimes you will try to search how to do certain things and a vast majority of what you find online is pretty early-level stuff so it can be hard to find help online for these specific goals. Also I won't hold blender too responsible for that but blender python is a lot less friendly than maya python, mel, or houdini vex. Also a lack of coded expression (though at least you can set up drivers like expressions). A lot of my gripes on the coding/expression side will be eased with the upcoming updates to the geometry nodes at least.
I downloaded and tried to learn it two decades ago. I spent about a year and still couldn’t figure it out. I’ve since been using Maya and Max. Then the UI update came around a few versions back. I tried it again with no luck. Too many hidden shortcuts and the navigation did not mirror Max or Maya which was a huge turn off, not to mention selecting objects with the right mouse button was not intuitive for someone who has been using industry standard software for decades. Now, fast forward to 2.9 with the “industry standard” keyboard shortcuts... so much better. This mode still needs more love to bring all features of the application in line, but still, it functions enough for me to feel like I’ve actually made progress making the full switch. Very robust program, very flexible. Although some things need a bit more automation and better tools. Take grease pencil for instance... when adding a grease pencil object there is far too much setup before you can actually begin drawing. Same with dynmesh options and moving between objects when sculpting. If you go to edit mode dynmesh will deactivate every time. Anyhoo, it’s not doable for someone with industry experience to begin the transition without feeling like they will be learning conflicting habits like differences in navigation, selecting objects, and other such basic navigation functions.
I've tried blender multiple times, spent time making the donut from the blenderguru tutorial. And other tutorials before, however the keyboard shortcuts are imo about an intuitive as looking at the Apollo lunar lander controls system and given a manual for a submarine. Second the interface may be better now but it's very easy to hit a random key on the keyboard but you also held shift, alt or ctrl and end up without a viewport no axises and the inability to place something because you managed to change the renderer. Then there's the problem with faces on objects, you want to add some extra geometry and delete a face but you end up right clicking dragging your cursor and changing about 10 things, hit undo and everything went back to how it was. Oh wait no. It decides that a setting is now different and you can now see through the part with something stuck to the cursor and no way to place it or get rid of it. So it's easier to start from scratch than be confused for 3hours as you try to backtrack your mouse clicks making it 100 times more complicated and end up AltF4ing and your life then becomes a lot less stressful.
Unintuitive? Lol. E = extrude (because extrude starts with E). Ctrl F for face menu because face starts with F. Ctrl V for vertex menu, Ctrl E for edge menu. Lots of intuitive hotkeys for common functionality. Clumsiness doesn't make something unintuitive.
I started with Blender last Saturday. And i simply love it! I've already turned out my first projects based on what i wanted from the software and am taking it from there. So much fun!
To be honest, I think the main reason I didn't really understand it, is that I never really have the time to. If I'm not at school, i'm at my moms house, which I can't bring my pc to.
ive been using blender for a few days, the interface seems pretty good so far. my biggest frustrations as of now are how to deal with "artifacts" that occur in the mesh when im trying to sculpt figures. also the process of adding "metalballs", or another mesh shape throw me off. i cant figure out how to correctly join them together, so i can connect a figures head, to their neck etc. its really only been 3 days so im not planning to give up or jump to another software. i think this is just typical of what new users have to go through. ive watched many tutorials on how to join mesh or using boolean. I seem to only understand the process based on what the person is doing during the video but have no idea how to apply it to my own project. also not knowing how to use dyntopo and when to deactivate it... blender is really cool though, im working on something now that i cant finish because anything i brush is covered in "artifacts" that wont go away. ill keep practicing regardless
For joining meshes while sculpting (mainly organic shapes): 1) Join the two meshes using Ctrl + J 2) Enter sculpt mode 3) In the top you may see a button for remeshing 4) Pick the Voxel Remesher 5) Choose your settings 6) Done Obs: this workflow works mainly for sculpting organic models, it is not optimal for Hard Surfaces.
I have this problem with game engines, I have a really hard time with standard coding but I easily grasp and understand visual scripting most of the time, unless it's godot visual script. But I find blender really easy to learn and I keep learning new things!
Working professionally with 3Dsmax for 10 years and Maya 9 years, I'm watching blender since 2013 but I couldn't make the transition due to cumbersome UI. From the 2.8 and after I dedicate like half a year to learn it and I'm almost completely have switched to Blender and never looked back. I really love it.
I somehow thought it's very complicated, expensive and takes gigabytes of disk space. Then just out of curiosity I looked up the price and was BLOWN AWAY to see it's completely free, it downloads in no time and with a good tutorial you get started really quick! If you want to calculate that value to cost ratio, you get a divide by 0 error, because that's how amazing it is.
I started by making simple texts , metallic and gloss3d texts , then I deleted blender , a month ago ,I downloaded it again , started by learning basic tools and making a monster by just cubes and then I made another scene , kinda retro looking scene all by myself! It's all about getting started and sticking to it !!
Can you make a tutorial on commercials like the latest Sony earbuds commercial is just dope, it would be interesting to animate all the transitions and add music and vibration effect please upvote this so that CG GEEK can see this
I started with 3D Max 3.1 back in the day and tried Blender a few years back. Gave up because it was so different than what I was used to. I am thinking of getting back into 3D Modelling again with Blender 2.8 as I will have to relearn everything from scratch.
I think it’s my third time trying to learn blender in 12 years ... to me, the UI was what made me give up the two first times and the change in said UI the reason I’m giving it a final try. The UI issue included things like strange behavior because it was not clear what was happening (normal orientation for example) and the right click for selection! I could never get used to it! Even when it was possible to change it in the settings, a lot of things would only work with the “normal way” in mind and all tutorials and docs would use the right click so that was hard to follow ...
I Im a 3Ds max artist of 16 years and am currently in the process of learning blender for the first time (about a week and a half in). For me there have been a few hangups: 1. things don't feel like they are in the right places. Where as if i am in vertex mode in max ALL my tools are right there, in blender i frequently have to go looking. 2. It takes more clicks to do the same thing. for example, I can't just click weld verts and be done, i have to go through the process of right click>merge vert>at centre. 3. It feels less accurate. in max i can bevel an edge by 1mm easily and it is clear i have done so due to the dialogue box. However in blender the information is in a line of text which camouflages it. 4. The blender community CAN be a bit...... intensely loyal..... On the other hand Blender is free. so..... To be clear, I am new to blender, so some or all of these issues may vanish as i learn my way through the software.
If you want to learn Blender, you have to waste hours realizing you can't select another object until you exit edit mode ahahahaha! It's the little things that will drive any beginner nuts. Most of the time, it's something extremely simple that you didn't realize you did or forgot to do that screwed everything up.
Regarding UI and learning where everything is in a program and how to get good results: I think of it as being in a new game with huge levels. I do better with a guide, I always take a while (whether I want to or not) to memorize the map, then I learn what moves work, and develop muscle memory to do them without thinking about it. Before I know it, I’m blowing through early stages I thought were so hard. Then I have start to have fun and get satisfying payoffs almost every time. I don’t start a game or a program knowing everything, but I want to learn, and I give myself time to do that.
I done alot of work on AutoCAD, Revit, AchiCAD, and SolidWorks so I expected to understand everything rather quickly now I realize there is soo much functionality and I just need to learn one thing at a time
I'm just starting, but I have a background in 2D art & this is what I'm finding. - After coming off of Photoshop, I found Blender's controls quite hostile. - I really don't want to give up on 2D animation, so I wasn't eager to jump ship.
I just non stop watched tutorials for about a week and now i know the basics of modeling, sculpting, realistic texturing (with displace and bump maps), and physics simulations!
Although we use Maya, Max and C4D at our studio, blender is still very close to my heart cause it was the first 3D software I've used back when it was only 80 mb
3D is back! I havent used "other big 3d for Windows NT" for over 20 yrs, they were expensive! From Lightwave 5.5, Kinetix 3D Studio Max, Softimage Sumatra, Alias Wavefront Power Animator days. We artist and hobbyst need money for food. I had to suffer with only Caligari Truespace demo. Until just last month, a hunch in my head - what's free in 3D these days and I found blender with that "Big 3D for NT" feel! No matter what, artist will create something from nothing.
2.0 was horrifying, and I did try a couple things and gave up. Not to mention the fact that tutorials inconsistent and random for the versions. Just found your channel and am willing to give lender another try. Thank you for existing.
I’m learning with blender gurus donut tutorial. It’s great. I’ll do your ice cream tutorial too. I’m going to need hundreds of hours to get the basics down.
You know what, fuck this, you're right. I've spent days trying to learn C4D and the issue isn't that only it costs money, but also that 99% of youtube tutorials rely on third party renderers which also cost money, chief of them of course being Octane. The fact that Octane has a free version for Blender is what sold me on it. Time to start over I guess.
I learned 3D studio max at uni. I only did a couple of lectures and tutorials before i could create an animation. I've been learning blender for over a year. Recently I tried again to do tutorials, follow them and to attempt my own thing. 2 months later I still can't get a simple material to work on my objects. I've done UV mapping, using unwrapping, one tutorial where you can move the image to fit the unwrapped map, another where you can re position the pieces unwrapped, another where you can paint on an object directly, another simple one with a cube and painting individual squares and placing it on the cube in the correct order. Go back to my own project. Not working. Same with lighting and particle systems. The fact i had little training and could create a complete animation on my own and now can't even put a material on an object or light a scene. Knowing other people figure it out just adds to the feelings of hopelessness i feel about the whole thing.
I think its really easy to learn...but only if you dont know ANYTHING else. I'm a Maya user and I have been trying to learn Blender for a few months on and off and I always end up quitting just because everything works so differently to what I'm used to. I know its not a priority but I do hope that the blender team in the future make the transition of industry standard software a little easier with more tailored keybinds.
Good advices. People think it has no value or it's "complicated for sport" because it's free. But it's just the best software ever, and requires time and dedication to be used. Surely it can't be learned in a couple of days watching one video. It's like wanting to play the guitar after having watched one video about Steve Vai or Chuck Schuldiner playing
The problem is not blender being hard to learn, it’s peoples attention span is shorter than a sneeze now a days. I started learning Blender about 10 days ago, and it is superfun! The people complaining is the kind of people that wants the rewards without doing the work.
For me, the most difficult is shading and a lot of textures, windows, this combination with this, that with that ... Modeling is also difficult, but everything is work. I started a donut like most beginners I didn't know and I was wrong..To do the same project again in 20 days and it went much better and faster..I learned a lot of things..It's easy when you have someone to learn from
The thing that really drives me crazy is the alien navigation. In most of the 3D programs, you use Alt + LMB or RMB to rotate and zoom. But blender uses MMB to rotate and Ctrl+MMB to zoom and Shift MMB to drag. I mean you don't need 3 different combinations to achieve that. Another thing is to 0 things out which is important to animators and modelers. I found no buttons windows to set an object to its original position or reset the object position to 0. It makes me impossible to set my rig to its bind pose... I really want to learn blender that I tried searching for tutorial videos(Guru) thousands of times... but yeah it's free so I quit after using 10 mins.. and went back to Maya
I also feel like some people straight up copy every single action in a tutorial without actually learning anything. They even refuse to modify some of the optional things in a tutorial, like colors and such.. Honestly though, it usually depends on how the creator is handing out the information. I've seen some explain things with the "go there, click that, increase that" method with no regard to actual teaching whatsoever.
The only thing I can do in blender is to create the donut. In which I suffered somewhere around 10 days, watching blender gurus videos over and over again. Such a pain in the neck. But someday I hope I'll get there.
I tried leaning blender ,but I couldn't get anything so I uninstalled,after a year later I downloaded the 2.8 version and to my surprise I could pick things up now with the right tutorial. It's not easy ,it's complicated and takes a long time to master,you just have to focus on one aspect at a time since it's a very versatile software,you will still get there
I’m still using 2.79 because the 2.8 series seems so much different and unfamiliar. I said the same thing ten years ago about switching from 2.4 to 2.5.
I think one thing a lot of people forget to realize is that they should start simple rather than complicated. I know when I first got into Blender and even now I desire to make something amazing and over-the-top. Although, most of the time these projects and desires don't always align with my abilities. For example, one time I wanted to make a short film based off of a short-story I created. Although I didn't have the assets, experience, or knowledge of how to continue. I didn't have the character models I wanted and didn't know how to make my own. I didn't have any space ship models for it either and had to depend on free models from sites like turbosquid. Alas, I gave up on the project for the time being. So, basically don't let your desires take over completely. If you're on your own and think you can make even a short film with no experience, or resources, think again. You'll end up like me creating the project then realizing after several hours of work that your project was too ambitious.
i tend to prefer maya and recommend it for people who are learning for one simple reason: the interface is super well organized. You can figure out pretty much everything just by staring at it, every tool you need is a click away from you, all organized on the shelves, on the same place on the screen and they are really easy to get the hang on. Blender is undoubtly a very powerful software (and it's free) but the main issue is that it relies mostly on keyboard shortcuts that aren't very intuitive at first, so if you're a begginer with 3D it's really hard to learn the fundamentals while trying to memorize all the different keyboard combinations. If you're starting out with 3d, go with maya, the 30 day trial is enough time (if you use it well) to get the hang of how the fundamentals of 3d work, after you understand that, you can move on to blender and focus just on learning where all your tools are
Others: Damn, Blender is much harder than it looks! Me: Damn, how they even use SFM just grabbing bones and props while scrolling timeline, instead of doing same thing, but with infinite amount of keyframes in order to make every single move fixed?
I was definitely in the "Blender is too hard" camp when I was just trying to make widgets and doodads for my Unreal Tournament maps as a teenager. But stunningly, I come back to it mainly using the compositor and the Sequencer and all the hotkeys I learned from my failed modeling came back to me. None of the time is wasted. And while arguably the new UI or the 2.7 UI weren't that bad, the OLD old UI definitely was. Oh boy.
NO ITS NOT. You just need practice, and the spirit to do it! I'm a beginner, but I find it very interesting since you can create custom objects, You can make animations! Did you think that the shading tab is complicated? Just watch videos about it I'm sure it will be more interesting!
tried learning the program since 2015 I think I'm finally getting into it after a couple of years since I have practicals for college that requires me to use blender It's a fun learning process
I was, and still am part of that group of people, but that’s mostly because I’m not really in it for the 3D modeling and far more for the animation and motion graphics side of it, where the UI isn’t as polished, and where the software is super focused on delivering very polished and precise results rather than on ....producing a volume of material Like, you don’t see any info graphics, history, science, tabletop gaming channels making their videos with Blender, because....yeah it may not be that hard to use blender but it is next to impossible to make video fast using it. A couple weeks ago I started changing the registries on some Star Trek ship models that had the numbers baked into the meshes, and I had to force myself to start understanding the tools. They’re super tuned for sculpting and actually quite good at that purpose.
I used to think blender was impossible but I'm starting to get the hang of it. I've still only scratched the surface though. One thing I hate is the program keeps changing so tutorial videos get rendered obsolete constantly.
I actually just started on blender today. I don’t think it’s hard to work I just think people think sculpting is easier than it really is. I’ve messed around and now I know how to use it I just need to learn and practice!
When I installed Blender I wasn’t completely confused from it. The first thing I remember doing is left clicking the default cube and middle clicking to go around the viewport. I myself got a bit supervised that I learned that so quickly by myself. If it wasn’t for Blender’s unmatched community, the program wouldn’t be the same. Well the actual program is great but the community really helps the starters get good.
I'm still trying to know were the tools are and how to make 3D animations . But i have to say cg geeks videos are perfect ,clear and help me alot thanks man, thanks
I am years learning Blender only on and off. From few minutes to hours in a day, I learn by exploring interface, experimenting with objects, playing with tools, etc.
When so many people's first complaint is the UI and keyboard shortcuts, they eventually need to stop being so stubborn and switch to some industry standards. Luckily you can remap most anything, and once I did I actually started making progress lol.
Yes, I clearly remember the "terror of the default cube". Now, I just press A then X then create. Honestly speaking, I started using Blender more and more after the UI was changed in 2.8, it became easier for me to adapt. Blender for Life!
