I tend to become a perfectionist when watching tutorials. And then I mess something up, get discouraged, then procrastinate. I gotta stop doing that and just have fun with it. I'll try making more things on my own. Thanks for the motivation!
this is such a good tutorial to learn anything! going in blender again to make low-poly animations, you’re awesome for this! much love and future success for your channel and projects!
Tyler, just a quick note to let you know how much I appreciated this video. Your story very much lines up with how I've been approaching this daunting task of learning Blender. Thank you for a different view from someone who has already been where I am!
Thank you for this, I've been hmming and hawwing doing various tutorials and just feeling like I'm not grasping things. But this was the kick in the pants I needed to just set out simple achievable goals to start working on to better master my Blender skills. Starting work on my first SMART project now.
A really great video, and applies to almost every aspect approaching a new subject. I sent this to my kids who are very intimidated by Blender! Thanks!
1000% correct.. although I'm only weeks into my Blender journey, I almost quit until I started my own project. I know there's a long way to go but now I feel like I just might get there.
This is a great vid! I've fell into the trap of trying to first learn as much as possible about Blender before even starting...so I wasted a good year or so doing this without even trying to do anything and only doing tutorials, and only recently really tried to do something on my own.... So, I feel that this is great advice from your side. For anyone learning: just go for it. I would also perhaps add to the advice given in your vid, that it helps to define, as much as possible, what one wants to do with Blender. Meaning, if you want to do mographs, or animation, or environments, or characters, etc.... Blender tutorials on youtube are a rabbit hole that one can easily get lost in, and you'll end up watching vids on a subject that you probably won't be using in the near future :) Thanks for reading!
Right now my approach is going to be doing tons of tutorials that interest me (not following exact, aka making it my own) I really believe this'll give me enough of a foundation to use parts from all those tutorials to make my own things. Rather than trying to do 8:40
I just started blender nearly a month now my main goal in blenders is to make 3d anmation and 2d anmation.I'm all over the places with my goal but I know it will take a while but that is part of learning.
I learned Blender a while back but I did give up on it because I felt it was going no where. Been wanting to pick up where I left off without tutorials. My weakest point in Blender is understanding the nodes. I know the interface pretty good to navigate but those nodes is where I am having a hard time learning.
If it makes you feel any better, I am definitely no master of material nodes either. I have definitely gotten better at them over the years, but when I watch someone like CG Matter putting together these insane procedural materials It becomes apparent that I still have a lot to learn. To be fair though, I don't focus as heavily on them even though I should. The point I'm making though is that you're not the only one and definitely shouldn't let it discourage you. Just keep trying and youll get there!
Ive been using blender for about a little over a year and i just can't for the life of me get out of the "beginner stage". I understand the concepts of art and whatnot but the software itself is whats holding me back, and now that geometry nodes are a commonplace and a near necessary tool and how complex they are it just seems to get harder and harder to make any progress in learning the software and i don't know how to overcome it. it doesn't help that there doesn't seem to be any one set way to learn it, at least not without paying an arm and a leg.
I want to make a 1:1 house. I see and work with a lot of houses for my job and my boss is a dream boss and is looking for pitches for new things the company can do. I dont think its gonna come quick but i have fun just thinking about learning so... I will! My expectation is that it could take me a year??? Maybe more or less, to get something i want to present. Regardless of if my work picks it up I thinks its gratifying to say "i made that!"
I'm having an issue with model importing, specifically Daisy (Mario) I've downloaded like 4 different Daisy models (from 4 different games) and every single one when it gets imported it just isn't there like at all; and it reads as an armature? idk what's up with that cause my other models actually load. Speaking of models I have no idea how to ad the textures. I've watched tutorials and only end off utterly, I'm not new to 3d animation I've been in a class before using Maya but Blender I just don't know what I'm doing at all
Do you have a video on all the rendering functions and export settings? I just need to get my head around that completely, because I made a palm tree the other day, and when I exported it to fbx to import in unreal, the tree is white without it's textures, and the alpha clip that I used to do the palm leaves, were all solid meshes in unreal. Looked like a tree with rectangular leaves. Would be great ot just fully understand all the importing and exporting features. As well as a full study of rendering animation or stills. (For example, If you animate a dog running in Blender, will unreal pick up the animation automatically? )
So if I'm being honest, with animations I do not have a lot of experience, but I do know that you can export them from blender to unreal. Now with your palm tree, what it sounds like is you're making the materials in blender, and they are not carrying over to unreal. Unfortunately, as far as I know, they typically don't. The node systems are not identical between the two. Typically, you'd create all of your textures and whatnot, and bring them into unreal and compile them into a material there. You'll want to look into setting up transparency in unreal, as well as some other best practices for create game ready materials - ie, texture packing. Hope this helps!
@@TylerSerino Yeah, make sense, thanks. If only these two would come together and collaborate - so that the rest of us don't have to brake open a 1000 brain cells to make things work.
Texturing is definitely something that has a lot of "moving parts" so to speak. You have to get an understanding of UV unwrapping, along with different methods for actually creating or obtaining the proper image textures. Personally, I have found that for authoring textures, the money spent on substance painter/designer is well worth it, otherwise cg geek has tutorials about capturing textures with a camera, and there are many tutorials on painting them in blender. When it comes to UVing, look into concepts such as texel density, and packing islands. There are a few plugins out there that make it easier. For normal/bump maps, youll want to look into baking form high poly to low poly. Hope this points you in the right direction!
I tend to become a perfectionist when watching tutorials. And then I mess something up, get discouraged, then procrastinate. I gotta stop doing that and just have fun with it. I'll try making more things on my own. Thanks for the motivation!
Sup, feel the same way. Its been a year now, hows your journey going?
How was your journey?
this is such a good tutorial to learn anything! going in blender again to make low-poly animations, you’re awesome for this! much love and future success for your channel and projects!
Tyler, just a quick note to let you know how much I appreciated this video. Your story very much lines up with how I've been approaching this daunting task of learning Blender. Thank you for a different view from someone who has already been where I am!
Thank you for this, I've been hmming and hawwing doing various tutorials and just feeling like I'm not grasping things. But this was the kick in the pants I needed to just set out simple achievable goals to start working on to better master my Blender skills. Starting work on my first SMART project now.
Underrated advice and underrated channel. This is also how i learned to code.
Thanks a lot! This kind of tutorials are giving us the power to continue!
This video is so encouraging yet also includes the potential real-life problems that have to be dealt with.
The donuts are a great start, this video confirms the struggle with next steps;). Hello fellow strugglers 😂 good luck.
What an extraordinary uplifting video.
Thank you for taking the time and energy to inspire us all who flounder at the beginning
A really great video, and applies to almost every aspect approaching a new subject. I sent this to my kids who are very intimidated by Blender! Thanks!
I think the step by steps are good for leaning the tools and thank you for explaining things we should do to help us learn.
Those are the questions, thank you!
Thank you so much for this video, I found my self facing some of the same problems you did.
Thanks this motivated me alot, very intimidating at first
1000% correct.. although I'm only weeks into my Blender journey, I almost quit until I started my own project. I know there's a long way to go but now I feel like I just might get there.
This is a great vid!
I've fell into the trap of trying to first learn as much as possible about Blender before even starting...so I wasted a good year or so doing this without even trying to do anything and only doing tutorials, and only recently really tried to do something on my own.... So, I feel that this is great advice from your side. For anyone learning: just go for it.
I would also perhaps add to the advice given in your vid, that it helps to define, as much as possible, what one wants to do with Blender. Meaning, if you want to do mographs, or animation, or environments, or characters, etc.... Blender tutorials on youtube are a rabbit hole that one can easily get lost in, and you'll end up watching vids on a subject that you probably won't be using in the near future :)
Thanks for reading!
Right now my approach is going to be doing tons of tutorials that interest me (not following exact, aka making it my own)
I really believe this'll give me enough of a foundation to use parts from all those tutorials to make my own things. Rather than trying to do 8:40
Once I have a good foundation I'll definitely dive deeper into certain topics.
damned this tutorial makes me feel so much better.This gives me hope that someday i wil finish somthing....... :)!!!!!
I also try not to compare my self to other people or get discourage when I do not do something right but I found blender really fun to do
Knowing isnt enough, we need to apply : )
I just started blender nearly a month now my main goal in blenders is to make 3d anmation and 2d anmation.I'm all over the places with my goal but I know it will take a while but that is part of learning.
This doesn't apply to only blender, but to anything. This is basically what i tell people when they ask me how to start with programming
I learned Blender a while back but I did give up on it because I felt it was going no where. Been wanting to pick up where I left off without tutorials. My weakest point in Blender is understanding the nodes. I know the interface pretty good to navigate but those nodes is where I am having a hard time learning.
If it makes you feel any better, I am definitely no master of material nodes either. I have definitely gotten better at them over the years, but when I watch someone like CG Matter putting together these insane procedural materials It becomes apparent that I still have a lot to learn. To be fair though, I don't focus as heavily on them even though I should. The point I'm making though is that you're not the only one and definitely shouldn't let it discourage you. Just keep trying and youll get there!
Good shit. Thanks for making these
Thanks
nice tut
Ive been using blender for about a little over a year and i just can't for the life of me get out of the "beginner stage". I understand the concepts of art and whatnot but the software itself is whats holding me back, and now that geometry nodes are a commonplace and a near necessary tool and how complex they are it just seems to get harder and harder to make any progress in learning the software and i don't know how to overcome it. it doesn't help that there doesn't seem to be any one set way to learn it, at least not without paying an arm and a leg.
Thanks man
that was helpful 🖤 thanks
Funny you chose an image of my island for your background.
thank you.
I want to make a 1:1 house. I see and work with a lot of houses for my job and my boss is a dream boss and is looking for pitches for new things the company can do. I dont think its gonna come quick but i have fun just thinking about learning so... I will! My expectation is that it could take me a year??? Maybe more or less, to get something i want to present. Regardless of if my work picks it up I thinks its gratifying to say "i made that!"
Hey man thanks for the advice and stuff but real quick, how do i do a loop cut again?
I'm having an issue with model importing, specifically Daisy (Mario) I've downloaded like 4 different Daisy models (from 4 different games) and every single one when it gets imported it just isn't there like at all; and it reads as an armature? idk what's up with that cause my other models actually load.
Speaking of models I have no idea how to ad the textures. I've watched tutorials and only end off utterly, I'm not new to 3d animation I've been in a class before using Maya but Blender I just don't know what I'm doing at all
like a rectangular based prism triangle
Like a pyramid? You could create a cube, select the top face, switch to vertex select and alt+m and choose merge at center
On the ground advice.
Trying this almost destroyed my confidence for everything I thought it was easy but it was extremely hard that's why I gave up
I started to learn 3D modeling thanks to this video. You can see my progress on my profile
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Do you have a video on all the rendering functions and export settings? I just need to get my head around that completely, because I made a palm tree the other day, and when I exported it to fbx to import in unreal, the tree is white without it's textures, and the alpha clip that I used to do the palm leaves, were all solid meshes in unreal. Looked like a tree with rectangular leaves. Would be great ot just fully understand all the importing and exporting features. As well as a full study of rendering animation or stills. (For example, If you animate a dog running in Blender, will unreal pick up the animation automatically? )
So if I'm being honest, with animations I do not have a lot of experience, but I do know that you can export them from blender to unreal. Now with your palm tree, what it sounds like is you're making the materials in blender, and they are not carrying over to unreal. Unfortunately, as far as I know, they typically don't. The node systems are not identical between the two. Typically, you'd create all of your textures and whatnot, and bring them into unreal and compile them into a material there. You'll want to look into setting up transparency in unreal, as well as some other best practices for create game ready materials - ie, texture packing. Hope this helps!
@@TylerSerino Yeah, make sense, thanks. If only these two would come together and collaborate - so that the rest of us don't have to brake open a 1000 brain cells to make things work.
What websites or blogs are the best to show your projects to get feedback from?
Sorry for the incredibly late response, but my go to is Reddit
I don't understand things like the compositor or nodes
I'm terrible with the compositor so you are not alone
how do i make a 3d triangle
I mainly struggle with texturing any tips?
Texturing is definitely something that has a lot of "moving parts" so to speak. You have to get an understanding of UV unwrapping, along with different methods for actually creating or obtaining the proper image textures. Personally, I have found that for authoring textures, the money spent on substance painter/designer is well worth it, otherwise cg geek has tutorials about capturing textures with a camera, and there are many tutorials on painting them in blender. When it comes to UVing, look into concepts such as texel density, and packing islands. There are a few plugins out there that make it easier. For normal/bump maps, youll want to look into baking form high poly to low poly. Hope this points you in the right direction!
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