I like this style to, and I'm having trouble deciding what to make with blender. This is so cute! I also am looking for a new computer so I'll check out the NVIDIA laptops. Great job.
so impressive - you are a blender prodigy!!! i quickly abandoned it for c4d, and then unreal, and then drawing in crayon on paper while gently rocking back and forth
Blender really feels like a super power. If you can think it, you can make it! But yes, I did have a near vertical learning curve, but hey it looked epic after!
@@saradietschy If you want the ease of use of MagicaVoxel but the visual finish of Blender, I recommend Spline 3D. Their youtube channel has chill tutorials including one on Designing a Mini Room like the one you made in Blender. You will breeze through it in one afternoon
As a 12 year Blender user I can truly empathize with the struggle it was to learn the program. The good and bad thing is that there is a ton of information/videos/tutorials and anything you might want to do with the program. Keep practicing and trying to recreate everyday objects inside of Blender, it's the best way to get better at it!!
I so relate to this video! My first 24hrs of Blendering took place over at least a year, because I would get stuck and take a break for months haha! Andrew Price (Blender Guru) makes my favourite blender tutorials, so concise and helpful
Its all about enjoying the learning process. Not everyone is willing to go through the stress that is required to actually learn something. Be proud of yourself :)! Congrats!!
For someone who has been doing 3D modeling since 2004, you don't give yourself enough credit. Jumping to new software is always a pain - figuring out where everything is, having a goal that is more massive than you originally thought. I've been in that exact situation. Keep it up, really great job.
I am impressed you even got this far. 3D skills take a long time to learn and years (or even decades) to master. There are so many different individual skillsets required to make a final image that most professionals only ever focus on one specific area of 3D work. Modeling, texturing, animation/rigging, rendering are all different skillsets that you need to make a final image.
Don't... really I was writing code for 15 years plus, thinking that's all I could do. Over the years I opened and closed blender many times and then one day I decided to go for it... Now blender is my way to relax after a long day of coding :D You can do it!
Thanks for including one of my illustrations at the beginning (the Severance one)! I loved the video, impressed with your persistence. At first I thought you meant one elapsed day, since that's what I took "24 hours" to mean. But now I see you mean 24 nonconsecutive hours of actual tutorial time. Regardless, it was fun to see that you got through it! For folks reading this, if you want to learn Blender, I would gently recommend not doing it this way. Sara showed a ton of resilience, but most people would probably burn out. Blender can be fussy and the emphasis on shortcuts can be intimidating and frustrating. Having gone through a long learning process myself, my advice is to try following more basic tutorials with fundamental shapes and scenes. You'll build confidence and not put yourself in a position where you have to absorb new concept after new concept in a short period of time.
11:09 , you can make those lines permanent by making another loop cut as close as you can get it to the previous one, press g twice and moving that towards the line you want to "inset" then press 3 on keyboard to go to face select, press e and push as back as far as you want it to be ( if you go into edge select and click on the edge you can bevel slightly as well ). hope that was helpful or even what you wanted! also great video, love when people try out such amazing programs like Blender!!!
dang, when you put your mind to something, you really make some insane progress. I don't know how you pulled that much off in such a short period of time, lol
She went 5 days without using blender. Seems pretty laid back pacing to me 😅 I would imagine she was browsing tutorials in the meantime. So kudos for the final results but let's relax a bit on fawning over the timeframe 😁
Alright that's it, I'm off to go learn blender 🚶🏾♀️. I loved the challenge and I loved the fact that it opened up many of our minds to the fact that learning it in a very focused among of time can be done! I've seen so many other people inspired by this in the comments and it's so great to see! I'm super inspired!
You can do it, I am a very old man, retired and with more free time than I usually had in my hands, I was lost on how to invest the time, then I found blender and I will say changed my life in a very good way and now I have an additional income that helps my family in this hard times, who could imagine grandpa became productive again :D
Great job learning Blender in such a short time and your first project came out dope🔥! I've been teaching myself over the past few months and I luv it! Feels good to finally learn/understand Blender!
I think it would have made sense to complete the chair tutorial first to get a basic knowledge especially on how to do things properly. This would have meant a slower start but might ended in being way faster in total
It's so great to see people getting into Blender! I have been using it for over 5 years now, and it took about 2 years to really feel comfortable in it. Keep it up!
As a video editor and 3D artist that uses blender, I came from Maya and 3Dsmax than took like 6 year break from 3d to focus on film and video career coming back and re-learning 3D and Blender for the first time I understand your pain from a 15 minute tutorial became two hours. The Pain Is Real
That looks incredible for a first project. Well done! One of the biggest things I struggled with was the sheer number of things the program can do and (prior to the 2.8 refresh) the endless amount of buttons and menus you can get lost in. If I took anything away from doing tutorials, was to have a specific goal and focus on using those specific tools and commands first rather than trying to figure out what everything in a workspace did in one go. Once you get comfortable with how those few tools work for your project, move onto the next. When you know enough to realize what will work together, you can then go off on your own and let the creativity guide you. Have fun in your future projects with it!
Well done Sara, I have tried to learn blender so many times and just gave up but I have dipped my toe back into it the past week and hope to get out of the tutorial nightmare that I get stuck into and actually try to make something myself from scratch.
This is actually super dope, I am digital designer but I still haven't touched blender but your video motivated me to do it. Keep sharing more of these, where you try out such software for creators and may be shed more light on them for us new comers.
This is definitely closer to the top 5 beginner's first blender projects list, and all of the others I've seen on this level had way more time or experience on similar software, so great job!
nice, I should re-try learning blender, I tried following the infamous doughnut videos but I just couldn't make stuff work so I quit, watching you see make something different kind of inspired me.
I love your honesty about your experience with blender. I have felt and experienced the same frustrations and realities. you bring real world reality to most of us first time blender users. Most blender tutorials make it seem so easy and straightforward but it is not.
Back in 2012, I struggled a lot with Blender on myself. Being an IT programmer and computer science teacher, I figured "Hey, how hard can it be". It was a humbling experience, the interface is too big to figure out what you want to do in time. It is possible, but counter-productive and not much fun. Then I ran BornCG's series of tutorials (I believe it was the 2.7 version about 5+ years ago). I simply took my time to go over the first 40-50 of these tutorials. Within one month I was much better than the previous 2 years and more importantly, I got an understanding of the program. Do follow a tutorial series without skipping anything, as a beginner. It is a must for the first month or two. The point is to be serious enough about it, so that you say "I sit my butt down a few hours each day and do the tutes". Once you do that, a whole world of creativity is yours, because the tutorials are always successful and very rewarding. As soon as you finish one, you are eager for the next. It is amazing. Good luck.
You chose literally the most difficult way possible to learn blender. You started off with a complex model as your first thing ever and then went step by step learning from there how to use the program when you could’ve just started by searching up videos about the basics of blender and made this a lot easier
This was really cool! You did amazing. I remember taking a 3D branding and packaging course and my professor had no idea how to use any 3D programs. I was in the same situation as you. I had to learn a 3D program on my own and it was frustrating. Although I wasn't so pleased with my results, I was absolutely proud of what I accomplished and what I learned
Producer: So you’re gonna learn Blender in 24 hours and share a completed render? Isn’t that gonna be really hard? Sara: Actually it’s gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience. Producer: Oh really?
Nothing's an inconvenience if you're passionate about learning and genuinely enjoy it. Blender is very hard to master, but worth every bit of the pain and frustration because it gives you so much creative freedom once you really unlock its potential.
@@ninja_tony This was a Ryan George reference. Have a look at any of the hundreds of Pitch Meeting videos. I’m thinking you might be unfortunately missing out on the Ryan George Cinematic Universe in general, and specifically the Pitch Meeting videos.
Wow for someone going into blender since 3 days i love the motivation i get from u and the energy just gets to me.. there is no mistake in learning by instinct. lovely!!
I know you are new to this , but with time you will learn to use modifiers. Modifiers are like Layers in photoshop. They help you keep the base shape in tact and all the changes you do with a modifier are stored in the modifier , not in the shape. That means when you delete just the modifier , the shape is not affected and you dont lose your progress. Lets say you want to bevel the edges of a simple shelf. You just add a Chamfer modifier which will chamefr the edges for you and if you want to chamge the chamfer dimensions after 2 days , you can just tweak the modifier instead of having to do the whole shelf again.
The pandemic gave me an excuse to finally learn Blender/3D - definitely remember taking hours to finish a 20 minute tutorial. Love how it works the brain - challenging but so rewarding when you finally get to render it out. Great video 💗
Wow i'm impressed! I've wanted to make something in Blender to but everytime I just felt overwhelmed.. but I also tend to take on to complex stuff.. because you have that dream u want to make.. anyway really cool video!
Wow, I relate to this so much! I was introduced to blender a year ago and have been seriously trying to learn it for the last 8 months or so. I just finished my first little animation (star wars themed) and super happy with it. Amazing program, but man is it an uphill fight at first. Great job sticking with it!
You the bomb baby! Thats whats up! I just started with Blender a couple of days ago, and love it. I haven't gotten as far as you yet, cause I'm working from my surface pro 6 and my damn keyboard just took a dump on me and can't find a battery small enough for my stylus. Also can you use a stylus with this blender app? So far I love your work and hope ill get there soon. Keep up the good work suga. Ill be looking forward to more of your vids. Im looking at much vids as possible. You go gull! Thats country for girl. Im country fried. Take care.
This is really inspiring i learned the basics of blender few years ago but i forgot everything, watching this video made me wanna learn again and even more
FYI the learning curve for blender early on can be rough with how much they rely on keyboard shortcuts. Other apps are more UI focused usually and that tends to be a tad easier to recall while learning.
You can use the search function for all the tasks if you want and you can re-bind any action to any keyboard shortcut you want. However, you need to do so many actions all the time that you really want to learn the keyboard shortcuts.
Wow you done well with the first art... I just started learning Blender and gosh it makes frustration. Any knowledge from Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop you need to forget. This is like learning new language on different writing system... After initial frustrations, I'm going step by step practicing basic and with the help of Grant Abbit channel. Creating basic stuff just to get hotkeys practice and to get used to interface surrounding. It seems that patience here is more than anything.
You are really putting a lot of people to shame with a first project THAT good-looking haha! Loved the final result, looking forward to more Blender content on the channel ;D
blender is thousands of easy steps, the tricky part can be finding somewhere to learn those easy steps and then getting your brain to put those easy steps in an order that makes something cool
New found respect 🤝 , ya crushed it I’ve started so many projects in blender then advanced my rig and sheeesh. My work jumped light years. I hope you continue to use blender in the future
Funnily enough I just finished following this tutorial and it also took much longer than expected. I had to keep stopping, run into an issue although I did it exactly, delete it and try again, researching how to fix it etc. I'm new to blender and haven't touched 3D in 10 years so just wanted to get some practice in after years of thinking about it. Love that you took it into your own direction and the outcome was so good. You picked it up so quick, it felt like you created a tutorial
Wow, your'e scene turned out great, especially for just getting into Blender! I too am a big fan of that retro arcade style of 3D art. As a commercial photographer specializing in product photography, I started to get into 3D/CGI sometime back in 2020. I started with Blender and made some decent progress. Through that experience, I quickly learned that not only were there a crazy amount of new terminology and skills to learn, but I also found out that the computer hardware that you're running becomes a much bigger deal than editing photos and videos, particularly as it relates to rendering. Blender has really come a long way in just the past couple of years! I had contemplated switching from a Mac to a custom PC for at least a good year and a half, just so I could start to get more into CGI. I just couldn't do it! LOL. Long story short, ended up buying an M1 Ultra Mac studio this year and it runs Blender really well (thanks to Blender's native Apple Silicon/Metal support). Although I think Blender is awesome, I ended up gravitating more toward Cinema 4D/Redshift. But I always find myself looking at all the new features that Blender has to offer and dabble with it a bit. Cheers for sticking with it, creating something from nothing and completing a final rendered scene! 🍻
@@shakti.rathore My main reason for using C4D/Redshift is because it feels very similar to Photoshop. And I use Photoshop nearly every day. Additionally, it integrates well with Adobe applications like Photoshop, After Effects & Illustrator. That being said however, that's not to say anything bad about Blender. Because Blender is awesome. I find myself constantly rethinking what software I want to spend my time learning. The struggle is real sometimes. So although I've kind of decided that C4D/Redshift is my first choice for now, that could very well change to Blender in the future. Both are great applications. I've never used any Autodesk products. Being that I'm using Apple hardware, particular Apple Silicon, I want to work with software that runs native Apple Silicon code and is optimized for the hardware that I'm using. C4D/Redshift as well as Blender are optimized for Apple Silicon and support Apple's Metal API which is super helpful when render using the GPU. To my knowledge, Autodesk is still not optimized. At the end of the day though, I just want to make amazing commercial artwork for my clients and for myself. Whatever software will allow me to do that most efficiently is what I'll choose to use. Cheers 🍻
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 I don't work in a VFX shop so I can't speak to that... but that doesn't sound right to me. It seems that GPUs are all the rage when it comes to rendering. On the PC side of things, the RTX 3090TI is king (as of now). And most people who are doing serious rendering seem to be using tools like Nvidia NVLink to combine GPUs for even more power and faster rendering. So I'm not sure why anyone would use CPU rendering when GPU rendering is much much faster. Unless the rendering engine being used is CPU only, in which case that's your only option.
The most challenging thing in learning blender is figuring out how to open and close new viewports - to open a new veiwport you need to drag a mouse from the corner, and to close you need to drag a mouse from the corner, the first times I just accidentally created a lot of viewports and couldn't close them so I just resterted the whole program
awesome to see you figure this out. 3D software is daunting. I remember seeing someone in my class back in college pick up Cinema 4D in one weekend and that inspired me to figure it out. 13 years later and i still use it regularly for my design gigs.
Is someone who has been learning blender for just about a year and a half, it's really interesting to see you go through all the struggles I did now that I have the power of hindsight!
So freakin' cool! Thank you for sharing the journey, Sara. I love it when you make videos like this because it inspires me to jump into what I want to do, instead of trying to always do it perfectly.
I have been trying to learn blender for a long time now and whenever I try to make something, I just lose motivation if I can’t figure something out. But watching you learn blender inspired me to try blender again! Thanks!
I feel your pain blender is tough! lol I wanted to learn to make sculptures as ideas to create in real life. I love painting and sketching so i thought why not make stuff in 3d. You have motivated me to get back into blender. awesome video
Great video!!! It happened to almost all of us. Blender is really hard and complicated in the beginning. The key is to find easy tutorials and choose easy projects for your first tries. Keep up with your great work!!
Coming up with small projects and learning the new skills you need as you grow is a great way to start with 3D. That's a great render, especially for 24 hours as a new user! I've been a Blender user for almost 13 years, and Houdini (a whole other beast of a program) for about 4 and projects like that are still where I find most of my growth. Keep up with the 3D and you'll be doing even more complex things in no time.
Guys don't be scare the Blender community is the more friendly and enthusiastic I ever met, believe me, and that is encouraging in the learning process and who's knows maybe tomorrow you help other back by sharing what you learn
That’s very impressive that’s your learn in 24 hours, I have been using blender since I was 13 now I am 19 and I use it for vfx and game modeling. Great job!,
This is very impressive! I'm totally the exact same! However, my first literal 12 hours I didn't even go through using polygons/meshes. I literally picked up an 8hr tutorial, worked 10 hrs to get to where this professional was at at the 5-hr mark. Then I used the 80/20 you mentioned that I always use for programming in C#. I managed to finish his 8hr tutorial in roughly 14 hrs lol. 😂
Great work Sara! :) This has prompted me to try learning Blender again, I was trying to build a whole house (and failing) with the help of the Blenderkit Plugin; but I'm thinking of trying something that I could realistically achieve like a one-room render. Seeing this has got me back into the 3d mindset :)
👋 i hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity love and peace 💞❤️🕊️🕊️ all over the world 🙏🌍 I'm originally from Canada currently living in Key West Florida☀️☀️☀️☀️and you where are you from if i may ask?💭💭..
I love Blender. It's a piece of software where you keep learning and that keeps pushing your limits. My dream is to one day create my own animated little movie. I'm nowhere near doing that, yet. But i'm progressing. Also: i don't think the Blender community ever would judge you. It only encourages you.
Just wanted to come on here and say.. I saw your video earlier today and was inspired, so now I’ve created my first donut in Blender. So proud! Thank you Sara.. btw love your videos!
I also watched the same tutorial .. It actually helped me a lot with the basics .. and to know that WHAT I AM DOING .. did the same isometric bedroom in like 3-4 hrs .. I was soo proud of myself lol .. and yeah congratulations to you also .. loved the video .
Just finished the video, you did amaaaazing! With only 24 hours for everything from learning, creating and rendering, your final piece was insanely good and a mark of immense progress! Really well done, Sara! ✨♥
As a professional 3d environment artist who happens to use Blender, I'm impressed 😄congrats on learning all this in just 24 hrs! wow! I think my first donut took me at least 14 hours when I started 😂💔
I just posted a new 24 hour challenge!!!! Building a Startup in 24hrs watch now! 👉 ua-cam.com/video/UZmypIxutNI/v-deo.html
Any Plans for a 3rd ?
Nice
I like this style to, and I'm having trouble deciding what to make with blender. This is so cute! I also am looking for a new computer so I'll check out the NVIDIA laptops. Great job.
I try to learning this 3 years in a row, I'm a little discouraged but it's a powerful software kk!
What do you like to do or learn and identify yourself ??
so impressive - you are a blender prodigy!!! i quickly abandoned it for c4d, and then unreal, and then drawing in crayon on paper while gently rocking back and forth
😂😂😂
Blender really feels like a super power. If you can think it, you can make it! But yes, I did have a near vertical learning curve, but hey it looked epic after!
I'm still rocking back and forth
@@saradietschy If you want the ease of use of MagicaVoxel but the visual finish of Blender, I recommend Spline 3D.
Their youtube channel has chill tutorials including one on Designing a Mini Room like the one you made in Blender. You will breeze through it in one afternoon
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
As a 12 year Blender user I can truly empathize with the struggle it was to learn the program. The good and bad thing is that there is a ton of information/videos/tutorials and anything you might want to do with the program. Keep practicing and trying to recreate everyday objects inside of Blender, it's the best way to get better at it!!
I tried learning Maya for a solid 8 or 9 years. I made more things in blender in the first few months of 2019 than in all those years with Maya
bro i read that as 12 year old blender user☠☠☠
@@BeeTheTravler I felt this hole in my heart lol
that's insane 12 years ago I don't even know how to use a Pc 🤣
@@myztazynizta maya is hard as nails I tried learning the software but it didn’t work out for me. Blender looks more interesting.
Great result Sara! Welcome to the Blender community 😃
Haha, love it.
Somehow I figured Curtis would be here
I so relate to this video! My first 24hrs of Blendering took place over at least a year, because I would get stuck and take a break for months haha! Andrew Price (Blender Guru) makes my favourite blender tutorials, so concise and helpful
You should lvlup your blender skill to the point when you bite a 3D model of apple
@@norwaypaulo or better yet, just move on to Maya
Damn this video ruled. I’ve been wanting to learn blender for about a year and you beat me to it 😭
It's never too late!
Hahaha
John vs Sara at Blender video coming soon?
@@Acemods101 that would be an awesome collab.
True like sunday morning😂
Its all about enjoying the learning process. Not everyone is willing to go through the stress that is required to actually learn something. Be proud of yourself :)! Congrats!!
That endorphin rush when it clicks though is intoxicatingly worth every moment of stress.
For someone who has been doing 3D modeling since 2004, you don't give yourself enough credit. Jumping to new software is always a pain - figuring out where everything is, having a goal that is more massive than you originally thought. I've been in that exact situation. Keep it up, really great job.
I am impressed you even got this far. 3D skills take a long time to learn and years (or even decades) to master. There are so many different individual skillsets required to make a final image that most professionals only ever focus on one specific area of 3D work. Modeling, texturing, animation/rigging, rendering are all different skillsets that you need to make a final image.
You did great! that old room tutorial was very confusing tbh
This looks complicated, I’m just gonna stick to coding
You can code for Blender :)
my exact opposite😂...left coding for blender
😂 exact opposite
Don't... really I was writing code for 15 years plus, thinking that's all I could do. Over the years I opened and closed blender many times and then one day I decided to go for it... Now blender is my way to relax after a long day of coding :D You can do it!
Thanks for including one of my illustrations at the beginning (the Severance one)!
I loved the video, impressed with your persistence. At first I thought you meant one elapsed day, since that's what I took "24 hours" to mean. But now I see you mean 24 nonconsecutive hours of actual tutorial time. Regardless, it was fun to see that you got through it!
For folks reading this, if you want to learn Blender, I would gently recommend not doing it this way. Sara showed a ton of resilience, but most people would probably burn out. Blender can be fussy and the emphasis on shortcuts can be intimidating and frustrating. Having gone through a long learning process myself, my advice is to try following more basic tutorials with fundamental shapes and scenes. You'll build confidence and not put yourself in a position where you have to absorb new concept after new concept in a short period of time.
I totally agree! If she would have done a tutorial first it would have been WAY easier, faster and she would have done everything more properly.
11:09 , you can make those lines permanent by making another loop cut as close as you can get it to the previous one, press g twice and moving that towards the line you want to "inset" then press 3 on keyboard to go to face select, press e and push as back as far as you want it to be ( if you go into edge select and click on the edge you can bevel slightly as well ). hope that was helpful or even what you wanted! also great video, love when people try out such amazing programs like Blender!!!
I think it's easier using inset, face select -> i(nset) -> scale to the needed size on z and x/y -> extrude.
dang, when you put your mind to something, you really make some insane progress. I don't know how you pulled that much off in such a short period of time, lol
very well said my child
She went 5 days without using blender. Seems pretty laid back pacing to me 😅
I would imagine she was browsing tutorials in the meantime. So kudos for the final results but let's relax a bit on fawning over the timeframe 😁
I started in January, I'm up to around 600 hrs, it does get easier. Repetition is key.
You done a great job!!
Sara - Glad to see you learning blender!☺️
Alright that's it, I'm off to go learn blender 🚶🏾♀️. I loved the challenge and I loved the fact that it opened up many of our minds to the fact that learning it in a very focused among of time can be done!
I've seen so many other people inspired by this in the comments and it's so great to see! I'm super inspired!
You can do it, I am a very old man, retired and with more free time than I usually had in my hands, I was lost on how to invest the time, then I found blender and I will say changed my life in a very good way and now I have an additional income that helps my family in this hard times, who could imagine grandpa became productive again :D
@@ed2fun I have the same goal to help my family and im totally new in blender hoping I will go a long way.
Great job learning Blender in such a short time and your first project came out dope🔥! I've been teaching myself over the past few months and I luv it! Feels good to finally learn/understand Blender!
I think it would have made sense to complete the chair tutorial first to get a basic knowledge especially on how to do things properly. This would have meant a slower start but might ended in being way faster in total
It's so great to see people getting into Blender! I have been using it for over 5 years now, and it took about 2 years to really feel comfortable in it. Keep it up!
As a video editor and 3D artist that uses blender, I came from Maya and 3Dsmax than took like 6 year break from 3d to focus on film and video career coming back and re-learning 3D and Blender for the first time I understand your pain from a 15 minute tutorial became two hours. The Pain Is Real
Yeah, that's because Blender is terrible to work with, Maya is so much better and convenient
That looks incredible for a first project. Well done!
One of the biggest things I struggled with was the sheer number of things the program can do and (prior to the 2.8 refresh) the endless amount of buttons and menus you can get lost in. If I took anything away from doing tutorials, was to have a specific goal and focus on using those specific tools and commands first rather than trying to figure out what everything in a workspace did in one go. Once you get comfortable with how those few tools work for your project, move onto the next. When you know enough to realize what will work together, you can then go off on your own and let the creativity guide you.
Have fun in your future projects with it!
Well done Sara, I have tried to learn blender so many times and just gave up but I have dipped my toe back into it the past week and hope to get out of the tutorial nightmare that I get stuck into and actually try to make something myself from scratch.
This is actually super dope, I am digital designer but I still haven't touched blender but your video motivated me to do it. Keep sharing more of these, where you try out such software for creators and may be shed more light on them for us new comers.
Saw you tweet about being interested a while back, I’m fully invested in your progress now 😂 great work ma’am!
This is definitely closer to the top 5 beginner's first blender projects list, and all of the others I've seen on this level had way more time or experience on similar software, so great job!
nice, I should re-try learning blender, I tried following the infamous doughnut videos but I just couldn't make stuff work so I quit, watching you see make something different kind of inspired me.
Making something you WANT to make and working backwards from there is the 🔑 you got it!!!
@@billypilgrim1 you guys are wasting time trying to learn Blender instead of Maya
Looks good, an amazing first go, Reminds me of Peter McKinnon's Wall of Cameras.
I love your honesty about your experience with blender. I have felt and experienced the same frustrations and realities. you bring real world reality to most of us first time blender users. Most blender tutorials make it seem so easy and straightforward but it is not.
What a great video and result! Always up for more Blender jams.
Nice one! I gave up 1/2 way through the donut tutorial, so making a whole room is super impressive!
The finished product looks great! Nice work Sara!
Ok next video idea: Learn Swift and build an app in 24 hours 😄
I just bought a house I’m definitely gonna render up a few of the room designs now, you’ve inspired me!
Back in 2012, I struggled a lot with Blender on myself. Being an IT programmer and computer science teacher, I figured "Hey, how hard can it be". It was a humbling experience, the interface is too big to figure out what you want to do in time. It is possible, but counter-productive and not much fun. Then I ran BornCG's series of tutorials (I believe it was the 2.7 version about 5+ years ago). I simply took my time to go over the first 40-50 of these tutorials. Within one month I was much better than the previous 2 years and more importantly, I got an understanding of the program. Do follow a tutorial series without skipping anything, as a beginner. It is a must for the first month or two. The point is to be serious enough about it, so that you say "I sit my butt down a few hours each day and do the tutes". Once you do that, a whole world of creativity is yours, because the tutorials are always successful and very rewarding. As soon as you finish one, you are eager for the next. It is amazing. Good luck.
This is a really fun video Sara, thanks
You chose literally the most difficult way possible to learn blender. You started off with a complex model as your first thing ever and then went step by step learning from there how to use the program when you could’ve just started by searching up videos about the basics of blender and made this a lot easier
This was really cool! You did amazing. I remember taking a 3D branding and packaging course and my professor had no idea how to use any 3D programs. I was in the same situation as you. I had to learn a 3D program on my own and it was frustrating. Although I wasn't so pleased with my results, I was absolutely proud of what I accomplished and what I learned
Nice! I'm amazed by how much you learned in such a short amount of time. Welcome to blender, and remember, there is ALWAYS so much more to learn!
Producer: So you’re gonna learn Blender in 24 hours and share a completed render? Isn’t that gonna be really hard?
Sara: Actually it’s gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience.
Producer: Oh really?
Learning Blender is TIGHT!
blemishes? I'm gonna really need you to get off my back about that.
Nothing's an inconvenience if you're passionate about learning and genuinely enjoy it. Blender is very hard to master, but worth every bit of the pain and frustration because it gives you so much creative freedom once you really unlock its potential.
@@ninja_tony This was a Ryan George reference. Have a look at any of the hundreds of Pitch Meeting videos. I’m thinking you might be unfortunately missing out on the Ryan George Cinematic Universe in general, and specifically the Pitch Meeting videos.
Wow wow wow... wow.
Amazing work Sarah! FL Studio for music production, try that😅
Wow for someone going into blender since 3 days i love the motivation i get from u and the energy just gets to me.. there is no mistake in learning by instinct. lovely!!
I know you are new to this , but with time you will learn to use modifiers. Modifiers are like Layers in photoshop. They help you keep the base shape in tact and all the changes you do with a modifier are stored in the modifier , not in the shape. That means when you delete just the modifier , the shape is not affected and you dont lose your progress. Lets say you want to bevel the edges of a simple shelf. You just add a Chamfer modifier which will chamefr the edges for you and if you want to chamge the chamfer dimensions after 2 days , you can just tweak the modifier instead of having to do the whole shelf again.
The pandemic gave me an excuse to finally learn Blender/3D - definitely remember taking hours to finish a 20 minute tutorial.
Love how it works the brain - challenging but so rewarding when you finally get to render it out.
Great video 💗
as a blender fan and ur fan, im super happy seeing the two come together. welcome!!
Wow i'm impressed! I've wanted to make something in Blender to but everytime I just felt overwhelmed.. but I also tend to take on to complex stuff.. because you have that dream u want to make.. anyway really cool video!
this is the best way to learn imo, have a creative vision, and then tutorial the crap out of every roadblock you hit until you're done.
Wow, I relate to this so much! I was introduced to blender a year ago and have been seriously trying to learn it for the last 8 months or so. I just finished my first little animation (star wars themed) and super happy with it. Amazing program, but man is it an uphill fight at first. Great job sticking with it!
You the bomb baby! Thats whats up! I just started with Blender a couple of days ago, and love it. I haven't gotten as far as you yet, cause I'm working from my surface pro 6 and my damn keyboard just took a dump on me and can't find a battery small enough for my stylus. Also can you use a stylus with this blender app? So far I love your work and hope ill get there soon. Keep up the good work suga. Ill be looking forward to more of your vids. Im looking at much vids as possible. You go gull! Thats country for girl. Im country fried. Take care.
damn, this is so helpful, i was literally planing to do this this weekend!!
This is really inspiring i learned the basics of blender few years ago but i forgot everything, watching this video made me wanna learn again and even more
FYI the learning curve for blender early on can be rough with how much they rely on keyboard shortcuts. Other apps are more UI focused usually and that tends to be a tad easier to recall while learning.
You can use the search function for all the tasks if you want and you can re-bind any action to any keyboard shortcut you want. However, you need to do so many actions all the time that you really want to learn the keyboard shortcuts.
Wow you done well with the first art... I just started learning Blender and gosh it makes frustration. Any knowledge from Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop you need to forget. This is like learning new language on different writing system...
After initial frustrations, I'm going step by step practicing basic and with the help of Grant Abbit channel. Creating basic stuff just to get hotkeys practice and to get used to interface surrounding. It seems that patience here is more than anything.
You are really putting a lot of people to shame with a first project THAT good-looking haha! Loved the final result, looking forward to more Blender content on the channel ;D
well it was a youtube tutorial soo
Don’t be too demanding of yourself. Looks great. It’s like coding, you first create "Hello world" and eventually build a webpage. Keep it up!
Awesome! Been watching your videos for a while - welcome to the Blender community! It gets easier, I promise :)
blender is thousands of easy steps, the tricky part can be finding somewhere to learn those easy steps and then getting your brain to put those easy steps in an order that makes something cool
Really, not to just the promote "the Guru..." but if you know nothing about 3D software, Blender Guru's doughnut series is the best to start.
Just a tip but the loop cut is only for modeling it gives you more edges to work with to allow you to create more defined shapes and objects.
New found respect 🤝 , ya crushed it
I’ve started so many projects in blender then advanced my rig and sheeesh.
My work jumped light years. I hope you continue to use blender in the future
Funnily enough I just finished following this tutorial and it also took much longer than expected. I had to keep stopping, run into an issue although I did it exactly, delete it and try again, researching how to fix it etc. I'm new to blender and haven't touched 3D in 10 years so just wanted to get some practice in after years of thinking about it.
Love that you took it into your own direction and the outcome was so good. You picked it up so quick, it felt like you created a tutorial
Wow, your'e scene turned out great, especially for just getting into Blender! I too am a big fan of that retro arcade style of 3D art. As a commercial photographer specializing in product photography, I started to get into 3D/CGI sometime back in 2020. I started with Blender and made some decent progress. Through that experience, I quickly learned that not only were there a crazy amount of new terminology and skills to learn, but I also found out that the computer hardware that you're running becomes a much bigger deal than editing photos and videos, particularly as it relates to rendering.
Blender has really come a long way in just the past couple of years! I had contemplated switching from a Mac to a custom PC for at least a good year and a half, just so I could start to get more into CGI. I just couldn't do it! LOL. Long story short, ended up buying an M1 Ultra Mac studio this year and it runs Blender really well (thanks to Blender's native Apple Silicon/Metal support). Although I think Blender is awesome, I ended up gravitating more toward Cinema 4D/Redshift. But I always find myself looking at all the new features that Blender has to offer and dabble with it a bit.
Cheers for sticking with it, creating something from nothing and completing a final rendered scene! 🍻
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Why did you choose cinema 4D/redshift over blender. Just curious. Hv u used autodesk maya too?
@@shakti.rathore My main reason for using C4D/Redshift is because it feels very similar to Photoshop. And I use Photoshop nearly every day. Additionally, it integrates well with Adobe applications like Photoshop, After Effects & Illustrator.
That being said however, that's not to say anything bad about Blender. Because Blender is awesome. I find myself constantly rethinking what software I want to spend my time learning. The struggle is real sometimes. So although I've kind of decided that C4D/Redshift is my first choice for now, that could very well change to Blender in the future. Both are great applications.
I've never used any Autodesk products. Being that I'm using Apple hardware, particular Apple Silicon, I want to work with software that runs native Apple Silicon code and is optimized for the hardware that I'm using. C4D/Redshift as well as Blender are optimized for Apple Silicon and support Apple's Metal API which is super helpful when render using the GPU. To my knowledge, Autodesk is still not optimized.
At the end of the day though, I just want to make amazing commercial artwork for my clients and for myself. Whatever software will allow me to do that most efficiently is what I'll choose to use. Cheers 🍻
I saw some videos on Robert Rioux’s channel (“Blender Bob”). He says professional VFX shops don’t use GPU rendering, since GPUs never have enough RAM.
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 I don't work in a VFX shop so I can't speak to that... but that doesn't sound right to me. It seems that GPUs are all the rage when it comes to rendering. On the PC side of things, the RTX 3090TI is king (as of now). And most people who are doing serious rendering seem to be using tools like Nvidia NVLink to combine GPUs for even more power and faster rendering. So I'm not sure why anyone would use CPU rendering when GPU rendering is much much faster. Unless the rendering engine being used is CPU only, in which case that's your only option.
Greatiest video I’ve seen all week. Awesome job, Sara!
The most challenging thing in learning blender is figuring out how to open and close new viewports - to open a new veiwport you need to drag a mouse from the corner, and to close you need to drag a mouse from the corner, the first times I just accidentally created a lot of viewports and couldn't close them so I just resterted the whole program
I tried to learn it in 7 days for a video and that was already enough of a struggle, but DAMN 24 hours?! That's actually insane.
awesome to see you figure this out. 3D software is daunting. I remember seeing someone in my class back in college pick up Cinema 4D in one weekend and that inspired me to figure it out. 13 years later and i still use it regularly for my design gigs.
I always forgot how effective learning from tutorials is. I will need to try that! Very well done
Er - no. More accurately you did 24 hours worth of learning in Blender. I've been in VFX for 25 years. I'm still learning.
I use blender since about 4 years. Its amazing ! Hello from Panamá
This one walks you through all the emotions of Blender. I felt that "woof" at 9:50.
The best thing about blender is the wealth of info out there, i learned 3dsmax around 2001with a paper book like a savage
4:25 Yay, you found the actual Blender docs. Too many people seem to operate by “look at anything except official reference docs”.
Nice video, I’m new to blender and 3D art so it’s nice to be able to follow another beginner :)
Is someone who has been learning blender for just about a year and a half, it's really interesting to see you go through all the struggles I did now that I have the power of hindsight!
I vividly remember the first time I went off-tutorial in blender. That electric feeling of making something that looks cool is sooo good.
So freakin' cool! Thank you for sharing the journey, Sara. I love it when you make videos like this because it inspires me to jump into what I want to do, instead of trying to always do it perfectly.
I have been trying to learn blender for a long time now and whenever I try to make something, I just lose motivation if I can’t figure something out. But watching you learn blender inspired me to try blender again! Thanks!
I love how the black shelf looks it's awesome... Congratulations for completing the 24 hours in blender...
I was looking for learning blender end up watching a sponsor video
I feel your pain blender is tough! lol I wanted to learn to make sculptures as ideas to create in real life. I love painting and sketching so i thought why not make stuff in 3d. You have motivated me to get back into blender. awesome video
Great video!!! It happened to almost all of us. Blender is really hard and complicated in the beginning. The key is to find easy tutorials and choose easy projects for your first tries. Keep up with your great work!!
Coming up with small projects and learning the new skills you need as you grow is a great way to start with 3D. That's a great render, especially for 24 hours as a new user!
I've been a Blender user for almost 13 years, and Houdini (a whole other beast of a program) for about 4 and projects like that are still where I find most of my growth. Keep up with the 3D and you'll be doing even more complex things in no time.
Your video brings back memories of trying to learn the earlier versions of blender. Welcome the community
0:30 EEEXACTLY! same! LOVE that style
that was really good for a beginner, you should keep at it, cuz who knows what amazing things you can create if you do!
I would have never expected to see John Hill there. I’ve watched his videos for years. So cool!
Guys don't be scare the Blender community is the more friendly and enthusiastic I ever met, believe me, and that is encouraging in the learning process and who's knows maybe tomorrow you help other back by sharing what you learn
That’s very impressive that’s your learn in 24 hours, I have been using blender since I was 13 now I am 19 and I use it for vfx and game modeling. Great job!,
This is very impressive! I'm totally the exact same! However, my first literal 12 hours I didn't even go through using polygons/meshes. I literally picked up an 8hr tutorial, worked 10 hrs to get to where this professional was at at the 5-hr mark. Then I used the 80/20 you mentioned that I always use for programming in C#. I managed to finish his 8hr tutorial in roughly 14 hrs lol. 😂
Well done Sara!! Your first render looks GREAT!!! Can't wait to see more!
Most people create a donut for their first blender, but you created an entire room. Amazing!
For anyone else starting blender, use the donut tutorial first! Blender guru is your man
Great work Sara! :) This has prompted me to try learning Blender again, I was trying to build a whole house (and failing) with the help of the Blenderkit Plugin; but I'm thinking of trying something that I could realistically achieve like a one-room render. Seeing this has got me back into the 3d mindset :)
👋 i hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity love and peace 💞❤️🕊️🕊️ all over the world 🙏🌍
I'm originally from Canada currently living in Key West Florida☀️☀️☀️☀️and you where are you from if i may ask?💭💭..
I love Blender. It's a piece of software where you keep learning and that keeps pushing your limits. My dream is to one day create my own animated little movie. I'm nowhere near doing that, yet. But i'm progressing. Also: i don't think the Blender community ever would judge you. It only encourages you.
Just wanted to come on here and say.. I saw your video earlier today and was inspired, so now I’ve created my first donut in Blender. So proud! Thank you Sara.. btw love your videos!
Great and welcome to the Blender Community :D
I also watched the same tutorial .. It actually helped me a lot with the basics .. and to know that WHAT I AM DOING .. did the same isometric bedroom in like 3-4 hrs .. I was soo proud of myself lol .. and yeah congratulations to you also .. loved the video .
Just finished the video, you did amaaaazing! With only 24 hours for everything from learning, creating and rendering, your final piece was insanely good and a mark of immense progress! Really well done, Sara! ✨♥
Great stuff. I absolutely love Blender, it’s so different but so streamlined and productive. My favourite software.
My favorite things about Blender: all the documentary for nearly every built-in feature and the community!
As a professional 3d environment artist who happens to use Blender, I'm impressed 😄congrats on learning all this in just 24 hrs! wow! I think my first donut took me at least 14 hours when I started 😂💔
wow huge kudos for sticking with it