I'm very happy that school of motion finally introduced blender to us. In past school of motion just focused on cinema 4d. It took years for them to bring blender to us.
I am very happy that SouthernShotty is our Blender advocate, he is very eloquent , insanely creative and seems to be a fabulously cool person. Thank SS!
@@eyedesyn please start to do Blender tutorials like you did amazing mindblowing cinema 4d tutorials in the past. I'll be waiting for it in eyedesyn youtube channel.
@@ahsanulturzo7783 I think when a man who spends his whole money on a program telling him that there's a free program and powerful as you already paid for it's kinda hard to convince him. Not to mention that if he makes lotta tut on his paid program well....
Chuffed to finally see some Blender content on SOM, especially from Southernshotty🙌🏾 - For anyone looking to learn some mograph-style and abstract renders + animation, the myriad of tutorials from Ducky 3D are great. - For more realistic, yet minimal CG, with a focus on well-lit and modelled and animated content, look no further than Derek Elliott's channel, he's such a wonderful teacher and artist, wish I had more time to follow his tuts myself. - For those who have more time and want a deeper dive into the key areas, I've found Cross Mind Studio's channel to be gold, featuring longer tutorials series on Blender's UI, modelling, lighting, animation and, more recently, Geometry Nodes. Feel free to drop any other great resources and channels that may be of help to anyone 🤙🏾
The subscription model of Cinema 4d makes starting out learning it stressful. I LOVE using C4d and the Wacom friendly UI, but that sub... ouch. A shame it doesn't come with a GPU renderer or an Eevee/raster equivalent built in. It would be perfect for quick and dirty mograph work. Having to either get a subscription for Redshift, a space heater of a graphics card for lookdev, and/or use render farms for any volume of render output is yet another cost that's hard to justify for someone not doing C4d full time, all the time. The whole "Did Maxon upgrade/develop something that will help you this release? No? Better luck next time!" loop got exhausting over the years (and still is). Between Blender's super fast and transparent development and Unreal's mograph focused "project avalanche" coming out this year, Maxon has some real competition from the free software world. It will be interesting to see how it adapts.
am getting into 3d learning curve, am here i am confused on where to start if SOM is not teaching Blender, i reasearched for other tutorials, i found kaizen, smeaf , Cgcookies, nathan and THE OG southernshotty, lovely to learn from you guys, BTW SOM release the Blender tuts soooooooooooooooooon
Blender has definitely made strides in the past few years but I would not say it's NOW more industry standard. This also depends on the industry too. I do see Blender being used a lot for games in combination with Unreal Engine/Unity. If you want to work at a motion design studio, though, not many are using Blender. I will say as more and more talented artists start using Blender, those same studios will have to adapt or miss out on a big talent base. When Blender will make up all this ground and be considered industry standard is still probably years away. After all, I remember when Cinema 4D was also not considered industry standard but then over the years, it slowly overtook software like Maya, Lightwave, and 3DSMax. Blenders momentum is gaining steam, but I also think we work in a totally different industry now where every artist isn't just using one piece of software, you just don't have the "I know After Effects and that's it" artist much anymore. They know a bunch of apps! Here's the best part though, is that no matter if you're learning Maya, Blender, C4D or 3DSMax, if you learn the fundamentals of 3D (Which is what we teach in our C4D courses) you can easily transfer that knowledge from DCC to DCC. Just like if you know how to animate and use keyframes in AE, you'll also be able to animate well in C4D or Blender. Know how to light well and use cameras? That all translates to literally any 3D app you'll ever use. Hope that helps answer your question! :)
glad to see blender getting support from SoM. Just worried us C4d users will get left without relevant tuts or content. since most people have gone to paywalls.
I've tried to learn Blender many times. and every time I open the application im instantly confused with the controls. All the other apps I use are the same in terms of getting around the viewport then I open Blender and boom it's like up is down and left is right. and as soon as I do some research and refresh the basics I go into the apps I use more often with the blender controls in my mind and for like 30 seconds it's like I don't know what I'm doing in those apps anymore.
Learning cinema 4d was really expensive & harder than learning Blender. The worst decision I made was learning cinema 4d. Blender is free, It also has free & powerful render engine & also free simulations, you don’t even need zbrush for doing some sculpting with blender. whereas in cinema 4d you have to buy bunch of plugins. C4d physical render still don't support gpu rendering, so you have to buy an external render. Blender has bunch of free tutorials, where you can be an expert in blender for free from youtube tutorials, on the other hand cinema 4d doesn’t have free tutorials that worth your time, cinema 4d is much harder to learn if you have less money.
This is the absolute first time I've heard someone say C4D is harder than learning Blender! I don't think I know anyone who used C4D and switched to Blender say that it's easier to learn...I have heard the other things you've mentioned been said. Sculpting is def nice, and the built in C4D renderers are very long in the tooth.
@@eyedesyn Oh gosh EJ! Is that really you replying me? Or your UA-cam channel manager? I really can't believe you replied me. If you really replied, I actually didn’t mean it. Actually c4d was expensive & had less free online tutorials & resources. But your tutorials were mind blowing, the first video I watched from you channel was about C4D layers & it was mindblowing. especially "David Ariew" ones. But you have to agree blender has free simulations, render engine (both realtime & offline), sculpting and all those cool stuff built in, so you don’t have to jump over to other applications. EJ, I'll be very happy If you do tutorials on blender. I've watched so many videos of you in maxon's official channel & I'm a huge fan.
@A B No bro, story a bit different. I agree, I'm very less experienced freelace 3d artist. But here in my country we don’t have amazing tutors like greyscalegorilla, eyedesyn or effectatron. I tried leaning c4d from The best IT Institute here when I was bankrupt, Thought learning 3d would solve my financial conditions. But I wasted a bunch of money and 1.5 years of time doing 3 different c4d courses from the IT institute. I couldn’t even make a good looking 3d still render, They just care about the money & they themselves didn’t know 30% of c4d, even youtube had very less complete tutorials about c4d. My c4d renders looked very bad & fake, cuz they didn’t teach me most of the tools & good lighting. Then Somehow I get to know about blender, and started learning it for free...There was free tutorials on every problem I get to in blender. Just in 3 months of learning, I didn’t even do any course...the functions in blender just named differently from c4d, I started local client projects, good looking exterior visualization, animation, modeling, etc, & made a little bit of money. They didn’t even ask me which application you used. Everything needed was built-in in blender. At the first look, The snapping in blender was better. I just luckily found very strong & complete beginner blender tutorial like crossmind studios beginner series & blender guru beginnee series. The bitter past does not only include the IT institute, It also contain getting insulted in c4d online community. People there finally suggested me to learn blender because of my hardware & my financial issues. & now I'm very happy that I learned blender, But I agree learning C4D first made a good foundation of 3d, so I learned blender easily. So, the free tutorials doesn’t worth 0 to me, they are like life saviors. Please reply, & tell me what you think about my experience. Do you have IT Institutes like this in your country? & How did you learned & get serious commercial projects?
Its interface is still complete shit. The fact you cant build shapes out of lines and curves is astonishing..it has no z-depth plane as standard...really it is still a shit programme for most things ... but excellent that it does everything badly. .
I'm very happy that school of motion finally introduced blender to us. In past school of motion just focused on cinema 4d. It took years for them to bring blender to us.
FINALLY SOM dives into Blender!
What up Shotty! Also EJ Blender is FREE! 🤙🏿
WHAT?!?!?!
Hi!
I am very happy that SouthernShotty is our Blender advocate, he is very eloquent , insanely creative and seems to be a fabulously cool person. Thank SS!
Wow. This is a nice comment. Thank you.
Finally! It took years for SOM to offer a blender class. Southern Shotty is a great teacher
This is nice. Do a "Transitioning from C4D to Blender" series - I would take that class 🙂
Good to know ;)
@@eyedesyn haha.. yeah, you already knew that 😃
@@eyedesyn please start to do Blender tutorials like you did amazing mindblowing cinema 4d tutorials in the past. I'll be waiting for it in eyedesyn youtube channel.
@@ahsanulturzo7783 I think when a man who spends his whole money on a program telling him that there's a free program and powerful as you already paid for it's kinda hard to convince him. Not to mention that if he makes lotta tut on his paid program well....
@@Majooode94 Yeah, that's true..But It's also true that If eyedesyn were a blender tut channel & did blender tutorials, He'd get 10x more views.
Chuffed to finally see some Blender content on SOM, especially from Southernshotty🙌🏾
- For anyone looking to learn some mograph-style and abstract renders + animation, the myriad of tutorials from Ducky 3D are great.
- For more realistic, yet minimal CG, with a focus on well-lit and modelled and animated content, look no further than Derek Elliott's channel, he's such a wonderful teacher and artist, wish I had more time to follow his tuts myself.
- For those who have more time and want a deeper dive into the key areas, I've found Cross Mind Studio's channel to be gold, featuring longer tutorials series on Blender's UI, modelling, lighting, animation and, more recently, Geometry Nodes.
Feel free to drop any other great resources and channels that may be of help to anyone 🤙🏾
So apt!👌🏽
SOUTHERN SHOTTY! 😛😛😛
The subscription model of Cinema 4d makes starting out learning it stressful. I LOVE using C4d and the Wacom friendly UI, but that sub... ouch. A shame it doesn't come with a GPU renderer or an Eevee/raster equivalent built in. It would be perfect for quick and dirty mograph work. Having to either get a subscription for Redshift, a space heater of a graphics card for lookdev, and/or use render farms for any volume of render output is yet another cost that's hard to justify for someone not doing C4d full time, all the time.
The whole "Did Maxon upgrade/develop something that will help you this release? No? Better luck next time!" loop got exhausting over the years (and still is).
Between Blender's super fast and transparent development and Unreal's mograph focused "project avalanche" coming out this year, Maxon has some real competition from the free software world. It will be interesting to see how it adapts.
I've seen project avalanche behind the curtain it's going to turn heads this year for sure!
Project Avalanche is hopefully going to shake things up! Here's hoping!
okay im starting blender journey now
EJ does not know Blender is free, feel free to tag him in your blender posts to let him know this 😂😂😂
Jokes aside, great overview Shotty!!! 🙌
WAIT WHAT!?!?!?! Why don't they advertise that!?
Very good choice of picking SouthernShotty for Blender X SoM
Maxon, it's time to drop the price and offer an indie license, hahaha
Literally the best. Southern shotty for pres!
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am getting into 3d learning curve, am here i am confused on where to start if SOM is not teaching Blender, i reasearched for other tutorials, i found kaizen, smeaf , Cgcookies, nathan and THE OG southernshotty, lovely to learn from you guys, BTW SOM release the Blender tuts soooooooooooooooooon
lmaooo the thumbnail
I was going to take your cinema 4D course…. Do I wait and take a Blender course through you guys? Is Blender NOW more industry standard?
Blender has definitely made strides in the past few years but I would not say it's NOW more industry standard. This also depends on the industry too.
I do see Blender being used a lot for games in combination with Unreal Engine/Unity. If you want to work at a motion design studio, though, not many are using Blender. I will say as more and more talented artists start using Blender, those same studios will have to adapt or miss out on a big talent base. When Blender will make up all this ground and be considered industry standard is still probably years away. After all, I remember when Cinema 4D was also not considered industry standard but then over the years, it slowly overtook software like Maya, Lightwave, and 3DSMax.
Blenders momentum is gaining steam, but I also think we work in a totally different industry now where every artist isn't just using one piece of software, you just don't have the "I know After Effects and that's it" artist much anymore. They know a bunch of apps!
Here's the best part though, is that no matter if you're learning Maya, Blender, C4D or 3DSMax, if you learn the fundamentals of 3D (Which is what we teach in our C4D courses) you can easily transfer that knowledge from DCC to DCC. Just like if you know how to animate and use keyframes in AE, you'll also be able to animate well in C4D or Blender. Know how to light well and use cameras? That all translates to literally any 3D app you'll ever use.
Hope that helps answer your question! :)
Holy shit that 2D stuff in the beginning blew my mind. Wtf! I need to learn that now.
glad to see blender getting support from SoM. Just worried us C4d users will get left without relevant tuts or content. since most people have gone to paywalls.
Thanks 🙌🏻 #blender #3D
LOL E.J. Hassenfratz is mad XD
I aint made im just drinkin my smoothie made with my free blender!
The old EJ thumbnail is magic!
🤣
This is alien technology!
Great video thanks man!
Dedouze offer great grease pencil tutorials
I've tried to learn Blender many times. and every time I open the application im instantly confused with the controls. All the other apps I use are the same in terms of getting around the viewport then I open Blender and boom it's like up is down and left is right. and as soon as I do some research and refresh the basics I go into the apps I use more often with the blender controls in my mind and for like 30 seconds it's like I don't know what I'm doing in those apps anymore.
Learning cinema 4d was really expensive & harder than learning Blender.
The worst decision I made was learning cinema 4d. Blender is free, It also has free & powerful render engine & also free simulations, you don’t even need zbrush for doing some sculpting with blender. whereas in cinema 4d you have to buy bunch of plugins. C4d physical render still don't support gpu rendering, so you have to buy an external render.
Blender has bunch of free tutorials, where you can be an expert in blender for free from youtube tutorials, on the other hand cinema 4d doesn’t have free tutorials that worth your time, cinema 4d is much harder to learn if you have less money.
This is the absolute first time I've heard someone say C4D is harder than learning Blender! I don't think I know anyone who used C4D and switched to Blender say that it's easier to learn...I have heard the other things you've mentioned been said. Sculpting is def nice, and the built in C4D renderers are very long in the tooth.
@@eyedesyn Oh gosh EJ! Is that really you replying me? Or your UA-cam channel manager? I really can't believe you replied me.
If you really replied, I actually didn’t mean it. Actually c4d was expensive & had less free online tutorials & resources. But your tutorials were mind blowing, the first video I watched from you channel was about C4D layers & it was mindblowing.
especially "David Ariew" ones.
But you have to agree blender has free simulations, render engine (both realtime & offline), sculpting and all those cool stuff built in, so you don’t have to jump over to other applications.
EJ, I'll be very happy If you do tutorials on blender. I've watched so many videos of you in maxon's official channel & I'm a huge fan.
@A B No bro, story a bit different. I agree, I'm very less experienced freelace 3d artist. But here in my country we don’t have amazing tutors like greyscalegorilla, eyedesyn or effectatron. I tried leaning c4d from The best IT Institute here when I was bankrupt, Thought learning 3d would solve my financial conditions.
But I wasted a bunch of money and 1.5 years of time doing 3 different c4d courses from the IT institute.
I couldn’t even make a good looking 3d still render, They just care about the money & they themselves didn’t know 30% of c4d, even youtube had very less complete tutorials about c4d. My c4d renders looked very bad & fake, cuz they didn’t teach me most of the tools & good lighting.
Then Somehow I get to know about blender, and started learning it for free...There was free tutorials on every problem I get to in blender.
Just in 3 months of learning, I didn’t even do any course...the functions in blender just named differently from c4d, I started local client projects, good looking exterior visualization, animation, modeling, etc, & made a little bit of money. They didn’t even ask me which application you used.
Everything needed was built-in in blender. At the first look, The snapping in blender was better. I just luckily found very strong & complete beginner blender tutorial like crossmind studios beginner series & blender guru beginnee series.
The bitter past does not only include the IT institute, It also contain getting insulted in c4d online community. People there finally suggested me to learn blender because of my hardware & my financial issues. & now I'm very happy that I learned blender, But I agree learning C4D first made a good foundation of 3d, so I learned blender easily.
So, the free tutorials doesn’t worth 0 to me, they are like life saviors.
Please reply, & tell me what you think about my experience. Do you have IT Institutes like this in your country? & How did you learned & get serious commercial projects?
What was that "Mobile" view Shotty mentioned @7:30?
where can I buy this course?
Hello, I love your passion in Computer Graphics, I'm a DJ looking to learn how to make some music videos... do you have any advice?
For those who are thinking Blender is hard to learn, wait till you see maya and max and especially Houdini lol.
Max is a piece of cake.
@@MichaelFlynn0 a very overcooked expired cake.
@@xanzuls LOL - yer.. undeveloped now. Rent seeking on Autodesk's part.
hahaha what is that Thumbnail? :D
I mean if Blender is really hard to learn and complicated then why did Maxon copy Blender's UI and icons 1-1 lmfao.
Blender is absolutly not hart to learn.But it is verry Shortcut Driven also you have to learn Directly the Proffesional use.
I don't see how this is about how hard it is. This is just a review of the software.
blender is the best , easiest and most powerful software ever
*literally 5 billion features on screen at once*
"Has become increasingly user friendly since"
Sure, yeah, okay.
C4D still better 😊😊
Blender is easier than C4D
not really easy, just blender gives straight to the point results and is modern to use:)
@@aahritya_tv well, I started learning both and blender is way more straightforward.
@@imiy yeah, c4d is easier just you can't render good stuff without redshift or octane
Its interface is still complete shit. The fact you cant build shapes out of lines and curves is astonishing..it has no z-depth plane as standard...really it is still a shit programme for most things ... but excellent that it does everything badly. .