Also the Patreon is Always open if you wanna learn how I approach my Art style particularly: www.patreon.com/Stache770 But, If you were looking for specific Course Recommendations on how to get better at Blender I've covered that topic in a previous video. So you can check that out if you want. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jbaodMujnpbUlKs.html

ive been using blender for 3 weeks. Im 24 i never had a passion for school or have found something i want to do, i somehow came to the conclusion that 3D animation is that thing and i feel it so deeply in my core. I understand that the process will be an extremely, steep, uphill battle. But for once in my life that is okay. This video helped me understand the end goal, and i cant wait to watch it again 6 months later, 2 years later, 6 years, etc. Im here for it (and take my like :)

This actually helps kick my ass in gear. I'm so busy watching tutorials that I don't actually make anything. I think that's the main step, just MAKE things. Doesn't matter how good or bad it is, just doing it will teach you more than just watching the tutorials. Thank you

Two years ago I tried to start learning Blender but I got stuck watching tutorial videos and would not practice everyday. I'm graduating from college for programming now and it's given me a new appreciation for learning a skill that you get better at by 1% everyday, no instant gratification. You must fall in love with the process. Here I go again. Good luck all!

"I'm talking to people who can spend the money, but still choose not to" This had me weak!💀😂😂😂😂

You're wrong! i am spending 98% of watching tutorials and only 1-2% for actual modelling 😊

As a beginner, I love the insights you provide, as always.

True words. Especially about patience. I think the most misleading thing out there, particularly for beginners, are the "Create something in X amount of minutes" videos, which give the false impression that modelling and creating artworks is a quick thing and doesn't require many hours and days or weeks at all. I think that's a pitfall and grounds for frustration for many aspiring artists.

So relatable I think every Artist feels the way you elaborate here in this Video 😊

You point about add-ons rings so true to me once a person crosses over from a hobbyist to a professional. The add-on is a fraction of what you should be charging, and could potentially save you days of work, or even be the reason a job is attainable in the first place. Same thing goes for asset libraries like specific plants and cars

As a Pro VFX/CG Generalist Using Blender and Other Softwares, this is what I strongly recommend for any one that is starting up in 3D/VFX world. Another advice is not only watch tutorial but read pdf files, learn each parameters and know what they do before or after watching tutorials because i will help you in understanding what the person is or was teaching. Make sure to write out topics from tutorials Base on what the teacher said that doesn't make sense to you and sometimes pro teacher on KZfaq tend to say things that are very very important off topic from what they are teaching you at the moment and if you are really listing you will write and research about them later because topic being about more topics and then you will have millions of things to learn at hand and also practice, practice, practice off your comfort zone and use reference images while working because believe me, all pro artist works with reference images like a lot. Finally: Start from blender then transit to other software.

I Just started learning around the half-way point of this year - and I quickly found that just finding videos on the basics pay a lot more, for me personally, than just following those tutorials you mentioned.

Not long ago graphic designers were worried that their job would be replaced by AI... and maybe some companies would prefer using AI as it might be cheaper than paying for a human being to do so... And here I am just starting to learn 😂 Well, my goal is to create arts, if no one is interested or no one pays me to do it then it's fine! I'm just thinking that it's better for me to learn new things instead of scrolling social media for hours and what I got from those random posts was just anger/disgusted/anxiety as the most viral posts are usually the worst kind...

Man as as someone who got burnt out designing in the industry I cant explain how much of a renewed energy your videos have given me, also changing my perspective and enjoying just learning again, although I primarily use C4D I love your channel and what your provide for the community, actually moving to blender because of you. keep it up !!!!!

Really enjoy your work. I've been using Blender off and on for about 2 years and have never tried animation. After watching Celsius a few months ago, I decided to try making a short film myself. I have been at it 8 -10 hrs a day for 2 months. Every day is a new set of problems and frustrations, but it is all part of improving.

You are so humble. No one else would have made this video. Thank you a lot

Everything you said is 100% true. I'm new to game dev and 3d modelling. But I've decided to constantly push myself out of my comfort zone, and when possible, consider purchasing things instead of going for free assets only

As an intermediate artist this is exactly what I needed to hear! Have been using blender for 3 years and I’m super proud of what I have made but have also been feeling a bit stagnant for the last while. The past couple of days I have a renewed energy to dive back in and I’m ready for new challenges and to improve my quality 🚀

This is what is helping me on my learning journey. Celebrate the small victories. Did you get an unwrap "Clean" looking on the first try, after having a history of "Messy" looking UVs? That's celebration worthy? Pat yourself on the back. You are tackling something huge. As for assets, if someone gives out a free asset, or a free plug in. *be thankful!* Let them know you are thankful. A simple "Thankyou" can go a long way.

You’re the best and your so realistic clear and transparent! Thanks a lot I found this super helpful! As well as your other videos. I feel way more comfortable experimenting with different software and learning a procedure.

interesting pieces of advice. i simplified my problem with references by watching more interesting movies (in terms of cinematography and composition) and basically self-teach basic concepts of filmmaking and planning how to sequence shots. i personally find that it's a more holistic approach and the process keeps me engaged because there is no shortage of amazing movies and shows to learn from. occasionally, i would look at the body of artwork by one or two painters, but mostly, i try to learn from movies especially from the legendary auteurs.

I've been making and following exercises, learning since the beginning. Learning by yourself is tough, that's why I always take some time to watch videos like yours. Experienced users can always offer a new perspective, and I love your work! I have some ideas now for future mini projects...

Definitely needed this video today, even though I’m fully aware of all this and it’s not the first video/ person pointing out the obvious, everyone needs to hear this once in a while, especially when you feel stuck

This video's great for giving you a kick to get going. I definitely have been spending too much of my time watching tutorials but when I look at what I've made, I hardly have anything. Trial and error really teaches you so much more than any tutorial

Thank you so so much for this video!! I've also been using blender since like 2016 or something and I also still feel like I've hardly progressed beyond intermediate skills. So it's great that someone who used to be in that same boat actually managed to articulate the reason, and even how to get past it! So yeah, thanks a bunch!!

Thank you stache! This is the kind of information and experience sharing that can really make a significant difference for many open-minded people.

The number 1 mistake in my opinion is people modeling everything from scratch always, this is what kept me away from learning so much more in early days. But again a great video. ❤👏

so goodddd stache your approach to blender resonates so strongly with my experience teaching myself how to shoot videos. just starting with blender and glad i found your profile

Thank you so much. Love your list. Time to buckle down and get at it.

Your videos are the best! Im still learning blender but i realized most good artists use alot of short cuts or illusions to make creations look complete when sometimes they even add 2d and stuff. Thank you for your videos

As someone who is familiar with Blender for about 10 years, I can say I really needed this video! Nothing I can disagree with in this video. Sometimes it's even hard to grasp for myself how I got a full-time job as a 3D artist at gamedev. While I'm incredibly thankful for it, I feel that I should be waaaay better. So, just after 10 years, I've bought a bunch of paid courses for Blender for the first time ever :D

This was so insightful and helpful😍 thank you for making such videos💙

Dude, was recommended this video by KZfaq. This was all said really well. Thank you. Been learning Blender for about 3 months - wise words

This video was the kick in the pants I needed to take my first step into starting my channel. Thanks Stache. You do great work and you're absolutely entertaining. 👍

On the impatience thing, It's less about making money and more about comparing myself to the pros that look like they spaz their cursors at their starting cube and scare it into something right out of Pixar, while I continue to stumble over the UI.

I feel so convicted after your mention of stepping out of your comfort zone and chasing what scares you. Great video! Thank you for your beautiful content, please keep it up!

Great points. These are precisely all the reasons I can relate to!

I love your narration here, so good. So wise. So on point.

Thanks for this video. I'm still a beginner, despite learning in Blender for two years. I mostly modelled disproportionate furniture and sculptures, but now I really stepped out of my comfort zone with a mechanical Christmas decoration, that, hopefully, will be 3D printed as well. I totally agree with the fact that you can only see the progress with patience, my first projects REALLY suck!

Great video and I needed to hear this. Thanks!

10:47 I've been doing calisthenics for about 5 years, the last year was when I understood that if I want to improve I have to train like a beast, always to muscle failure, and my progress increased like never before. The complete front lever is almost there, :), so yes, is exactly the same for everything in life, without suffering there is no progress.

Bro, you're so relatable, keep the good content up! I love the 3D community man!

Thanks Stache, amazing video and message

Excellent notes here. Appreciate the effort you put into each of these videos.

I am actually praying for you to get into a major VFX company because you totally deserve it, man! Your renders are so clean and feel real!

Great video! We all have room for growth as artists. Pushing our boundaries is key to improvement. Thank you for sharing!

Thank you. I see that in myself right now. Amen, buddy! Have a nice result!

I just love this video. It made see some points I overlooked over years. It applies to a lot of software not just Blender

I recently got back into blender, yesterday finished my first little project, quite simple one. I don't really want to use other's models, textures, because I want to really understand how those "complex node chains" actually work and I want to create materials and models that I use. Would definitely save a lot of time, just using already made assets, but I don't find it as fun, as creating all that myself, even if it doesn't turn out very good.

These tips may also be suitable for those who do not study the blender! Good luck to everyone in your niche :)

Amazing video! Super inspiring and motivating. Not only what you're saying, but also your evolution is wild. I had seen your short film, but I didn't know you were the guy that made that before watching this video. I can only congratulate you for your incredible work and your willing to learn and keep pushing forward. I'm at the intermediate part of the journey and oh my god it hurts sometimes, but there's something magic in there, I guess. Finding some gratification in a journey which, as you said, doesn't provide much, feels even better than a really pleasing ride. My man - you found a new suscriber. Thanks so much for this!

I watch tutorial and pause it every few minutes to try what I learned in Blender. That's how I am becoming familiar with the Blender's basic functions. It's so fun creating in Blender.

Thanks for your inspiration. I was close to give up but started learning Blender again after watching your video!

Thank you! great video, excellent narration

Thank you! I wish you all the best in the new 2024!

Love your work and your humility!

Brilliantly explained!

Thanks!! Very inspirational!

Great video! Now that I've seen it, I've collected all the knowledge I need to make my own short film. Thanks!

I feel like I have the opposite problem regarding tutorials: I think I don't watch enough random tutorials, only when I can't figure out how to do something, and it might prevent me from randomly learning better or easier ways to do things. Essentially, I feel like I might not be combatting the "I don't know what I don't know".

Thanks for the kickass videos. Real practical advice.

This honestly helped me as an Vegas editor, as if it were a clear reference from the start

Thank you for sharing helpful tips with us.Once again Thanks you for making this video.

Amazing video, thanks for the motivation

This was an AWESOME video. Reference and pushing yourself are the two reminders I needed today.

Man I need to start using notion. I love how you have everything so well organized in notion. I’ve been looking for an app where I can categorize all my favorite youtube channels based on the subjects they talk about. Notion may be a good bet for that. I love your notion board and wish I could take a peek at your clippings

I have been doing art since I was a child, now I have the opportunity to study in a university where I can improve my skills as an artist. I consider this ability to create things in blender as a form or art by itself, and we as an artists know how hard is thia journey of creating new things from scratch, we already appreciate the effort on each render because we know how hard is learning new skills in order to have a final piece that you feel proud of. Learning blender is so much difficult in comparison with other skills like drawing or painting, and that's the reason I truly respect people who uses blender as a professional.

I also think that the design of this force over the delays or setbacks and without losing hope you're having a chance

I appreciate your openness about the growth process. My Blender journey started with a challenge, a creative director asked me can you make a gummie with sugar on it in blender? when I mentioned I wanted to learn it. I responded...let me try. I have been approaching projects the same way ever since. What am I wanting to do?, and then find the tutorials to show me how. It is so overwhelming sometimes because there is so much to learn to achieve the end result. Blender is amazing and it opened my creative world up because it is free and for Mac. Perfect time to learn this tool, it gets better and better and I am so grateful for it and the community of artists who share...like you.

I'm at around three and a half years in - and very fortunate to have found a way to make Blender my fulltime job, feel like this was so spot on for where I'm at. I think next step for me is really getting that reference board going - I am so low level there its embarrassing haha Enjoying all of your videos a ton!

True words. And they apply to other professions as well. Thanks for sharing.

I like this video and it highlights the realistic important parts, I would add to it: many things you will also have to learn outside the application, if you have no Art background in other mediums.

Personally i think the thing that helped me the most was this handy little addon called node wrangler.

As a beginner, this is the best video for me to watch. Thank you.

I don't have a lot of experience with Blender, and I'm not able to work on art in general as much as I would like right now due to my medication sapping me of my motivation, but I do have some experience with digital art. I'm also VERY good at origami. My general stance when I approach anything I do is that I'm not concerned about whether or not I do well. I do things more for the experience of doing them, not just to get to the end product. I find that this nonchalant "just-have-fun" mindset is very helpful for me. I don't get too upset when I mess up and I'm often pleased with whatever result I get. This mindset also enables me to have a lot more stamina for working on whatever it is I want to work on.

love to hear your journey

Thanks! Despite the ads and your exhortations to spend money, I found this useful. I'm in my 60s, and got to a certain level in Blender back when it was 2 point something. I learned the basics such as how to make a donut or a teacup, and Nodes, Materials, and Mirroring, not to mention UV unwrapping. But then life interfered, and I also got Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from pushing too many vertices around with a mouse. When I got better and came back, they had changed the entire interface, and I had to learn everything over again. In the meantime my computing equipment wasn't getting any faster, though Evee was a blessing.

love ur works, its really helpful and motivating , THX!

your videos are great man!!

Hey!! Thanks so much for sharing this video. I just watched Celsius on the weekend as part of my research to see if I should jump from 2d to 3d animation. To be clear, I was originally working towards 3d and created a project recently in 2d as it was more obtainable. It’s cool that the algorithm recommended this video that has answers to the questions I have been asking for a while. :D

Hello, i think its a miracle your video popped up in my feed today, really felt impacted by your video and hope i continue to progress. Am a Software Engineering student in my third year and i honestly feel like am wasting my time. Started out blender a week ago and I've never felt more interested in something like i do currently. Am 19 btw . I would like to take on this journey fully and hopefully use it for game development in the future.

Tysm, subscribed!

Dude your videos are like XP points for me whenever I watch them there is some improvement in my work through your tips I have learnt so much from you thanks for opening a youtube channel thanks for existing love you and your work so much ❤. And ya it's damn true that we love blender so much that we don't wanna step out of it specifically me, I learnt Maya but I never made a single project in it.

Thanks for this video bro, you're a true motivation.

Thank you bro ❤

I only watch Tutorials while I am actually doing something to get some help for my active problems. There are so many things I overcomplicated and a simple short video helped me to simplify it and even reduce the poly count

Thanks for the great advice, it applies to any skill set.

Very well said 😊

Great video! It’s an act of generosity, with excellent & substantial insights! 👍🏼👍🏼

Great insights you've shared.

Dude, I love your vibe. Thanks for the videos.

Very important advice: the "tutorial loop." With any subject. Doing is definitely different than watching. Hands on. Very helpful video and solid insights.

Great video. I'm going to watch it again in a month!

All i can say is you're absolutely right. On all accounts. But you left out one important thing, which is valid for me at least; don't forget to have fun while on your journey. Blender and everything surrounding it, including alternatives, is immensly satisfying if you're willing to commit.

Amazing advice!!!

great tips, thanks!

The only video i need my friend thanks for inspiring i am 17 and spand 2 months in it i deeply want to start this journey and complete by reaching goal that i desire.

I started learning Blender almost 14 years ago and I consider myself being at an intermediate level, and still beginner in some areas of Blender. But since 3D is not my #1 interest, I'm fine with that I'm "only intermediate", even after 13.7 years. My plan is to learn about just the things that I need to know for creating a short animation video (and that's already quite a lot) and try to up these skills from beginner to intermediate. After that is done (which I expect will take another few years), then I'll see whether or not I would like to pursue upping my 3D skills to expert level. Maybe I'm fine to stay at the intermediate level.

I remember first doing the donut tutorial (the first one, not the reboot after 2.8) in 2015 on a core2duo with the iGPU. I learnt fluid sims, how to use HDRi and more, but soon I started feeling that my computer wasn't nearly as powerful enough to do the things I wanted it to do. Over the years, I got an old GPU, my dad bought me a new laptop for college, I even built a PC after years of saving up. I still didn't nearly make as much stuff as I'd like to. I saw your short film on my recommended page, and after seeing a bunch of your videos, it has made me feel so powerless and lacking in my abilities, that I feel like I must comment here. I know I can make good art. There's nothing stopping me, but myself. OVer the last 7-8 years, I've spent a lot of time on youtube watching videos on how to do things. Even though I know where all the buttons are, and have been making lackluster still renders for years now, I have not improved much as an artist. You're absolutely correct in your points. I hope that I can change my ways and stay on a path of creation rather than being in a loop of seeing something new online, trying out a version of that in software and sometimes not even saving the .blend file because "That was just me experimenting, it wasn't what I wanted to build on" type of mentality. I needed this video. Thank you for making good content.

This is the word of advice I really need!! Man, you touched my heart as an artist!!!!