You nailed it! Great advice and detailed insights. And I'm a Blender advocate. This is a serious critique of Blender and Blender Foundation will be well served to take notes. Blender is improving dramatically, so achieving parity with commercial competitors is not inconceivable. And the final points about learning Blender as your platform for jumping to specialized commercial tools is spot on. Thanks for the unvarnished analysis.

i switched from max to blender in the last couple of years. i was a 20 plus year max user and i work in games in a major studio. and i can tell you that more and more artists are using blender for asset creation in their pipelines. i think some of the addons and the interface improvements are drawing people in. addons like meshmachine decal machine hard ops boxcutter the sculpt improvements fluent and fluent materializer cad tools...lots of free addons the zen uv and pack master its now accepting udims....things are changing. my main reason is that the max interface seems so stale to me. it hasnt improved in a major way in a long long time. same for maya. when blender overhauled its interface it really made people take a look again...

Curious if one can use blender for simple compositing and video editing, as a beginner, at this point, or is the learning curve still quite steep?

Another awesome Blender video. Keep pumping out these videos ma brotha! They really encourage me to keep going.

Is that operation dark water made in blender? Do you have a link to it?

What apps would be good for making high end overlays for video to work in OBS?

"...instead of making excuses why you can't find a job, you know what? Create one." And that is exactly what Blender is about. I keep seeing people want to compare software but, there is a ton of work to be done that doesn't have to come from a major studio. Blender is perfect for a freelancer or, small independent company. Employment is changing and the stability of a job with any single company is really iffy. You can be a boutique and write your own ticket instead of standing with your hat in your hand hoping a big company picks you. Need to scale up? How many independents are out there that can help you crew up fast?

I love your tutorials on blender... great job👍

Ok look while blender is great it still cannot handle as many poly counts as Maya and animates with rigs extremely slow. Also blender renders have potential to look great with time and effort but Maya has a way higher potential for quality. So while Blender 3.5 is great there will have to be major changes before anything can happen.

nothing like C4ds interface . I luv it

As a studio owner I hire recently Blender Artists if's good for some simple stuff like 3D modeling but it just cannot compare to 3ds max. I'm a 3ds max User I love that Blender exists as it forced the big guys to ramp it up and also lower the prices.

I've been doing what you said at the end of the video. You just motivated me to try blender. Thanks

This is just so hillarous, there are so many reasons why studios still using Maya, because it works!

There's a problem with everything nodes that I am starting to see with GeoNodes right now, and that is, not all artist are able to understand how node works, and I'm also one of those who is having a hard time using it compare to C4D mograph tools, while it's better than C4D if you wanna do more complicated procedural task, it's not user friendly to an artist who are not good at math, understanding vectors, and the lack of beginner friendly tutorials (not to mention a lot are just copy and paste tutorials) to understand everything those nodes is also a problem that im starting to have. And another problem I start to also get is even the community is 4-5times bigger than any major software, it's still hard to get some help from peoples as the professional level are still like 3-5% of the whole community, so that is the whole 95% are more likely to be just like me who can model, texture and animate BUT cannot use the more complicated node system, so finding the right person to help you out for such task is like finding a needle at haystack at this point... I think Blender needs to balance those system for ease of use so people who arent willing or having a hard time to understand a node based system get some alternative way of doing task much easier like go with the good old sliders and modifiers to make a quicker way of making something.

i tried blender for like 6 months and im back with cinema 4d redshift ;)

3ds max and maya softwar for professional artist in industry.

To all the 3DCG professionals in the comments section, I would appreciate your answers to my question! As a beginner planning to learn 3DCG as a side job, I'm wondering whether I should choose Cinema 4D or Blender as my software. The types of projects I'd like to create include product commercials similar to Apple ads and animations where objects move in sync with music. Excluding budgetary concerns, I'd be grateful if you could provide specific advice on which software would be better for me to learn.

Does it have a pass or take system yet? If not, it won't be destroying anything. And if you think I mean aovs, then you need to get outside the Blender bubble for a while. A good pro 3d software needs a means to make multiple sub scenes inside the main scene.

Idk on this. I think Blender still needs to refine or rework specific bits like their modeling since compared to other modeling features. No Addons do NOT make up for that imo,I LOVE the addon options people craft up but even that gives so much.

love the create a job line very blunt and true.

I advise anyone who is using Maya or any Autodesk tool to learn Blender, the experiences that you spend learning such a tool were a waste of time and a real joke for us as artists and the whole industry, when you know that there is a beast production smart tool that can do all that in a fast and creative way and plus it's FREE What are you looking for more when everything in your hand is FREE! Wish you all the best!

This video sounds late... are you talkin about Blender 4.0 or 2.8

Excellent video!!! Blender skill sets are transferable to any 3D content creation tool. Pretty soon you will definitely see a lot of major studios using blender in their pipeline.

Blender needs to improve viewport performance with grease pencil and also with very dense meshes and large Terrain mesh. It is the one thing that keeps me from using it for large-scale projects.

Maybe you are doing most 3d animation or vfx stuff. In this field Blender is really good I agree cos I'm learning Blender to do sculpting and character animation. However, if you consider the niche for each software, Blender is still having a long way to go and it doesn't necessarily have to 'destroy' other ones. I'm from C4D and I have to tell you, for motion graphics like manipulating massive objects, C4D is still much much better than Blender due to the non destructive workflow and flexibility also the intuitive interface and logic. Every tool has a niche and I'd love to see Blender is getting better as a toolset for small studios also can consolidate it's 3d and 2d animation workflow as its top feature

It's childish clickbait titles like this that detract from the great work the Blender devs are doing. People like you can still do these videos and be taken more seriously if you lay off on the ridiculous titles.

Blender is one of the few things I enjoy in this life. Without spending thousands of dollars I can create environments, game assets, and even materials. It is hands down the boss when it comes to anything 3d. There is a stigma around its mainstream use but I have had absolutely no problem aside from rig issues and some assets utilization in game engine but when you compare it to the others there is no difference, literally none. I have had issues with every software I have used (Maya, Houdini, etc.) and Blender is no exception but with the amount of addons, community support, and KZfaq tutorials it makes using it way more useful and efficient when it comes to asset creation. I 100% understand your reasoning and you basically nailed their objective.

Blender 3.5 set to destroy Maya and cinema 4d? lol nope. But blender is still great.

AVOID AMD GPUs for blender or content creation. Besides the performance/stability being terrible compared to NVIDIA, AMD will drop support for Hardware whenever they feel like it.

autodesk destroyed Softimage

idk why freelancers think and jealous of max and maya

big studios and big IT corporations are interconnected with big capital, that is, the owners of big studios and big IT corporations are the same people, they have imposed a senseless ideology on all of us - which is called the studio standard, they hire thousands of bloggers to denigrate those products like blender, that are sold under a free license, if blender would be 1000 times better than 3d max, maya, cinema 4d and the rest, blender cannot become a studio standard for large studio corporations, i think blender is great

I wish Blender had NURBS modelling.

Definitely Blender is winning the race. I am a Cinema4D user but I constantly see things people are doing with Blender and it blows my mind...I would loveeee that Blender has a more friendly user interface...maybe sometime I switch...I dont know, maybe not, I am a huge fan of cinema4d mograph tools and the new cloth simulation...I dont know what to do honestly, I hate Blender's UI 😂 but I would love to learn a bit of Blender.

Oh well.. about time those of us who don't have deep pockets can finally enjoy some of the 3D world too.. I mean sure, I'd spend 5 grand on software too, if I knew I would make millions from it..lol

I have high hopes: I hope Autodesk crashes, and Stocks Burn, has to sell 3dsMax and Autodesk Revit that's, the two very good software they have left.

Blender need more plugin about AI; deepfake etc..

Houdini indie is 269$, less than a dollar per day….

bill gates never said 640k was more than enough.

Blender is the jack of all trades master of none. A tool for hobbyists. Not for professionals.

Nice peace of information

This was very interesting but not helping me out, just downloaded 3dsmax & Maya. I want to die.

i cant understand you due to your accent

3DsMax DESERVES MUCH BETTER than AUTODESK Nazis.

Houdini as well will be obsolete within a few versions.

Nope, it won't, because the Blender Institute is all about hype, not developing a good software, that's the problem with the whole open source concept, it relies on donations, and donations are driven by hype, so the Blender Institute is putting out 2 releases a year with ton of new tools, but those tools are half-baked, at best, which is why there is literally thousands of plugins for Blender, there are more plugins for Blender than for all the other DCC apps put together, and that includes Max, the reason being that Blender lacks a huge amount of functionalities, I have never seen a plugin that adds FBX functionalities to a DCC app, only Blender has one AFAIK, so no, Blender will never destroy Maya or Cinema 4D, and to think that 4.0 will be all nodes is just funny to me! 🤣🤣🤣

Please do not talk about things you do not know or understand. FBX is very advanced, it releases a new version with tons of updates and fixes almost every year, and is an industry standard used by all major VFX and Game and 3D applications. Blender has a really bad history with FBX, initially they didn't want to integrate it, even created false reasons why they didn't want to integrate it.(The founder of Blender himself did.) Blender has a very basic, outdated and mediocre even, implementation of FBX and that is the fault of Blender. Blender is in no position to define industry standards. It will either adopt them or stay on the sidelines like a sad puppy forever.

Blender is still trash , i don't care what people says but I'm sure i will never touch this garbage software again

for almost a decade people made videos saying " this is it, maya is dead. " truth it. it isnt, and never will be.