>Blender has one of the best years in it's lifetime >"Is Blender dead?"

Funniest part of this video is when he used the words "Maya" and "stability" in the same sentence.

Me: Excited because I plan to start learning how to use blender. KZfaq: is blender dead?

"Is blender dead?" Everybody, immediately: "No"

My dad 60 years old start with blender as a hobby. He was pushing me to became a 3d artist and now i am his teacher :D

So basicly. Maya wants to be the very best, while Blender wants to catch them all. Got it.

I learnt Maya first, when I was at my 3D school, but had to go to Blender to make some simple clean modeling and UV unwrapping in less than an hour. This is how I really started to learn Blender. I was learning it on my own, and still, I improved better in 3D this way than by using Maya with real teachers. Often, when a teacher told me to do something like this in Maya and not otherwise, I was asking: "But can't we do it more simply? It's long and illogical this way", the answer was no. I try to find another way, but the teacher was right, it's like this, not otherwise. I open Blender once I'm back home, make a test and finally notice that "Yes, it can be done more simply, just not in Maya." Like, for example... scaling the whole character from its "Root" bone or edit the position of the joint after we made the skinning process. You said that Maya was mostly used for big productions because it was better for that, better for heavy scenes... As for the heavy scenes, it's not wrong. But with some optimisation, it's not a big deal. But from my own experience, Blender is not used for big productions because 3D softwares, even Blender, are very complex softwares. So... teachers had learnt 3D with Maya cause, some decades ago, Maya was the best software. Then, they teach 3D to their students with Maya. Then the students become professional and teachers used to Maya, etc... Plus, the biggest studios like Dreamworks, Pixar, etc... are using Maya, so that point, plus the fact that all 3D softwares are very complex to learn... it should be better if we teach just Maya at school, right? Each time I asked a teacher or a student what he thought of Blender, the answer was "Well, it's not a good software." Then I ask: "Did you try it?" And the answer is: "No... But if no studio uses it, it must be bad". That's the real major problem. Nobody takes Blender seriously for big productions because too few professionals and teachers really tried to learn it seriously. And if only a minority of employees in studio knows Blender, then what's the point to change what the studio is used to use for years, maybe decades? At least, that's my feeling from my experience (and sorry for the long comment).

i love it when you said that in maya you can press undo in a big file and it not freezing for 10 seconds, because its true, it just crashes and messes with the file forcing you to go to a previous iteration that you saved before because it just does that. I´ve been working with maya for a while now and it feels like I'm brute forcing every single thing before a crash, and a week ago i started with blender and i cant believe how good it feels to actually enjoy 3d modeling

I learned Maya 10 years ago, and while i love it due to it being my first 3D software, it still suffers from many of the same issues I encountered over a decade ago (crashing, modeling tools not working properly). While I have currently been using 3DSmax at my current position at my employer due to their substantial amount of resources and plug in development, the release of Blender 2.8 caught my attention, and as of 2.9x all of my personal projects are done in Blender. It is important to note that even though many major studios use Maya and Max in their pipeline, as long as you express outstanding skills in your field, they will not care which software you used to create your artwork and are often times more willing to train you to their specific pipeline production. The Fundamentals are the same across any software, the most important part is dedication to the craft and experience.

Ah yes Autodesk dedicated support: "Somebody reported this bug 10 years ago but it's still in our latest version, we are very sorry about that"

From learning Blender one of the benefits is that everything you create you own, can use commercially etc. The problem with Maya is that everything you create is locked by the license from Maya. So you can't sell or do any commercial work without paying for the commercial license.

I'm watching this like: "Hmm, yes. interesting." But I'm also like: "Tutorial on how to delete the cube." XD

For my Studio, we use Blender all the way, but It very difficult to find 3D Artist who know well Blender here in Montreal Canada. Almost all students here learn in those industry standards software, because they wanna work at big studios like Ubisoft, etc. I hope more people learn Blender in the future, and more schools start to teach it alongside of those other 3D software.

what worries me the most about the 'professional pipeline' is the cost. Blender is FREE, and as a solo artist i cannot afford so many monthly subscriptions.

I just love how blender opens in a few seconds and you can start modeling as soon as possible

If you love paying far too much for a 3D software that will crash randomly whenever it feels like it, go with Maya

This entire video in a nutshell: Use Maya if you're rich, use Blender if you're broke. Happy Trails :)

"Maya has stability" is a funny way of saying "constantly crashing train wreck"... Blender + Houdini is the way.

Its funny how this video got popped up at my KZfaq page while my computer still rendering my Blender scene in the background.

I feel like with the new updates of blender it's really rising to a new level. Geometry nodes where such a massive addition imo.

2:02 ironic how blender is the donut and almost everyone starts out with making a donut in blender

" What makes a warrior strong is not the weapon, but the warrior HOLDING the weapon."

EXACTLY what i needed to hear as a hobbyist just starting out as a solo developer, thnx!......such a long way to go

Thank you!!!!! As a basic digital painter (Photoshop and SAI) I've been wanting to get into 3D and all the articles and KZfaq explanations I've come across so far have been really unhelpful - your video explained the production pipeline and what all these major 'standard industry' programs offer and how they work together. This was exactly what I needed to understand all the major programs out there, how they work together, and that Blender is the jack of all trades I should probably start on as a complete 3D newbie who doesn't want to pay thousands of dollars into multiple different programs 😂❤️ thanks again!!!

In college I was using 3D Studio Max (I know this video is about Blender or Maya), and in my final year of college I decided to combine animation and programming for my bachelor thesis (basically a Facial MoCap). 3D Studio Max was giving me so much problems with connecting imported data and facial bones. I got so frustrated and decided to just try using Blender even thought my professors were telling me that Blender sucks from the start of the college. In less then an hour I successfully imported the file and combined the data with the facial bones. So rather then trying to brute force the 3D Studio Max, I decided to delete 10 pages that had detailed description of how to do it using 3D Studio Max to rewriting it on how to use it with Blender. My professors weren't pleased that I used Blender. Still, the result was so good they still decided to give me the best grade. Now, I hate writing documentations, that can tell you how much I hated using 3D Studio Max.

My answer to this question is always this: depends on what you wanna do. Wanna be employed at a company? You have better odds if you learn Maya. Wanna do personal or work solo? Learn Blender. Bottom line is, skills are interchangeable, if you are a great Blender artist you can jump on Maya pretty quick, same the other way.

cool video it helped out a ton with starting out and composing my first soft

Fantastic Video... Helped me decide just like that

Don't limit yourself to one or the other. If you want an industry job you'll need Max or Maya, if you're a hobbyist or indie blender is the best free app there is, but all of them have crossover. At the end of the day, 3d art is 3d art. It's your ability to apply and adapt your skills that is most important.

Don't forget guys that every new update version of blender will be free as well also we can always download the daily beta and alpha updates and the experimental Branches with new features, faster physics baking, faster rendering. The development fund is now much higher than it was for blender 2.7 and below, we can't go wrong with blender :)

fantastic video! just what i needed, thank you so much🤩

es! Can't wait to play with the full version

"Sniff" : great video, "Sniff" : i really enjoyed it very much. "Sniff" : looking forward to the next one.

Blender Dev - What you want? Users - More modeling tools and new Texture paint mode Blender Dev - Take geometry nodes

Instantly liked when I saw the intro! Haha incredible scene and connection!

I've made a short animated film entirely in Blender and a short video game's whole asset library entirely in Maya. As I see it, the ONLY advantage Maya has over Blender is it's pipeline tools, mainly the ability to reference a Maya file in another Maya file to create a sort of hierarchy between files. This allows you to animate a character within a scene or several scenes, make changes to the character in it's original file and those changes will then effect all of your scenes. When I was working on my short film, I had over 100 .blend files, one for each shot, and every time I wanted to make changes to any of the characters, I had to then go back and reimport them into the scenes and copy the animation frames from one iteration to the other. Blender does have similar tools to Maya via the "Link" option, but it fails to allow the user proper control over physics and other important parts of a character rig, so I ended up not using it. Other than the things mentioned above, Blender is superior to Maya in every way. It's better for modeling, for rigging; It performs faster and crashes less often; It doesn't take hours upon hours to download and install; It starts up faster; The list goes on and on. Also, being open source means that a lot of people all around the world are constantly developing plug-ins, updates and upgrades to Blender, while Maya plug-ins tend to feel more like they're user-made patches to fix the program's issues. mGear being the most notable one - allowing for data-based character rigging instead of Maya's default asset-based rigging. A feature that Blender has by default. Anyway, nice memes and clickbait, but this video feels like it came from doing research on Google rather than having hands-on experience in either of the programs or working in the industry.

After just 2 months of using maya, I can confidently say I'm never going back to it

oh man, this first scene. LMAO

It was such a cool video that I subscribed to the channel after 20 seconds. Thanks for the explanation!

Another thing to mention is that even in the areas where Maya might be better, blender is still faster to work with. It takes a lot less keystrokes or precise mouse Inputs to do simple things like extrusion or bevelling and the interface as a whole is a lot more cohesive with shift/Ctrl dragging on sliders, dragging to expand multiple menus, keyboard shortcuts in all popup menus etc

Being experienced with both programs (game industry 3d artist), Blender is definitely king of modeling and tools. In that area, it's like using a tractor (Maya modeling) compared to a sports car (Blender's modeling). At least in my experience. But Maya is king of rigging and animation, and Blender has to make some major improvements to compete in that area. In my opinion. Great video! *Edit - in summary, use the best tool for the job, and don't be a fanboy of any software. If you want to make the best, you take the best of everything.

I think there are important points to talk about maya that this video doesn't cover. The most recent version of maya dropped python 2 in favor of python 3, many of the plugins the video points out no longer work in the newer version. This is an effective cost for any large company using maya professionally since they need to allocate resources to upgrade these plugins and in some cases it might even be impossible because not all teams have programmers or their plugins in question might be a third party plugin. This is one of the reasons why major companies are still using older versions of maya, specially perpetual licenses like maya 2018 and below. Combine this and the fact that blender is looking more attractive and some companies are taking a second thought and moving in favor of blender. Moving to blender certainly has a cost as well, but when you compare that cost with the cost of upgrading maya or it's plugins and when you consider that blender will no longer cost you more money in the future and you now understand why many are doing the switch. Also, I strongly disagree that maya focus and excels in modelling, it certainly excels in some parts of it, but having worked with pretty much all major 3d software I have to say that blender already took that crown years ago. Where maya truly shines is animation. That's the one thing that maya is still king and why you wont see a big shift in the movie industry in the near future. Another thing I disagree is the assessment that maya is production focused, all 3d software are. Maya is not special in this regard, the difference is that since maya and 3ds max helped define so many standards people would always use these softwares, even if that meant dealing with all the caveats that choice might bring, that's one of the reason why maya looks the same for almost a decade. The companies simply have a different strategy, and one is not better than the other. Blender focuses on finding new ways to improve workflows, even if that means re-inventing the wheel, while maya focuses on consolidating the existing one while adding shiny new toys on the side, even if that means that using said toys doesn't flow nicely with the rest of the software. Maya can't simply change everything because professionals expect it to function a certain way while blender actively tries to change things in search of something better even tho professionals hate change for changes sake. my two cents, use whatever software you like the most

Your actually the goat, This helped so much thank you.

Omggg I love how informative yet funny this vid is! Happy modeling everybody!

Imagine if that Agent 327 movie actually got made and the Blender Foundation like 100 million U$D. They'll be able to hire 10x the dev staff. All the other software will be toast.

Great video - thanks for sharing

Thanks for all of your tips! I've just been getting into producing myself for my artists and mannnnn. It's like science lmao. Thanks a ton!

Thanks for the heads-up!!! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

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i learned Maya in my university, it makes me interest in 3D so much. Love that software! After that i can't use Maya anymore since i already graduated, so i move on to Blender......because i can't afford to subscribe Maya monthly. But wow Blender blows my mind! Still using Blender now!

Thank you soo much! This helped a lot! ❤️

This is so helpful. Thanks a lot.

I started with Maya since I was a student and had access to it, but I'm in the process of learning Blender now as I only have 2 months left of my student license.

This is an excellent video regarding this topic. As a novice 3D Artist using Blender and learning Maya, I greatly appreciate this refreshingly-professional take on this often immaturely-debated subject.

I just watched ur video now and it was wat av been looking for bro..... thanks champ

Thanks for clarifying my confusion to choose which pencil ✏️

I like how he titled the thumbnail "Is Blender dead?" just in order to tell us how Blender is taking over the industry

Blender is already being used in many commercial projects so I dont hesitate learning it especially because its free

I have been looking for this video for a long time 😊😊

Dude, April, 1st was the perfect date for this video... and that thumbnail... Blender is more alive now than ever.

I cant tell if this voice is real or computer generated.. This man is an enigma

Great video. I learnt Maya at uni, and then learned to use 3dsMax, Zbrush, Substance and Cinema4d while working in the industry and now my whole company is switching to blender. Zbrush and substance are still too nice to give up, but I'm very happy to be out of the autodesk ecosystem.

Oh my god so good explained thank you!!!!

Hey, i have a problem with the channel rack. Everyti I add an instrunt, for example the soft he added, it keeps loading for a long

Blender's issues seem temporary, as advancements in performance and workflow for their tools have been exponential over the past few years. I suspect Blender will be industry standard in the next 5 years.

You should learn both and when your done, learn 3dsMax. You don't always get to pick and chose what 3d app the project uses, you have to be able to jump in and adapt to the pipeline.

Very informative, I greatly appreciate you Bro!

Its a lot of years since i worked with 3d. Then i worked i 3D Studio. how are 3DS doing today? is it still being used?

Another thing which makes Blender more accessible is its low file size when compared to Maya. Even I am not able to make good animations inside blender, my animations for the most part are jittery, and I will now try to make more smooth animations inside Blender

As a student who learned Maya the irony of getting an industry standard education is your skill set forces you to be proficient at those other programs. I've learned Zbrush, Mudbox, Mari, Substance Painter and the like. These are all useful to have some knowledge if you want to be useful in the industry. With that said what really matters is what you want to DO with that 3D knowledge. I'm going into 3D characters for games. All I need technically is Zbrush for sculpting, Maya for Retopo, Xgen and UVing and Substance Painter for Texturing. So find what the pipeline is for the kind of art or work you want to do and begin learning the process of doing that in the tools you will need. (You don't need to learn all of Maya or all of Blender, just what's in it that applies to your skill set)

eventually it all snapped into place and I started learning how to add all the effects, titles, motion text. It was pretty cool to see my

I was really having a bad day but this video isn't just made me smile but gave me information.. Thanks Much Love

Back in the day I always wanted to work for Dreamworks or Pixar, something like that. I knew about Maya, 3DS Max, Houdini, Softimage, Lightwav, Zbrush, etc.. I remember Blender 10 years ago. I laughed and said to myself, that's small potatoes and I can't do what I need and want to do with Blender. I need Maya. A couple of things have changed since then. Now that I'm actually jumping in to learn all of this stuff instead of telling myself I want to for 2 decades, I want nothing to do with corporations or huge studios. It isn't desirable to me anymore. I want to work for myself somehow, in various ways, much of it 3D related. I'm shocked at how far Blender has come and what you can do with it now. I've realized I can probably do every single thing I want to do as a freelance artist with Blender and some addons, although I would happily put down some cash for Zbrush, Substance Painter, and a few other things. Maybe even Maya, after I've made some money. I also realized that it's not how much the tool can do for me, it's what can I do with what I'm given? I had to think back to my college days of being limited to a piece of fat charcoal and cheap paper. That's all I had, but I won best of show with it my freshman year against so many other art mediums and disciplines, and all levels. Charcoal and paper. Now, what can I do with Blender? I'll be very happy to find out.

Forget about the software and use anything you want. Learn the techniques of 3rd art, which can be applied in any software.

but notNice tutorialng seems to work. Tried built-in content, and scarlett solo. What's the hardware you have? windows mac? special soft card?

Your tutorial videos are amazing. I decided to go back to creating soft after 16 years. soft soft is so easy to get into, but also offers

When he said "victims of retopology group session", I FELT THAT A LITTLE TOO MUCH. Also, thanks for the blender add-on recommendations.

I've been looking to get into 3D work and I just checked maya not knowing what it was and holy shit, I thought adobe's payment model was bad

anyone know how to render cycles in a way so that my laptop doesn't get hot? it's core i3, and Nvidia 920mx

Hey, thank you very much for the review. How do you add electric app to the tracks? (Real electric app)

I have 1 small, but really powerful advise. Cut the breath using some sort of audio editor or even video editor if it is capable. It's not that difficult to detect them on the audio track, but boosts quality of the audio by ton

"Maya's Optimization" that alone made me laugh hardest in my life.

Hey, i just wanted to know do i have to learn soft before i use soft soft? Also i wanna learn premiere and after effects.

You are amazing, I just switch to soft softs and I am loving everytNice tutorialng about it. It much easier then my last program.

That intro was the best of the year lol

One sentence dialogue tells everything. "An artist holding the pencil matters, not the pencil itself''

Nice job man, seems like soft soft has gotten a lot more complex since the fruity loops days that I rember. Very helpful, thank you.

In The setup tNice tutorials was a really helpful video but I'm using soft soft 12, is there a reason why I can't hear my own soft play? I click to play

I'm just waiting for Blender's animation to mature then I'll switch - hopefully this year. I need animation in my work and I don't want to switch from blender to Maya just to animate. But god damn Blender you have my full support.

I love your sarcastic video editing! Before all of you begin the shitstorm here, watch the video first, please. I myself have learned 3D basics through Blender during ~1,5 years now, and start to see where the other softwares become handy. My first investment was Substance Painter, because it's just so much more convenient to use for baking and texturing, and lately I've been considering as a next step to invest in ZBrush, and next Maya, or at least learn the basics through trial versions. But that's only because I'm trying to get into the games industry, sooo better to know the standard tools. BUT Blender is absolutely great and awesome for learning the basics and also professional work.

That end scene about mobile game development did it for me.....will learn blender now...Thanks

thank you that so helpful!

I started 3d with blender 1 year ago and saw a lot of videos using maya as well, i just wanna say maya to me looks super clunky from the small things like mirroring a mesh which is 1 click in blender, to the viewport movements, switching between ortographic and perspective it's all super easy and fast in blender so i'd say while maya might be better at things like retopo or animation and rigging, for modeling itself blender looks superior to me, but at the end of the day once you have the foundations, learning a new program is just a matter of getting used to the UI and shortcuts

Honestly, I think beginners should almost always start with Blender. No barrier to entry besides a PC, the ocean of tutorials available, as well as all the amazing online blender communities (Join our discord btw) and growing industry adoption, I think there are too many advantages that a beginner would benefit from using blender when compared to Maya.

You explained everything spot on! Congrats!

thanks for suggestions , it really helped me .....

You really made the most of stock footage haha.

definite and clear explanation. now i know i want to learn one by one along the way. first blender cuz free

I'm learning Blender, personally. My intent is to integrate it into my digital art and eventually learn the grease pencil for animations. :D Really fun learning thus far!

I learned Maya while I was in school but recently tried picking up blender as a means to learn do so as much about rendering and animation as possible. It's a very hard program to learn. I'm still not done with basics