If I Started Blender In 2024, I'd Do This
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How do I get clients like what do I need to do ? 🥲
Embrace being bad. Make comedically horrible renders. Take every shortcut you can. Getting “better” sometimes means getting faster at Blender. Always look back at your old stuff & appreciate how far you’ve progressed. Keep learning
Yes
i did this a lot and it really helped
Man I get stuck too much because I want everything to be perfect.
Me resisting the urge to say **real**
Great advice... Then one day you wake up and realise you're actually half decent!
I've had to restart learning blender like 5 times now cause I didn't know what I wanted to do with it and just clicked on every tutorial under the sun. Not the best start to learning something new, but restarting a 6th time finally let me have some goals in mind. Excited to finally see a long term goal.
Great to hear! You got this!
I know your pain bro...
Most people go Donut but I say (depending on your preference) do the procedural Eyeball or the Anvil
How long has it been since you first started?
@@Ewokpilot65 don't know about OP but I'm about 3 years in and I'm still loving it and finding new stuff everyday!
BLENDER 101
1) Get started
- Set up simple goals for you to achive in your first 4 weeks
- One major goal for the month (render)
- Do it 3 times
2) Get good (enough)
- Make one project per week (for at least 3 months)
- Orgnising yourself to improve in different sectors of 3D
3) Get serious
- Find your niche
- Getting clients {
1) Biuld: Create a portfolio that is inside your niche
2) Land: Contact people that may need your services (2/100)
3) Network: "Thanks for working with me! Do you know anyone else needing my services? ..."
}
I get the feeling that you code in your freetime
@@justanothersoul1941 the curly braces and indentations lol, and the structured thinking.
One of the biggest problems with learning 3d on my own has been finding a learning path. There really are no linear paths here and CZcams tutorials often skip the "why" and "how" things work and instead rely on the result to speak for itself. The problem here is that this doesn't teach you anything. It's also frustrating that there is no supplemental documentation to carry away at the end of a tutorial or lesson to study and learn from. Instead, you have to skip through the memes and hope you understand the workflow because these videos aren't geared towards people becoming professionals. It's easy to re-post other people's tutorials (just look at how many copycat videos imitating Ian Hubert's style) or just re-post the skimming of the documentation for another "hey, guys!" video to earn dollars on CZcams.
Once you realize this you can easily find the areas you are deficient in and improve those skills specifically.
I can do shit in blender, yet im watching guides on characters, swords, arcs, barriers, pipes, overall modeling to just simply understand the process behind... Im getting the knowledge to start slowly, but still i feel helpless if i try to model something more complex than simple long sword.
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Thanks, I thought it would take end of free period for them to charge something.
Just starting out in Blender after years of having it downloaded, thanks for making this! All of it feels like not just a great guide for starting Blender, but for starting with any other artistic skill!
Im in the same boat! Go luck to you. My goal is to 3D model my favorite local backroad and import it into a driving simulator like Assetto Corsa.🎉
Excellent guide video. It can be overwhelming learning any app or software as robust as Blender. Great tips for structuring your own learning path and pace for growth. I'm still learning and growing myself using your ideas for personal development. Although my business is primarily focused on branding and logo design; adding 3D to the visual presentations I share with clients has added a significant amount of value to my work. I can confidently charge more and be content with the rejections because when someone does says "yes," it's almost always much better than trying to work with clients who don't want to invest in the offer presented to them. Continue encouraging others, teaching, and sharing your creative genius wiht the world.
Hi mate. I started learning Blender about 3 months ago and thank you for the video. Some things are frustrating and other things not so much but an enjoyable journey non the less. Animation gets a little tricky in my opinion1 Thanks for the vid!
I'm currently at step 2. Pretty challenging, but pretty fun, as well 👌
Nice!
Let's say I want to create an animation of about 5 minutes how much time it takes to make that
How is it going?
I have tried to learn blender multiple times now and every time I would quit at the very beginning. It was frustrating making a mistake and sometimes having to completely restart. However, there is still this urge to learn blender and have fun with it. Watching this video helped a lot with convincing me to try blender one more time. Thank you.
Currently, I'm walking the same shoes as you. Hopefully the compounding effect magic happens. I hope i reap what i sow. 😢
Edit -> Preferences -> System -> Undo Steps
You can now ctrl+z as many times as you feel like.
Lots of "save variation" and "autosaving" options there too.
Go nuts :)
Bro wtf youve blown up large, good job!! following since christmass, look at this!!!! well done fo real im so happy to see someone get thats put all this effort having all this positivity!
love you Smeaf!, always giving idea to push thru.
For me the best way to learn any software, even from scratch. Is to start from choosing whole projects for beginners, after that choosing project for moderates, finally, choosing advanced projects. For me I found this process very effective.
I'll try this out, thanks!
Can I just take a moment to appreciate your choice of music ? some of these soundtracks are my favorite from some of the best games out there. great taste man
Thanks!
I try to make my videos feel nostalgic and have an aspect of gamification to them 😊
I just started and I used the jump right into the mid level stuff without knowing a thing method. Always helps me understand the reasons for things I previously didn't like uv maps also troubleshoting and learning what i need as i go allows me to find multiple methods to do the same thing in without overwhelming me with things I don't need at the moment. I think the hardest concept for me was shaders and materials specifically the difference. Also that you need to save texture file separate from your blend
Thank you for being so transparent and hilarious 😂
Thank you for watching 💪
I am in Highschool and have been learning blender and having lots of fun, while following tutorials and trying to make blends I actually love it.
Kind of a replacement for my gaming addiction
havent even finished the video but i already love you, comparing learning blender to maxing in osrs had me pissing myself but also ready to dive in 😂❤
Going to be happy when I set goals for myself in Blender.
I had done a familiar donut tutorial under 3 days and then a cell shading one. I'm just hoping to expand this journey more.
How’s is it going?
Congrats to you, Smeaf, and Kaizen Tutorials for hitting 100k!
Thanks Sina! 🎉
This video is so valuable. Thank you so much.
yeah I definitely land squarely in hobbyist, finding leads to freelance (and drafting contracts to not get screwed over by clients) gets pretty intense. great video!
Nothing wrong with the hobbyist style!
Thanks!
Great video mate, this really helped me create a solid schedule and straight-forward direction I want to head towards.
Thank you!! Great information
Your videos are so informative and funny :DD 😇 Thankss
You're the best channel that talks about 3d and blender. Your personality amazing, the editing is amazing, everything in your channel is amazing. I've learned so much from you. Thank you, and keep up the good work :)
Thank you so much 😀
I'm glad I can help
thank you for introing with how hard it is to get started! i know it's happened to pretty much everyone starting 3d, but i always try to do too much and give up, feeling like an idiot for not getting the program. it's nice to be reminded that pros in the field had that period too!
Super helpful vid, especially the business stuff at the end. Thank you!
That's awesome to hear, thanks!
I just subscribed, thanks for the free month. Looks good so far, I hope to learn quickly.
your runescape analogies really hit home in my brain, thanks a lot for explaining all of this.
always had an interest in blender but always lost motivation during these 3 years. started it from scratch, did a few things and stuck, repeat. Thanks for inspiring to learn blender again
Very nice video, gotta be your best one yet. Congrats on the 100k!
Thanks a ton!
Play button incoming
Good video!
I started using Blender in August 2022, it’s hard af but it’s amazing!
Smeaf: incredibly important and potential career changed
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You are crazy helpful, like I really thank you
Thank you so much!
I was honestly expecting this video to be more specific, kind of like a "pipeline" for beginners before they reach their "niche", because I'm honestly still experimenting with my pipeline, currently doing Crossmind Studios beginner tutorial after doing 2 donuts and 1 chair tuto by Andrew Price. Been playing around with Blender for almost 1 year and I'm still messing around with beginner tutorials because honestly I think its a struggle for "beginners" like me to kind of figure out my basics although I want to major in Animation as my niche.
There's basically too much stuff to take in because everything relates to each other like modelling, texturing, rigging, etc. You can't just expect a chef to just know how to fry an egg and be called a professional. Same thing like blender, that is why I'm still stuck with beginner tutorials and basics, because as long as my basics aren't polish I will not go into Animation.
Sorry for the long rant, entertaining video btw.
I've been doing blender semi-seriously for about 6 months now. Just now approaching level 2. I as well am having a hard time figuring out how to progress into the animation department. I'm finally OK at modelling but animation seems like fighting Mike Tyson in comparison in difficulty 🤣😭
@@aydenmcfly1362 Oh boy, in terms of modelling I think I'm okay-ish but not too fluent into it. I haven't gone into learning retopo and such, just normal modelling using simple mesh shapes with extrudes and bevels. The hardest im going through right now is having to learn through all the basics, its hard to stay focus as that is not i wanted to do. I felt like going straight into animation but i know i will regret not polishing my basics.
@@the7jinn yeah I haven't touched retopo either XD it's extremely daunting 😂 glad software is making is slightly easier like the recent updates in blender. I think modelling might be my favorite because it aligns more with the art aspect like scene setting but animation feels too much like math and engineering (which I suck at 🤣
Have you ever heard of something called tutorial hell, it's something we have in programming, the only way to go into animation is to just start building animation, embrace being bad, improve from that, no tutorial is going to take you from beginner to A* unless you really implement what you have learnt.
@@taku6157 Hi there, I've been kinda fighting within myself between watching more tutorials or doing something by myself. The reason why I'm still watching tutorials is because I think im not good enough, and sometimes i may missed out some basics.
Thank you it really helps
I am currently learning maya
and this tips are life saver
🙏
Very good content! Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
The best video I have seen till now about Blender
Thank you for such an informative video.
This tackles the "tutorial overwhelming" issue head on, I've started learning blender about 4 different times, almost got a solid donut render last time, but as pointed out here, I needed the first 3 dumb projects, smaller, simpler, just getting to a point where I'm comfortable with the tools and, more importantly, FINISHING SOMETHING. I'm going back at it with this mindset now, and I've set up an alarm to 2 months from now to come comment here, hopes up!
What's up?
Super great video! Honestly these tenets you've gone through are applicable to almost any sort of faculty, discipline, or skill in life. 🙂
not only I get a ton of knowledge from your videos, I also laugh alot😂😂 Great video
Hi Smeaf!
Love your content, but recently I have been seeing a lack of “advanced” blender content on CZcams. I think you could do it really well, but with all of the new blender users it is both kind and profitable to stick with beginners. What do you think? Do you see yourself leaning slightly farther away from beginner content? No matter what you do, you have my support and love!!❤
Thanks!
Yeah, it just depends on the topic, I don't generally like to do step by step tutorials as I find it incredibly boring.
But general walkthroughs like my keyboard animation are much more fun to me.
I will at some stage of course, I just need to find how to fit more complex ideas into my style while keeping it fun. 💪
Awesome! It’s crucial to keep in mind that fun is the most important part😊
Wow... I actually started really getting into OSRS this year, so, these analogies actually helped a lot. Starting out, I had this HUGE goal, and I do still have this huge goal, ( Theatre of Blood pet and the Sanguine Dust, maybe the Scythe of Vitur ) but I took a step back and started just doing the small goals that will lead me that way naturally, and enjoy the grind, and the moments of achievement that come between. Now I feel like I'm actually LEARNING the game. The same applies with Blender. I have HUGE goals, animating and rigging models I made in environments I made for whatever content I'd like them in, streaming, games, animated videos... But I need to start thinking of it like the OSRS grind! Great advice!
Great advices!
Thank you!
I'm in college and we have a subject this semester focused on 3d modeling. Honestly, we are not happy with our professor because he won't teach us anything, he left us to learn the softwares on our own and define what the final project will be.
It's lazy, but also it's been fun to define what we want to learn and similar to what you said in this video, and I hope by the end of this semester I get much better with blender
EDIT: so the semester is finally over, and honestly I guess I did learn how to get around blender. I'm not sure its what I want to work and deep dive in the future, but I really enjoyed using it for character and product design. I thank the gods of youtube tutorials for helping me through my journey, I learned so much yet I still know so little 🥲
Which college are you in
Your professor sounds either lazy, or an out-of-the-box thinker. He's basically teaching you how to think for yourself, which is pretty good.
I dont feel comfortable sharing what college i attend to, but i swear our professor only gives us links to youtube tutorials. he's a genius i think
@@derpderp9281I regret not reporting our professor that is kinda like that. I was excited to take the game dev subject expecting to learn a lot. But he just linked something and then after that, he was not present the rest of the semester. He gave us the highest mark in the subj but we didn't learn anything.
@Loniyke if I was paying tuition I would be mad too, unfortunately there are many professor like mine who are paid much more and do so much less
I love your work , it is inspiring
Thank you so much!
Just starting. Planning to do a cabinet and animate it opening
Do you have any recommendations for a beginner who desires an academic studying style of Blender? Any books or formal guides on learning blender? I am looking for a straight to the point learning experience with all the technical jargon that isn’t video. Much appreciated and thank you for producing content. 👍
Thank you very much Smeaf
just want to say that i appreciate the slight camera wobble. It's a nice touch. :)
Wow Smeaf ! this is so perfectly laid out and structured !! even the business part 👍🏻 very well ! thanks for sharing 🙏🏻
Glad you liked it!
Thank you brother!
Loving the RuneScape analogies, I remember grinding out fishing and mining, mining was more of a pain because you had to wait and switch servers just to get access to the ores. Once I hit lobsters on fishing, I, uh, kinda gave up on mining and focused on selling lobbies.
@Smeaf
Can you help? I did a fluid sim on frames 1-90, then built a set to incorporate the effect. Now I want to do a whole scene for a minute or more before the baked sim starts. I thought it would have key frames or something so I could drag it on the timeline. Is there a way to just move it to later without having to re-sim or re-bake? Any advice is much appreciated.
omg I laughed a lot during this video, and thanks for the tips
This would definitely have been helpful for me. Kinda want to start over now.
Felt pretty confident around blender after doing a course, but then I tried to just follow a very simple character tutorial today for like 4 hours and it just didn´t work.
Had the same issue when trying to learn drawing, my brain sometimes just *refuses* to connect the dots for some reason.
Honestly, at this point I´m about just to quit and become a gardener. lol
In today's job market and AI advancements, gardener seems like a good idea lol
4:49 holy smokes B-rolls !
Finally haha
I really like your meme approach on your videos.. it's funny and entertaining but I can easily understand and learn.. i didn't notice that I already finished watching your videos.. I am a C4D user btw
That's very encouraging, thanks!
it's just 7 hours after 2024 starts and this video showed up to me
thanks pal
same Also I started today so this aged well
Thank you for this! I made the first models after having critical breakdowns before, and I do it just to hear that cow sound... I'll take anything as far as it is a model XD
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You should write a book like a certain other Blender creator. 😳
It may or may not already be in production...👀
@@Smeaf Oooo cool.
ok time to get into blender
Im in a weird situation, I’m a video game animator for my day job, been using Maya for over a decade. I mentor people on game dev (basically help them along the path of making a game over the course of a year). Maya getting rid of student liscence a makes doing the animation modelling and rigging in Maya prohibitively expensive for students so now I’m learning blender, ironically to teach blender.
I started blender 3 months ago
Just now I got how coller ramps work
I doubt most people realize THIS GUY HAS THE MOST HILARIOUS EDITOR..after seeing half the other youtube vids I say this
Subscribed at the 3rd minute. I look forward to being a Blender Specialist and fly out of Kenya for a job. Lesdo thisss
Thankyou. Helped alot this. Im at the end trying to find work, im about to give up but youve given me insite and a direction again. Ty bro.
Awesome! Don't give up bro, you got this 💪
Me at 2:13 All day today with that damn donut 😂😂😂
frickin' love you man.
i wish i had this when i was starting out in 2021 i dove head first in to a large project that to this day i'm still working on rn
Today is January 1, 2024 and I'm staring learning Blender. I will edit this comment weekly as I progress.
Week 1( Jan 7)- Learnt basic UI and shortcuts, used shapes and modifiers, Created a low poly hammer 3d model.
Update?
What's the progress brother?
why are you learning animation? Are you not afraid that AI will take this over?
your video is one of the video that motivate me to keep learning blender, its keep surprising me with new things that you can do with blender, i first start learing blender 2 months ago, and now with my little courage i decided to start a 3d blender tutorial youtube channel hope it can be my motivation to keep learning to keep making contents!!❤ love your video
I'll be knocked out iff i had to drink for every time he winks
so fun fact. The biggest reason why wanted to start 3d animation is to make short videos that are Runescape related. Have played it over 20 years now and well over 20.000h. I am totally dedicated to the game, love it, jagex and most of all the community. Have grinded it hard so i see no problem to grind and learn blender then!
thanks for great content!
I'm like that scene in Toy Story. We're Andy says I don't want to play with you anymore, dropping him on cards into the void. Me to my coloring pencils and paper. Ready to pick blender up. And start making stuff in 3d rendered environments.
Great video
8:22 I had to stop the video and play jet set radio ost as soon I I heard that tune playing on the back
Hell yeah, such a good game
Hi Smeaf, just wondering if you could suggest a resource for hardware for Blender such as realistic and affordable specs for a pc build? Love your vids and it would be much appreciated!
i have a total of like 15 hours in blender. For my first render, i converted my logo into an SVG file and imported it in, i then messed about with settings, watched tutorials, and created a super cool background for my computer. It was a great first render in my opinion and i plan to keep working with it.
Yo, this is a good idea. I've only been learning what I need to make charcaters and props for video games. So the whole rendering side, I haven't really cared about, but making a cool environment and this logo looking like its made of steel in a pile of ash or something could be an awesome desktop background and great way to get into the rendering and all that. thx for the idea lol
I like the memes make my brain happy and engaged
Homelander staring at the Playlist of Doughnut Tutorials was a nice touch
Man.. I wish I started Blender in 2023...
Love the Runescape analogies 😂
I may be addicted again 😂
@@Smeaf One never quits RuneScape. Only takes breaks 🥲
Perfectly edited video!!
It just got recommended to me exactly after 1 year lol
those hard no's are what knocks me down :( but I know I just need to push through. thank you!
when i saw the donut tutorial by the blender guru i laughed so hard i had to subscribe
Hi Smeaf, what's your opinion on AI improving daily for 3D modeling and texturing? I'm currently learning Blender and I think I'm at "level 3" based on your video. However, I'm concerned that my technical skills might become obsolete as AI changes the way 3D is created. While other skills such as composition and lighting will still be useful, the job of a 3D artist may become less profitable due to the reduced complexity. What do you think?
My thoughts as well!
I think the last time I worked on a big project in Blender, I didn't save it, it crashed right as I was finishing, and then I cried myself to sleep
Would love to see an Editing Tutorial by you :)
Same I’ve been meaning to switch to davinci but haven’t yet
Same
It will happen, not sure when, but it will
I order you to do it.
Please?
@@Smeaf Thank you 🌹
Lol only few mins in and OSRS comparison hooked me. Ive played RS on and off 1000x since '04 crazy.
I want to learn Blender but wondering if is required for me since I am focusing more on Unreal Engine 5? I have game ideas but not sure if that will take my time away from focusing on my learning with Unreal Engine and game development. I have seen some people make cool assets for their games but then again with my tight work/family / limited time it is even remotely possible or I should leave that to someone that is focusing on it more and use assets as placeholders?
The donkey kong 64 soundtrack at 5:09 got me fuckin stoked.
It’s a must have in my vids
runescape reference, im in 💯
Not me AFKing woodcutting on OSRS (working towards my max cape) as I watch this.. >.>