C4D Artists Uses Blender For The First Time. Round 2.
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- Round 2... Ding Ding Ding! Watch a lifetime Cinema 4D user go head to head, pound for pound with Blender.
I know nothing about how to operate Blender or how it works. I thought it would be fun to record my eperiences learning it as a life time C4D user, unboxing Blender if you will.
Every Blender user must complete the rite of passage in the form of Blender Guru's donut tutorial. I'll give you everything to get started.
As a blender (power)user for about a decade now, this was hilarious to watch. I use C4D too but once you get the shortcuts and menus binded to your muscle memory, blender is the fastest software to use because of how versatile their reliability on keyboard usage is, across the entire program. I do miss some of the niche features from C4D though when I occasionally have to switch, but blender development is another thing who's rapidly catching up tp the industry standards, the amount of updates and features that this software is getting makes me feel like a spoiled child.
Thank you for the information! 🤜🤛
I love watching this journey series so much, honestly I should've watch these earlier already to learn how we also should perform learning blender this way
3d cursor function is really handy function when you modeling a lot. when I swithced to Cinema I was consfusing a lot without this Blender feature.
It seems like it could be really nice, I just have to get used to it. Thank you for your support!
This is a clever concept. Watching someone learn the software in real time. It's a great way to target all those little "gotchas" that take so long to weed out. And I'm a C4D oriented person who should probably learn some Blender so this is personally relevant to me which is nice.
Thank you sir. We are always learning, might as well have some fun with it! Thank you for your support 🤜🤛
It was both painful and fun to watch. All that struggle was like I was shouting here hey man just look up! or like just move mouse a bit outside and ctrl B again ^^. Liked n subbed.
Ha thank you! I am glad to be here for your entertainment. 🤜🤛
I want to add one more thing. I haven't had a chance to try C4d R24 and 25 versions because my computer's video card does not support it. But as far as I've seen, the interface looks a bit like Blender.
watching you hovering over the Object/Edit Mode select box and stubbornly ignoring (in the Pt 1) it was frustrating af 🤣
Yes me too!
So glad to see a graphs professional trying Blender with out immediately dismissing its potential simply because it is FOSS …. I see too many who do.
this is me as a blender user trying C4D instead.
😂
if you press N, a tab will pop out. while in the tab, go to the view menu and under “view lock,” select “camera to view.” this will allow you to move the active camera until you uncheck the box.
Thank you Seth!
Just in the same boat right now during free quarantine time.
One of the first things I did, was changing the setting for Zoom, Pan etc. like it is in c4d.
I use alt+leftclick/rightclick/middleclick for rotate/zoom/pan a lot in C4D and i think it is the best navigation setting ever :D
To do so, go to Edit>Preferences>Navigation
- Orbit&Pan, check Auto Depth on
- Zoom, change Zoom Axis to horizontal
- check "Zoom to Mouse Position" on
go to: Preferences>Keymap, open 3D View, 3D View (global)
Search for Pan View, Rotate View and Zoom View and change it to alt+leftclick/rightclick/middleclick
If you want to have the same zoom/pan functionality in the node editor, change it in View2D accordingly.
Dude I'm almost crying of frustration :P
How long did it take you to learn Blender? I used to know c4d inside out, I was not capable of doing everything but it was super intuitive.
Does it get any easier after a while? It feels like even if I learn where things are in Blender it will still be slow.
In complete transparency, my journey with Blender stopped because life got busy. I am hoping to jump back in and document my experiences. I do think it is the future and more studios will use it as the user base works their way into the industry.
@@YouAndMeAcademy Hopefully they will work more on the UI. The software is very capable but I can't stop comparing it to c4d.
If you do get back into it it would be nice to see how you make sense of it and explain its workflow.
So here everyone tells their stories, let me tell you, I initially went to the blender and was surprised by its simplicity and huge community base, I also understood the rendering engine and how to make materials, when I came to Cinema, I was surprised and it seemed to me too difficult, I did on the redshift engine, making material and trying to make a model, beat my🤣 P.s All programs are good with something and it will be good to know one or another 👌
edit mode toggle is bound to the tab button. you can press 1 for vertices, 2 for edges, and 3 for faces.
I started my 3D journey with maya in the early 2000s and switched to blender when I was unemployed for obvious reasons. I fell in love with it almost immediately. I’ve recently tried learning C4D with my new job. I understand it’s powerful but it’s not intuitive. At least not from my perspective. Even with all the online tutorials I feel like blender wins hands down. Again, coming from Maya the learning curve was much quicker with blender vs C4D. Learning the EEVEE render is a game changer. Mastering it can save you hours or days of rendering if photo realism isn’t paramount.
Yes everyone learns differently. I always say do what feels right! Thank you for your support 🤜🤛
As someone who use C4D and Blender I really don't understand you. If some software is "intuitive" this is cinema. Blender is confused mess. One clicks stuff in cinema are in Blender entire procedure. Functions hidden behind $#itty shortcuts, instead to be easy visible and approachable. Zero customization of interface. Don't start song about pie menu. Also Blender automatically makes tons of bloat, and you must clean your scene regularly. Blender has his own advantages, but practicality, short learning curve, simplicity of use is not on this list.
@@radoman1234 I think you're inserting opinion as fact but maybe if I was exposed to them at the same time or in reverse, I'd feel the same as you do. But at this point if I'm tasked to create something I can do it faster and better in blender and without referencing a tutorial as often. Blender will take over. Might want to get on board so as to not get left behind.
@@bhosterman Now you start to sound as Blender cultists... Hail to our savior Blender or you be doomed to get behind. Really?
You don't see my C4D - Blender stuff, but you are entitled to judge. On the other hand, I see what your interests are.
bye
@@radoman1234 you sound like someone rationalizing their investment. I never claimed one was better. In fact I acknowledged the power of CD4. I just didn’t get along with it. I like blender better. Your comments are childish. I bet I can extrapolate many other features about your personality based off this exchange with great accuracy.
Hehe, fun to watch:) Hilarious is that Blender has one of the very best shortcut set ups from all the programs I've ever seen and chain reacting shortcuts alongside with axis control during that shortcut work and you are using exclusively tool panel feature :D I've never ever touched that panel once during my blender journey, except for sculpting :D
I’ve heard it’s all about shortcuts, I like shortcuts 🤓
you can move things by pressing G, you can lock the axis of movement by following G with either X, Y, or Z. Example: G + X = movement locked to x axis.
He was using an alternative keymap of somesort... Most of these hotkeys may not work...
Im thinking to open C4d Project in Blender and continue from there if Possible
Tab! Numkeys! G, x,y,z! N, view tab, lock camera to view! Okay. I feel better.
Lol thanks!
really fun to watch experienced c4d user jump into blender blindly. the thing with blender is it very keyboard focused and menus. there are alot of really really useful features hidden in menus.
I've been using blender for about 2y now. I recently switched to c4d so I'm in the opposite boat as you are 😂
Why the switch?
@@YouAndMeAcademy I recently joined a small studio and they use c4d so I gotta be in the same pipeline to keep things moving. Also, I've heard a lot of great things about MoGraph in c4d so that also got me interested in switching
You will enjoy it, It’s a really great program! There is a really great, nice, and supportive community too.
@@YouAndMeAcademy I'm loving it so far. c4d has so many little tools and tricks that I never knew I needed in Blender. and esp with the new update, the close polygon tool and bridge tool is like godsend
It is really great!
So no more round 3 lol?
Yes! I am going to start back… soooon!
you can use the gizmo in the top right to change your view. just click on one of the circles and you’ll snap to that axis. it’s similar to the function of quad view, but with full screen possible. unfortunately, full screening one of the quad views isn’t possible.
Crazy how we can make a photorealistic shoe in c4d, and almost create two cubes in Blender
Ha true! It is understandable, C4D user for 10 years… Blender user for 2 days! Thanks for the support 🤜🤛
It seems to me that you need a couple more bottles of beer to speed up the process :)
Many more!
keep playing & you’ll never pay for C4D again. :) A livestream of you playing around would be fun to watch!
Thank You 🤜🤛
I agree with most of this, but thinking about the future you are going to have an army of people trained in Blender so in my opinion it will become the standard. When I first started 3D, C4D was like blender. No one used it and it was a bit of a risk to learn. Of course we know what happened. But yes I agree that for now, Blender is best for personal use. Thank you for you insight and support! 🤜🤛
U should try to model a donut next
Mmmmm donuts 🤤
I would have told you how to lock the camera but thats just spoiling the fun of learning
Ha well thank you!
There was never a round 3.
Quick to give up lol.
I see that you are using alternative hotkeys for Blender, which is why you can't find some hotkeys. This hotkey set may not be finished. I'd highly recommend not using that.
For example, toggling the quad view would be Ctrl+Alt+Q normally. I'd also recommend not to ever use the toolbar to select tools, unless it's sculpt mode. The tools there are incredibly slow to use. I see that they are intuitive, which is why they were added in blender 2.8, but they should be avoided if you want to use blender to its full potential. Everything has very quick hotkeys! So, you just need a hotkey cheat sheet to start going.
Still, watching someone open blender for the first time and learn in real time looks like a good way to judge the UI design and how it can be improved.
Really suggest you spend an hour quickly through the official tuts, and that will kill a lot of your pain.
Thanks Baoyu for the tips. Of course I know there are many tutorials out there, but the point of these videos is to watch someone’s journey and humility when trying to learn something new. We all go through it, I thought it could be entertaining to show the process.
Go watch blender guru donut tutorial and save time bro
Thanks Ben for the tips. Of course I know there are many tutorials out there, but the point of these videos is to watch someone’s journey and humility when trying to learn something new. We all go through it, I thought it could be entertaining to show the process.
please watch tutorial 1st , there is about 1000000000000000000000000 tutorial on blender, rather than finding how to model for a decade
Thanks Suraj for the tips. Of course I know there are many tutorials out there, but the point of these videos is to watch someone’s journey and humility when trying to learn something new. We all go through it, I thought it could be entertaining to show the process.