I use both Maya and Blender, but as a 13+ years animator in the game and vfx industry I would never chose Blender for animation. It's definitely got it's advantages in other areas but Maya being an actual animation software is far superior in that regard. Great video!
I like how you mentioned that you use both software. I agree with you. Maya is so strong in animation. Every vfx and game studio uses it. Thank you for commenting!
@@alexas8787 I 100% agree with you. I've got nothing against blender and I do encourage new artists to get started in Blender to see what aspect of the industry they want to focus more on. Blender is great because it allows anyone to get a feel for everything in one single software. As a very experienced animator in the industry I just know that Maya has way more tools and ways to work in. Blender simplifies a lot of workflows and approaches -which is amazing for juniors because Maya has quite a steep learning curve -and even steeper before users are "professionals". That's why simplicity and automation can sometimes be very negative for senior artists who want to dig deep under the hood of the software and really get into the grit and dirt of it. A lot of people who complain about Maya actually don't know how to do or create certain setups because it might be a very advanced process, and therefor believe it's lacking in features. Unreal Engine is also starting to get better and better in animation and I am really impressed with the direction it's going. In my work I use Maya, Blender and Unreal Engine a lot, and they are all amazing softwares in their own way.
As an art director for 15 years, I have to tell you this is like studying medicine, In the same way a medical student has to know the entire anatomy of a body and then specializes in his desired area. Media production is the same, you should be able to know the basics of these softwares. this is your body of work, if you know Blender, you can literally convert all you knowledge to maya in a couple of weeks and then study a little bit more. A few years ago we didn't have UV maps! a couple years ago we didn't have Nanite in unreal engine. evolving technology is part of our work. Just be comfortable taking few hours every week to study. You SHOULD have your expertise area, but you also should know the basics of our industry.
Yes and no, if you are in a production environment, at the end of the day you want to use the software that does the job the fastest, and I am pretty sure that you can do stuff much faster in Maya than in Blender!
@gcharb2d Yeahh, I mentioned that if you are looking to get employed. You would want to learn the software that would make you suitable for the job. This is also true
@@Sah.4D Even as a freelancer, the faster you can do the task at hand, the better, clients hate to wait, not to mention the time you save for other projects, having a paid 3D software, as a professional, could actually save you money if it allows you to work faster!
Paying thousands of dollars a year in subscriptions - Maya should be night and day better than Blender. It isn't. That's the problem. The fact that it's close, and that you can do pretty much everything in Maya you can in Blender, yet Maya cost thousands of dollars a year, and you never own the software is mind boggling.
If that was the case, studios would switch to Blender, don't you think, for one, with Blender they wouldn't have to deal with the licenses hassle, why is it that studios are not switching to Blender, is it possible that Blender is not as good as you think?
I think Blender is good. I think Blender is also slowly being integrated in the industry slowly mostly because of it's modelling capabilities. Overhauling the whole industry for a software would cost them a whole lot of money for that overhaul. I think. School teaches with Maya which would make you employable. Maybe Blender's goal isn't to be the "industry standard"
@@Sah.4D My reply was deleted, again! The BI goal is to develop a flashy software to attract donations from a community of hobbyists, the BI got more donations during the pandemic, but now it's going down, the problem with free software that relies on donations, is that they develop for their base to get as many donations as possible, and Blender's base is not one of professionals, but one of hobbyists! As for the industry, Blender doesn't fully support the industry standards, like FBX and USD, both are missing a ton of functionalities, that's one of the reasons the industry doesn't care about Blender!
Why does your replies keep getting deleted?😅 The reliance on donations is really casing blender alot. But if they were to turn to a subscription model. Innovation would still take a while to happen. I also think Innovation are happening even though its slow. Blender being free helps in a way though because it made people who were interested in 3d get into it and later turned into professional. Yes. Blender seems like a hobbyists software which i think it's the accessibility that caused that.. Yeahh, I agree. FBX and USD fully. I guess you are right about it being flashy because if being industry standards but free..those aspects would have been a targeted innovation
Awesome video man! Blender seems more future proof as it keeps getting better. Maya is great but seems they are just milking their users with the subscription payment method..
Yeahh, I agree too but if you want to work in an industry, you learn the tool that they would be using. Maya or Blender, it doesn't matter actually. Create awesome art that you can't be ignored
I want to work in an animation studio, and they use maya, which is very famous for its rigging and animation toolset, to work well with maya do I have to learn maya for 3D modeling? Mostly I have to do modeling for assets, and also characters, can everything made in blender be used in maya properly? Or do I have to learn maya to be integrated with maya animators who do rigging and animate? I recently learned maya, and I feel that it is very different and feels slower for modeling than blender..but it seems that for more advanced object modeling maya has many features.
Not exactly. Maya can do modelling but I think blender is faster with modelling. If you were to make a model in blender and transfer to Maya to animate, yes, it would work properly. Yes, Maya is amazing for animation and rigging. I think it's the king in that regard.
I've just watched a video from industrial light magic, they are talking how it's nice to be a generalist. Throughout the video every single 3D software is Maya on countless computers
Becoming a generalist isn't a bad idea as you would have quite some knowledge about all aspects of 3d. But, being a specialist would help you hone your craft to a top mastery level. Yeahh, that's why I said maya is the industry standard as these studios have built their workflow around it. I think blender would see a faster adoption in the gaming industry because of it's modelling capacity than in the film industry. Again, blender is only going to improve more.
Yes. It will but the topic was maya vs blender.😅 Now, it's just a race of who innovates better and has the best features that the artist needs for less money (subscription)
I haven't used Maya before but from what I've heard from people who switched to blender. It was mainly because of modelling capability of Blender and other improvements that blender has and is getting.. You can only be the judge for yourself when you try it out..
If artists change their concepts to Blender maybe they have a chance, but the industry requires a license agreement among other things so your time on paid tools will fix you will have a job. Today I use both
Is getting to the point, at least in the Games industry that it doesn’t matter what modelling software you use. This very reason is why Blender is getting more adopted and taking over. Blender is just the faster tool to model on and it has so many more resources
The cost man! No matter how you look at it. Not everyone has that money to splash on a software yearly. I think because of the reputation built over the years that's what makes it required at alot of studios
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!
Exactly! Everything is in your hands with blender. Autodesk just want to suck as much money out of artist pockets. The time I recommend Maya was if you want to work in big studios as you will have to know how to use the tool that they have created a pipeline for. I also stated that your skills and fundamentals that you learn are transferable. Software doesn't matter at the end of the day. Your skills do.. Thank you for commenting
@@Sah.4D Yes that's correct, everyone who wants to move from Maya or Max to Blender feels it's complicated but in reality, it's the easiest tool I have ever used and with each update, the grooming system is more powerful than the Xgen system that maya have and the speed of hair creation now has no limits, maya node shader is boring and slow and too many bugs not only that, rigging, 2d, many things are so boring and the workflow is slow, in a blender with two clicks you can make things that maya will take forever to make. Skills and techniques are the most important things, tools are only a way to make art that's it but the final result is the right answer.
I think blender will keep improving and it's "problems" or shortcomings that it has now is only temporary. So, you may not wait for too long before switching
@@Sah.4D Ya but the sad fact is that many of the shortcomings for blender have not seen updates in decades. simulations, for example in blender are horrible when compared to houdini and I would say it will likely be a long time before blender even comes close. That being said blender is still amazing in many ways but for simulations not many other software come close to houdini for sims.
@@Sah.4D This is true. Blender has made some serious strides and in terms of modeling, sculpting and animation it is a very powerful tool . It will be interesting to see where development is 5 years from now.
People coming out of school do yourself a favor and stick with Maya, zbrush and substance. You will get a wake-up call when you walk into a AAA studio and only a couple of people play with blender on the side as a hobby. I’ve been in AAA stuidos for 16 year there’s no plans to switch to blender in sight or ever even mentioned. The studio pays for all of your software just use the industry standard so you won’t have to relearn.
Here I go again, hoping that this time my post won't get deleted! 😜 No it is not, AI assisted animation is coming to Maya, if it's anything like the one in Houdini, it will rock, you will never get anything like that in Blender, just like you will never get anything like Houdini's KineFX/APEX, which is a new, cutting edge, rigging/animation system, something the BI has been promising for years, but never delivered on, you will never get that level of functionality in Blender, because the Blender Institute just can't afford developers of that calibre, I don't know how much Autodesk pays its developers, but SideFX, the developer of Houdini, pays them as much as 145k a year, plus bonuses, SideFX and Autodesk have the best developers in the industry, and it shows, Blender is very cool, but as time passes, as technologies advance in the world of 3D, Blender will get further and further behind, because the BI just can't afford developers that can keep up with the newest technologies, the truth is that you get what you pay for!
Deleted? Yeahh, I saw that too.. Maya is the go to when it comes to industry animation. I think dreamworks have their own in house software. Yeahhh, it might now because Blender wouldn't have that kind of money to splash on developers as compared to Maya. 145k a year is spicy. I've been thinking about this too. But what if blender could develop features that are really good before anyone else? Any software needs money to compete. But I think blender would keep getting better as they develop more tools. They just need to do it faster, and by faster they are gonna need money for that.
@@Sah.4D That's the problem with free software that rely on donations, it's really hard to have a steady stream of income for development, in 2021 the BI gathered 2,341,896 Euros in all, 2,170,250 Euros in 2022, and 2023 looks even worst from what I can see, I wish the best to the BI, as I find the Blender project very interesting, and I still use Blender for the Grease Pencil, which, IMHO, is the only real innovation that Blender ever brought to the world of animation, but to think that Blender could keep up with the upcoming technologies is ludicrous IMHO, Blender is very cool, but I don't recommend it for any type of production!
@@Sah.4D One more thing, Blender has been around for more than 20 years, and they never came up with any real innovations, at least not for 3D work, what makes you think that it could change in the near future, especially when 3D technologies are becoming more and more complex? 🤔 And yes, Dreamworks has its own DCC, they also released their render engine, MoonRay, as Open Source, which is a Hydra(USD) delegate (not supported in Blender), Pixar also has its own animation software, called Presto, and of course they use Renderman as their render engine!
Summarily, Blender needs more innovation to keep up.. Blender seems to have a lot of users if only it was possible to get everyone to donate to fund the software. I honestly miss the time when you can buy a software and own it. Everything is not subscription based and I think that's what makes Blender stands out, because it's free
@@Sah.4D free doesn't mean good, and the BI doesn't have the resources to innovate, all they do is try to catch up with the other DCC, which becomes increasingly difficulty as technologies become more and more complex, requiring a level of development that the BI just can't afford, again, you get what you pay for, besides, half the money the BI gets comes from people who give a small amount every month, for a few more dollars these people could get a license of Houdini Indie, it makes absolutely no sense to me that someone who claims to be a professional, decides to use such a limited DCC as Blender!
Blender is becoming a religion. Maya and max are Rock solid tools, still way ahead to real world production. Blender lacks refinement and also lacks so many basic things. Blender can do small tasks . But let's keep foot on ground.. is not up there yet to be a real replacement for 3dsMax and Maya
Yes. In a productive setting blender isn't there yet and isn't the industry standard. But you can't deny it's improvement over the years as a free software who relies on mostly on donations to develop theh software as compared to Maya's deep pockets..
This guy literally copied a video by Stylized Station "Should I learn Blender 3D or Maya?" and made it shorter and worse. He even copied small analogies like "even master could create a masterpiece with a crayon"
How many videos are like that on TH-cam? Worse? Come on. I just thought it would be an interesting topic to talk about and have people air their opinions too. The analogy, I found it to be true. How many other people's quote have you said because you resonate with them.
I use both Maya and Blender, but as a 13+ years animator in the game and vfx industry I would never chose Blender for animation. It's definitely got it's advantages in other areas but Maya being an actual animation software is far superior in that regard. Great video!
I like how you mentioned that you use both software.
I agree with you. Maya is so strong in animation. Every vfx and game studio uses it. Thank you for commenting!
Blender is also good in animation, just learn it. Many animation projects are made in Blender.
@alexas8787 Exactly!!!
@alexas8787 Exactly!!!
@@alexas8787 I 100% agree with you. I've got nothing against blender and I do encourage new artists to get started in Blender to see what aspect of the industry they want to focus more on. Blender is great because it allows anyone to get a feel for everything in one single software. As a very experienced animator in the industry I just know that Maya has way more tools and ways to work in. Blender simplifies a lot of workflows and approaches -which is amazing for juniors because Maya has quite a steep learning curve -and even steeper before users are "professionals". That's why simplicity and automation can sometimes be very negative for senior artists who want to dig deep under the hood of the software and really get into the grit and dirt of it. A lot of people who complain about Maya actually don't know how to do or create certain setups because it might be a very advanced process, and therefor believe it's lacking in features. Unreal Engine is also starting to get better and better in animation and I am really impressed with the direction it's going. In my work I use Maya, Blender and Unreal Engine a lot, and they are all amazing softwares in their own way.
As an art director for 15 years, I have to tell you this is like studying medicine, In the same way a medical student has to know the entire anatomy of a body and then specializes in his desired area. Media production is the same, you should be able to know the basics of these softwares. this is your body of work, if you know Blender, you can literally convert all you knowledge to maya in a couple of weeks and then study a little bit more. A few years ago we didn't have UV maps! a couple years ago we didn't have Nanite in unreal engine. evolving technology is part of our work. Just be comfortable taking few hours every week to study. You SHOULD have your expertise area, but you also should know the basics of our industry.
Wow! If my video had a summary, This would be it. Thank you very much
"At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what software you use, the quality of result you get are all that matters"-Sah4d
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Yes and no, if you are in a production environment, at the end of the day you want to use the software that does the job the fastest, and I am pretty sure that you can do stuff much faster in Maya than in Blender!
@gcharb2d Yeahh, I mentioned that if you are looking to get employed. You would want to learn the software that would make you suitable for the job. This is also true
@@Sah.4D Even as a freelancer, the faster you can do the task at hand, the better, clients hate to wait, not to mention the time you save for other projects, having a paid 3D software, as a professional, could actually save you money if it allows you to work faster!
@gcharb2d Yes, Time is money. But i don't agree that it has to be a paid software to get that speed.
Paying thousands of dollars a year in subscriptions - Maya should be night and day better than Blender. It isn't. That's the problem. The fact that it's close, and that you can do pretty much everything in Maya you can in Blender, yet Maya cost thousands of dollars a year, and you never own the software is mind boggling.
Exactly! It kinda just shows that Maya is just ripping off artist with the subscription model. This is a W comment.
Thank you for this comment Steven.
If that was the case, studios would switch to Blender, don't you think, for one, with Blender they wouldn't have to deal with the licenses hassle, why is it that studios are not switching to Blender, is it possible that Blender is not as good as you think?
I think Blender is good. I think Blender is also slowly being integrated in the industry slowly mostly because of it's modelling capabilities. Overhauling the whole industry for a software would cost them a whole lot of money for that overhaul. I think. School teaches with Maya which would make you employable. Maybe Blender's goal isn't to be the "industry standard"
@@Sah.4D My reply was deleted, again!
The BI goal is to develop a flashy software to attract donations from a community of hobbyists, the BI got more donations during the pandemic, but now it's going down, the problem with free software that relies on donations, is that they develop for their base to get as many donations as possible, and Blender's base is not one of professionals, but one of hobbyists!
As for the industry, Blender doesn't fully support the industry standards, like FBX and USD, both are missing a ton of functionalities, that's one of the reasons the industry doesn't care about Blender!
Why does your replies keep getting deleted?😅
The reliance on donations is really casing blender alot. But if they were to turn to a subscription model. Innovation would still take a while to happen.
I also think Innovation are happening even though its slow.
Blender being free helps in a way though because it made people who were interested in 3d get into it and later turned into professional.
Yes. Blender seems like a hobbyists software which i think it's the accessibility that caused that..
Yeahh, I agree. FBX and USD fully. I guess you are right about it being flashy because if being industry standards but free..those aspects would have been a targeted innovation
Welcome back!🎉 Great video as always..😊
Thank you!
Awesome video man! Blender seems more future proof as it keeps getting better. Maya is great but seems they are just milking their users with the subscription payment method..
Yeahh, I agree too but if you want to work in an industry, you learn the tool that they would be using. Maya or Blender, it doesn't matter actually. Create awesome art that you can't be ignored
Maya is for professionals that don´t care about money.. they just need the best.
Yeahh, I agree but if blender can do what you want in Maya and not having to pay for it. I think that's better..
AI is the game changer, Cascadeur and Houdini proved that, and AI is coming to Maya!
I want to work in an animation studio, and they use maya, which is very famous for its rigging and animation toolset, to work well with maya do I have to learn maya for 3D modeling? Mostly I have to do modeling for assets, and also characters, can everything made in blender be used in maya properly?
Or do I have to learn maya to be integrated with maya animators who do rigging and animate?
I recently learned maya, and I feel that it is very different and feels slower for modeling than blender..but it seems that for more advanced object modeling maya has many features.
Not exactly. Maya can do modelling but I think blender is faster with modelling.
If you were to make a model in blender and transfer to Maya to animate, yes, it would work properly.
Yes, Maya is amazing for animation and rigging. I think it's the king in that regard.
I've just watched a video from industrial light magic, they are talking how it's nice to be a generalist. Throughout the video every single 3D software is Maya on countless computers
Becoming a generalist isn't a bad idea as you would have quite some knowledge about all aspects of 3d. But, being a specialist would help you hone your craft to a top mastery level.
Yeahh, that's why I said maya is the industry standard as these studios have built their workflow around it. I think blender would see a faster adoption in the gaming industry because of it's modelling capacity than in the film industry. Again, blender is only going to improve more.
@@Sah.4D everything is going to only improve more :) also ZBrush
Yes. It will but the topic was maya vs blender.😅
Now, it's just a race of who innovates better and has the best features that the artist needs for less money (subscription)
@@Sah.4D I never used blender. Is it really that better for modeling? I didn't really find any problems when modeling in Maya.
I haven't used Maya before but from what I've heard from people who switched to blender. It was mainly because of modelling capability of Blender and other improvements that blender has and is getting..
You can only be the judge for yourself when you try it out..
If artists change their concepts to Blender maybe they have a chance, but the industry requires a license agreement among other things so your time on paid tools will fix you will have a job. Today I use both
Yeahh, I had an conversation with someone and it was around blender growing exponentially if it was used industry..
Blender zbrush painter. My holy trinity. Hopefully zbrush will be obsolete when sculpting performance gets better
Is getting to the point, at least in the Games industry that it doesn’t matter what modelling software you use. This very reason is why Blender is getting more adopted and taking over. Blender is just the faster tool to model on and it has so many more resources
Exactly! This is the point!! Thank you for the comment.💯
👌💜great video as always 😁😁
Thanks man
Awesome video man.
Thank you..
The problem for me about maya is not the software itself, but the fact that it is an industry requirement for the majority of studios and it’s cost.
The cost man! No matter how you look at it. Not everyone has that money to splash on a software yearly.
I think because of the reputation built over the years that's what makes it required at alot of studios
In the end of the day we all use anything on cgPersia - may the Xforce smoking the competition.
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!
Exactly! Everything is in your hands with blender. Autodesk just want to suck as much money out of artist pockets.
The time I recommend Maya was if you want to work in big studios as you will have to know how to use the tool that they have created a pipeline for.
I also stated that your skills and fundamentals that you learn are transferable.
Software doesn't matter at the end of the day. Your skills do..
Thank you for commenting
@@Sah.4D Yes that's correct, everyone who wants to move from Maya or Max to Blender feels it's complicated but in reality, it's the easiest tool I have ever used and with each update, the grooming system is more powerful than the Xgen system that maya have and the speed of hair creation now has no limits, maya node shader is boring and slow and too many bugs not only that, rigging, 2d, many things are so boring and the workflow is slow, in a blender with two clicks you can make things that maya will take forever to make.
Skills and techniques are the most important things, tools are only a way to make art that's it but the final result is the right answer.
At the end of the day use BLENDER😅
Whenever Blender improves its UV mapping and Retopology tools to the level of Maya's, then I'll switch over.
I think blender will keep improving and it's "problems" or shortcomings that it has now is only temporary. So, you may not wait for too long before switching
@@Sah.4D Ya but the sad fact is that many of the shortcomings for blender have not seen updates in decades. simulations, for example in blender are horrible when compared to houdini and I would say it will likely be a long time before blender even comes close. That being said blender is still amazing in many ways but for simulations not many other software come close to houdini for sims.
@theshadow6273 you are right. Blender has alot of shortcomings. Blender has a lot of room for development and it will keep getting better..
@@Sah.4D This is true. Blender has made some serious strides and in terms of modeling, sculpting and animation it is a very powerful tool . It will be interesting to see where development is 5 years from now.
@theshadow6273 Here for it! Seeing the growth over the years is amazing!
do you want to be in a youtube rewind of sorts
What do you mean?
People coming out of school do yourself a favor and stick with Maya, zbrush and substance. You will get a wake-up call when you walk into a AAA studio and only a couple of people play with blender on the side as a hobby. I’ve been in AAA stuidos for 16 year there’s no plans to switch to blender in sight or ever even mentioned. The studio pays for all of your software just use the industry standard so you won’t have to relearn.
Thank you for this explanation!
Here I go again, hoping that this time my post won't get deleted! 😜
No it is not, AI assisted animation is coming to Maya, if it's anything like the one in Houdini, it will rock, you will never get anything like that in Blender, just like you will never get anything like Houdini's KineFX/APEX, which is a new, cutting edge, rigging/animation system, something the BI has been promising for years, but never delivered on, you will never get that level of functionality in Blender, because the Blender Institute just can't afford developers of that calibre, I don't know how much Autodesk pays its developers, but SideFX, the developer of Houdini, pays them as much as 145k a year, plus bonuses, SideFX and Autodesk have the best developers in the industry, and it shows, Blender is very cool, but as time passes, as technologies advance in the world of 3D, Blender will get further and further behind, because the BI just can't afford developers that can keep up with the newest technologies, the truth is that you get what you pay for!
Deleted?
Yeahh, I saw that too..
Maya is the go to when it comes to industry animation. I think dreamworks have their own in house software.
Yeahhh, it might now because Blender wouldn't have that kind of money to splash on developers as compared to Maya.
145k a year is spicy.
I've been thinking about this too. But what if blender could develop features that are really good before anyone else?
Any software needs money to compete. But I think blender would keep getting better as they develop more tools. They just need to do it faster, and by faster they are gonna need money for that.
@@Sah.4D That's the problem with free software that rely on donations, it's really hard to have a steady stream of income for development, in 2021 the BI gathered 2,341,896 Euros in all, 2,170,250 Euros in 2022, and 2023 looks even worst from what I can see, I wish the best to the BI, as I find the Blender project very interesting, and I still use Blender for the Grease Pencil, which, IMHO, is the only real innovation that Blender ever brought to the world of animation, but to think that Blender could keep up with the upcoming technologies is ludicrous IMHO, Blender is very cool, but I don't recommend it for any type of production!
@@Sah.4D One more thing, Blender has been around for more than 20 years, and they never came up with any real innovations, at least not for 3D work, what makes you think that it could change in the near future, especially when 3D technologies are becoming more and more complex? 🤔
And yes, Dreamworks has its own DCC, they also released their render engine, MoonRay, as Open Source, which is a Hydra(USD) delegate (not supported in Blender), Pixar also has its own animation software, called Presto, and of course they use Renderman as their render engine!
Summarily, Blender needs more innovation to keep up..
Blender seems to have a lot of users if only it was possible to get everyone to donate to fund the software.
I honestly miss the time when you can buy a software and own it. Everything is not subscription based and I think that's what makes Blender stands out, because it's free
@@Sah.4D free doesn't mean good, and the BI doesn't have the resources to innovate, all they do is try to catch up with the other DCC, which becomes increasingly difficulty as technologies become more and more complex, requiring a level of development that the BI just can't afford, again, you get what you pay for, besides, half the money the BI gets comes from people who give a small amount every month, for a few more dollars these people could get a license of Houdini Indie, it makes absolutely no sense to me that someone who claims to be a professional, decides to use such a limited DCC as Blender!
Nice
Thank you
Blender is becoming a religion. Maya and max are Rock solid tools, still way ahead to real world production. Blender lacks refinement and also lacks so many basic things. Blender can do small tasks . But let's keep foot on ground.. is not up there yet to be a real replacement for 3dsMax and Maya
Yes. In a productive setting blender isn't there yet and isn't the industry standard. But you can't deny it's improvement over the years as a free software who relies on mostly on donations to develop theh software as compared to Maya's deep pockets..
Blender's community cringe is the biggest trade off.
I agree
This guy literally copied a video by Stylized Station "Should I learn Blender 3D or Maya?" and made it shorter and worse. He even copied small analogies like "even master could create a masterpiece with a crayon"
How many videos are like that on TH-cam?
Worse? Come on. I just thought it would be an interesting topic to talk about and have people air their opinions too.
The analogy, I found it to be true. How many other people's quote have you said because you resonate with them.
Blender is king!