Great breakdown and very to the point! For those looking to buy/build PC, remember that the graphics card is going to make the biggest difference in render times and viewport performance so put as much of your budget there (especially for getting 8gb of VRAM), Blender is well optimized for Nvidia cards. don't skimp on RAM and try and get 32GB. Also leave enough money for a decent monitor as that's what you are going to be staring at for hours
Hi Smeaf. MacBook Pro 14 inch is probably the best all-round for video editing on the go. The competition is usually very lacking in battery life. If you will always have outlet access and prefer a windows system, you can go for something with a powerful NV GPU and do some rendering on the go as well.
informative as always brother, though way out of my PC budget, lol... (I am currently using a build with an 8th gen I3, which is an upgrade for me)..anyway, Keep creating...~~Just me, RD
@@alberteinstein9626 appreciate the words bro... a couple of my vids I am proud of, having taught myself quite a few programs including with some great tuts from Ducky for Blender... I really enjoyed doing, "A Wick in the Matrix" if you have the time to give it a view and review...either way, positive thoughts out to you
Not the usual type of videos we wait from you, but man, how I enjoyed every minute of it! Awesome gear and awesome setup, keep up with the good stuff and I hope for you all the best! Can't wait for your next video.
@@TheDucky3D genuinely surprised that you're fairly natural at presenting. Some people who are amazing, at say 3D, end up having no character in front of the camera. Nice work. Side note: RTX 4090 😭😭😭
@@TheDucky3D side side note... Affinity Photo is basically photoshop. Very small learning curve... NO SUBSCRIPTION. Strongly recommend, and then a video titled "I moved from Adobe to Affinity Photo"
It's amazing to see how much your channel and work station has grown over the last 3 years I started watching your videos! I'm currently looking for and interface & mic for making videos, and you answered my question which is great!
This is what we've been waiting for. You answered so many of my questions in one video. Can't wait to experience just an ounce of your success. That last advice about getting a gaming laptop is great advice.
who has a rtx 3080 and is it good for blender rending right now i am useing gtx 1050 my birthday is in 2 weeks and i havea chance to get a rtx 3080 is that good
budget of around 1500$ and I like to work outside sometimes and I already have an old potato laptop. get a PC or laptop for blender and what spcs? thanks
So, one thing I've been wondering about for a while now is, how can I speed up physics simulations in Blender via hardware? Because all the guides and benchmarks seem to focus on rendering, and that's it. I've read in a reddit post that blender sims are CPU bound and single-threaded. But it's reddit, I take those comments with a whole salt shaker. Nevertheless, I'm getting a i5-13600KF anyway, just for the great value, yet I'm still curious if that's gonna help with physics.
I’ve been wondering the same thing and couldn’t find definitive testing about it on YT. From what I can gather, some tasks use a few threads and others might benefit more from having more cores and threads. I’m sure the i5 will crush it for you though. That CPU is a beast at just about everything and has very high frequency, so you’ll be right up there with all the pro workstations.
hey ducky hope your doing awesome. I wanted to let u know your doing an awesome job with the tutorials and have been my favourite in motion graphics, i have a question if you read this. i have been learning motion graphics for a year now and have gotten pretty good at it but i dont know how to make a living by doing this stuff, whats the market value, what kind of people look into buying this stuff etc. It would be a massive help if you would tell about this topic. Thanks.
Hey man! I got my start working for music artists making visuals for their concerts. So I was just email as many of them as I could offering to work for them
Why you got so little Ram but such a High Cost Graficscard? You cant even use all your Systems Power with so little ram. Probably get bottelnecked at high loads.
32GB is fine for most things, including Blender. Especially since he’s got so much VRAM with the 4090. I’d suggest 64GB or higher for a high-end workstation though. But I’d also suggest going with a 13th gen i5 or higher CPU and decently fast DDR5 memory if you’re not budget constrained.
Nice, but can I also recommend that you get 2x gas spring monitor arms and (VESA) mount them on the back of your desk? Then you get more space on your desk and it feels less cluttered. I really recommend it. have two Arctic X1-3D arms and they're cheap and great. Cool, I got the same speakers but I use the AKG 712 Pro headphones. :)
Just got 27 Asus Proart yesterday, and here it comes again! Straight up one of the best screens for its price, love to see it used by others 3d artisits!
I wish you also talked about that little white box behind the monitor (not the speaker) :) One could argue that it's the most important part of any setup. You can put multiple cores and gpus in a case, but if you can lose all your creations any minute then it's a bit risky. I just think data backup is severly overlooked by creatives using computers and often only taken into consideration when it's already too late. Each time someone talks about their setup I'm banging on about this, but I've lost all my data once and wouldn't wish that on anyone else.
But please have a backup in a different location too. At a friends place or in the cloud, just not in the same room. If there is a fire or water damage, you'll lose everything.
Cool thank you for this video, I will change my 3070 for a 4080 soon with a spacemouse enterprise, it will be another world! the 3070 for 3D and Davinci is quickly outdated and I no longer support the mouse/keyboard combo 🤪, not at all intuitive
For your main monitor, I am curious whether you went for one with Mini-LED, "Calman Ready" or both... Asus make a lot of 32in ProArt displays, with several being 4K resolution.
interesting, our setups aren't that drastically different so I can be reassured I have chosen decently, my asus proart is the 27inch 2k version however, and I think its stuck at 8bit colour never reaching 10bit :') for colour accuracy it really does tick the important boxes.
Great hardware, the most important for graphics work is the graphics card, and that 4090 is a beast. Love the Sony A7 mkIII you said that you take it out to film, all the plugging and unplugging can break ports maybe get a 2nd hand Sony A6100 for your desk setup which you can leave all plugged in for streaming, it works with camlink, has clean HDMI out, APS-c sensor, 4k (not needed for streaming)
Hi.. Could you please look at the afterlife concert visuals and possibly do a tutorial ? Would be really helpful as im not finding any on youtube… thank you!
We appreciate you, bro! Since graduating school for mechanical design, I've started getting back into blender. it's insane how much learning something like creo or solidworks actually helps me with the more artistic-side of things in blender. I'm so addicted to cad and 3d.. I do it for work, then go home and continue to work in 3d space until i go to bed, ALL CUZ OF YOU BRO. Let's go to a music fest. I will fly you to MN and buy you a ticket. lol Infrasound 2024 ft DuckyBoii
This was relatively helpful. I want to upgrade or completely get a new rig but idk what components I need to focus on for the work flow I have with the programs I often use I’m a conceptual artist/designer I primarily use Zbrush, Keyshot rarely Blender, Gaea, photoshop, illustrator and Quixel mixer for texturing and any suggestions if I need to be RAM, CPU or GPU focused?
At least 32GB RAM, NVIDIA 4070 Ti or higher, Intel i5 13th gen or AMD Ryzen 7600 (or higher). If you are planning to render on your device (i.e. Blender cycles), make sure you get the best GPU you can afford with your build budget. If you’re not too worried about rendering speed or designing complex environments (kinda sounds like you’re doing character design maybe?), you might wait for lower-end NVIDIA GPUs and see how they perform in the programs you care about most - they are pretty expensive right now. Your setup would be similar to a mid-high end gaming PC.
Hi Ducky, ... how do you import a geonode object from the library, ... and be able to modify it (without being obliged to realise it ! witch you can't modify !)
Good quality 850W PSU should be fine with 4090 and a normal CPU as long as you don’t start going crazy overclocking stuff. However, I’d say a 1000W would make more sense for a high-end workstation.
I just build my new PC and it is a monster. But I am still having doubts about the monitor I have chosen, since I wanted to go out of the normal stuff a 3D artist would buy. Bare in mind that I do not use Blender that much, lately rather I am more into UE5. So how do you guys feel about my dell U3421WE? It is a wide screen curved monitor. It is not 4K, but I looked for a monitor with great colors and this one is great.
"you dont need a really good pc" proceeds to show hardware: RTX 4090 lmao
Great breakdown and very to the point!
For those looking to buy/build PC, remember that the graphics card is going to make the biggest difference in render times and viewport performance so put as much of your budget there (especially for getting 8gb of VRAM), Blender is well optimized for Nvidia cards. don't skimp on RAM and try and get 32GB. Also leave enough money for a decent monitor as that's what you are going to be staring at for hours
Great advice
Hypothetically speaking, what would the best laptop be for editing a Smeaf video whilst in another county.
Asking for a friend
Hi Smeaf. MacBook Pro 14 inch is probably the best all-round for video editing on the go. The competition is usually very lacking in battery life. If you will always have outlet access and prefer a windows system, you can go for something with a powerful NV GPU and do some rendering on the go as well.
informative as always brother, though way out of my PC budget, lol... (I am currently using a build with an 8th gen I3, which is an upgrade for me)..anyway, Keep creating...~~Just me, RD
Hope someday you can afford A big PC , brother ! 😊
@@alberteinstein9626 appreciate the words bro... a couple of my vids I am proud of, having taught myself quite a few programs including with some great tuts from Ducky for Blender... I really enjoyed doing, "A Wick in the Matrix" if you have the time to give it a view and review...either way, positive thoughts out to you
@@rdskew yeah ofcourse
@@alberteinstein9626 you're awesome, thanks
Thanks for sharing! It is always great to see the different creator preferences. Clearly you are doing something right! 👏👏👏
Thank you
Not the usual type of videos we wait from you, but man, how I enjoyed every minute of it! Awesome gear and awesome setup, keep up with the good stuff and I hope for you all the best! Can't wait for your next video.
Thank you man!!
@@TheDucky3D genuinely surprised that you're fairly natural at presenting. Some people who are amazing, at say 3D, end up having no character in front of the camera. Nice work. Side note: RTX 4090 😭😭😭
@@TheDucky3D side side note... Affinity Photo is basically photoshop. Very small learning curve... NO SUBSCRIPTION. Strongly recommend, and then a video titled "I moved from Adobe to Affinity Photo"
Shame you have premiere, because DaVinci Resolve isn't hard to learn, especially if you use Blender as well
It's amazing to see how much your channel and work station has grown over the last 3 years I started watching your videos!
I'm currently looking for and interface & mic for making videos, and you answered my question which is great!
I want every other blender teacher to upload a video of setup tour or something like this!
And your coffee brand? 😳😳
This is what we've been waiting for. You answered so many of my questions in one video. Can't wait to experience just an ounce of your success. That last advice about getting a gaming laptop is great advice.
You will definitely get there!!
who has a rtx 3080 and is it good for blender rending right now i am useing gtx 1050
my birthday is in 2 weeks and i havea chance to get a rtx 3080 is that good
Any RTX graphics card is a great upgrade over a gtx 1050.
If you are getting good deals, go with it 👍
How can you make an entire video about your computer build and not once show what the thing looks like?
budget of around 1500$ and I like to work outside sometimes and I already have an old potato laptop. get a PC or laptop for blender and what spcs? thanks
Is there a problem if the only thing I change from the components is the processor to a Ryzen 9 5900x?
You're such a liar! Your titlecard for your video, left screen, is a Netflix menu!
Yo!
Please make more advanced tutorials, expecting more and your videos are amazing. Thank you and upload more
So, one thing I've been wondering about for a while now is, how can I speed up physics simulations in Blender via hardware?
Because all the guides and benchmarks seem to focus on rendering, and that's it. I've read in a reddit post that blender sims are CPU bound and single-threaded. But it's reddit, I take those comments with a whole salt shaker.
Nevertheless, I'm getting a i5-13600KF anyway, just for the great value, yet I'm still curious if that's gonna help with physics.
I’ve been wondering the same thing and couldn’t find definitive testing about it on YT. From what I can gather, some tasks use a few threads and others might benefit more from having more cores and threads. I’m sure the i5 will crush it for you though. That CPU is a beast at just about everything and has very high frequency, so you’ll be right up there with all the pro workstations.
texturen worden ze allemaal betaald als ze al gebakken zijn op de textuur van iemand anders.
That microphone stand name was the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard 😂😂😂 very awesome in depth video as always!
Great video but that keyboard stole the show lol
Oops!
hey ducky hope your doing awesome. I wanted to let u know your doing an awesome job with the tutorials and have been my favourite in motion graphics, i have a question if you read this. i have been learning motion graphics for a year now and have gotten pretty good at it but i dont know how to make a living by doing this stuff, whats the market value, what kind of people look into buying this stuff etc. It would be a massive help if you would tell about this topic. Thanks.
Hey man! I got my start working for music artists making visuals for their concerts. So I was just email as many of them as I could offering to work for them
Why you got so little Ram but such a High Cost Graficscard?
You cant even use all your Systems Power with so little ram.
Probably get bottelnecked at high loads.
32GB is fine for most things, including Blender. Especially since he’s got so much VRAM with the 4090. I’d suggest 64GB or higher for a high-end workstation though. But I’d also suggest going with a 13th gen i5 or higher CPU and decently fast DDR5 memory if you’re not budget constrained.
chair :D ? im only intrested in chair. Thanks.
Nice, but can I also recommend that you get 2x gas spring monitor arms and (VESA) mount them on the back of your desk? Then you get more space on your desk and it feels less cluttered. I really recommend it. have two Arctic X1-3D arms and they're cheap and great. Cool, I got the same speakers but I use the AKG 712 Pro headphones. :)
Unfortunately there’s a block of metal that prevents me from mounting things to the back of the desk! Once I get a new one I’ll definitely do that!
@@TheDucky3D Oh OK I see. :)
Just got 27 Asus Proart yesterday, and here it comes again! Straight up one of the best screens for its price, love to see it used by others 3d artisits!
So how you feeling now using it
@@ashsihver Absolutly love it
I wish you also talked about that little white box behind the monitor (not the speaker) :)
One could argue that it's the most important part of any setup. You can put multiple cores and gpus in a case, but if you can lose all your creations any minute then it's a bit risky.
I just think data backup is severly overlooked by creatives using computers and often only taken into consideration when it's already too late. Each time someone talks about their setup I'm banging on about this, but I've lost all my data once and wouldn't wish that on anyone else.
But please have a backup in a different location too. At a friends place or in the cloud, just not in the same room. If there is a fire or water damage, you'll lose everything.
@@rootsandstones yup, 3-2-1 backup all the way
Cool thank you for this video, I will change my 3070 for a 4080 soon with a spacemouse enterprise, it will be another world! the 3070 for 3D and Davinci is quickly outdated and I no longer support the mouse/keyboard combo 🤪, not at all intuitive
bro forgot to tell us the keyboard
Thanks for the video.
Can you plz mention how much your setup costs approximately? (without the mic and camera and stands...)
For your main monitor, I am curious whether you went for one with Mini-LED, "Calman Ready" or both... Asus make a lot of 32in ProArt displays, with several being 4K resolution.
What’s that keyboard?
There is a monster 4090
interesting, our setups aren't that drastically different so I can be reassured I have chosen decently, my asus proart is the 27inch 2k version however, and I think its stuck at 8bit colour never reaching 10bit :') for colour accuracy it really does tick the important boxes.
you need more ram - 64 minimum )
Great hardware, the most important for graphics work is the graphics card, and that 4090 is a beast. Love the Sony A7 mkIII you said that you take it out to film, all the plugging and unplugging can break ports maybe get a 2nd hand Sony A6100 for your desk setup which you can leave all plugged in for streaming, it works with camlink, has clean HDMI out, APS-c sensor, 4k (not needed for streaming)
Make a daily archviz render?
Hi..
Could you please look at the afterlife concert visuals and possibly do a tutorial ? Would be really helpful as im not finding any on youtube… thank you!
Can you guys tell me a color accurate laptop with bang for buck specs under 1500$?
A friend got you that camera for Christmas!? That's the kind of friends I need! Does he need another one?
that's really helpful thank you! can you please share the Notion's temple you use? 🙏
Keyboard: okay😢
Please do mire some realistic Hi Poly environment...
i like your grey t shirt
By curiosity, what is the audio interface you had before that had issues?
What about your keyboard and chair?
It’s a keyboard from Alienware
Thanks Ducky3d for the video!
Good to see Ducky outside the normal view
I highly recommend doing some cable management, because not only it looks great it makes yourself feel great. If that makes any sense.
I am in severe need of it. I just haven’t gotten around to doing it.
We appreciate you, bro! Since graduating school for mechanical design, I've started getting back into blender. it's insane how much learning something like creo or solidworks actually helps me with the more artistic-side of things in blender. I'm so addicted to cad and 3d.. I do it for work, then go home and continue to work in 3d space until i go to bed, ALL CUZ OF YOU BRO.
Let's go to a music fest. I will fly you to MN and buy you a ticket. lol
Infrasound 2024 ft DuckyBoii
From Where Did you completed your BFA
This was relatively helpful.
I want to upgrade or completely get a new rig but idk what components I need to focus on for the work flow I have with the programs I often use
I’m a conceptual artist/designer
I primarily use Zbrush, Keyshot rarely Blender, Gaea, photoshop, illustrator and Quixel mixer for texturing and
any suggestions if I need to be RAM, CPU or GPU focused?
At least 32GB RAM, NVIDIA 4070 Ti or higher, Intel i5 13th gen or AMD Ryzen 7600 (or higher). If you are planning to render on your device (i.e. Blender cycles), make sure you get the best GPU you can afford with your build budget. If you’re not too worried about rendering speed or designing complex environments (kinda sounds like you’re doing character design maybe?), you might wait for lower-end NVIDIA GPUs and see how they perform in the programs you care about most - they are pretty expensive right now. Your setup would be similar to a mid-high end gaming PC.
Hi Ducky, ... how do you import a geonode object from the library, ... and be able to modify it (without being obliged to realise it ! witch you can't modify !)
I’ll have to look into this
wait wait wait! what about yout chair!?? It's most important thing to save our back while working! Could you please say few words in Instagram maybe ?
It’s not great I need a different one for my back
You are a simple person with simple stuffs I like it❤
please: show every park of YOU SOFTWAREs that you use for daily 3D animations!
@@metanoia3d925 THX, I don't speak English, that's why I didn't understand it
I quickly search for the sony a73 thinking it was a really good one and cheap, turns out, it was just a really good one 😂
It’s definitely overkill if you just want to film yourself for YT! You can make pro video with a smartphone- trust me I’ve done it. 😊
Do you use a graphic tablet ?
Awesome setup,, 👍
Waiting for some Houdini like simulation tutorials
One day!
Thanks for the tip on Notion!
So did you build your main computer or did you buy it as one rig?
I built it
aint no way man hooked up an 850W PSU with a freaking 4090?!
That’s exactly what my 4090 is listed at
Good quality 850W PSU should be fine with 4090 and a normal CPU as long as you don’t start going crazy overclocking stuff. However, I’d say a 1000W would make more sense for a high-end workstation.
Amazing.
Great vid
Great content!
thankssss
I just build my new PC and it is a monster. But I am still having doubts about the monitor I have chosen, since I wanted to go out of the normal stuff a 3D artist would buy.
Bare in mind that I do not use Blender that much, lately rather I am more into UE5.
So how do you guys feel about my dell U3421WE? It is a wide screen curved monitor. It is not 4K, but I looked for a monitor with great colors and this one is great.
The microphone is so cooool
It’s a good one for sure!
Ducky bro, you seem so chill
Ide say I am!
🔥👍
Your voice is nice.
Thanks
Thank you for the advice
Great, thank you! What about the camera tripod? Not the Victiv you usually use, but the one you used on this video.
I wasn’t able to find info on that one. It was a gift. It doesn’t have any logos on it
@@TheDucky3D No problem. Very informative video anyway, might get the mic arm!