The reason people tend not to use addons is for learning. You say yourself to learn fundamentals but how can you if youre using aton of addons that make techniques and workflow as trivial as pressing a button. If you are an expert by all means save your time, but if you're learning you are cheating yourself by using addons constantly
Ha! If only using addons was as 'trivial' as pressing a button!! I've got a few add ons, and I can't think of one that makes a process trivial. I don't disagree with what you say, in fact, I pretty much totally agree with you, having followed that 'learning' path myself, but..... I'm not sure it's quite as clear cut as you say. I would like to give a couple of examples where using addons actually greatly improved my understanding of a number of things, and processes, to the point where I could now do a lot more of that workflow manually (but not necessarily all of it). Mesh Machine by MACHIN3. This addon greatly helped me understand what I needed to do to improve/refine my meshes, after having done boolean operations. It highlighted overlapping vertices in red (why does vanilla blender not do this in edit mode?) and alters the geometry to a more 'ideal' state, so as to avoid shading artifacts. It does this in a very interactive way, with lots of user input. Good topology is not rocket science, but can be really challenging for beginners, especially after doing booleans, and this addon helped me understand what could be done and how. It also took a certain amount of time and effort for me to work out how to use it, because at first I actually couldn't! It didn't seem very intuitive, but part of that was because I didn't understand its limitations. It can't do the impossible! For example, it took me a while to realise that it couldn't do certain operations because my mesh didn't have quad geometry in the right places. Some mesh operations require quad geometry, simple as that. This is true for vanilla blender as it is for the addon. Again, lesson learnt. Decal Machine by MACHIN3. ( + Grab Doc) This is an interesting one. Trim sheets. Completely unintelligible to a beginner, but practically essential for hard surface industrial/scifi environment modelling. Without these two addons and a few tutorials from Ponte Ryuurui, I would never have been able to get even a foothold in this particular workflow. Going through the process of creating the geometry for a trim sheet, then extracting the geometry for texture maps, then bringing them into Decal Machine, and marking out the 'trims', it's quite a process, about as far from 'one-click' as you can get, but again, not only can I now do this essential thing, but I've learnt so much from the process of doing it. All about the relationship between geometry, and the various texture maps that you can make from it, and perhaps using them in other contexts, manually. I would never have have gained this kind of understanding without the use of these addons. So ..... I'm not disagreeing with you at all, I just think that it's interesting that the issue of addons is not quite as clear cut as might seem. You must have had some similar experiences yourself?
Agreed. Many add-ons work like macros or shortcuts into Blender’s basic operations. Box Cutter, for example, bundles Boolean operations to cut down on user steps but it could create issues that can be avoided with some basic Blender knowledge.
You’re not cheating yourself by using addons, you’re being efficient and using leverage, because addons are tools that makes your job easier. If I choose to use a electric drill to screw as opposed to manually screwing with screwdriver to fulfill a task of putting screws in, am I cheating myself?
So the issues a lot of people have with using...well not previously made assets, but using bought assets or 3rd party assets. As well as using funky plugins - is that you run a risk of not learning properly. This ties back to your first segment where fundamentals are so extremely important, and I cannot help but agree. I've been in a hiring position for 3D artists for a while now, and time and time again I see, usually young graduates come out with good looking reels and portfolios that they just haven't made themselves. I'm talking content that is 90% carried by 3rd party assets. Interesting and tasty techniques that weren't made traditionally, but with the help of an expensive, third-party plugin. etc. etc. It makes us think: - OK, nice reel bro. But why should we hire you and pay you a monthly salary when we can just buy those assets and plugins you've been using and save ourselves the trouble. Also that plugin you got there doesn't fit into our pipeline anyways and we really don't like being beholden to all too many 3rd party softwares to begin with (huge reason why we've been moving more and more towards blender the past years). What we want is a 3D artist who knows their stuff. Who, when the plugins go away and the asset store is shut off -> Can still do the work. That's why I mainly agree with the first part. F U N D A M E N T A L S It's the age-old adage: Learn the rules first; THEN you can break them.
love the tip at 3:04 ! I use to feel bad because i felt like cheating but just to give an example : Sanctus Library was my life and time savior ! plus with my very basic knowledges with nodes, it helps me creating even more interesting materials ! So thats a good one !
Learned these problems the hard way About fundamentals i think it becomes a rabbit hole itself because once you start learning them you never finish, which can lead to something similar to the imposter syndrome (i live in this spectrum, never confident enough about my art which led me to stopping entirely just to focus on fundamentals for about 6 months now) About creating everything from scratch: it's fine if you're doing a learning exercise, in fact I would encourage people to do such an exercise one hour every day, but on production of course you can't do that, as they say time is money, so why waste time when you can just reuse previously made assets/base meshes. Finally about plug-ins i just wanted to say, my personal problem here isn't the demonization of them, but rather the overwhelming amount of add-ons that exist for some stuff and how hard it becomes to find the right one (basically this issue applies for paid ones, for free ones just grab it, try it a couple hours and if it meets your requirements you found your addon, otherwise uninstall and find the next one)
You can spend an entire life span improve your fundamentals. Always make sure to keep creating original art and applying the fundamentals in praxis. Drawabox is a community dedicated to teaching art fundamentals and they have something which is called the 50/50 rule. Spend equally as much time in improving your fundamentals as in creating artwork where you don't actively try to make use of them.
I agree with you so much, especially about the fundamentals...topology for example is a topic I understand but still not good enough to create a pretty head base from scratch (especially the ears) :"^) Imposter syndrome is the worst, I too have stopped working on projects to focus solely more on fundamentals but it's a never ending rabbit hole :") And about making things from scratch, I also think its very important to practice everyday, bc even if it's not particularly a topic you'd want to focus, it gives a general idea whether it's worth it to continue and dive deeper in the future; like I'm not a Material artist but practicing Substance Designer made me realized that I do want to make certain key fabrics for a charac from scratch one day, so it doesn't look generic/adds uniqueness to it compared to what's already available^^
There are so many rabbit holes of exploration and study Blender can taken us on so knowing the basics and having a goal helps me to actually accomplish something (once in a while)
I've been told (and thus follow) that the reason why people don't (initially) use add-ons is because they'll learn what problems the add-on even solves in the first place. That way, if something goes wrong, they're more likely to know what happened. This said and I'm realizing there's not exactly a clear point for when to make the switch. I guess I'll need to start looking at the add-ons on Blender. Great video btw! I'm taking notes!
Personally I struggle to use preset assets mainly because not only do I not want credit removed from the work I’ve done, I don’t understand the copyright laws even tho I’ve read them
I'll consider an addon knowledge to your repeirtore. We can consider the tools the software has as addons, the More tools/ addons you know about the better. Learning addons even as a beginner Is in part the process of learning.
small note on "Using Reference": Reference the Real World, not other artists' work. This is like making a copy of a copy. When you need to make something that doesn't exist, then reference what it 's supposed to resemble.
I would also say limiting your self to one main software.. blender or maya can do anything!!! But doesn’t mean they are the best choice for everything. If I come across something I want to do, and I can’t do it efficiently in my main software (unity) at the moment. I’ll search to find a quicker method to do the same task. Quicker isn’t always better you say…NO… but it gives you flexibility to get the job done quicker so you have more time to focus on the details! And polish it up! IE me making a 7 min animated film in 2 days
What if the whole point of my Blender "Art Therapy" _is_ to waste time and have the computer partially heat the room, because winter is almost here? Forget about not having electricity... we live in the 1st world, right?
I get that!! I really do. Blender is therapy. Cheaper than a counsellor, hey? Oh, I forgot, it's totally free, and always will be ..... 😂 Seriously, I'm not sure how ironic your comment is, but I still get it...
@@fabulamcafee I wish. I have to watch Europe starve, freeze, in the dark before it propagates here to the states because the US relies on a lot of German and other European stuff to stay functional... and I thought it was a wholly Chinese shop here in the US... not for important, high value goods... those require german work(wo)manship. If we all get lucky and don't get blown up, the next winter is unsurvivable, there's no energy to buy at any price to replace the trickle still available for the Europeans. So, I've adopted the "Girls just want to have fun" approach to life and will enjoy myself for as long as possible until even for me, there's a curtain call. Stay safe and enjoy what you can too... whatever that is.
Addons to me is like buying or recieving new tools to help further your artistic talents rather than it being "Cheating" whichI feel the only way you're gonna cheat in 3D is if you stole someones art, changed one thing about it and then post it as your own
Getting gud at "CGI" Art is twofold. You have to master the tools so they are transparent to your "vision," and you have to _have_ a vision. What has failed me more often than I thought possible, was like Mike Pavlovich agreed with me once a long time ago: "After I made ZBrush transparent, I could make whatever I wanted... then I had nothing left I wanted to make!" Now, if any one dares say, "well, use one of the AIs to substitute for your creativity," I say, give up your huemon card, because you have conceded you are no longer worth even the most meager quality and quantity of food... Human creativity once snuffed out, and the machine intelligence from Midjourney to whatever Idc, which are just plagiarists of _us_ that posted our stuff on the internet, never comes back, no different than you can vote yourself into a tyranny, but spoilers, no one has voted themselves out of one. These AI Art programs are normalizing our replacement by machine intelligence. Do any of you have the capacity to metacomment/critically think above the concrete level? I can't be alone out here. (I know I'm not, but there are so few ppl that see a bigger picture than the tip of their noses, it shocks me every time I see ppl miss the elephant sitting on their necks.)
Really great inspirational videos, I've watched three in a row now and it really helps with my motivation to continue modeling and wanting to succeed in making it become my primary work! Been having a bit of a dip lately with staying motivated now that it's been half a year since I finished a paid course, and I'm not even sure if I've made any real progress since then - or how much longer I need to keep leaning onto my wife to keep our economy stable. Thankfully she doesn't have a problem with it, has been very supportive ever since the course started last year, and earns more than enough for both of us. Anyways, I'll keep watching your vids and try to stay motivated! Really hoping to see some progress in 2024 and landing my first job or internship.
The same people who say using references and using add-ons and using digital art is "immoral" and "cheating" don't understand that: 1. Professionals that actually work in the industry use these things. 2. You cannot create what you have not ever seen before. 3. If your mentality is that using things to help optimize your workflow as well as help make it correctly in the first place is "cheating", then you are no longer allowed to drive a car to work. You now have to grind your own coffee beans. You have to make all of your utinsils instead of using what you own. You have to read a dictionary instead of using Google. You can't use your phone anym, just letters. You have to travel by foot or horse back. Your pens have to be a quill and ink. If these things sound unreasonable to you, you would be right. Because people invent ways to help humans do things more efficiently so they can focus less on walking for hours to a destination, and more on being able to create art. Humans exist to create art and spread love (platonic) to one another. Having tools does not make it cheating. If you looked at the people that built your house and they heard you talking shit about how they "had to use power tools when a hand saw is right there" they would hate you. If you step into these people's shoes, you would want tools that make your life better. And I guarantee you every single person who complains about how you morally cannot do something is always the first to be found guilty of doing that as well in secret. I see it all the time.
When you're first starting out "I must model everything, it's a matter of principle, and I can't afford to buy models." 20 years later..."Please, let someone on Turbosquid have built this thing already...or something even close. I'll pay $400 if I can just go to bed tonight."
Im just about to start learning 3d animation ,i have 10 years experience im music software and making music viedeos and photoshop. What do you recomend is the first think i start modeling is wildlife ,enviorment or something elsle Like just Basic everyday objects
Do you mean you're not creative in the sense of being able to make stuff? You can use references online, to get an idea of something and then get other references to change that general idea. The next step is making it, and if you know how your tools, then making it shouldn't be too hard
So, basically, the first piece of advice, and the most important, says learn drawing before you learn 3D. Is that correct, or am I misunderstanding something? I just haven't heard of learning perspective in 3D before.
I still did not learned it hounestly, but thanks for the reminder. It's painfully obvious but every time,... every single time...all that time wasted on the sea of nothingness (witch i mostly try to justify with all kinds off %$*&%$*) XD Thanks for the video!
my only time wasting problem is just the rendering process because it took my poor potato pc a really long time just to render a single frame or animation 💀
As a 6 years professional artist in games/animation industry I would agree with that 100% specially the fundamentals one, I've been guilty of it many years.. Great video 👍
as newbie with no buget .when we talk about free add-on . for me who dont use it yet . cuz im not sure is it safe or not . that is a big problem if it drop some virus in my pc.
well if you're unsure about an addon:check what youtube and comments have to say about it and maybe get an antivirus, but i've been doing 3D for over two years now and never have i had or seen someone get a virus instead. plus you may wanna check but gimroad (the place where you'll find ur addons) probably has antivirus system, so it's rather safe x) you can still ask the community forums or comment) if you still have a doubt about one addon
oooh i c. thank u for tell me this . somehow youtube community delivery take long time . 10day to has someone reply back. maybe late to know still batter to not know . thank u again.
The AI bit is very contentious. If a person is using an ai program to refine the geometry of a mesh, or speed up UV mapping and packing, that's fine. But using an ai program to generate an entire piece of art from a few words? Cmon, that's ridiculous.
What the hell was that last tip. Ignore everything and everyone else, and just do your routine so you can make "amazing artwork" day after day? That seems excessive, and frankly, sad.
To be honest with you its really frustrating and tire, but you have to understand that there its alot of competition and your going to have a bad time triying to get a job. I see that problem in facebook groups guys triying to get a job with a noob level and they actually get criticize by the talent director, alot of them get really sad because of that, but its normal, if your not good you cant get a job simple as that.
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The reason people tend not to use addons is for learning. You say yourself to learn fundamentals but how can you if youre using aton of addons that make techniques and workflow as trivial as pressing a button. If you are an expert by all means save your time, but if you're learning you are cheating yourself by using addons constantly
I used Blender for 2 or 3 years before considering buying any add-on. It's always best to know how things works under the hood.
Ha! If only using addons was as 'trivial' as pressing a button!!
I've got a few add ons, and I can't think of one that makes a process trivial.
I don't disagree with what you say, in fact, I pretty much totally agree with you, having followed that 'learning' path myself, but.....
I'm not sure it's quite as clear cut as you say. I would like to give a couple of examples where using addons actually greatly improved my understanding of a number of things, and processes, to the point where I could now do a lot more of that workflow manually (but not necessarily all of it).
Mesh Machine by MACHIN3.
This addon greatly helped me understand what I needed to do to improve/refine my meshes, after having done boolean operations.
It highlighted overlapping vertices in red (why does vanilla blender not do this in edit mode?) and alters the geometry to a more 'ideal' state, so as to avoid shading artifacts. It does this in a very interactive way, with lots of user input. Good topology is not rocket science, but can be really challenging for beginners, especially after doing booleans, and this addon helped me understand what could be done and how. It also took a certain amount of time and effort for me to work out how to use it, because at first I actually couldn't! It didn't seem very intuitive, but part of that was because I didn't understand its limitations. It can't do the impossible! For example, it took me a while to realise that it couldn't do certain operations because my mesh didn't have quad geometry in the right places. Some mesh operations require quad geometry, simple as that. This is true for vanilla blender as it is for the addon. Again, lesson learnt.
Decal Machine by MACHIN3. ( + Grab Doc)
This is an interesting one. Trim sheets. Completely unintelligible to a beginner, but practically essential for hard surface industrial/scifi environment modelling.
Without these two addons and a few tutorials from Ponte Ryuurui, I would never have been able to get even a foothold in this particular workflow. Going through the process of creating the geometry for a trim sheet, then extracting the geometry for texture maps, then bringing them into Decal Machine, and marking out the 'trims', it's quite a process, about as far from 'one-click' as you can get, but again, not only can I now do this essential thing, but I've learnt so much from the process of doing it. All about the relationship between geometry, and the various texture maps that you can make from it, and perhaps using them in other contexts, manually.
I would never have have gained this kind of understanding without the use of these addons.
So ..... I'm not disagreeing with you at all, I just think that it's interesting that the issue of addons is not quite as clear cut as might seem.
You must have had some similar experiences yourself?
Agreed. Many add-ons work like macros or shortcuts into Blender’s basic operations. Box Cutter, for example, bundles Boolean operations to cut down on user steps but it could create issues that can be avoided with some basic Blender knowledge.
You’re not cheating yourself by using addons, you’re being efficient and using leverage, because addons are tools that makes your job easier. If I choose to use a electric drill to screw as opposed to manually screwing with screwdriver to fulfill a task of putting screws in, am I cheating myself?
@@AbramHadnot that’s fine IMO as long as we know the fundamentals in case we need to fix something unintentional a plug-in did for us.
So the issues a lot of people have with using...well not previously made assets, but using bought assets or 3rd party assets. As well as using funky plugins - is that you run a risk of not learning properly.
This ties back to your first segment where fundamentals are so extremely important, and I cannot help but agree.
I've been in a hiring position for 3D artists for a while now, and time and time again I see, usually young graduates come out with good looking reels and portfolios that they just haven't made themselves.
I'm talking content that is 90% carried by 3rd party assets. Interesting and tasty techniques that weren't made traditionally, but with the help of an expensive, third-party plugin. etc. etc.
It makes us think:
- OK, nice reel bro. But why should we hire you and pay you a monthly salary when we can just buy those assets and plugins you've been using and save ourselves the trouble.
Also that plugin you got there doesn't fit into our pipeline anyways and we really don't like being beholden to all too many 3rd party softwares to begin with (huge reason why we've been moving more and more towards blender the past years).
What we want is a 3D artist who knows their stuff. Who, when the plugins go away and the asset store is shut off -> Can still do the work.
That's why I mainly agree with the first part.
F U N D A M E N T A L S
It's the age-old adage: Learn the rules first; THEN you can break them.
love the tip at 3:04 ! I use to feel bad because i felt like cheating but just to give an example : Sanctus Library was my life and time savior ! plus with my very basic knowledges with nodes, it helps me creating even more interesting materials ! So thats a good one !
Learned these problems the hard way
About fundamentals i think it becomes a rabbit hole itself because once you start learning them you never finish, which can lead to something similar to the imposter syndrome (i live in this spectrum, never confident enough about my art which led me to stopping entirely just to focus on fundamentals for about 6 months now)
About creating everything from scratch: it's fine if you're doing a learning exercise, in fact I would encourage people to do such an exercise one hour every day, but on production of course you can't do that, as they say time is money, so why waste time when you can just reuse previously made assets/base meshes.
Finally about plug-ins i just wanted to say, my personal problem here isn't the demonization of them, but rather the overwhelming amount of add-ons that exist for some stuff and how hard it becomes to find the right one (basically this issue applies for paid ones, for free ones just grab it, try it a couple hours and if it meets your requirements you found your addon, otherwise uninstall and find the next one)
You can spend an entire life span improve your fundamentals. Always make sure to keep creating original art and applying the fundamentals in praxis.
Drawabox is a community dedicated to teaching art fundamentals and they have something which is called the 50/50 rule. Spend equally as much time in improving your fundamentals as in creating artwork where you don't actively try to make use of them.
I agree with you so much, especially about the fundamentals...topology for example is a topic I understand but still not good enough to create a pretty head base from scratch (especially the ears) :"^) Imposter syndrome is the worst, I too have stopped working on projects to focus solely more on fundamentals but it's a never ending rabbit hole :")
And about making things from scratch, I also think its very important to practice everyday, bc even if it's not particularly a topic you'd want to focus, it gives a general idea whether it's worth it to continue and dive deeper in the future; like I'm not a Material artist but practicing Substance Designer made me realized that I do want to make certain key fabrics for a charac from scratch one day, so it doesn't look generic/adds uniqueness to it compared to what's already available^^
There are so many rabbit holes of exploration and study Blender can taken us on so knowing the basics and having a goal helps me to actually accomplish something (once in a while)
This is applicable to so many things in life and not just cg. Great video man :)
Glad you think so!
I've been told (and thus follow) that the reason why people don't (initially) use add-ons is because they'll learn what problems the add-on even solves in the first place. That way, if something goes wrong, they're more likely to know what happened.
This said and I'm realizing there's not exactly a clear point for when to make the switch. I guess I'll need to start looking at the add-ons on Blender.
Great video btw! I'm taking notes!
Thank you! I've wasted days struggling with an object that was readily available online. Just picked them up and I feel better already.
Personally I struggle to use preset assets mainly because not only do I not want credit removed from the work I’ve done, I don’t understand the copyright laws even tho I’ve read them
I'll consider an addon knowledge to your repeirtore. We can consider the tools the software has as addons, the More tools/ addons you know about the better. Learning addons even as a beginner Is in part the process of learning.
Everytime I make a new prop I save it in my library.
There's always a use for the older things I made 😊
small note on "Using Reference": Reference the Real World, not other artists' work. This is like making a copy of a copy. When you need to make something that doesn't exist, then reference what it 's supposed to resemble.
Amazing! We need more videos like these one for people to help to save a lot of time in the workflow.
Thanks for Watching Henry, more is coming soon!
I would also say limiting your self to one main software.. blender or maya can do anything!!! But doesn’t mean they are the best choice for everything. If I come across something I want to do, and I can’t do it efficiently in my main software (unity) at the moment. I’ll search to find a quicker method to do the same task. Quicker isn’t always better you say…NO… but it gives you flexibility to get the job done quicker so you have more time to focus on the details! And polish it up! IE me making a 7 min animated film in 2 days
The Second one probably gets me the most... 😢
What if the whole point of my Blender "Art Therapy" _is_ to waste time and have the computer partially heat the room, because winter is almost here? Forget about not having electricity... we live in the 1st world, right?
I get that!! I really do. Blender is therapy. Cheaper than a counsellor, hey?
Oh, I forgot, it's totally free, and always will be ..... 😂
Seriously, I'm not sure how ironic your comment is, but I still get it...
are you in germany too?
@@fabulamcafee I wish. I have to watch Europe starve, freeze, in the dark before it propagates here to the states because the US relies on a lot of German and other European stuff to stay functional... and I thought it was a wholly Chinese shop here in the US... not for important, high value goods... those require german work(wo)manship.
If we all get lucky and don't get blown up, the next winter is unsurvivable, there's no energy to buy at any price to replace the trickle still available for the Europeans.
So, I've adopted the "Girls just want to have fun" approach to life and will enjoy myself for as long as possible until even for me, there's a curtain call.
Stay safe and enjoy what you can too... whatever that is.
Addons to me is like buying or recieving new tools to help further your artistic talents rather than it being "Cheating" whichI feel the only way you're gonna cheat in 3D is if you stole someones art, changed one thing about it and then post it as your own
Getting gud at "CGI" Art is twofold. You have to master the tools so they are transparent to your "vision," and you have to _have_ a vision. What has failed me more often than I thought possible, was like Mike Pavlovich agreed with me once a long time ago: "After I made ZBrush transparent, I could make whatever I wanted... then I had nothing left I wanted to make!"
Now, if any one dares say, "well, use one of the AIs to substitute for your creativity," I say, give up your huemon card, because you have conceded you are no longer worth even the most meager quality and quantity of food... Human creativity once snuffed out, and the machine intelligence from Midjourney to whatever Idc, which are just plagiarists of _us_ that posted our stuff on the internet, never comes back, no different than you can vote yourself into a tyranny, but spoilers, no one has voted themselves out of one.
These AI Art programs are normalizing our replacement by machine intelligence. Do any of you have the capacity to metacomment/critically think above the concrete level? I can't be alone out here. (I know I'm not, but there are so few ppl that see a bigger picture than the tip of their noses, it shocks me every time I see ppl miss the elephant sitting on their necks.)
The irony in the use of "lack of planning and organization" twice.
Really great inspirational videos, I've watched three in a row now and it really helps with my motivation to continue modeling and wanting to succeed in making it become my primary work! Been having a bit of a dip lately with staying motivated now that it's been half a year since I finished a paid course, and I'm not even sure if I've made any real progress since then - or how much longer I need to keep leaning onto my wife to keep our economy stable.
Thankfully she doesn't have a problem with it, has been very supportive ever since the course started last year, and earns more than enough for both of us.
Anyways, I'll keep watching your vids and try to stay motivated! Really hoping to see some progress in 2024 and landing my first job or internship.
except for the addons one,I have done every single one of those things, I hate how accurate this is
That mistake in title in 7:44 is due to lack of planning and organization
my bad
It's nice to hear all this tips very well explained :D
not cheating =wasting time .....nice
Bro wtf I haven’t been getting recommendations for your videos. Ig imma turn notifications on
watching this video 10 years ago, would change my life! hahaha
But nowadays I also learned it all in the hard way.
Thanks for the video!
The same people who say using references and using add-ons and using digital art is "immoral" and "cheating" don't understand that:
1. Professionals that actually work in the industry use these things.
2. You cannot create what you have not ever seen before.
3. If your mentality is that using things to help optimize your workflow as well as help make it correctly in the first place is "cheating", then you are no longer allowed to drive a car to work. You now have to grind your own coffee beans. You have to make all of your utinsils instead of using what you own. You have to read a dictionary instead of using Google. You can't use your phone anym, just letters. You have to travel by foot or horse back. Your pens have to be a quill and ink. If these things sound unreasonable to you, you would be right. Because people invent ways to help humans do things more efficiently so they can focus less on walking for hours to a destination, and more on being able to create art. Humans exist to create art and spread love (platonic) to one another. Having tools does not make it cheating. If you looked at the people that built your house and they heard you talking shit about how they "had to use power tools when a hand saw is right there" they would hate you. If you step into these people's shoes, you would want tools that make your life better. And I guarantee you every single person who complains about how you morally cannot do something is always the first to be found guilty of doing that as well in secret. I see it all the time.
When you're first starting out "I must model everything, it's a matter of principle, and I can't afford to buy models."
20 years later..."Please, let someone on Turbosquid have built this thing already...or something even close. I'll pay $400 if I can just go to bed tonight."
How do you know what you can reuse and sell in your own product? Do you contact the artist and ask what commissions they want?
Awesome tips! I'm going to implement them to my routines.
Im just about to start learning 3d animation ,i have 10 years experience im music software and making music viedeos and photoshop.
What do you recomend is the first think i start modeling is wildlife ,enviorment or something elsle Like just Basic everyday objects
Very helpful, thank you for making the video.
3DsMax Performance is in another level !
Where and how can I learn the fundamentals???
I kinda struggle with the fundamentals since I am not an artist.
Do you mean you're not creative in the sense of being able to make stuff? You can use references online, to get an idea of something and then get other references to change that general idea. The next step is making it, and if you know how your tools, then making it shouldn't be too hard
Bro how can we get into automotive (car) industry as 3d artist ?
Which software they use ?
So, basically, the first piece of advice, and the most important, says learn drawing before you learn 3D. Is that correct, or am I misunderstanding something? I just haven't heard of learning perspective in 3D before.
I still did not learned it hounestly, but thanks for the reminder.
It's painfully obvious but every time,... every single time...all that time wasted on the sea of nothingness (witch i mostly try to justify with all kinds off %$*&%$*) XD
Thanks for the video!
thank you very much
You are welcome
my only time wasting problem is just the rendering process because it took my poor potato pc a really long time just to render a single frame or animation 💀
Nice to see lots of stuff in blender ;))
As a 6 years professional artist in games/animation industry I would agree with that 100% specially the fundamentals one, I've been guilty of it many years.. Great video 👍
Thanks for sharing!
I Love the way you describe. Thanks Allot
You're most welcome
Great video!
Thanks for the video! Can anybody advice any good courses on fundamentals? Cheers
Thumbing this up just off the title name & me being new, as a noob thank you 😂
wonderfull!
superb work
Thanks a lot 😊
sorry i zoned out what was that
as newbie with no buget .when we talk about free add-on . for me who dont use it yet . cuz im not sure is it safe or not . that is a big problem if it drop some virus in my pc.
well if you're unsure about an addon:check what youtube and comments have to say about it and maybe get an antivirus, but i've been doing 3D for over two years now and never have i had or seen someone get a virus instead. plus you may wanna check but gimroad (the place where you'll find ur addons) probably has antivirus system, so it's rather safe x) you can still ask the community forums or comment) if you still have a doubt about one addon
oooh i c. thank u for tell me this . somehow youtube community delivery take long time . 10day to has someone reply back. maybe late to know still batter to not know . thank u again.
I do everything except the last one. I need to change my habits.
one habit at a time!
روعه
I like to tell myself that there is no such thing as cheating in art. Everything like AI, asset packs , textures are tools meant to be used to create
The AI bit is very contentious. If a person is using an ai program to refine the geometry of a mesh, or speed up UV mapping and packing, that's fine. But using an ai program to generate an entire piece of art from a few words? Cmon, that's ridiculous.
addons/plugins + MayaLT XDDDD
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Pagal hai kya, ye angrezi channel hai
What the hell was that last tip. Ignore everything and everyone else, and just do your routine so you can make "amazing artwork" day after day? That seems excessive, and frankly, sad.
If you want to be the best then.... Yes
@@nobodyishere Yeah I agree but I see why Riffael thinks that. It's not for everyone.
To be honest with you its really frustrating and tire, but you have to understand that there its alot of competition and your going to have a bad time triying to get a job. I see that problem in facebook groups guys triying to get a job with a noob level and they actually get criticize by the talent director, alot of them get really sad because of that, but its normal, if your not good you cant get a job simple as that.
@@stormk-1130 Good thing I'm not a "noob" then, as I already work in a gaming company.
@@Riffaell My comment was in general, don't take it personal.
I learned nothing!
xD
Inspiratuon tits