What I Wish I Knew Before I Started Learning Blender 3D

"I want to run but I can't even walk yet" - this sentence best sums up the learning process. Thanks for this video! I will follow in your steps and hope to learn something like you.

Hi Brad! The reason your art-hut didn't look as well is the lightning. Just like in painting, you have to find a lightning setup which emphasizes forms and space. (enabling depth of field looks pretty on this style as well) And don't be afraid to post-produce your render in Photoshop!

Blender is such a powerful software but it is definitely hard to learn. I've been using it for 6+ years and I still feel like a beginner! I definitely agree with you about the importance of repetition though, once you use a feature a few times, the seemingly infinite amount of buttons and options start to become clear and truly epic things can be created.

I'm a teacher who decided to switch my college 3D class from 3dsMax to Blender this semester. My classes started on their donuts back in January and can totally relate with your experience so far. Thanks for sharing.

I've been using max for 20 years and in the meantime I learned many new programs. Recently switched to Blender, but not completely. One thing I realized 10 years ago is that it's best to first just watch tutorials, from beginner's to advanced lessons, without even trying to follow them, just watch and soak in as much as you can. Then you start again, watch a video and then repeat what they did. That's how I learned at least 5 pretty complex programs in pretty short time. Unreal engine is one of them. My first practice project in Unreal engine was actually my first job in UE for which I got payed. 8 years and few more programs later, still living from UE.

What I love about 3d is the ability to render your art at different angles.

Just about to dive into blender and found all this very helpful, Thankyou!

"Make a donut!" indeed; it's the tutorial these days, and he's been keeping it updated for major Blender revisions. I love how mine turned out! 😁👍 btw, if you think dedouze's art looks amazing on a monitor, you should see it in actual 3D! One of those scenes was a demo included on the Looking Glass Portrait lightfield display. 🤩

Oh my god, I'm so glad you mentioned your experience going through the tutorials - having the exact same experience. Sooo long and they make it seem SO easy!

Great to see how your experience with Blender went! :D This message to anyone - Feel free to suggest any tutorial ideas that you think might have been hard to track down out there on your initial journey, there are lots of creators willing to share workflows to make it as easy as possible to jump in on any part of Blender. Thanks! :D

thanks for keeping my excitement and motivation up for continuing my journey learning Blender. I have no art or cg background but i love learning new tech. Your words and energy make me want to get back in there and finish the isometric room i started :)

sometimes its hard to do low poly art because you want to add every detail.. but there really is a art to capturing your vision with a few elements as possible!

This is excellent advice. I've been using Blender since before YouTube was much of a thing. Having a good supply of vids and then putting your own spin on it is priceless. I see people who are new to 3D and they're advancing way faster than I ever did. Awesome work.

Thank you!! Finally someone who understands. Ive just started learning blender through watching tutorials and I gotta say it's exciting and overwhelming at the same time. I want to dab on everything, but figured I need to focus on one thing at a time. I am currently learning how to do exterior models of buildings. It's a slow process but I'll manage

I literally just started learning blender for the past few weeks, saw your video and was like no way!!! Nodding along through the entire video - I found some courses on Skillshare really good as well, along with youtube content. This is the first time I have ever touched 3D and as you said, want to run and make 3D masterpieces but am breaking down the skills into modelling, texturing and lighting and slowly building each of the skills! WOULD LOVE to see more blender work you create!!

You remind me when I started to learn Maya back in 2008. It was a slow process but I managed. I'm also trying to learn Blender, I think is a better 3D software and you can do anything there (even videoediting)! As I already have a 3D background it wasn't that bad when I began but still is very different than Maya or 3DMax or Cinema4D. I hope to see soon more of your Blender work. Take care man!

Dude Brad I love you sharing your learning journey! Not everyone seems comfortable, the openness is just awesome. Thank you for doing what you do!

Thank you for walking us thorough your experience Brad! Really useful!

Oh man. Didn’t expect to see this video today but am so excited that you’re on the Blender learning train. Would be cool to see some usage of 3D tools on your product review vids. Love your content!

Must be something in the water! I started seriously exploring Blender about a month ago, and it’s been really cool to see that a bunch of other creators that I follow started learning it around the same time! Awesome progress and great video! Excited to see where you take it next!