The 5 Stages of Learning Blender

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[jakub_frohlich]

Blender isn't free. The price is your soul.

[minimonkey]

Blender is super difficult and then after practice it clicks and your like "I can make anything!" Don't give up you will always improve

[DLGanimator]

1. Meet the blender
2. Meet the donut guy
3. be stuck on episode 4, because something has gone wrong and you can't find help
4. Oh, the summer vacation is ending soon.
5. Never continue again...

"one year later, ,

1. Meet the donu-

[shadowdemonaer]

To anyone wanting to start but anxious about all the time it will take, don't be. It's like drawing! break down what the shapes are (roughly) and THEN change them to be closer to your reference. Everything in the world is made of shapes you recognize! You can do this!!

[DoctorIvoRobotnikartist]

About the beginner problem
The problem isn't that tutorial are bad
It's because these people forget to learn how he did it they just follow he did it

[Cyfrik]

For me it was more like:
"Yay, I wanna make 3D models."
* Tries Blender *
"Wow, 3D modeling is boring."
[Time passes]
"Yay, I wanna make 3D models and animation."
* Tries Blender *
"Okay, so I get why others like it, but I prefer 2D drawing. 3D modeling is not for me."
[Time passes]
"I am really curious about those geometry nodes, grease pencil, and video editing features. And also, I might want to stick some of my 2D drawings onto planes in 3D space to do some 2.5D animation."
* Tries Blender *
"Oh right... Even though all these ideas keep modeling to a minimum, modeling is still Blender's primary function, so I need to be comfortable with it if I want to do those other things."
[Time passes]
[YouTube starts recommending Blender videos again]
"Hmmm... Maybe I should give Blender another shot."
And here I am now.

[Salrie-Antlerhorn]

This was me two months ago! I first watched his doughnut but only made the monkey. Then got scared of not being able to make it so I stopped. But after 3 weeks, I took the jump and started getting back to work. And now from June to now, working on blender little by little during my lunch breaks, I'm getting the hang of it! I'm in the process of making 3D models of characters and once that's done, time to learn rigging! It's ok to feel scared at something you don't understand at first. Take your time and practice. When you start to see progress, it starts to become fun!

[berserkki-]

For me it was the Donut guy -> Low poly tutorials(Imphenzia) -> Online quides -> 1 minute blender clips to finally just googling a tutorial to anything I do

[daleodorito]

You basically have:

-Noob: You just do superbasic stuff and blindly follow tutorials

-Begginer: You start to grasp how everything works, and you can modify or adapt tutorials to get effects that, while not amazing, are unique of yours. You also do some simple but nice stuff on your own. This can work nicely for personal projects, simple stuff or just do small things as a freelancer

-Professional: You now have a pretty good understanding of the basic funcions and you are usually really specialized in one of them, to the point you can confortably do most of the stuff related to that field with minimal external help, you work is pretty polish and detailed, at least on the part you are specialized in. This is the job-ready level

-Master: Now you do the tutorials with amazing results and people praise your master mind. This is the kind of people that leads groups of people in a workplace or just do full time job on their own. This is not a gift from heavens, this the level you achieve after years upon years of practice and learning from other people

[Blue_snapdragons]

And then you realize...the industry wants you to learn Maya instead

[UnitALPHA]

My cycle:
1- Sees many Fan-Made Animations made in Blender and SFM.
2-Gets inspired to try my hand at it
3-Downloads Blender and Opens it
4-Insert DMC4 Dante "What the Hell is this?" Meme
5-Binges tutorials on YouTube
6-Finds 3D Models on SketchFab of characters like Roxanne Wolf and 2B, as well as props like the Lance of Longinus and Virtuous Contract.
7- Learning how to properly Texture the Models
8- Churn out some Renders
9-Make 1 Test Animation.
10- Come to this video and realize how relatable this cycle is.
11- Figure out how the hell I'm going to make my own character, because while making animations with beloved video game characters is nice, adding in your own OC just adds that special something.

[I-Adrianna-I]

Step 1: Follow a tutorial and complete it.

Step 2: Follow the same tutorial, but write up the instructions in a word doc.

Step 3: From the instructions make a list of all the tools that were used and explain them in your own words as to what they do.

Step 4: From only the instructions you made recreate the object.

Step 5: Start another tutorial and repeat the process.

Step 6: Once you are confident with what you have learnt apply the knowledge in something you want to build using a combined list of all the tools you have learnt.
or
Build something from a tutorial that you have or haven’t done without the use of said tutorial.

Suggestion: Get another monitor so you can keep the reference material on another screen.

[tylerburgess]

Been using Blender for 2-3 years now, I love it. And I'm only getting better!

[asterion]

I started using Blender around 2018. Had no prior knowledge about 3D, I just raw dogged it. Now, I'm a full time 3D artist at a triple A game dev company.

[katokianimation]

My favorite stage was when they changed the whole user interface altogether at 2.8 and i couldn't do anything untill i got time to relearn the whole thing.

[corporatecapitalism]

Beware the pipeline:
Donut tutorial -> googling how to do anything you don’t know how

[ArtinAzarnejad]

since some people took the thumbnail in a wrong way: I putted Smeaf's thumbnail since it was related to money, not something to do with him personally, I fw Smeaf and his content hard!

[DuskstarShine]

I myself do blendee for making VRC avatars, and now ive been doing it for 2 years, i love to teach friends and others how to get started and guide them though the process, cuz sadly for vrc avis, there are no good beguinner blender tutoriels, as they just throw people into the deep end and dont build them up and the best tutoriels arnt meant for vrc avatars, but are just normal blender ones ^-^
The one i always reccomend to people i help is an "easy froggy" that shows moddeling and texturing a chibi character, and following that a couple times really helps build up peoples confidence in making character models, while still remaining simple ^-^

I love helping since i can show peeps how to do things that took me soooo long to find out, and guide them through the most usefull videos without them having to hunt for hours on the next step they needed.
I love the blender community, its so nice! And i love so many wacky blender tutoriels that have humour in them and arnt just a normal tutoriel like most other softwere ones are ^-^ i think CG artists are just built diffrent when it comes to tutoriels xD

[atk]

i love the stage where you made a model then go up to Art Station and look at another people better art. then got depressed. tbh everyone did that once in their Digital Art Journey and realized we should focus on our own art.

[vsandman]

Blender's difficulty curve hits each of us differently but the beauty of creation and the acomplishment once finished is truly amazing. Thanks to all of the people with more knowledge teaching the little ones and everyone else build their own dreams. Cheers to making blender a truly pure and complex piece of fabulous art.