Why People Think Blender is Too Hard to Learn

Is Blender too Hard to Learn?

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[truthovertribulations]

Blender only takes two things:
1. Time
2. Pratice

[redsquirrelstudio]

I installed Blender, couldn't understand it at first and just left it, until I came across Blender Guru's Channel and his tutorials.... now I feel like a frickin GOD OF BLENDER!

[TutsByKai]

Learning Blender is like a blender... if you stick your hand directly into it... you're probably not gonna have a good time. But, if you take it slow, and learn all the buttons, you'll get a beautiful smoothie.

[AydanM]

I started blender recently and it feels like an impossible task. I cannot wait for when it finally clicks and I can be like “oh shit I get it”. It’ll be the most rewarding moment of my life.

[shuvopramanik]

I'm a beginner but I'm loving this software. It's awesome

[beatriz]

"people take blender for granted cuz is free"
me: "confused with photoshop and quitting 1 day later"

[balquist]

I think it's because people just downloaded blender and immediately try to do complicated stuff (because it seems cool) when they haven't understood the fundamentals yet.
And then they couldn't get it right and give up immediately.

[Jojo]

If it wasn't for the UI change I wouldn't be using it

[ogdraws_]

THE ONLY THING MIGHT BE STOP ME TO EXPLORING BLENDER IS MY OWN PC!! HE'S A TRAITOR !!

[iKaGe]

I wouldn't have even learned if it wasn't for 2.8.
2.8 has made it a lot more accessible for someone coming from example Modo

[BARofLUNCH]

Are we ignoring the shade thrown at Maya at 2:19? 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣👏👏

[PetersAnimation]

Every people learn by Uninstalling first and re installing and became ❤️

[TonyG]

I’m a 2D graphic artist and when I dived into 3D, I found some of worst, Blender and Zbrush tutorials on Youtube. I watched about 100 videos and really thought something was wrong with me at first. Then I figured it out: A lot of these artist who share their steps aren’t good teachers. Their brains function off a systematic process of commands and executions so during a tutorial, they forget they have an audience, start off slow, then go mad clicking and executing functions or skip vital words that a newbie might completely miss. That can throw people off the whole pipeline of developing. The worst offenders are those who say “go here, click there, then boom! Begin sculpting! Either that or they talk too fast or make weird cutesy anime voices which is strange and distracting. Ugh. It’s narcissistic. Oh yeah—was I talking about Blender? Yeah I gave up on y’all tutorials and just taught my damn self the basics.

[EzioMaverick]

Cause it is, but once you get past the basic what is where phase, it's like any other software.
The getting through that phase makes most people quit.

[elzibiel]

One of my biggest problems was materials, textures, UV mapping, and all that. I came from Maya, and over there it was fairly simple and straightforward: you have an object. you go to the Hypershade. Create a new Lambert or whatever. apply it to the selected object, or however many objects you want. Done. it's on the object. When I came to Blender, I found you have to create material slots first for an object, there's a library, textures are in a different place as well. Navigating the properties panel was very confusing. All the extra steps seemed superfluous. I remember thinking: you have to save textures/images or they will be lost? really? wtf? it's not enough to just save the scene??? I still struggle with it.

[brianlespoir]

Blender is scary, but with the help of YouTube video's I learned to create music video's and album art in less then a week. Yes, it's a simple abstract animation, with some glare and reacts to the music that runs for the whole length of the song, but It's a nice start. Next goal is create a background animation and the main abstract animation on top. Would be nice if I could just layer these animations in Blender. Would be nice to have a video about layering if it even is possible.

[creepykretins]

I just did the blenderguru’s doughnut tutorial and it made it super easy to get a handle on it, I’m like a kid with a colouring book I’m super exited to do more

[siarnne]

God, I remember the first time I accidentally split a window and couldn't get it to go back the way it was and wound up with like a hundred views of the property window

[imranwkhan]

i completely agree with the reasoning mentioned here. i really think blender deserves much more respect. . . . its versatility is unmatched . . . awesome software. period.

[vuxanov]

Blender used to feel like it was designed by someone that never used a computer before. Everything was completely different from any other software, starting with right click.

Most people using Blender for the firs time already have some experience in other graphic programs and now they have to relearn stuff that is already in their muscle memory. This is the worst thing you can do for user experience.

It's much better now with 2.8 but it sitll has a lot of room for improvements.