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🧵 Is it worth learning Blender?

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Feb 2022 22:35:38 UTC No. 879951

I am mostly a 3D sculptor who uses Blender to get a better presentation of my sculptures through light effects and node-configured materials. I have basic, nearly intermediate knowledge of Blender. I had been using Blender 2.83 up to this date, and yesterday I downloaded the so-called 3.0.1 version.
I was not impressed at all. The so-so called Geometry Nodes are nothing but the same instancing Zbrush had already implemented SEVEN YEARS AGO through Nanomesh/Arraymesh/Micromesh.
At such a slow pace it makes me wonder when, if ever, are they going to catch up with Maya and other 3D packages. But I am not as well-informed as some anons here so, here's my question in concrete: in order to bring my sculptures to the next level and stay competent, what software should I learn? I already have one foot inside Blender, I know ALL of the basics and I've even created my own materials from scratch using math nodes and whatnot. But, yeah, is it worth? I am someone who doesn't have a lot of time, I started in 3D when I was 30 years old, I'm 32 now, so I can't fool around with my time anymore. Can someone elucidate me on the subject?
For the reference, I want to focus in animating soft bodies, organics, I am not into landscapes or machinery or backgrounds.

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Feb 2022 22:42:56 UTC No. 879952

You need unreal engine 5 now, I can sense it

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Feb 2022 22:48:22 UTC No. 879953

>>879952
>You need unreal engine 5 now
But I have to pay for it right? And then, I think they don't allow the users to create "lewd" content...

Anonymous at Fri, 4 Feb 2022 06:11:48 UTC No. 880022

>>879951
You kinda sound like a big case of Dunning-Kruger, but anyway. If we're talking about efficiency, your core toolset is ZBrush + Maya, with Substance Painter/3DCoat/Marmoset Toolbag/Marvelous Designer/Houdini/etc. on your discretion.
>animating
Maya.
>soft bodies
Rigs? Maya.
Sims? Maya or Houdini. Marvelous Designer or Houdini for clothes.
Look into Ziva VFX for Maya if you're really serious about this.

Maya's built-in renderer, Arnold, is more robust than Cycles, but slower/more hardware-dependent. You also can get a Redshift or Octane subscription. If you actually understand what you're doing in Cycles, learning and getting comfortable any of these 3 renderers should be pretty easy and fast.
For real-time rendering you have Marmoset Toolbag and UE/Unity.
Or you can export FBX/Alembic/USD to Blender and render with Cycles/Eevee.

Anonymous at Fri, 4 Feb 2022 06:40:37 UTC No. 880031

>>880022
>You kinda sound like a big case of Dunning-Kruger, but anyway
I just don't want to end up becoming an expert of something that currently seems to never be able to catch up with the present. Still, thank you for taking your time to type all that, to me it seems that its time to get Maya and Marmoset then.

Anonymous at Fri, 4 Feb 2022 11:17:40 UTC No. 880051

>>879951
Bump

Anonymous at Sat, 5 Feb 2022 04:11:53 UTC No. 880212

Double bump

Anonymous at Sat, 5 Feb 2022 04:40:54 UTC No. 880214

>>879951
Pirate maya and find out for yourself. It takes less than 5 minutes and you could have explored most of the program in the time since you've made this post

Anonymous at Sat, 5 Feb 2022 05:04:36 UTC No. 880218

>>880214
>Pirate maya
Where from? I don't want to get a virus

Anonymous at Sat, 5 Feb 2022 05:41:14 UTC No. 880221

>>879953
>>880218
You sound young and dumb. Just pirate and explore. Who really gives a flying fuck. Be free and explore. Get out of your head and fuck the law. Just do something besides posting useless stuff on 4chan.

Anonymous at Sat, 5 Feb 2022 17:24:54 UTC No. 880329

>>880218
there's this thing called torrent. And pay attention to the file extension. You will never get virus.

Anonymous at Sat, 5 Feb 2022 17:41:43 UTC No. 880335

>>880329
I got malware from a zbrush torrent on CGP

Anonymous at Sat, 5 Feb 2022 20:20:33 UTC No. 880365

>>880221
That's why I picked something other than what he said he's been doing for 2 years. Replace maya with anything else and my point is the same.

>posting useless stuff on 4chan
Like your "dude just be free" hippy boomer non-advice? Everyone knows there are a million ways to go about learning 3d faggot. No one is suggesting to box yourself into a single learning path

Anonymous at Sat, 5 Feb 2022 20:28:28 UTC No. 880366

>>880335
You did the right thing and reported it as malware on CGP, right?