🧵 Need to figure out a program pipeline to learn and use

Anonymous at Sat, 9 Jul 2022 17:29:51 UTC No. 907414

I know a bit of C4D and a bit of Blender, and some After Effects.

I haven't touch either of them in years, so I'm starting fresh here. I want to get the easiest/best software sollution going for making 3D VFX / Animation / Particles / Mograph.

I thought of pirating C4D again but available X Particles is for R14 online still, and I hear how the render is SLOW and the program is outdated and clunky now.
And Blender now has "geometry nodes" which can basically do what C4D Mograph does, and it has a particle engine by the creators of x-particles.

So I'm thinking of diving into Blender as my main general purpose software.
then adding these on to learn to supplement it:

Blender (Modeling)
Substance Painter (texturing)
Zbrush (sculping)

How is the UV unwrapping in blender? Does it suck? Should I tr RIZOMUV or Unwrap3d instead?
Unwrap3d / RizomUV (UV Unwrapping)
I don't see any alternatives to animation so I guess I'll go
Blender (Animation)
Blender (Motion Graphics)
Blender (Particles VFX)

I also need to decide on a software to put everything together in. I'm not sure I want to use blender's Evee or Cycles for this, so I was thinking either
NUKE / After Effects (to composite everything together and color correct, add addition fx)
or
UE5 (For putting together all the 3D Stuff, and additional Particle FX, and their amazing realtime render engine)

I'd of added Houdini for FX but fuck too complicated

What do you guys think? I need a pipeline to learn here
Zbrush / Blender / Substance / Unwrap3D / UE5 / NUKE / AE
seems like a good amount to learn, anything unncessary here or better out there?

I wouldn't consider Maya as it seems too convoluted to learn. 3DS MAX seems cool but autodesk will probably trash it like they did softimage XSI soon also the available pirateable plugins are outdated and again blender cycles is a lot faster to preview things.

What do you guys use?