let me fix your conclusion: - if you want to work for someone else in the video game industry professionally - learn Maya - if you want to work for yourself in any capacity - learn blender - starting out learning blender for free is easily transitionable to Maya later.
Simply don't have the money to casually pick up maya and learn. It's far far from cheap, and good ol' free Blender is so very compraable . Seems a little harsh that there's no entry into this field that doesn't cost so much that I couldn't pay my bills.
@@methlokaijufan9729 I was learned 3DS, after Blender and now I learn Maya. Every software ... anyway can make the same but diferent way I like Zbrush, sustance paint, and Houdini Blender is very fast to modeling with the hotkeys Maybe is not very good for riggings of high quality
Blender 2.8 will be a game changer. New interface features, new render engine called EEVEE, ability to hide the stuff you will never use, game engine was unpopular so they dropped it. Adding a ton of new bits here and there that will simplify your work flow. Can't wait to use the official release of 2.8.
Dragon Skunk humm??? I used to use the game engine fearure to walk around some of my work, just for fun and to maybe gain a better perspective, but I couldn't imagine any other use for the game engine, at least not what it was interned for anyway
Fly / walk mode still works in Blender 2.8. it was (SFT + F) in 2.7x but in 2.8 its default is (SFT + `) unless you go for the option to use 2.7x key bindings as a preset
I agree the user interface and controls of 2.79 was terrible but I just finally switched to Blender for 2.8 with just a few hotkey changes (which is simple and fun in Blender) I now got it even better then the others (Maya/Modo) for speed and usability! I suspect a lot of other industry professionals are slowly going to creep in ;)
what are you even talking about you should not learn blender and maya you should learn maya and houdini or blender and houdini or even blender or maya nad z brush and houdini but learning blender and maya i my honest opinion is just useless
@Armin z3po It's probably best I don't say. But I can guarantee if you call any 3d studios where you live and ask, they either have several artists in the team using it, and Blender is being intergrated into the pipeline along side Autodesk OR they use it as their MAIN 3d application. Even a simple youtube search will show you how much more popular Blender is now.
@Armin z3po Initially the studio where I worked used Maya software, but since the pandemic, we have had many obstacles to production. Production costs continue to swell while incomes are running low. Finally we decided to switch to blender software. At first it was a bit difficult to adapt, but now our studio is starting to grow rapidly again. I can say that blender is not inferior to Maya.
I used Maya for 3 years. It's a very powerful program if a little tricky to learn. You can make some fantastic models on it and it's animation feature is simple enough and brilliant when you learn how to use it. I can't use Maya anymore though because my license expired and it costs almost £1,500 a year on subscription to use. Thats a huge no no as someone who is living on a budget. Got into Blender recently and so far I can say it's already much easier to use. It's functions aren't too dissimilar from Maya, it's much more processor friendly for my CPU and I can't believe it's free. My Maya knowledge is easily compatible with Blender which is awsome. I do wonder though if companies would still accept me if they knew I was more proficient with Blender instead of Maya because in my opinion, I think Blender just about edges out Maya. Although I don't suppose it matters too much since they aren't so different.
Don't need to switch the commands, because your brain will automatically detect which software are you using, either Maya or Blender. Your brain is very awesome, not explainable.
@@tjseries3057 yes, you get all features, no, you can't really use it for commercial work (at least that is how inventor which is one of the engineering programs Autodesk offers for students has it setup)
Totally agreed with u 🙂 blender is such a powerful software and on top of that it's free but why those so called professional people use other paid softwares they don't pay for that, they just crack it ,atleast they should credit owners if they people want to use such paid softwares As u wrote that blender is easy to use and processor friendly so why there's a need to pay anyone for the other paid softwares ,instead of that Use the free softwares and enjoy
I work on the 3D game and animation industry for over 11 years..6 years I've been using only Blender and I've never had to open Maya ONCE. Two of the companies I worked for changed their intire pipeline so they could use Blender. AND 2.80 now has the most user friendly interface and UX of all software out there ( the last is my own opinion..yes..but check it out first, before judging it ).
@The ghost 89 These were the main downsides that always kept artist from trying out Blender and I know these are fair points. However Blender 2.80 fixed everything you just said. It's like a new software and it is now easier for beginners compared even to Maya. It's worth trying it out.
@where is my wall I worked for Studios in Brazil, you probably won't know any of them -> "Banana Filmes", "Diferencial Criativo", "ART&Designers"... But now as a freelancer I make videos for multiple studios and companies/clients around the world. unfortunately I would have to write down my clients list to answer this 😅 The important thing is that I'm still 100% Blender Soldier with every single work I do.
Any tip for a Junior 3D Generalist like me? Im creating my portfolio to start searching jobs as a freelance, i mainly use Blender 2.8 and Substance Painter. As game engine I use Unity Engine
The Blender interface is not for those who can only use the mouse. its interface is confusing at first so it forces you to learn its shortcuts which in the long run speeds up your workflow a ton. some of the greatest addons in Blender even cut that time using shortcuts in half makes Blender way more powerful than it is, the goal is to maximise the use of shortcuts without relying on the menus. As Masterxeon1001 creator of Hardops addon said "if hardops users ever need to open up the interface, I lose!" I've animated in Blender, Maya and 3DSmax, my software of choice for fast editing is always Blender.
The Workflow is gonna improve in Blender 2.8 (it's called the Workflow project after all), the workspaces is gonna have tabs for animation, modelling and etc. that will improve UI. And don't forget about Blender 101 that could be happening where they simplify the interface for things like Game Creation or 3D Printing.
I'd have to agree with you Vin. I've been using Maya and 3DS Max for years, and i'm fumbling all over myself trying to learn the Blender interface. I keep looking at the master works others have created in Blender for my inspiration to keep at it and my speed is definitely picking up.
Agreed, it doesn't matter how you get there, so much as you learn the global skills and perfect your skills in the trade. It doesn't hurt to be familiar with a few of the popular platforms. I'm currently learning Blender, but I've been a Maya & 3DS Max user for years.
true but if you have worked in the same software for years, your mind and body works lot faster then any other software. I mean, studios want faster results too.
Since this is over a year old... Anyone that reads this, I'd suggest to not learn Maya. For 2 reasons: Blender is getting huge grip right now, you have big investments into the Blender foundation by large companies. As an example I use the recent addition of 1.2 million by Epic Games. Ubisoft also joined the Development Fund, at least their Film And Television Department completely rolled over to Blender and they hired some devs to contribute to the open source features of Blender. Lemme tell you, for a huge company to completely shift a main source program like that... That is HUGE. They have their reasons, trust me. The second one is you'll have to invest a lot into Maya. Sure you may Crack the program, be a pirate or just use the test version until you get applied, but when you get to the Meaningful stuff, like releasing showreels or selling your own projects, then it's going to get noticed. So you are left with a huge upfront cost for a program, that, as current development implies, may be left to dust in the near future... Safe that money, learn Blender to at least get the basic quirks of 3d Modeling or whatever field you are interested in that uses these programs and THEN you can decide if you have to invest to learn Maya. As I said, if you are just starting out, to be honest. By the time you are ready to employ the market landscape might search for "Blenderers" preferably.
Thank you very much... I am confused which to learn Blender or Maya, I also thought of cracking the Maya software and now I gonna adhere to your advice to learn Blender
2:34 is not true. Biggest myth about Blender. Before 2.5x Blender UI was a bit clunky yes, but look beyond 2.5x, latest version is 2.79 going to 2.8 and Interface is MUCH more intuitive. Blender UI is very similar to Maya, Houdini.
Don't say it's similar to Maya. Maya's interface blows. The advantage of blender is that it's workflow is incredibly fast, since it has so many keyboard shortcuts.
@@omidr.g7409 please do not confuse the toxic part of the community with the generally good and understanding paper of the blender community as we know that blender, due to age, cannot catch up to Maya in the industry, but still can accomplish similar results
Blender IS USED during VFX production in Hollywood studios. Maybe it is not agressively advertised, but there are brilliant things which can be done entirely in Blender, and with a great success. PROOF: watch talks of Sean Kennedy, an generalist from OpenVFX at Blender Conference in 2013 and 2017. This is mind-blowing stuff, and Blender just did the awesome job there. And the productions were not small: Sin City, Life of Pi, Pirates of Carribean to name a few.
I agree I am not a 3d professional in anyway but for what I know, It seems that the person who create this video have not seen the production of short movies that was produced 100% with Blender 2.79 and below , this person should watch some of this movies in order to value his opinion about blender.
Maya dominates Character Animation, Houdini dominates 3d FX, ZBrush dominates character modelling. Substance Painter for textures. Other stuff works. A lot of mograph artists use cinema 4d. Maya has horrible support though, especially compared to ZBrush or Allegoritmic. The Maya community is weirdly fragmented despite the huge user base. Autodesk killed xsi just for kicks. Blender is awesome, but is not used as much commercially, possibly for historical reasons. Its free though. So if that is all you can get your hands on, use it till the gui melts. Houdini learning edition is free as well. Most pro modelers I have seen use ZBrush and either Maya or Max. Most pro animators I have seen use Maya.
You can do the the whole pre-pro-post production workflow in Blender only because Blender has texture painting, compositing,video editing (Maya doesnt have it at all) and tons of free addons for creating trees, landscapes, animated clouds and skies (Sappling, Material and Texture library, Sky, Ant landscape...) and most importantly 1 free and 1 very cheap unlimited!!! render farm! Maya render farms are all very very very expensive!!! Also Cycles and Eevee Interactive rendering much much faster and has less crashes than Maya Arnold IPR for example. Rendering in Maya Arnold doesnt support GPU (only CPU) which is very frustrating since i bought the computer with dual 1070 and its was just waste of money because of that. In Maya a lot of features doesnt have sliders and fast and interactive preview on it and you have to insert all of the values manually and then press OK button to see the result (Xgen for example) which is insanely long and not intuitive. Also a lot of things are achievable only by using expressions, when in Blender i never had to use expressions to make fur for my wolf or other animals or to make rigged particle instances to work right. In Maya if you have for example 300 rigged mosquitos or spiders and want to make them as a particle instances its is insanely long work with expressions, when in Blender its much easier. The node editor in Maya (Hypershade) doesnt have easy nodes connections methods (drag the node and drop onto the noodle is impossible). Modelling and UV unwrapping much much better and easier in Blender. Many cool little tools like Freestyles or Dynamic Painting Maya doesnt have at all. I could continue to count drawbacks forever, but already tired to do so, and anyways there is no point to do so, because if companies got used to the program that was once better in the ancient times, but now sucks, they will still stick to that program because all their pipelines are centered around Maya and their workers know only Maya and they will not learn new program, if they can still somehow manage to do the end project, no matter how many crashes they have to go through and how many their own nerves they have to spend on it.
i was fortunate to work in the 3D movie industry and i learned to work on all the 3D software from DOS versions to Maya and nothing compare like Blender. its the most powerful tool you can find for your projects and it far exceeded my expectations.
They both have their strengths. I’ve used Maya for 15 years, but Blender is an amazing piece of software, especially with Cycles and EEVEE on the way. Both tools can work together 😎
@ThePerimeter The fact that Blender is free is of much less importance than it used to be. Now it's just a brilliant program that allows you to do the highest quality projects.
Great advice! It's not about the software but about the artist. Also, I predict that the industry will adapt Blender more widely in the next decade. Many smaller studios already did.
1. Maya is actually free, all Autodesk programs are free unless you sell what you use it for. 2. Maya is not only for mac. 3.Blender is better for begginers, ovbiusly, Maya is for advanced animators. 4.Maya is more hard to learn than blender BECAUSE IS FOR ADVANCED ANIMATORS. 5.i do not like writing lists but I will just continue. 6. All big companies use Maya because is compatible with other programs unlike blender. 7. Blender is nice, for beginners or people that aren't going to get REALLY into animation/modeling!! 8.If you are going for "a future on animation/modeling" you should really go for Maya. 9.No profesional companies use blender.
blender can use the keyboard shortcuts of maya, so you can learn both by using either blender or maya. also, blender is not just free as in price but as in freedom (and open source) wich means, you can hire almost any developer (programmer) to add new features, while on maya you are locked to auto desktop and their roadmap. for sure hiring an developer to make an feature is much more expensive than using an software that already have this feature, maybe crowdfunding can solve that, but that is something to take in mind if you own an company and is trying to decide wich software your company will be using and hiring artists who know how to use.
$1550 a year is also real expensive. I'm sure business license + support is significantly more, let's say $2500. And multiply that by about 30 artists... you've got enough money to hire a developer fulltime with some change. You're completely right about this. I'd rather pay for open source than get proprietary stuff for free. It's the freedom that really matters.
Whaddya talkin' about ? Have you USED Blender ? it launches in 1 second, NEVER EVER crashes, ALWAYS recovers autosave and NEVER EVER GLITCHES OUT it's a bloddy miracle
Started with Blender, and learning Maya now. I found Maya a bit challenging to grasp in the beginning. But because I like challenges, I also feel a bit alive. 🙂
I will always be a Blender fan but for now Maya is more user friendly and most of the greatest artists use Maya and this is why i'am learning maya. Hope Blender will catch up soon!
My buddy just got a job as a modeller for Rockstar North, and he was/is a Blender user. He got hired on the strength of his portfolio (which is insanely good). He had to learn the basics of 3DS Max, as that’s what they use, which he picked up over the course of a weekend. It’s really not that hard to pick up another 3D Package when you’ve become highly skilled with one of them. Focus on creating tremendous artwork.
@@kmeanxneth perhaps but its still not being ushered into studio pipelines because it doesnt have the customer support like autodesk has. I freelance and I still have yet to see any of the studios use Blender.
@@jdamagedgoods As an example Ubisoft joined the Development Fund, at least their Film And Television Department completely rolled over to Blender and they hired some devs to contribute to the open source features of Blender.
@@jdamagedgoods As an example, Tangent Animations from Maya moved to Blender, soon Khara Studio will move from 3D SMAX to Blender, and other professional animators who used Maya or 3D STUDIO...
@@alexas8787 sure, someone is going to take advantage of Blender. But its going to be awhile before its even half the standard. The biggest dilemma that I know of, is the lack of customer support. A studio delivering tight deadlines for TV shows isnt going to rely on it.
I would agree. If you can model, you can model in any program. I use Blender as its free and in no way inferior to Maya (even though I wished Blender had "duplicate special"). I'm a level design student. I'm not a professional artist but I learn Blender to one day hopefully make my debut as a leveldesigner/worldbuilder/environment artist.
I have had the chance to work in the industry on both programs ( Maya to Blender ) and believe both are great for different purposes. Blender is great fun for small and solo studios. I worked in an architectural visual effects firm and created models, animated, lighted & even composited whole sequences for deadlines. (3D Generalist Role) Maya on the other hand is more of a tool along a whole bunch of processes.. Models are created & Animated in Maya, but are usually split off to other specific programs. (Zbrush or Mari for Texturing, Houdini for effects, Nuke for compositing etc.) If you have access to an education license and your goal is a big studio job, use Maya.. Blenders unique but confusing layout, starter confusion & more-so generalist workflow seem to keep it away from the bigger studios.
that's why Blender 2.8 would be the game changer. With templates focused on industrial levels or hobbyist workflow, the subsequent blender versions would really help fix that gab(specialized or fun use) and be more welcomed in the bigger studios
i dont know why no one has ever mentioned it before but when you bring in any polygons in maya, the default sizes differ in the viewport although all of them show the scale as 1,1,1 in the attribute editor. so youll get a cube smaller than the cylinder for some reason. so this poses some problems for architectural modelling because you have to be extra careful about measuring meshes in it. i hit this stone and it was the breaking point for me and now im learning blender for its accuracy in measurements.
Let’s be honest, at least 99 percent of people who use Blender use it as a hobby or to visualize something for their job/degree outside the 3D industry. For that demographic the fact that the software is free, the huge amount of tutorials available and the amount of tasks Blender can do makes it superior. For those in the 3D industry and the gaming industry it seems like Blender is rarely used and seen as inferior in more complicated professional tasks.
It is true for learning the technique instead of software. Maybe one day MAYA is not the industry standard anymore. They are both excellent tools. People should try both of them and learn the one that feels more comfortable.
The greatest advantage of using Blender is its speed. When an idea popups in mind, within seconds you can start working on it. Blender does not need any expensive hardware to run it. Blender works smoothly even in a Laptop with 4GB ram and no graphics card.
Im a maya user since 11-12 years.Thanks to the rising costs of maintaining my perpetual license i will probably drop it next year.If you want home> blender .If its on the work job> take modo or cinema 4d as they are cheap and the boss can afford it.Dont even try going autodesk as for me, its future days are counted.Do you really think big companyes are paying subscription or tolerate rising expenses on existing perpetuals?
Things are changing now.... Blender is more and more used by the Gaming industry and already used in the Movie industry. You can always export things to Maya so in a sense this video is a little behind the times. A lot of developers don't care how you got there as long as it integrates in the end. I would say learn both because Blender is slowly grinding it's the way to the top.
Just as the Mayans died out so will Maya die one day....taken over by open source. Keep dreaming about a total unjustified slavery like subscription fee with little to no innovation. A few years nobody in the MI even about heard about blender ...now everbody did. There are many netfix shows who have been using blenders motion tracking and rigging. It is now even supported by hardware manufacturers like spacemouse etc.
Also, if you think Maya can sray on top of the entire software market you're deluding yourself. It doesn't offer any significant advantages over its competition. It's twice as expendive as modo. One year of Maya would give you more than half the money to buy Houdini forever. Or you could have Cinema 4D Prime forever. Or ZBrush, Sunstance, and some change. Bottom line- Maya isn't worth the money. Businesses will stop using it in favor of less expensive software that's just as powerful. (And there's no way to compare it to Blender's price- you'd have to divide by 0)
Correction - If your goal is to work in video game industry - Learn Maya If your goal is to make your own Movies, Work as independent Designer/ Freelancer, Run a team of Creative Indie Devs, Work in creative agency/studio and Learn 3D for Hobby - You can learn Blender. 1. Never stop learning new software, as the industry keeps changing and you may fall behind if you put too much in one package only. Keep Research, Design, Anatomy, Composition, Color Theory, Traditional Clay Sculpting, Sketching etc as your drive force and everything should look beautiful doesn't matter Blender or Maya or Ipad Apps. 2. Basic fundamentals of every 3D package is same, Ult, Ctrl, Shift plus Mouse for navigation, Make seams for unwraps, Extrudes and Edgeloops for poly modeling, Emission Domains are same for simulation, Material nodes etc all look pretty similar once you have made up your mind that you want to learn new 3D software. 3. We often forget that when we started 3D for the first time, It was not just 3D we were learning but also getting to know the concept of 3D modeling and viewport etc for the first time. Our first models looked ugly not because we didn't know 3d software but because we were new to anatomy and character modeling as well. So for anyone shifting to the blender, the only challenge should only be getting used to the user interface ( which btw is pretty cool once you know it ). __________________________ www.crossmind.com vimeo.com/crossmymind
Blender 2.8 shall be thought first, because it's free, and easy to learn. Maya, as said in the video is easy to get used to if you have mastered Blender 2.8 perfectly.
I have used both Maya and Blender for years and the transition between the two can be a little jarring but only for a little while. Felt like my fingers were broken for a couple days hitting shortcuts that weren't there or had been setup differently. Maya is much more user friendly if you cant find a tool look through the menus. With blender it is all shortcuts, but blender has a well written users manual for learning all the shortcuts. I prefer blender over Maya only because I rarely have to close the program to finish a project, or take something into another program. It just saves me some time and when 2.8 releases I have a feeling I will be using Blender a lot more than Maya.
I dont agree with the assessment that its a hobby if its not gaming industry. Blender is a game-changer because it's power is in versatility with Powerful 3D modeling capabilities as you said. Blender has been creeping its way into other industries, like animation, for a long time. Also, consider things like CNC and 3D printing. Thats huge imo Blender is not hobby software: ruclips.net/video/JRtzMIxbmcQ/видео.html
Honestly, I would suggest learning both. I find Blender to be better overall, but I hate to say it, but most of the good tutorials are for Maya. There were some obvious 3d techniques that I didn't know because I only looked at Blender tutorials before since I was a blender user. But then I started using Maya at work and learning more traditional techniques and it changed how I do things in blender as well.
Well if you're just starting out, either A. go for the free alternative of Blender, or B. or torrent Maya 3D like the majority of people outside of the industry do... Both will do what you want to do, learn 3D but I think it comes down to choice. Though I have to say I love Blender more as well as being free, you are also free to create and even sale your work and own the license to what you create.
Saying Blender is for just hobby , is clearly driven from the fact that blender used to be not as powerful 5 years ago and was known as a "Hobbyist's Tool" but it doesn't make sense anymore , If you wanna do freelancing you don't have to apply for a studio , so it's actually very common to see Professional uses for Blender , I use it Professionally For Modelling/Character Creation/Animation, and I believe More and More studios are gonna start Using Blender after it's Massive Industry friendly Update(2.8 with Evee and UI changes) that is getting near Although if you watch Blender Confrenses and 3D Artist Interviews you will find that surprisingly more studios than you think are using blender already , I'ts been used in Movies and VFX a lot as well
Blender has been used in many ad agencies - because it began its "life" in one. In terms of popularity, let's remember that VHS was inferior to Beta, but widespread adoption by industry turned it into the only choice for consumers (not film pros, though). There is a lot more ahead for Blender, including not having a $1.5k/yr. software rental pricetag. I think you would benefit from adding some Blender tutorials to your YT channel. Unless you work for Autodesk, in which case you can do it anonymously... :)
MAY....YAH.. DUDE PLEASE do some research before you pronounce Maya! I have been using Maya for 4 years and this is the first time I hear someone say may....yah.. it seriously hurts my ears.. sorry
Kieran Pavy Oh my god!!! What kind of people do you know 🤔 .... WOW it is almost calling "Microsoft" maykrosof... come on, wake up and research the name of a big company. Sorry.
Hmm you may want to do a bit more research on this. Maya's interface is way more clunky than Blender's, also there's a reasonable amount of companies that accept Blender users and if not they usually ask for 3ds max and not as often Maya ( like Valve,Bethesda, Rockstar games, blizzard and many more.) half the time a company will teach you any software you need to Know. Honestly when it comes down to it , it doesn't matter what you use wether you plan to work in the industry or not.
I started out with 3DS MAX forever ago and then shifted to Blender when I realized I needed to dump $1500 a year in order to include my very small addition to a commercial game. After learning Blender in a much more complete fashion, I started going back to school for 3D and my class uses MAX. The workflow process is antiquated and the UI is painfully clunky compared to Blender. If you spend the time to master Blender's somewhat steep learning curve, you'll make the same models in 1/4 the time. I'll be "proficient" in Max and Maya for a job in the industry and simply create my stuff in Blender for import into Maya, if I have to.
The only thing stopping me from starting to learn Blender is the lack of decent 3dconnexion support. Sure the devices are supported but navigation doesn't work as smooth as in Maya not to mention other software where it actually works perfect. I think in older versions of blender it was actually better than today. Now 3dconnexion support feels like a hack more than a feature.
Personally i prefer houdini, It can be hard to get in but once you learned it you will be amazed by its amazing features. It is also cheap with indie edition, so I really recommend it
Both ..learn both ...i have been using Max and maya for many years and nowadays im learning Blender and Houdini,....im a chracterTD/Rigger and it is not such easy to shift as for modelers for Example ...But i think Blender is a good place to stand out of crowd with extra knowledge and solutions
main pros you didn't mentioned is that blender have its own texture and materials engine while if you are using maya you may need to combine other software too.
Mayas UI IMO is extremely clunky compared to blenders. Too many dropdown menu boxes that have the same name with different stuff in it, you have to open extra windows for so many things. Maya is also just crashing all the time. My work is like 70 per cent Blender 30 per cent Maya. But Maya accounts for 90 per cent of all software crashes I experienced. It is just sad that they slap the 'enterprise software' name together with the horrendous pricetag onto their product even though it is a buggy piece of junk
"Blender isn't widely used among many studios and rarely listed as a job requirement." While this is true blender is gaining popularity in studios and also gaining recognition by industry giants (like Pixar where RenderMan has Blender support.) It makes my skin crawl that people assume Blender is "entry level" when it comes to 3D software. Personally I use Zbrush and Blender both and previously used Maya for animation. While I can do the same projects in Blender that are done in Maya my question is why pay the absurd amount for Maya? If a studio is small and needing to "get the job done" then make the switch and save the money for the employees.
I'm a Maya user...But I totally love the rendering speed of the new blender 2.8... One of my thoughts so far is to blend using the two software together...I will do all my character animations in Maya...Then when its time for lighting and rendering, I'll take the scenes to blender to batch render cos of the speed... It would be really nice if there can be a way to easily send scenes from Maya to blender without losing all the textures and animation information...
Yeah, if you work along professionally, I think blender will be enough. Also, transition may not be as easy as you think, the later you make the transition, the more picky you becomes about the new software you are trying to adapt to. If you know a whole lot about Maya, you will hate a whole lot about blender. Because you have learned a lot of tricks, and these combine into a workflow, unfortunately, these tricks that you cherish, blender may not have, or do it differently that forces you to rethink your workflow. Also, it takes a lot of time and practice to discover and know how to use these tricks.
I think, the Ui of Blender is not difficult to learn. I didn't can remenber me that I had any problems with the interface and it is really fast to work with Blender when you had learned all important things.
you shouldn't use crack though, people spent a lot of time to create a software, and the money they get from selling it is actually their salary, so yeah, crack is no good
Because Blender isn't "just for fun" in-spite of what the video said, not to mention the ethics of theft (or the fact that sometimes those "cracked" versions harbor viruses) or the fact that any content you make with "cracked" software is generally un-sellable as it is illegal from the get go. A lot of what the video said is that Blender is a BETTER tool. But the primary point is you don't have to steal it and can support a community of artists who work together to build Blender. The bottom line is that it will take years to develop the artistic skills of a 3D modeler before you are remotely eligible for a job doing it. If you happen to be a college student (not all students are eligible for the 24 month student version and if you're not you have to buy Autodesk a car to own Maya) and are already extremely accomplished with 3D modeling, then the 2 year student license of Maya makes sense assuming you expect to start a job in the industry in the next 24 months. For EVERYONE else, Blender. Even if your goal is to get a job in the industry, until you are instructing other people how to do it, you should be doing Blender because you aren't within 24 months of getting a job in the industry. That price tag he showed for Maya was EVERY year for the rest of your life, not JUST a one time payment! By not supporting Blender, you're also supporting THAT type of "highway robbery". Compare the prices of other industry tools which often give you a perpetual license. I believe people are entitled to get paid for their software, but ZBrush is a lot less than that when its on sale and it's a one time payment with a perpetual license after that.
One of the main reason why I would switch to Blender is because it is totaly free whith wich one can do sooo much for FREE.Wheras Maya is only free in Student version and can not be used commercially.So yes,thank you for all the people that made an AWASOME free 3D software.....I am still using Maya though
All i'm seeing in the comments is people fighting about which software is better lol, modeling is modeling. animating is animating, lighting is lighting, i see people going on about how much easier blender is and how much harder Maya, and 3ds etc... is, but in reality there's no big difference lol, just different user interface's, keybind's etc, its not like one program makes it easier to animate etc, because who would choose a harder program when you have an easier option, its just based off personal opinion...ive also used every program and didnt notice the difference.
i suggest learning blender because i am only 17 and going to university this fall but when i started when i was 1 i couldn't afford maya so i started blender and only recently have started using maya since I'm working to prepare for uni which typically uses maya but if your beginning and young definitely blender to start.
I don't know why companies require a special software before employing you... They should just state the result they need and if the employee can get the job done, it doesn't matter what software the person used in getting the results the company required. I learn different softwares just to know which one I feel comfortable with.I then master the one I love and start making good works from it. It's good to use blender or Maya but never mind what any company requires or expect from you. Just make sure you learn and master the one you love. If possible, learn both to be on the safer side. But to me, when you learn and master one software, learning a different software will be easy because transfer of knowledge is possible. I Love blender, I love Maya, peace!
Do someone knows what is better software between Maya, Blender or Houdinin for math and physics explanation? use formulas combination, creating graphs and 3D modeling, of atoms, chaos of particles, dynamo, planets or solar system. Use the real universe laws such as gravity, electromagnetic, chocs between particles .... etc. Thanks
If Maya is so outweighed by Blender in terms of features, why don't video game studios ever use it? As far as importing Blender made models into both Unity and Unreal is concerned, It's as easy as dragging and dropping. What advantage over Blender does Maya offer to justify such a ridiculous price point!?
I think it's mostly because people who work in games are used to Maya and 3dsmax. I don't think the price matters to many studios because ( and I am no tax expert) software expenses can be tax deducted. So being free is not really a selling point.
I think the diffrent softweres doesn't matter....mettars is what is 3d...if they can modling animation rigging vfx texturing sculpting and rendring then we can use any softwere...the clint should only get output ok
The problem i face is that i want to professionaly work in the game industry and already have experience programming, but when it comes to the models, i use blender but i look at the jobs in the usa and nothing is popping up with blender, and the main problem is that even i want to learn maya its a paid program and it's not it's downside the downside is that its expensive *$1,470* and even if i was a student it will be a trial version for 30 days.
Well, then there’s Maya LT, which might be a much more limited version of the big Maya counterpart, but at the same time, it is in reach of those who are looking into learning Maya without the high $$$ price point. It’s a good compromise between Blender and the full Maya package, imho.
I think that nowadays blender is standing out a lot, iclusive in the industry .. today there are already several studios using blender. and version 2.90 this great new interface helped a lot with everything ..
The most immediate thing i would add in Blender is the smooth groups modifier, probably because i work with many imported fbx,so maybe it is even unnecessary if all the workflow is inside blender. I obviously vote blender. Cheers, nice vid
Smoothing groups is a clunky awkward way of doing a workflow already available in Blender. You can set sharp edges to define where your "groups" would be and it will differentiate them the same way but easier. No more keeping track of 32 arbitrary identifiers. In the end, the .fbx stores the smoothing by the vertex anyway, so it will come out the same.
Blender is completely customizable so the controls and interface is not a set back, but I love the fact that we have a community because we don’t need to be excepted from a big studio most people that learn blender make their own studio, and make a decent living off of it.
I mainly use maya (I got it free due to being a student), but just got blender so I will tell you which one is better. (Fun Fact: Blender is suprisingly simular to roblox when it comes to controls and building)
@3dex I Agree with everything you said on both fronts. However, when I took my first professional dive into 3d software / modeling, I used Cinema4d, which is touted as the easiest to learn. I don't use Windows or Mac OSX anymore and use Linux instead. In 2017, I decided to take the full dive into learning Blender3d. at this time of writing, I'm up to the level I was at in Cinema4d, and even past that. Yes, Blender's Interface was the biggest obstacle in learning at first, but I had a job to do that required 3d, so I did some research here on youtube. All it takes is one or 2 great beginner's courses in blender to start. I found @Blender4Noobs and @BlenderGuru beginner courses to be a must watch. After that, I watched @Tutor4U and many other tutorials. There are so many professionals in 3d using Blender. What I've observed is Small Game Dev Studios are actually using Blender 3d for Asset Creation, then moving on to Unity or UnrealEngine to make their games. You no longer need Maya and other tools as Blender has Everything needed for game design. It's not just one program, but a full suite disguised as one program. Only thing you might need is an external audio editor like Audacity and you're fine. Also, in the professional animation space, Pixar hires professionals who use Blender3d. So that's good. In other markets like India, there are studios teaching full courses using blender and some of the works are amazing quality. Just check the videos in Blender Conference 2016 and 2017 and you'll see. So, while Maya is the industry standard, Blender is catching up quite rapidly in the marketplace. Blender3d is getting big in England, Australia, India, Germany, Netherlands, as far as I can tell by the Best Artists using it at the moment. Cinema4d seems to be the standard in Russia, and Maya may have the western world on lock. Also, Maya is owned by Autodesk, and autodesk has bought out all of the 3d competition, and closed most of them down...like SoftImage XSI. Here's what I've noticed you can replace with Blender3d alone: Maya, AfterEffects, zBrush, Adobe Premiere.
Important note: Unlike Maya & 3Dmax, Blender is not a NURBS modeler, which is required for the product design industry. Nevertheless it is excellent for everything else and 2.8 is a huge improvement.
Id say learn blender, most studios dont care what program you are using to model in. Sience blender is free it would be strange if a studio forbid the software. Export and pipline tools have to be in the studio prefered format tho.
let me fix your conclusion:
- if you want to work for someone else in the video game industry professionally - learn Maya
- if you want to work for yourself in any capacity - learn blender
- starting out learning blender for free is easily transitionable to Maya later.
@Wade Filman No. FAX!
csmemarketing IT’S DAX!
Simply don't have the money to casually pick up maya and learn. It's far far from cheap, and good ol' free Blender is so very compraable . Seems a little harsh that there's no entry into this field that doesn't cost so much that I couldn't pay my bills.
I'm working for myself and I'm using maya .Blender doesn't seem easy or user friendly .So no thanks
@@methlokaijufan9729 I was learned 3DS, after Blender and now I learn Maya.
Every software ... anyway can make the same but diferent way
I like Zbrush, sustance paint, and Houdini
Blender is very fast to modeling with the hotkeys
Maybe is not very good for riggings of high quality
Blender 2.8 will be a game changer.
New interface features, new render engine called EEVEE, ability to hide the stuff you will never use, game engine was unpopular so they dropped it. Adding a ton of new bits here and there that will simplify your work flow. Can't wait to use the official release of 2.8.
Dragon Skunk humm??? I used to use the game engine fearure to walk around some of my work, just for fun and to maybe gain a better perspective, but I couldn't imagine any other use for the game engine, at least not what it was interned for anyway
You are right!
Fly / walk mode still works in Blender 2.8. it was (SFT + F) in 2.7x but in 2.8 its default is (SFT + `) unless you go for the option to use 2.7x key bindings as a preset
thats true and i love blender
I agree the user interface and controls of 2.79 was terrible but I just finally switched to Blender for 2.8 with just a few hotkey changes (which is simple and fun in Blender) I now got it even better then the others (Maya/Modo) for speed and usability! I suspect a lot of other industry professionals are slowly going to creep in ;)
Never just choose one of them. U should learn both to survive.
what are you even talking about you should not learn blender and maya you should learn maya and houdini or blender and houdini or even blender or maya nad z brush and houdini but learning blender and maya i my honest opinion is just useless
@@markmicheal3664 Adobe Animate?
I HAD to switch to Blender, because the studio I worked at was USING IT!!!
@Armin z3po It's probably best I don't say. But I can guarantee if you call any 3d studios where you live and ask, they either have several artists in the team using it, and Blender is being intergrated into the pipeline along side Autodesk OR they use it as their MAIN 3d application. Even a simple youtube search will show you how much more popular Blender is now.
@Armin z3po Initially the studio where I worked used Maya software, but since the pandemic, we have had many obstacles to production. Production costs continue to swell while incomes are running low. Finally we decided to switch to blender software. At first it was a bit difficult to adapt, but now our studio is starting to grow rapidly again. I can say that blender is not inferior to Maya.
I used Maya for 3 years. It's a very powerful program if a little tricky to learn. You can make some fantastic models on it and it's animation feature is simple enough and brilliant when you learn how to use it. I can't use Maya anymore though because my license expired and it costs almost £1,500 a year on subscription to use. Thats a huge no no as someone who is living on a budget.
Got into Blender recently and so far I can say it's already much easier to use. It's functions aren't too dissimilar from Maya, it's much more processor friendly for my CPU and I can't believe it's free. My Maya knowledge is easily compatible with Blender which is awsome. I do wonder though if companies would still accept me if they knew I was more proficient with Blender instead of Maya because in my opinion, I think Blender just about edges out Maya.
Although I don't suppose it matters too much since they aren't so different.
Don't need to switch the commands, because your brain will automatically detect which software are you using, either Maya or Blender. Your brain is very awesome, not explainable.
you can get it for free if you download it as a student, thats how i got it
@@quaking906 do you have access to all features and are you allowed to use it for commercial work?
@@tjseries3057 yes, you get all features, no, you can't really use it for commercial work (at least that is how inventor which is one of the engineering programs Autodesk offers for students has it setup)
Totally agreed with u 🙂 blender is such a powerful software and on top of that it's free but why those so called professional people use other paid softwares they don't pay for that, they just crack it ,atleast they should credit owners if they people want to use such paid softwares
As u wrote that blender is easy to use and processor friendly so why there's a need to pay anyone for the other paid softwares ,instead of that Use the free softwares and enjoy
I work on the 3D game and animation industry for over 11 years..6 years I've been using only Blender and I've never had to open Maya ONCE. Two of the companies I worked for changed their intire pipeline so they could use Blender. AND 2.80 now has the most user friendly interface and UX of all software out there ( the last is my own opinion..yes..but check it out first, before judging it ).
@The ghost 89 These were the main downsides that always kept artist from trying out Blender and I know these are fair points. However Blender 2.80 fixed everything you just said. It's like a new software and it is now easier for beginners compared even to Maya. It's worth trying it out.
@where is my wall I worked for Studios in Brazil, you probably won't know any of them -> "Banana Filmes", "Diferencial Criativo", "ART&Designers"... But now as a freelancer I make videos for multiple studios and companies/clients around the world. unfortunately I would have to write down my clients list to answer this 😅
The important thing is that I'm still 100% Blender Soldier with every single work I do.
Which games have u done?
Any tip for a Junior 3D Generalist like me? Im creating my portfolio to start searching jobs as a freelance, i mainly use Blender 2.8 and Substance Painter. As game engine I use Unity Engine
The Blender interface is not for those who can only use the mouse. its interface is confusing at first so it forces you to learn its shortcuts which in the long run speeds up your workflow a ton. some of the greatest addons in Blender even cut that time using shortcuts in half makes Blender way more powerful than it is, the goal is to maximise the use of shortcuts without relying on the menus. As Masterxeon1001 creator of Hardops addon said "if hardops users ever need to open up the interface, I lose!" I've animated in Blender, Maya and 3DSmax, my software of choice for fast editing is always Blender.
+Vin Chau That's a really good point about the interface, thank you for thoughts on this!
each and every 3d software interface is confusing at first - if you 're not familiar with
The Workflow is gonna improve in Blender 2.8 (it's called the Workflow project after all), the workspaces is gonna have tabs for animation, modelling and etc. that will improve UI.
And don't forget about Blender 101 that could be happening where they simplify the interface for things like Game Creation or 3D Printing.
After you have learned all the shortcuts then you will be much faster than maya
I'd have to agree with you Vin. I've been using Maya and 3DS Max for years, and i'm fumbling all over myself trying to learn the Blender interface. I keep looking at the master works others have created in Blender for my inspiration to keep at it and my speed is definitely picking up.
3D IS ART NOT A SOFTWARE
Oh sir you are god damn right.
Agreed, it doesn't matter how you get there, so much as you learn the global skills and perfect your skills in the trade. It doesn't hurt to be familiar with a few of the popular platforms. I'm currently learning Blender, but I've been a Maya & 3DS Max user for years.
true
i can use Rhino , 3ds max , maya
anything just the time to learn the interface and i can make whati want
true but if you have worked in the same software for years, your mind and body works lot faster then any other software. I mean, studios want faster results too.
@@spiritofmax you only need 2 weeks and you will going to expect a faster results ...well depends on your mind too x)
Since this is over a year old... Anyone that reads this, I'd suggest to not learn Maya.
For 2 reasons:
Blender is getting huge grip right now, you have big investments into the Blender foundation by large companies. As an example I use the recent addition of 1.2 million by Epic Games.
Ubisoft also joined the Development Fund, at least their Film And Television Department completely rolled over to Blender and they hired some devs to contribute to the open source features of Blender.
Lemme tell you, for a huge company to completely shift a main source program like that... That is HUGE. They have their reasons, trust me.
The second one is you'll have to invest a lot into Maya. Sure you may Crack the program, be a pirate or just use the test version until you get applied, but when you get to the Meaningful stuff, like releasing showreels or selling your own projects, then it's going to get noticed.
So you are left with a huge upfront cost for a program, that, as current development implies, may be left to dust in the near future... Safe that money, learn Blender to at least get the basic quirks of 3d Modeling or whatever field you are interested in that uses these programs and THEN you can decide if you have to invest to learn Maya.
As I said, if you are just starting out, to be honest. By the time you are ready to employ the market landscape might search for "Blenderers" preferably.
Thank you very much...
I am confused which to learn Blender or Maya, I also thought of cracking the Maya software and now I gonna adhere to your advice to learn Blender
yeah and now ubisoft also joined blender
Yes u great , but 2 paragraph
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2:34 is not true. Biggest myth about Blender. Before 2.5x Blender UI was a bit clunky yes, but look beyond 2.5x, latest version is 2.79 going to 2.8 and Interface is MUCH more intuitive. Blender UI is very similar to Maya, Houdini.
Jimmy Gunawan No its not man.
Doodles Yeah it is true. You do not need to agree.
he he XD
Don't say it's similar to Maya. Maya's interface blows.
The advantage of blender is that it's workflow is incredibly fast, since it has so many keyboard shortcuts.
The interface is so much better than Maya.
Maybe should you redo this video today, since Blender got some big updates...
The blender is a free soft wa..
Me: say no more
Da Fuq is MAYa?
What is "Da Fuq"?
It is every CGI you see on TV... The question is, Da Fuq is BleNdEr?
Yeah, never heard it pronounced that way till now.
@@omidr.g7409 please do not confuse the toxic part of the community with the generally good and understanding paper of the blender community as we know that blender, due to age, cannot catch up to Maya in the industry, but still can accomplish similar results
@@BlenderBeanie I actually really like blender! I just don't like 95% of its users because they are loud and annoying
Blender IS USED during VFX production in Hollywood studios. Maybe it is not agressively advertised, but there are brilliant things which can be done entirely in Blender, and with a great success. PROOF: watch talks of Sean Kennedy, an generalist from OpenVFX at Blender Conference in 2013 and 2017. This is mind-blowing stuff, and Blender just did the awesome job there. And the productions were not small: Sin City, Life of Pi, Pirates of Carribean to name a few.
I agree I am not a 3d professional in anyway but for what I know, It seems that the person who create this video have not seen the production of short movies that was produced 100% with Blender 2.79 and below , this person should watch some of this movies in order to value his opinion about blender.
Pirates of the carribean were also created by zbrush.
Maya dominates Character Animation, Houdini dominates 3d FX, ZBrush dominates character modelling. Substance Painter for textures. Other stuff works. A lot of mograph artists use cinema 4d.
Maya has horrible support though, especially compared to ZBrush or Allegoritmic. The Maya community is weirdly fragmented despite the huge user base. Autodesk killed xsi just for kicks.
Blender is awesome, but is not used as much commercially, possibly for historical reasons. Its free though. So if that is all you can get your hands on, use it till the gui melts.
Houdini learning edition is free as well.
Most pro modelers I have seen use ZBrush and either Maya or Max. Most pro animators I have seen use Maya.
Agree, although not the best Maya is most widely used.
Nuke for compositing, Vue for landscapes, Katana for lighting, Modo for prop and environment modelling.
You can do the the whole pre-pro-post production workflow in Blender only because Blender has texture painting, compositing,video editing (Maya doesnt have it at all) and tons of free addons for creating trees, landscapes, animated clouds and skies (Sappling, Material and Texture library, Sky, Ant landscape...) and most importantly 1 free and 1 very cheap unlimited!!! render farm! Maya render farms are all very very very expensive!!! Also Cycles and Eevee Interactive rendering much much faster and has less crashes than Maya Arnold IPR for example. Rendering in Maya Arnold doesnt support GPU (only CPU) which is very frustrating since i bought the computer with dual 1070 and its was just waste of money because of that. In Maya a lot of features doesnt have sliders and fast and interactive preview on it and you have to insert all of the values manually and then press OK button to see the result (Xgen for example) which is insanely long and not intuitive. Also a lot of things are achievable only by using expressions, when in Blender i never had to use expressions to make fur for my wolf or other animals or to make rigged particle instances to work right. In Maya if you have for example 300 rigged mosquitos or spiders and want to make them as a particle instances its is insanely long work with expressions, when in Blender its much easier. The node editor in Maya (Hypershade) doesnt have easy nodes connections methods (drag the node and drop onto the noodle is impossible). Modelling and UV unwrapping much much better and easier in Blender. Many cool little tools like Freestyles or Dynamic Painting Maya doesnt have at all. I could continue to count drawbacks forever, but already tired to do so, and anyways there is no point to do so, because if companies got used to the program that was once better in the ancient times, but now sucks, they will still stick to that program because all their pipelines are centered around Maya and their workers know only Maya and they will not learn new program, if they can still somehow manage to do the end project, no matter how many crashes they have to go through and how many their own nerves they have to spend on it.
i was fortunate to work in the 3D movie industry and i learned to work on all the 3D software from DOS versions to Maya and nothing compare like Blender. its the most powerful tool you can find for your projects and it far exceeded my expectations.
Naseem Shanboor what movie was that, and what was your duty ?:D
He has no reply. Clearly the comment was just a fake statement
Good information M Hurly
M Hurly I'm sorry, but all those videos you mentioned have been geoblocked by 'Blender Foundation' and I can't watch them.
They both have their strengths. I’ve used Maya for 15 years, but Blender is an amazing piece of software, especially with Cycles and EEVEE on the way. Both tools can work together 😎
Blender 2.8 is amazing! Much easier to learn, use and fast when working. It's so fun!
@The ghost 89 bro plz check 2.8 version of blender
@ThePerimeter The fact that Blender is free is of much less importance than it used to be. Now it's just a brilliant program that allows you to do the highest quality projects.
blender=speed
Javier Bonilla // javB92 blender is gonna be faster than my real blender in 2.8
Maya with vray = more faster
@@thethings292 and Blender with Vray = most faster
Blender with eevee = render in real time
@@thethings292 Blender with EEVEE = fastest
@Sasori Tobi Blender with eevee = render in real time
Blender with EEVEE = fastest
Great advice! It's not about the software but about the artist. Also, I predict that the industry will adapt Blender more widely in the next decade. Many smaller studios already did.
Thank sir
I use blender it's the best and strong and richer than other
right
zogo lov agreed, currently learning 3ds max, but I think blender is my future.
1. Maya is actually free, all Autodesk programs are free unless you sell what you use it for.
2. Maya is not only for mac.
3.Blender is better for begginers, ovbiusly, Maya is for advanced animators.
4.Maya is more hard to learn than blender BECAUSE IS FOR ADVANCED ANIMATORS.
5.i do not like writing lists but I will just continue.
6. All big companies use Maya because is compatible with other programs unlike blender.
7. Blender is nice, for beginners or people that aren't going to get REALLY into animation/modeling!!
8.If you are going for "a future on animation/modeling" you should really go for Maya.
9.No profesional companies use blender.
SrynkyTheWolf2732 what do you mean with "compatible with other programs"?
gamingtruble I mean that blender isn't compatible with other softwares.
blender can use the keyboard shortcuts of maya, so you can learn both by using either blender or maya.
also, blender is not just free as in price but as in freedom (and open source) wich means, you can hire almost any developer (programmer) to add new features, while on maya you are locked to auto desktop and their roadmap.
for sure hiring an developer to make an feature is much more expensive than using an software that already have this feature, maybe crowdfunding can solve that, but that is something to take in mind if you own an company and is trying to decide wich software your company will be using and hiring artists who know how to use.
$1550 a year is also real expensive. I'm sure business license + support is significantly more, let's say $2500. And multiply that by about 30 artists... you've got enough money to hire a developer fulltime with some change.
You're completely right about this. I'd rather pay for open source than get proprietary stuff for free. It's the freedom that really matters.
Whaddya talkin' about ?
Have you USED Blender ?
it launches in 1 second, NEVER EVER crashes, ALWAYS recovers autosave and NEVER EVER GLITCHES OUT
it's a bloddy miracle
It only crashes if Chrome opens on boot, but if not DUDE NOT EVEN THE MICROSOFT PROGRAMS OMG
It actually can crash if your project is more than just simple cube, and you have some really hevy materials.
Started with Blender, and learning Maya now. I found Maya a bit challenging to grasp in the beginning. But because I like challenges, I also feel a bit alive. 🙂
I will always be a Blender fan but for now Maya is more user friendly and most of the greatest artists use Maya and this is why i'am learning maya. Hope Blender will catch up soon!
User what???
Nah.
My buddy just got a job as a modeller for Rockstar North, and he was/is a Blender user. He got hired on the strength of his portfolio (which is insanely good). He had to learn the basics of 3DS Max, as that’s what they use, which he picked up over the course of a weekend. It’s really not that hard to pick up another 3D Package when you’ve become highly skilled with one of them. Focus on creating tremendous artwork.
For a career in the industry=maya. For the hobbiest=blender.
Blender is getting huge grip right now, you have big investments into the Blender foundation by large companies.
@@kmeanxneth perhaps but its still not being ushered into studio pipelines because it doesnt have the customer support like autodesk has. I freelance and I still have yet to see any of the studios use Blender.
@@jdamagedgoods As an example Ubisoft joined the Development Fund, at least their Film And Television Department completely rolled over to Blender and they hired some devs to contribute to the open source features of Blender.
@@jdamagedgoods As an example, Tangent Animations from Maya moved to Blender, soon Khara Studio will move from 3D SMAX to Blender, and other professional animators who used Maya or 3D STUDIO...
@@alexas8787 sure, someone is going to take advantage of Blender. But its going to be awhile before its even half the standard. The biggest dilemma that I know of, is the lack of customer support. A studio delivering tight deadlines for TV shows isnt going to rely on it.
I would agree. If you can model, you can model in any program. I use Blender as its free and in no way inferior to Maya (even though I wished Blender had "duplicate special").
I'm a level design student. I'm not a professional artist but I learn Blender to one day hopefully make my debut as a leveldesigner/worldbuilder/environment artist.
This is different. Where is the foreign guy? Why is Maya pronounced incorrectly?
I have had the chance to work in the industry on both programs ( Maya to Blender ) and believe both are great for different purposes.
Blender is great fun for small and solo studios. I worked in an architectural visual effects firm and created models, animated, lighted & even composited whole sequences for deadlines. (3D Generalist Role)
Maya on the other hand is more of a tool along a whole bunch of processes.. Models are created & Animated in Maya, but are usually split off to other specific programs. (Zbrush or Mari for Texturing, Houdini for effects, Nuke for compositing etc.)
If you have access to an education license and your goal is a big studio job, use Maya..
Blenders unique but confusing layout, starter confusion & more-so generalist workflow seem to keep it away from the bigger studios.
that's why Blender 2.8 would be the game changer. With templates focused on industrial levels or hobbyist workflow, the subsequent blender versions would really help fix that gab(specialized or fun use) and be more welcomed in the bigger studios
You're trying too hard spamming this shit to everyone. Stop looking so desperate, Blender is awesome already.
i tired using maya and blender and cinema 4d zbrush 3dsmax as a beginner i'd say you should stay away from maya
I agree, I started with Blender and Now I can transfer my concept knowledge to MAYA, there is no drawback, only progression.
i dont know why no one has ever mentioned it before but when you bring in any polygons in maya, the default sizes differ in the viewport although all of them show the scale as 1,1,1 in the attribute editor. so youll get a cube smaller than the cylinder for some reason. so this poses some problems for architectural modelling because you have to be extra careful about measuring meshes in it. i hit this stone and it was the breaking point for me and now im learning blender for its accuracy in measurements.
Let’s be honest, at least 99 percent of people who use Blender use it as a hobby or to visualize something for their job/degree outside the 3D industry. For that demographic the fact that the software is free, the huge amount of tutorials available and the amount of tasks Blender can do makes it superior. For those in the 3D industry and the gaming industry it seems like Blender is rarely used and seen as inferior in more complicated professional tasks.
It is true for learning the technique instead of software. Maybe one day MAYA is not the industry standard anymore. They are both excellent tools. People should try both of them and learn the one that feels more comfortable.
Doesnt matter what you use.... Just have fun with it... Im busy rigging up a motion capture studio using blender ... And the learning is rather fun
The greatest advantage of using Blender is its speed. When an idea popups in mind, within seconds you can start working on it. Blender does not need any expensive hardware to run it. Blender works smoothly even in a Laptop with 4GB ram and no graphics card.
"May ya"? Thought it was pronounced *my ya*
You're right
in my language "my ya" means girl😂😂
I thought it was "ma ya"/ma ja/, as written.
oh it is my friend. it is...
@Tool Dry Boon i like ur culture, give it to me
NOW
Im a maya user since 11-12 years.Thanks to the rising costs of maintaining my perpetual license i will probably drop it next year.If you want home> blender .If its on the work job> take modo or cinema 4d as they are cheap and the boss can afford it.Dont even try going autodesk as for me, its future days are counted.Do you really think big companyes are paying subscription or tolerate rising expenses on existing perpetuals?
Things are changing now.... Blender is more and more used by the Gaming industry and already used in the Movie industry. You can always export things to Maya so in a sense this video is a little behind the times. A lot of developers don't care how you got there as long as it integrates in the end. I would say learn both because Blender is slowly grinding it's the way to the top.
Where is blender being used in the movie industry? Almost every live action vfx studio uses maya
Hardcore Henry is one movie that used Blender that pops into mind
Just as the Mayans died out so will Maya die one day....taken over by open source. Keep dreaming about a total unjustified slavery like subscription fee with little to no innovation. A few years nobody in the MI even about heard about blender ...now everbody did. There are many netfix shows who have been using blenders motion tracking and rigging. It is now even supported by hardware manufacturers like spacemouse etc.
It's mostly TV, but look at this: m.ruclips.net/video/exAwxzhBL8w/видео.html
Also, if you think Maya can sray on top of the entire software market you're deluding yourself. It doesn't offer any significant advantages over its competition. It's twice as expendive as modo. One year of Maya would give you more than half the money to buy Houdini forever. Or you could have Cinema 4D Prime forever. Or ZBrush, Sunstance, and some change.
Bottom line- Maya isn't worth the money. Businesses will stop using it in favor of less expensive software that's just as powerful.
(And there's no way to compare it to Blender's price- you'd have to divide by 0)
You can change the interface like Maya or max buddy so don't mind.
Correction -
If your goal is to work in video game industry - Learn Maya
If your goal is to make your own Movies, Work as independent Designer/ Freelancer, Run a team of Creative Indie Devs, Work in creative agency/studio and Learn 3D for Hobby - You can learn Blender.
1. Never stop learning new software, as the industry keeps changing and you may fall behind if you put too much in one package only.
Keep Research, Design, Anatomy, Composition, Color Theory, Traditional Clay Sculpting, Sketching etc as your drive force and everything should look beautiful doesn't matter Blender or Maya or Ipad Apps.
2. Basic fundamentals of every 3D package is same, Ult, Ctrl, Shift plus Mouse for navigation, Make seams for unwraps, Extrudes and Edgeloops for poly modeling, Emission Domains are same for simulation, Material nodes etc all look pretty similar once you have made up your mind that you want to learn new 3D software.
3. We often forget that when we started 3D for the first time, It was not just 3D we were learning but also getting to know the concept of 3D modeling and viewport etc for the first time. Our first models looked ugly not because we didn't know 3d software but because we were new to anatomy and character modeling as well.
So for anyone shifting to the blender, the only challenge should only be getting used to the user interface ( which btw is pretty cool once you know it ).
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Blender 2.8 shall be thought first, because it's free, and easy to learn. Maya, as said in the video is easy to get used to if you have mastered Blender 2.8 perfectly.
They are updating the user interface in the 2.8 update
Blender 2.8 is a game changer. It is now used and supported by established companies such as Ubisoft and Khara Anime Studio, among others.
That's good to know, I'm starting to learn Blender using its newest version 2.80 currently
Maya user here but damn blender 2.8 is so easy to adjust with! I can do maya controls tooo.
I hope Ubisoft give some insights how they use it in pipeline.
I have used both Maya and Blender for years and the transition between the two can be a little jarring but only for a little while. Felt like my fingers were broken for a couple days hitting shortcuts that weren't there or had been setup differently. Maya is much more user friendly if you cant find a tool look through the menus. With blender it is all shortcuts, but blender has a well written users manual for learning all the shortcuts. I prefer blender over Maya only because I rarely have to close the program to finish a project, or take something into another program. It just saves me some time and when 2.8 releases I have a feeling I will be using Blender a lot more than Maya.
May-UH really just killed me. MAYA bro.
We need more Maya content creator on youtube cuz sometimes finding specific things could be difficult.
I dont agree with the assessment that its a hobby if its not gaming industry. Blender is a game-changer because it's power is in versatility with Powerful 3D modeling capabilities as you said. Blender has been creeping its way into other industries, like animation, for a long time. Also, consider things like CNC and 3D printing. Thats huge imo
Blender is not hobby software:
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The rarely satisfying and only truly honest answer in the tech world :" it depends"
Honestly, I would suggest learning both. I find Blender to be better overall, but I hate to say it, but most of the good tutorials are for Maya. There were some obvious 3d techniques that I didn't know because I only looked at Blender tutorials before since I was a blender user. But then I started using Maya at work and learning more traditional techniques and it changed how I do things in blender as well.
MAY-a... x_x my ears
I made a minute and sixteen seconds before I had to stop watching.
Yeah, that was hard to listen to
Well if you're just starting out, either A. go for the free alternative of Blender, or B. or torrent Maya 3D like the majority of people outside of the industry do... Both will do what you want to do, learn 3D but I think it comes down to choice. Though I have to say I love Blender more as well as being free, you are also free to create and even sale your work and own the license to what you create.
Slightly disagree with the opinion that blender is "clunky", but, even if it is to a degree, that'll change when 2.8 is released.
Saying Blender is for just hobby , is clearly driven from the fact that blender used to be not as powerful 5 years ago and was known as a "Hobbyist's Tool" but it doesn't make sense anymore , If you wanna do freelancing you don't have to apply for a studio , so it's actually very common to see Professional uses for Blender , I use it Professionally For Modelling/Character Creation/Animation, and I believe More and More studios are gonna start Using Blender after it's Massive Industry friendly Update(2.8 with Evee and UI changes) that is getting near
Although if you watch Blender Confrenses and 3D Artist Interviews you will find that surprisingly more studios than you think are using blender already , I'ts been used in Movies and VFX a lot as well
Lets enjoy this early access :D
Blender has been used in many ad agencies - because it began its "life" in one. In terms of popularity, let's remember that VHS was inferior to Beta, but widespread adoption by industry turned it into the only choice for consumers (not film pros, though). There is a lot more ahead for Blender, including not having a $1.5k/yr. software rental pricetag. I think you would benefit from adding some Blender tutorials to your YT channel. Unless you work for Autodesk, in which case you can do it anonymously... :)
MAY....YAH.. DUDE PLEASE do some research before you pronounce Maya! I have been using Maya for 4 years and this is the first time I hear someone say may....yah.. it seriously hurts my ears.. sorry
it was killing me.
around half of the people i know say may-ah, the rest either dont say it or say my-ah.
Kieran Pavy Oh my god!!! What kind of people do you know 🤔 .... WOW it is almost calling "Microsoft" maykrosof... come on, wake up and research the name of a big company. Sorry.
the people I know are Australian students who are learning 3ds max and not Maya. no offense taken XD
Oh God I wonder if he says "meh-yan" calendar
Hmm you may want to do a bit more research on this. Maya's interface is way more clunky than Blender's, also there's a reasonable amount of companies that accept Blender users and if not they usually ask for 3ds max and not as often Maya ( like Valve,Bethesda, Rockstar games, blizzard and many more.) half the time a company will teach you any software you need to Know. Honestly when it comes down to it , it doesn't matter what you use wether you plan to work in the industry or not.
The best is learn about the 2 worlds, Maya for work in some place, and blender for work like freelance... Blender is really powerfull.
Use both
If the jobs you want use Maya, then learn Maya. Also learn Blender, because... why not?
I started out with 3DS MAX forever ago and then shifted to Blender when I realized I needed to dump $1500 a year in order to include my very small addition to a commercial game. After learning Blender in a much more complete fashion, I started going back to school for 3D and my class uses MAX. The workflow process is antiquated and the UI is painfully clunky compared to Blender. If you spend the time to master Blender's somewhat steep learning curve, you'll make the same models in 1/4 the time. I'll be "proficient" in Max and Maya for a job in the industry and simply create my stuff in Blender for import into Maya, if I have to.
learn everything, I have maya, 3Ds max, Zbrush blender is my next software to learn and I’m sure i can pick it up quickly.
The only thing stopping me from starting to learn Blender is the lack of decent 3dconnexion support. Sure the devices are supported but navigation doesn't work as smooth as in Maya not to mention other software where it actually works perfect. I think in older versions of blender it was actually better than today. Now 3dconnexion support feels like a hack more than a feature.
Personally i prefer houdini, It can be hard to get in but once you learned it you will be amazed by its amazing features. It is also cheap with indie edition, so I really recommend it
i couldnt of asked a better video. truly thanks you
Both ..learn both ...i have been using Max and maya for many years and nowadays im learning Blender and Houdini,....im a chracterTD/Rigger and it is not such easy to shift as for modelers for Example ...But i think Blender is a good place to stand out of crowd with extra knowledge and solutions
main pros you didn't mentioned is that blender have its own texture and materials engine while if you are using maya you may need to combine other software too.
Mayas UI IMO is extremely clunky compared to blenders. Too many dropdown menu boxes that have the same name with different stuff in it, you have to open extra windows for so many things.
Maya is also just crashing all the time. My work is like 70 per cent Blender 30 per cent Maya. But Maya accounts for 90 per cent of all software crashes I experienced.
It is just sad that they slap the 'enterprise software' name together with the horrendous pricetag onto their product even though it is a buggy piece of junk
Then your PC ain't worth it to have Maya in it
@@lightningparadox Maya is not worth installing on my PC again
You forgot that 3D softwares are used not only in video game industry.
Yes, i was wondering too why didn't he mentioned 3D modeling for films or tv shows
"Blender isn't widely used among many studios and rarely listed as a job requirement." While this is true blender is gaining popularity in studios and also gaining recognition by industry giants (like Pixar where RenderMan has Blender support.) It makes my skin crawl that people assume Blender is "entry level" when it comes to 3D software. Personally I use Zbrush and Blender both and previously used Maya for animation. While I can do the same projects in Blender that are done in Maya my question is why pay the absurd amount for Maya? If a studio is small and needing to "get the job done" then make the switch and save the money for the employees.
I'm a Maya user...But I totally love the rendering speed of the new blender 2.8...
One of my thoughts so far is to blend using the two software together...I will do all my character animations in Maya...Then when its time for lighting and rendering, I'll take the scenes to blender to batch render cos of the speed...
It would be really nice if there can be a way to easily send scenes from Maya to blender without losing all the textures and animation information...
Yeah, if you work along professionally, I think blender will be enough. Also, transition may not be as easy as you think, the later you make the transition, the more picky you becomes about the new software you are trying to adapt to. If you know a whole lot about Maya, you will hate a whole lot about blender. Because you have learned a lot of tricks, and these combine into a workflow, unfortunately, these tricks that you cherish, blender may not have, or do it differently that forces you to rethink your workflow. Also, it takes a lot of time and practice to discover and know how to use these tricks.
I think, the Ui of Blender is not difficult to learn. I didn't can remenber me that I had any problems with the interface and it is really fast to work with Blender when you had learned all important things.
if Blender is only for fun why souldn´t I use a cracked Maya for fun?
you shouldn't use crack though, people spent a lot of time to create a software, and the money they get from selling it is actually their salary, so yeah, crack is no good
@@sobari2445 like blender?
Because Blender isn't "just for fun" in-spite of what the video said, not to mention the ethics of theft (or the fact that sometimes those "cracked" versions harbor viruses) or the fact that any content you make with "cracked" software is generally un-sellable as it is illegal from the get go. A lot of what the video said is that Blender is a BETTER tool. But the primary point is you don't have to steal it and can support a community of artists who work together to build Blender. The bottom line is that it will take years to develop the artistic skills of a 3D modeler before you are remotely eligible for a job doing it. If you happen to be a college student (not all students are eligible for the 24 month student version and if you're not you have to buy Autodesk a car to own Maya) and are already extremely accomplished with 3D modeling, then the 2 year student license of Maya makes sense assuming you expect to start a job in the industry in the next 24 months. For EVERYONE else, Blender. Even if your goal is to get a job in the industry, until you are instructing other people how to do it, you should be doing Blender because you aren't within 24 months of getting a job in the industry.
That price tag he showed for Maya was EVERY year for the rest of your life, not JUST a one time payment! By not supporting Blender, you're also supporting THAT type of "highway robbery". Compare the prices of other industry tools which often give you a perpetual license. I believe people are entitled to get paid for their software, but ZBrush is a lot less than that when its on sale and it's a one time payment with a perpetual license after that.
@@brennenbeck7311 Good things cost money, may be that is why Blender is free jaja
One of the main reason why I would switch to Blender is because it is totaly free whith wich one can do sooo much for FREE.Wheras Maya is only free in Student version and can not be used commercially.So yes,thank you for all the people that made an AWASOME free 3D software.....I am still using Maya though
All i'm seeing in the comments is people fighting about which software is better lol, modeling is modeling. animating is animating, lighting is lighting, i see people going on about how much easier blender is and how much harder Maya, and 3ds etc... is, but in reality there's no big difference lol, just different user interface's, keybind's etc, its not like one program makes it easier to animate etc, because who would choose a harder program when you have an easier option, its just based off personal opinion...ive also used every program and didnt notice the difference.
i suggest learning blender because i am only 17 and going to university this fall but when i started when i was 1 i couldn't afford maya so i started blender and only recently have started using maya since I'm working to prepare for uni which typically uses maya but if your beginning and young definitely blender to start.
And Zbrush??
I don't know why companies require a special software before employing you... They should just state the result they need and if the employee can get the job done, it doesn't matter what software the person used in getting the results the company required.
I learn different softwares just to know which one I feel comfortable with.I then master the one I love and start making good works from it. It's good to use blender or Maya but never mind what any company requires or expect from you. Just make sure you learn and master the one you love. If possible, learn both to be on the safer side.
But to me, when you learn and master one software, learning a different software will be easy because transfer of knowledge is possible.
I Love blender, I love Maya, peace!
I believe the reason they want you to know specific software is for pipeline compatibility.
Do someone knows what is better software between Maya, Blender or Houdinin for math and physics explanation? use formulas combination, creating graphs and 3D modeling, of atoms, chaos of particles, dynamo, planets or solar system. Use the real universe laws such as gravity, electromagnetic, chocs between particles .... etc. Thanks
houdini
*Billions Salute to Team Blender*
I am use Blender 2.79b
If Maya is so outweighed by Blender in terms of features, why don't video game studios ever use it?
As far as importing Blender made models into both Unity and Unreal is concerned, It's as easy as dragging and dropping. What advantage over Blender does Maya offer to justify such a ridiculous price point!?
I think it's mostly because people who work in games are used to Maya and 3dsmax. I don't think the price matters to many studios because ( and I am no tax expert) software expenses can be tax deducted. So being free is not really a selling point.
I think the diffrent softweres doesn't matter....mettars is what is 3d...if they can modling animation rigging vfx texturing sculpting and rendring then we can use any softwere...the clint should only get output ok
Yeah, you should get advice from someone who calls it mEya. Sure!!
The problem i face is that i want to professionaly work in the game industry and already have experience programming, but when it comes to the models, i use blender but i look at the jobs in the usa and nothing is popping up with blender, and the main problem is that even i want to learn maya its a paid program and it's not it's downside the downside is that its expensive *$1,470* and even if i was a student it will be a trial version for 30 days.
Well, then there’s Maya LT, which might be a much more limited version of the big Maya counterpart, but at the same time, it is in reach of those who are looking into learning Maya without the high $$$ price point. It’s a good compromise between Blender and the full Maya package, imho.
I think that nowadays blender is standing out a lot, iclusive in the industry .. today there are already several studios using blender. and version 2.90 this great new interface helped a lot with everything ..
The most immediate thing i would add in Blender is the smooth groups modifier, probably because i work with many imported fbx,so maybe it is even unnecessary if all the workflow is inside blender. I obviously vote blender. Cheers, nice vid
Smoothing groups is a clunky awkward way of doing a workflow already available in Blender. You can set sharp edges to define where your "groups" would be and it will differentiate them the same way but easier. No more keeping track of 32 arbitrary identifiers. In the end, the .fbx stores the smoothing by the vertex anyway, so it will come out the same.
I totally agree with you... 💯 You made the point . 👌
Blender is completely customizable so the controls and interface is not a set back, but I love the fact that we have a community because we don’t need to be excepted from a big studio most people that learn blender make their own studio, and make a decent living off of it.
Industry Standard = Nuke + Autodesk
RUclips Standard = After Effect + Blender
Davinci resolve + Blender ... people are ditching AE in droves
Can't you learn both (especially if you are a student, and able to get free Maya) and given that you can use Maya shortcuts on Blender 2.8?
I mainly use maya (I got it free due to being a student), but just got blender so I will tell you which one is better. (Fun Fact: Blender is suprisingly simular to roblox when it comes to controls and building)
@3dex I Agree with everything you said on both fronts. However, when I took my first professional dive into 3d software / modeling, I used Cinema4d, which is touted as the easiest to learn. I don't use Windows or Mac OSX anymore and use Linux instead.
In 2017, I decided to take the full dive into learning Blender3d. at this time of writing, I'm up to the level I was at in Cinema4d, and even past that.
Yes, Blender's Interface was the biggest obstacle in learning at first, but I had a job to do that required 3d, so I did some research here on youtube. All it takes is one or 2 great beginner's courses in blender to start. I found @Blender4Noobs and @BlenderGuru beginner courses to be a must watch. After that, I watched @Tutor4U and many other tutorials.
There are so many professionals in 3d using Blender. What I've observed is Small Game Dev Studios are actually using Blender 3d for Asset Creation, then moving on to Unity or UnrealEngine to make their games. You no longer need Maya and other tools as Blender has Everything needed for game design.
It's not just one program, but a full suite disguised as one program. Only thing you might need is an external audio editor like Audacity and you're fine.
Also, in the professional animation space, Pixar hires professionals who use Blender3d. So that's good. In other markets like India, there are studios teaching full courses using blender and some of the works are amazing quality. Just check the videos in Blender Conference 2016 and 2017 and you'll see. So, while Maya is the industry standard, Blender is catching up quite rapidly in the marketplace.
Blender3d is getting big in England, Australia, India, Germany, Netherlands, as far as I can tell by the Best Artists using it at the moment. Cinema4d seems to be the standard in Russia, and Maya may have the western world on lock.
Also, Maya is owned by Autodesk, and autodesk has bought out all of the 3d competition, and closed most of them down...like SoftImage XSI.
Here's what I've noticed you can replace with Blender3d alone:
Maya, AfterEffects, zBrush, Adobe Premiere.
Important note: Unlike Maya & 3Dmax, Blender is not a NURBS modeler, which is required for the product design industry. Nevertheless it is excellent for everything else and 2.8 is a huge improvement.
Id say learn blender, most studios dont care what program you are using to model in. Sience blender is free it would be strange if a studio forbid the software. Export and pipline tools have to be in the studio prefered format tho.
I left the gaming industry to work independently, so Blender all the way!
Now Blender has a User-friendly interface and now we should learn blender!