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Re: Blender Conference 2020

#11

Post by sdoering »

atoav wrote: post #6
grenoire wrote: post #2

I just wanna' say I'm not the greatest 3D artist, but I still love the Blender community! Enabling so many great artists to show their talent is an amazing achievement.

I am an expert, which is why I am even more amazed about the crazy speed at which Blender improves and how they managed not to fall into the pits so many Open Source projects regularly walk into with open eyes.

I am so no expert, but have been able to create a logo animation for a fake TV show for a university project of my significant other this year.

It was a blast and the tutorials were great. Using the software was a pleasure.

Looking forward to the next few months were I will have some time to just play a little bit more with it.

Re: Blender Conference 2020

#12

Post by danhor »

rguetzkow wrote: post #10
paledot wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for the link. It seems like there were a few sessions there that could have been interesting to me. I'll keep an eye out this year as well.

You can watch (almost) all past talks of previous conferences on Blender's YouTube channel [0]. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/c/BlenderFoundation/playlists

There's also the Blender Peertube instance, in case you care about it: https://video.blender.org/

Re: Blender Conference 2020

#13

Post by sushshshsh »

danhor wrote: post #12
rguetzkow wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can watch (almost) all past talks of previous conferences on Blender's YouTube channel [0]. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/c/BlenderFoundation/playlists

There's also the Blender Peertube instance, in case you care about it: https://video.blender.org/

Very cool link. Truly depressing that every video only has 30 views!

Re: Blender Conference 2020

#14

Post by Shared404 »

sushshshsh wrote: post #13
danhor wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's also the Blender Peertube instance, in case you care about it: https://video.blender.org/

Very cool link. Truly depressing that every video only has 30 views!

Only one way to add more!

Well, disregarding (h/c)racking the server or some other abuse I suppose.

Edit: Honestly, I think it's more important that it exists than that it gets heavy use. As it is now, it allows Blender to A) Have a better platform to link people to, and B) Have a fallback if Youtube starts causing problems.

I honestly think A is more important.

Re: Blender Conference 2020

#15

Post by kobigurk »

atoav wrote: post #6
grenoire wrote: post #2

I just wanna' say I'm not the greatest 3D artist, but I still love the Blender community! Enabling so many great artists to show their talent is an amazing achievement.

I am an expert, which is why I am even more amazed about the crazy speed at which Blender improves and how they managed not to fall into the pits so many Open Source projects regularly walk into with open eyes.

As someone who is not at all involved in that community, I'd love to hear what are the pits many projects fall into and what does Blender avoid.

Re: Blender Conference 2020

#16

Post by outworlder »

Blender is a fantastic piece of software.

Its UI never agreed with me that much, but watching experienced users, it reminds me of VI. As in, it appears to be optimized for power users, rather than ease of use, or discovery. It does seem to have been steadly improving. I'll try again.

Re: Blender Conference 2020

#17

Post by mikenew »

outworlder wrote: post #16

Blender is a fantastic piece of software. Its UI never agreed with me that much, but watching experienced users, it reminds me of VI. As in, it appears to be optimized for power users, rather than ease of use, or discovery. It does seem to have been steadly improving. I'll try again.

It's changed considerably over the past decade, especially at 2.5 and 2.8. A lot of the weird stuff like right-click to select is gone (or not on by default anyway). If it's been a while since your last attempt you may have a better time.

Re: Blender Conference 2020

#18

Post by sushshshsh »

Shared404 wrote: post #14
sushshshsh wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very cool link. Truly depressing that every video only has 30 views!

Only one way to add more! Well, disregarding (h/c)racking the server or some other abuse I suppose. Edit: Honestly, I think it's more important that it exists than that it gets heavy use. As it is now, it allows Blender to A) Have a better platform to link people to, and B) Have a fallback if Youtube starts causing problems. I honestly think A is more important.

I will become a user! I think I've been waiting for this for a while.

Re: Blender Conference 2020

#19

Post by fatboy »

danhor wrote: post #12
rguetzkow wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can watch (almost) all past talks of previous conferences on Blender's YouTube channel [0]. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/c/BlenderFoundation/playlists

There's also the Blender Peertube instance, in case you care about it: https://video.blender.org/

This is a great feature addition[1].

I've not tried to use blender for a while, but I love applications that give you a command palette, especially when they get proper fuzzy and prefix matching like this. Like the dude in the video says, it must be a godsend for non-native english speakers with something as complex as blender.

[1] https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/791b0736-9a55-4b72-9e...

Re: Blender Conference 2020

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Post by nvrspyx »

outworlder wrote: post #16

Blender is a fantastic piece of software. Its UI never agreed with me that much, but watching experienced users, it reminds me of VI. As in, it appears to be optimized for power users, rather than ease of use, or discovery. It does seem to have been steadly improving. I'll try again.

As the other comment mentioned, the UI is much better nowadays, especially with 2.8. I actually find it more intuitive than others like Cinema4D, Maya, and Houdini, whereas it was the opposite previously.
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