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#blender

[@TulioG]

Free as in freedom. And people should definitely donate to blender.

[@jensenraylight8011]

AI Bros: This new AI tool is great, can't wait to write a prompt on it, you should Adapt bro

[@hiddendrifts]

but also free as in beer

[@hiddendrifts]

@@jensenraylight8011 and they're not wrong. anything that makes productivity faster and easier will inevitably see widespread adoption

[@deskreanimation]

blender is great it consemmurate with the donation fron user

[@juliandarley]

blender is truly amazing for so many reasons. i wish there were a similar, very polished, very powerful, open-source venture for video editing! (though blender does have its own video editor, but it cannot be said to rival avid, premiere, resolve etc)

[@jacobmars1902]

KdenLive is pretty good for basic editing and vfx, but other than that it falls far behind the competition

[@_yuri]

fr

[@GanerRL]

@@jacobmars1902kdenlive was buggy last time i tried it, is blender editor better?

[@pupip55]

The best place to find open source software is the linux community, They love showing off open source software.

[@ChrisGuerra31]

That would be doooooope

[@JMO-]

Blender is one of the biggest success stories of open-source software as its comparable and even in some cases beats paid software. We are all a bunch of greedy apes, but every now and then we can come together to make something just for the sake of making pretty images appear on our glowing boxes.

[@guilhermecampos8313]

you mean open-source software

[@JMO-]

@@guilhermecampos8313 typo, my bad, thank you

[@SquarelyGames]

Should have advertised their donation system! But still not too late to do so in the comments. Their developers deserve it :) Blender is such an amazing software. A beautiful project. Thanks for the video!

[@arthurdsjrjbr]

As a 3D modeler for years, and also subscriber to this channel, It's great to see Dr. Károly talking about blender releases now!

[@guillermojperea6355]

Exactly!

[@chumediauk6535]

be nice if Blender had AI image gen plugged in, unless I missed it.

[@PauloSamurai]

I thought the same! Blender changed my life forever!

[@PauloSamurai]

@@chumediauk6535 You can use Stable diffusion free and unlimited running local on your machine as IA render. We will need only to create volumetric shapes that will serve as "3D prompts", write details too add on a prompt and choose a style to render on top of it. I'm currently trying to implement all of this myself

[@stego3d]

@@chumediauk6535 I use DeepBump and DreamTextures addons quite frequently. Check out :)

[@syrix5914]

Blender and Linux are probably the most impressive free software projects.

[@Rolandfart]

You'll never know the true beauty of blender until you stay up to 3 am working on a 3d scene

[@visionsmind22]

Stand up at 4am for blender. How about that?

[@23lkjdfjsdlfj]

10 weeks in a row...

[@bluejay5234]

I've been using Blender for 20 years (before it was even fully open source, started using it for it UV Mapping) and continue to be amazed at how it progresses from version to version. Truly one of the gems of open source and democratizing force in 3D graphics.

[@martinusamsterdam7667]

I am very proud of the creator of Blender who is also a fellow citizen of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

[@grahamclark7483]

with FFmeg,awesome!

[@StormadoMan]

The best open source software ever 👍

[@Tsathogguah]

I used Blender for a few years and realized that it is an INCREDIBLY powerful tool in the right hands (that is, not mine).

[@jonathanmcneill4993]

This channel always has the coolest paper reviews! Thank you!!

[@appsenence9244]

Amazing videos as always! Very inspiring.

[@yaazarai]

Speaking of Raytracing, have you seen Radiance Cascades? Its a new 2D and 3D lighting technique by the Path of Exile graphics lead. It uses a hierarchical structure of probes which have differing amounts of spatial/angular resolution (probes vs ray count) to satisfy the properties of penumbras. The closer to a light source higher spatial res, further from aource higher angular res. Its very intuitive.

[@gustavodutra3633]

I'm reading the paper right now, it's pretty cool!

[@yaazarai]

@@gustavodutra3633 nice! I'm working on a directional JFA cascade hierarchy to eliminate raymarching. Rays are marched in foxed directions so you can generate JFAs for those fixed directions.

[@MrAmitkr007]

I love blender. It has grown wonderfully over the years 🤩 and open source. I love it

[@SkepticalCaveman]

Blender, together with Krita and Open Office, demonstrates the quality that open source can reach.

[@sagielevy]

It’s nice to see you talking about a topic that is a classic project and not AI :)

[@IvoVacca]

A couple of years ago I wrote an add-on for Blender that permits you to visualise the NN and training it from the viewport, lots of fun Just now I saw an add-on for integrating ComfyUI. You can do basically whatever you want through the API. But above all Blender has the best community ever. Love it.

[@Eppimedia]

Fantastic overview Doctor. Can confirm Blender Guru's tutorials are brilliant. What a time to be a donut!

[@aliefrat]

Blender is the best piece of software. Ever.

[@andrelaham]

Nice to see my artwork at the opening 😍🙏

[@thecreatorgrey]

Blender really is a gift.

[@vectoralphaAI]

The power of Free and Open Source. The Godot game engine seems to be going this way of Blender as well.

[@nosirve9458]

Free and Open source doesn't give power. People who contribute to the code, or donate, give power.

[@GodotNoContext]

Exactly, Godot *seems* to be going this way, but Godot is certainly *not* the Blender of game engines. Just because Godot fans frequently attempt to cling to the success of Blender, this doesn't make and will not make Godot successful. Godot is run by incompetent leadership who alienates professional game developers. The concept of Godot being the “Blender of Game Engines” originates from a catchphrase masterfully devised by Godot’s leadership, encouraging devoted Godot fans to propagate the message. Yet merely presenting Godot in the light of Blender does not make it so.

[@Firgof]

Yep, certainly is. Ignore trolls who literally make money manufacturing dissent who run channels which exist only to generate ennui instead of useful critique. Not to say it won't be a long and difficult road for Godot, as it was for Blender. We're still definitely in the 'starship interface' era of Blender for comparison; the engine's still fairly jank in some respects and some parts are well-developed and detailed while others are far more simplistic and/or experimental. It's not a 'mature' engine yet -- but every new version it seems to be pulling itself towards that.

[@nosirve9458]

Yup, I would say Blender is really good for small studios/hobbyists and stylized movies, etc; it's a powerfull software, but it needs works specially on uv's, cycles, and geometry nodes. In texturing I wound't even try, susbtance painter or mari are already too good on that. @@Firgof

[@GodotNoContext]

@@Firgof The inability to accept criticism is another serious issue that prevents Godot from becoming successful. That includes labeling critics of Godot as trolls. Godot is literally more than 20 years old if you look at its closed-source history. Simply believing in success doesn't make Godot successful. Godot's leadership has created an environment where dissent is not tolerated, and its community is conditioned to attack critics. Multiple former maintainers, contributors, and long-term users of Godot confirm these findings. You state that it seems every new version is pulling itself towards becoming a 'mature' engine. But have you ever tried to use Godot in production yourself? Have you tried Godot's built-in physics in 4.0? Have you experienced numerous rendering artifacts, including those on mobile devices? If not, then I must tell you that what you see on the surface is mostly a façade.

[@azannaseer12]

The new version is indeed awesome

[@deskreanimation]

blender is great keep learning blender every few step cause i have tired learning new skill software that takes a time

[@stuffy.design]

is the voiceover AI now?

[@thatsalot3577]

Blender is one of few tools which only got better over time at an insane pace.

[@chefmike8888]

Am I the only person old enough to be happy that Ren has been busy all these years after the Ren and Stimpy show ended. But i digress, thanks for the awesome breakdown of new tools. Even an eeeeidot like me was intrigued at the potential.

[@O-cDxA]

YES ! I can't help but see Ren Hoek in my mind 😂 I avoided Blender when it first came out, because " If it's free, something must be wrong with it. " Wasted years of my life with Hash Animation: Master. ( It was the cheapest I looked at their website recently. It blows my mind that they are still in business and actually charging hundreds for their crap, obsolete software. Oh how I wish I started with Blender 😢

[@RiseTheDrake]

A tool that gave my life purpose. Thank you for covering it.

[@saturnosync]

Blender is an incredible program for videos, games, modeling, scenarios, background, logos, everything! and free!

[@TreesPlease42]

The Mayans would worship Blender

[@Sanguen666]

nice1

[@tungster24]

aaap I see what you did there

[@feynstein1004]

@@tungster24Eh I don't get it

[@FRareDom]

@@feynstein1004 there is another popular 3d software called "maya"

[@ivander1511]

Blender still needs to work on that animation system though...

[@realmetatron]

When this version of Blender looks at the sun, the sun blinks ☀

[@wonseoklee80]

Finally a video without LLM and generative AI update!

[@RaffoVFX]

You forgot to mention : what a time to be aliiiive ♥

[@Eurotool]

Whoever understands how to use Blender is a wizard in my book

[@NzeRekoRec]

It just takes some time. Dedicate all of your free time to it 3-5 years, and you can master it 😅

[@lemonextract1325]

god... this program is incredible... I'm so happy it's free, but wow....

[@Douchebagus]

Babe wake up, new TMP just dropped

[@TobiasLeanderOfficial]

0:28 aha didn't expect to see smth I made in the video, always a nice surprise ♥

[@mostlikedcomment9603]

Baking was available before as well, but Now the difference is that you can use it in a non-destructive workflow.

[@tiredlocke]

What a time to be alive!

[@HolidayAtHome]

3:52 omg how long have I waited for that >___< !

[@slutmagic383]

What a great time to be alive. Thanks for this blender update.

[@aynrandom3004]

I don't even know how to use this but this is great news

[@ManIkWeet]

The Intel A770 is faster than an NVIDIA 3090!? Woo!!

[@AliceClaritza]

hehe, only when it comes to OpenImageDenoise (which was made by Intel)

[@Hukkinen]

@@AliceClaritza How come is this so? - This feels like sub-optimal Nvidia implementation, really

[@AliceClaritza]

@@Hukkinen nvidia is probably all-in on their own OptiX denoiser, which is also built in to blender!

[@guilhermecampos8313]

Technologies made by Intel usually will run better on Intel hardware, and those made by Nvidia usually will run better on Nvidia hardware.

[@Hukkinen]

@@guilhermecampos8313 oh, I don't actually know anything about these implementations and compatibilities - just been using CUDA.. I guess I thought matrix-multiplication takes certain amount of wattage and when an implementation is optimal, performance aligns with hardware capacity So, the question rises: why there is different API's whatnot..and that as everybody has their own, the world is not ready yet 🤐

[@sockrabbtt]

did they fix the full interface flickering on apple silicon?

[@Hukkinen]

I wish there were a Blender for CAD 😅 - Seen some plugins to Blender, but can't evaluate

[@cry2love]

One thing is using Blender and telling everyone that it is the best 3d program ever, all in one and free and the other thing is your favorite KZbinr suddenly also excited about it 🤣

[@equerol1396]

Gracias.

[@RavikumarTulugu]

from time to time , i would check what blender is doing on AI front. today you broke the news and its really a good news for product developers.

[@santiagovasches9808]

what a time to alive!

[@armadasinterceptor2955]

So why are we waiting for Sora??? It seems to meSora is obsolete, or about to become it.

[@jeffg4686]

I have a feeling we have some good stuff coming up with Blender / GenAI. Not sure what yet. More than current stuff.

[@Zarnubius]

I remember people used to LAUGH at me for using Blender back in 2003. Who's laughing now?

[@jeremierousseau965]

I remember in 2003 nobody wanted to use blender, all people bet their money on 3dmax, i bet y money on Lightwave wha twas better than blender for VFX, the modeler and uv was the same now blender go up up,

[@DesoloZantas]

I can only imagine what blender 5 would be like. Rendering would probably be instant.

[@igorthelight]

Still needs a lot of calculations. That is not magic ;-)

[@nosirve9458]

But please have in mind that is sustained through donations! consider donating if you use it!!

[@g0d182]

cool

[@S1nwar]

3:29 why do you need that "instance center" node when the "rotate instances" has "local space" checked already?

[@ccstorm100]

I really want the glass material to get better and have more controls for product renders.

[@ATomCzech]

Is there already non destructiove join aka grouping objects?

[@swordartdesign]

Thank god I no long hear my cowork talking about compare 3D softwares anymore

[@original_pranxter]

I am in bake mode rn

[@cystarkman]

You can finally edit UI fonts. Okay, I am in. The UI has always been a bleak experience

[@itsafish4600]

yessir

[@_casg]

i can already see Blender marrying Houdini's MOm and being captain now.

[@benc4189]

I dream of some overlay on blender wich ask what do you want to create (character/world/other) and then give you the right tool step by step. It aldrealy have everything in it

[@robertlambert5636]

When are we going to use this on my iPad Pro ,still waiting

[@Forbidden303]

Support open source folks.

[@abdelhakkhalil7684]

The integration of the intel's openimage denoiser is overdue. My guess is that Intel didn't want Blender to have it while other renders like V-ray and Keyshot had it integrated for years now.

[@hellayeahhella4014]

There is a small problem with blender 4.1 and the new AGX system. I cant seem to get accurate colors when using it. I am a Senior Art Director at Wunderman Thompson. I have had lots of problems with the colors in filmic as well as in AGX. Whenever i render something the colors are not right. Is there any way how i can fix it

[@kriszhli]

1:23 A770 faster than 3090 is crazy

[@dooshkadoosh]

uncle iroh teaches blender

[@quarksandaces2398]

2:05 Do you see Bubbles or Mountains?

[@michaelbrown853]

What kind of AI is Two Minute Papers?

[@lien-san3347]

What about new AI features/addons? Thanks for the video!

[@gerarddip]

1:22 And I bought my laptop because it had an AMD chip which was the best at the time!!!! 😵😵😵

[@littlegravitas9898]

So the bake feature lets one have theircaje and eat it too

[@nenharma82]

Was expecting a paper tbh

[@ominoxe]

Blender ❤

[@GraveUypo]

oh wow what surprises me is the arc a770 denoising faster than a rtx 3090.

[@igorthelight]

Denoizer was created by Intel btw ;-)

[@Loooore3483]

did you just called vtubers "avatars for video conferency"?

[@acidjumps]

no you are the one who is calling avatars vor video conferences vtubers

[@igorthelight]

VRChat ;-)

[@RickySupriyadi]

what if llm inside each bake

[@fxgamer4870]

I remember learning to make doughnut years ago lol.

[@Jeremyzor]

Are UIs homogenizing for Ai friendliness?

[@JarppaGuru]

4.2 coming

[@reececrook7021]

i would love to learn how to be good at blender and use all these tools, unfortuneately, i'm a meer mortal

[@igorthelight]

Just learn what you need for you current project ;-)

[@DanFrederiksen]

Biases are weights! :)

[@amarug]

Can someone explain to me why a significant part of demo videos from a freeware tool look more realistic than many scenes in multimillion dollar productions these days?

[@fxm5715]

Because many of them are personal passion projects that have no budgetary constraints.

[@meefvongrau9814]

Have fun making your first donut in Blender, y'all!

[@albertwang5974]

I will bind open source AI to blender in the next several months!

[@GetawayFilms]

Whoa... So... Now you're telling me I CAN have my cake and eat it?!

[@as-qh1qq]

GPU denoising would be amazing

[@mateojelcic2927]

It was added in the 4.1 update actually.

[@vinceurielpiccio6392]

are the voice lines ai generated in this video?

[@alancastillo5775]

Idk but it's annoying AF

[@halko1]

I want to bake that cake and also eat it.

[@AnkitWP]

Team Gimp must learn from Blender.

[@AngryApple]

Nice to see a non AI related video 😅

[@jaulloa21]

REN and stimpy

[@axs203]

Can't wait for AI 3d to come and more VR!

[@goshawk_fly]

An Apocalypse for Autodesk)

[@captanblue]

But can it retopoligize for me...

[@GinnyGlider]

Hmm, maybe but otherwise you would gain knowledge & experience of good old manual topology 😉

[@captanblue]

@@GinnyGlider Boooo, lol

[@ivander1511]

Quad Remesher is okay tho, or if you don't want to spend a penny then you can try using Instant Meshes I mean iirc the only 3d program that can auto-retopo is Maya???

[@nosirve9458]

Blender have a native addon for retopo thats works amazingly well. Also you can do it with geometry nodes@@ivander1511

[@chrisb3685]

@@ivander1511 zbrush is the og of auto-retopo, but it's the exact same algorithm as quad remesher. Actually, they're all using similar algorithms. Maya Max and C4d have auto retopo now.