Blender 4.2 Is Here - A Revolution…For Free!

[@bluehorizon2006]

If i ever become a millionaire im giving half of that to blender, they deserve everything!

[@BGP00]

Well if they deserve everything maybe give them the whole million (⁠◠⁠‿⁠・⁠)⁠-⁠☆

[@zanagi]

If you are a millionaire you probably deserve that much anyways

[@nucleotide.]

Liar

[@panzerofthelake4460]

Get to work then

[@holographic_red]

I'd rather grab a fly on a horse bucket

[@rubiskelter]

Used Blender 18 years ago as kid, it was so awesome back then, it is beyond impressive nowadays. Probably in the top 3 best complex open source software ever created.

[@user-sl6gn1ss8p]

That's roughly when i used it too, made a couple simple animations. It was already so cool, but it sure has been quite a ride occasionally checking its progress along the years

[@riufq]

What is the other two?

[@Madlion]

​@@riufqLinux and Unreal Engine

[@AttilioAltieri]

@@riufq I guess linux kernel and wordpress

[@sanketvaria9734]

when I first used it, I was disappointed because it felt very low quality because I had a taste of autodesk products. after the release of version 3, I switched over and version 4s are only getting better and better.

[@peterlemon1385]

As a long time Blender user, it makes me so proud to see what this opensource application has become over the decades. I really lucked out choosing Blender as my main 3D tool, & it just keeps getting better & better. Also so happy that Two Minute Papers appreciated it so much too, thanks for keeping other people in the loop of what is new in Blender with each new major iteration =D

[@_DRMR_]

Semantically this is only a minor iteration ;) (but with major improvements!)

[@Freshbott2]

Same. I don’t know why anyone tortures themselves with anything other than Blender except Houdini. Other tools are ancient. If you need some special specific thing you’ve got better chances of either finding a plugin or making your own. Houdini obviously is in a class of its own but is less approachable. I hope to see someone do for BIM and CAD what Blender has done for vis. AutoDesk’s weaseling is corrupt.

[@NicCrimson]

2:54 I've never scene a Cycles viewport so smooth and clean before.

[@xdanic3]

Same, and you see in the UI it's cycles, must be a high-end card, maybe accelerated

[@wolvAUS]

You don’t need a super high end card. Just a card with dedicated RT cores (eg RTX)

[@DennisSchmitz]

has been looking like that since version 2.8 which came out years ago.

[@Monkeymario.]

ME TOO EVEN WITH A RTX 3060 I DONT GET A VIEWPORT THAT GOOD maybe my scences are just unoptimized wait i think its the new blur noise thing

[@xdanic3]

@@DennisSchmitz Nahh, mor like since Cycles X, introduced on 3.0

[@FaffyWaffles]

What a time to be alive!

[@Nulley0]

Yesh, what an amazing and great time to be alive and use blender.

[@SP-ny1fk]

"Loved. every. minute. of it." I can hear the pain.

[@AtoomikDzn]

3:04 Thank you for praising my work! It means a lot 🙌

[@0b4y3mi]

thank YOU for doing the work :)

[@littlenotlarge]

Really cool effect!

[@gxmikvid3806]

All this and vulkan backend too. Props to the team, and go donate (if you can). Blender is free but not cheap. Greetings from Hungary btw.

[@ChrisDaGamer]

Blender FTW!!!

[@thetk9622]

Very rarely does the industry standard happen to be Open Source, but Blender is one of these cases!

[@Owlboi]

Blender is not the industry standard. but its slowly becoming it which is great

[@hound_of_justice]

Its not the industry standard although its used more and more at the current time.

[@Napert]

Industry standard is still some 30-year-old software blender ain't got no support, so don't expect anyone big to be using it in production environments (unless they want to get fired asap)

[@dahahaka]

​@@Napertpeople are using it extensively in production, even at studios that are hardcore on Maya, blender is used in the early stages to sketch out things

[@deadpianist7494]

@@Napert Even big studios that relies on maya also use blender in their pipeline

[@TayoEXE]

With Godot 4.3 release on the horizon as well, it's becoming a good time to be a fan of open-source game development tools!

[@1000_Gibibit]

I agree. Although a lot of these high end graphics/shaders in Blender don't translate directly into game graphics. Better realtime EEVEE rendering doesn't mean better realtime Unity/Godot rendering, yet... 🙃

[@KAGARAKIS]

i was a maya user for almost 15 years and now i m blender user and im not going back!👌👌👌

[@Dead_Goat]

How? I cannot stomach using blender, nothing makes sense. I am a long time 3dsmax user since 2005,

[@josephbrandenburg4373]

​@@Dead_Goatit makes sense, you have to approach it as something new. Max doesn't make much sense to blender users at first. Honestly I think it is much easier to go from blender to the other tools than to go the other way around.

[@knowledgeispower9724]

smart man. i learned 3d modeling in Solidworks for my engineering degree. after college i had to find an alternative. tried learning blender, maya, and 3ds max at the same time. got lost in maya and 3ds max… currently have about 3,000 projects and renders in blender and dont think ill look at anything else

[@emanu1674]

@@Dead_Goat Stf u are the stupid one here, 3dsmax sucks ass

[@zedeon6299]

​@@Dead_Goat u need to stop treating it as 3dsmax, you need to learn it from scratch

[@andermium]

Suspicious second author name there in the paper at 2:08 😉

[@hunchie]

Came to the comments to see if anyone else noticed. Dude is humble! Didn’t even mention it hahaha

[@Rayyyy569]

Haha so humble

[@Megalomaniakaal]

Activision-Blissard? Or Károly Zsolnai?

[@Rayyyy569]

@@Megalomaniakaal the second one, it's the maker of the video

[@Megalomaniakaal]

@@Rayyyy569 Haha, I know. It was just a dumb tongue-in-cheek joke.

[@ruuuler3us]

Never expected for you to feature Blender and it to be on my recommended. It's one of my most favorite software, thank you so much!

[@alihms]

He featured and talked about Blender many times before. If my memory serves, he was a speaker on a blender related conference too (possibly more than once).

[@roboterson]

I use blender at work and am in the process of updating our whole system to take advantage of some of the new features that come with it. We are currently using a very old version so it plays nice with all our plugins, but as of last week was able to get all of them up and running. I can't wait to use it to make some new incredible models.

[@scottjohnnyhelgemoaune2951]

I just downloaded it and holy cow it was impressive!! Even for my slow computer. In fact, it actually worked better than 4.1. It haven’t crashed a single time yet!

[@BlendyBoii]

so excited to play with Eevee Next!!!

[@nixonmanuel6459]

This version is so great! It's the little things they fixed too. It's wonderful.

[@M4rt1nX]

I used to purchase on Blender market now and then to support the software. I'm so thankful for all the opportunities that I have that now I finally decided to donate directly to them. It is unbelievable that such a great tool is for free.

[@darkwoodmovies]

Blender is truly one of very few successful end-user open source projects. Sure, dev stuff is common, but I can't really think of any other tools than Blender and the Linux kernel that actually punches in the same weight class as professionally developed for-profit versions.

[@PauloSamurai]

Blender changed my life

[@InternetOfGames]

I feel a new doughnut coming on!

[@ralphprice7365]

The Blender team are outstanding. Thanks guys.

[@eliteaimed7336]

I really look up to you for getting this kind of information out there; without you, hundreds of thousands of people would be clueless about this kind of software. You're my go-to when it comes to this amazing technology and programs!

[@epicthief]

What a time to be a kid and growing up with this tech

[@cariyaputta]

The power of free and open source.

[@omnirhythm]

From render farms to taking screenshots in the viewport. What a time to beelalay!

[@brexitgreens]

Without GPU? I doubt.

[@neuroblossom]

marvellous work as always károly, many blessings to you and the blender foundation.

[@ahjsbkdjhavkcjhvac]

you never fail to excite me Dr!!

[@TravisHi_YT]

Blender isn't free, people are working very hard to make it the great tool that it is. Please donate to the Blender Development fund if you can!

[@w1-w2-w3]

It is free. Don't make their beautiful intentions to be dirty. People will donate if they find it useful. No need to force. If you like Blender, you should know their fundamental vision.

[@Beryesa.]

It's free as in freedom :)

[@xapu8775]

​@@w1-w2-w3 while pushing may be too much yes, don't forget developers have family and lives. it's free yes, but imo it's paid quality thus I even think if you are financially stable enough 10 - 30 or 50 if you're really generous monthly helps and thrives development by supporting everyday workers often doing work for free or as a hobby.

[@tiagotiagot]

It's free, but it is important to understand how they can keep improving while remaining free.

[@ooOPizzaHeadOoo]

Blender is 100% free and open source wtf are u talking about?

[@fizzzydev]

There is no excuse not to learn anything in this day and age.

[@drmarioschannel]

Universities need to stop gatekeeping degrees.

[@ICE0124]

@@drmarioschannel I think they are talking about how you can find courses on KZbin and stuff that compare to ones found on universities. Literally you can learn so much without paying anything because it seems like there is tons of free resources online for any topic you want to learn.

[@perlsackhd3957]

@@drmarioschannel what are they gatekeeping? If you don't want to go to a public university there are some private ones out there

[@Marvin-vs3tu]

​@@drmarioschannelyou don't need a degree for 3d artists

[@jeffg4686]

If those LLM companies want to do something new, they can do this. -- allow a user to upload a .blend file -- have conversations with it about that blend file, such as objects to create/edit, animations that you would like created or adjusted, creaete all the animation rigs for easier animating, have a certain type of particles start emitting from an emitter at a certain frame, setup all your physics for you, create all the materials, etc. -- this is the challenge I put to them. Have their system update the blend file. It doesn't even need to show us the results. Just update the file as requested. -- text-to-grease-pencil is a bonus

[@GuTTs1975]

Blender is at the moment only bright beacon for artists with good intentions.

[@kipchickensout]

it's been years since I've last actively used blender and I wasn't even close to exhausting its possibilities, but holy shit I'm still hyped for new blender improvements, best 3D software by far, IMO even if the others were free too

[@geddes4253]

Beautiful...!

[@FelixVyra]

I just realized that probably out of anyone making videos about blender you might be the most qualified to make a video titled "Best settings for EEVEE next"

[@villagerjj]

open source software can be seen as a snowball, if you pack together more snow, and then roll it down a hill, it will get bigger and carry the momentum. but if you don't pack a lot of snow, it might roll a little bit, but then hit a rock or tree on the way down and end its journey. you can compare the packing of the snowball to a software's early non-open source development, and the rolling down the hill can be seen as being made open source with contributors joining the project. the jist: if you make a half finished software open source -> lack of contributors if you make a high quality software open source -> lots of contributes.

[@lbgstzockt8493]

Now all I need is literally any creativity or artistic talent and we are good to go

[@crippled82]

back in the days bmp to jpg was a great deal, raytracing was very cpu intensive, but now they found tricks to make it faster.

[@tothetopvisuals]

I learned Blender during the pandemic because I wanted to learn how to make simulations. It's hard to believe that such program is free

[@marcelbricman]

really wish i had this back when i was doing 3d.. still remember the days when even for a short sequence you needed a render farm

[@Juan-qv5nc]

What a time to be blended alive!

[@Monkeymario.]

4:50 AS A YTER THIS IS THE BEST THING TO BE ADDED TO BLENDER

[@gjtrumiko]

I love to see Blender grow amazing 👍🏻👍🏻 FREE damn and best community also

[@radoslavdimitrov7505]

Damn, Blender has become a beast

[@TechnoMasterBoy]

3:58 Blue noise is weird, because if you look at the steering wheel, white noise is obviously better. But if you look at the mirror above it, blue noise is better. Blue seems to be generally better overall though.

[@laminemed1219]

"What a time to be alive!" Mr. Two Minute Papers

[@renderbaron]

Cool to see a video on a major 3D App here! Well done!

[@punk3900]

Seeing cycles for the first time long time ago was jaw-dropping

[@VTS-lelovsky.]

Holy smoothies, Blender really did hit a tipping point with 2.9. When I was 15, I'd never suspect that this software could compete with any of the industrial standards. Seems like a lot has changed since then.

[@DrakiniteOfficial]

Unreal Engine: We have the best-looking real-time cinematic graphics of anything in the industry. Blender: *Hold my beer.*

[@Sujal-ow7cj]

Now i am working for tva (time variable agency) i have been in many universees but this is the only universe where blender is free 😋

[@Inkulabi]

The Fractural feature looks like its going to be fun

[@Chris.Davies]

The almost infinite stack of dirty hacks used by biology is beginning to be properly reflected by highly informed dirty hacks in binary, to produce almost the same result. :) Your enthusiasm for your subject is infectious, Karoly. Thank you, kindly.

[@SillyandgoofyAnim8or]

I love blender so much

[@mbe9601]

a little dissapointed the eevee raytracing is screenspaced GI instead of realtime path tracing. looks like i still have to learn unreal engine 5 for that

[@tobycat7]

I hope they'll figure out something similar to what other modern real-time engines do, but it might take a long time.

[@Monkeymario.]

2:56 WOOOHAHAHAHHHH HTHIS IS AWESOMELY EPIK

[@leapacho]

blender is gonna take over the world one day mark my words

[@dertobbe1176]

Blender is such a great Software. Ton rossendaal is a true hero ❤

[@JohnSmith762A11B]

I like that Blender exists but I always lose patience trying to learn it. Maybe I will try (and likely fail) again with 4.2...

[@gullibullicartoon6679]

We need 360 vr in Eevee 😢

[@justinblanche4425]

every video like this makes me want to donate and trust me I will

[@Evolved_Skeptic]

Awesome stuff & they even used your work [2:07] to do it!

[@MikeCore]

FINALLY THE NEXT LTS

[@alirezarn8363]

Guys, im new in blender and I wanna learn how to use the most out of it, is there any good channel to learn it from scratch?

[@TomSzirtes]

This video sounds more like an promotional video than a useful summary of a interesting research paper. I'd rather learn more about blue noise for example than an overenthusiastic listing of every new feature in an established graphics package (as much as love Blender). I get the pressure of having a popular channel and trying to keep it constantly fresh whilst retaining the key distinctive elements that made it popular in the first place. But this post comes across, to me, like paid promotion sprinkled with endless catch phrases. Sorry to be negative I know these videos take a lot of work - I make them with the best intention and thanks for all your posts so far.

[@bernaferrari]

Blender is everything that GIMP only dreamed of

[@Aechelian]

If only gimp were as close to photoshop as blender is to its alternatives.

[@TVheadDev]

I love blendr 420! New eevee is incredible!!!

[@anuragvohra5519]

Ability to create worlds in computer simply magic!

[@nicholasbalette6354]

Great features of Blender

[@Joao-hr3dk]

Blender, the best opensource.

[@patmcananey]

I think we all know what we're gonna use it for... (;

[@goatpepperherbaltea7895]

Wtf no😂

[@ryo-kai8587]

@@goatpepperherbaltea7895 As long as there is an artistic medium, it will be used for that. Always.

[@seanmurphy6481]

Can't wait to see if it's possible to work in Blender through a LLM like Llama 405b.

[@SystemBD]

I Will not be surprised if there is already a plugging to generate 3d models or textures using an LLM inside Blender (so that they adap to the context of the scene).

[@mj2068]

what🤯 mr. paper you like blender too so cool

[@solarcrystal5494]

within a decade blender will probably evolve into its own game engine

[@vrzlev]

fun fact: blender does come with a rudimentary game engine

[@SomeRandomPiggo]

@@vrzlev Well, it did. They removed it with 2.8 sadly

[@visualbree]

I love hearing this man say his name.

[@jocosesonata]

I'll dedicate a portion of all my profits directly to Blender. They're giving us all this goodness absolutely free!

[@hound_of_justice]

Amazing software although it still has a long way to go to come closer to Maya, 3ds Max, ZBrush, Marvelous Designer, Substance etc. in their respective specialised areas. But its free which is amazing.

[@Dead_Goat]

Honestly the main thing they need to work on is the user experience, ui, and controls. It is just so painful to use compared to the applications you listed.

[@josephbrandenburg4373]

I think it's senseless to compete in specialized areas. The "established" studios are all crumbling. Let them! The next generation of 3D artists will have much greater software freedom, and much greater creative freedom.

[@hound_of_justice]

@@josephbrandenburg4373 The next generation ends up again using Maya, 3ds Max, ZBrush and co. which are arguably preferred over that „superior software, free software“ for good reasons. The majority that doesnt climb up the latter and remains with Blender doesnt matter for the case.

[@meefvongrau9814]

0:05 Chris Jones 😮 I just got a video by him recommended 😮

[@punmije]

I love Blender and I'm thrilled with every new update. However, I have to say that I can't use Cycles for my professional work. Unfortunately, Cycles isn't a high-end rendering engine and likely never will be. There's so much hype around it, but once you start using it, you'll hit limitations very quickly. The lighting and shaders are poorly developed, especially the shaders. Everything relies on tricks to make it look good. In my years of product design, I've yet to see a good-looking metal shader in Cycles or the soft lighting you get out of the box with other rendering engines like Redshift or Arnold.

[@kunemann]

What do soft shadows have to do with the shader? That achieved for the most part through the light source and/or size/settings

[@punmije]

​@@kunemann True, but I'm talking about light calculations and shader behavior, not soft shadows. I mentioned that both shaders and lighting aren't very good in Cycles.

[@Monkeymario.]

eevee pretty much became a completly different render engine!

[@literallyfiction]

Did you publish on Nature?! Damn, that's a flex

[@BRUXXUS]

Blender makes me so happy. 😀

[@mrartistimo1530]

I miss the days where we had videos like this going on about things like this rather than just ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai all the time. Hoping to see more videos like this one in the future.

[@wargreymon2024]

I.... am.... so.... excited.....

[@milztempelrowski9281]

Learning Eevee would have actually been useful all this time? That is crazy :D

[@Monkeymario.]

1:03 WHAT WOW

[@da_cat]

Me too, i make videogames, made 2 failures, working on my 3rd game. When i make money i will definitely donate to Blender and Godot. They made everything possible.

[@pra.]

this is so cool!

[@MilesBellas]

It could become the primary interface for input into Comfyui and Stable Diffusion as an AI rendering engine?

[@LeKhang98]

Is there any easy way to use Blender with old PC please? Like rent a PC online or something?

[@brexitgreens]

I consider *ShadowPC.* It's a gaming computer in the cloud for £30/mo. Because my end device is nothing more than an Android tablet. I wish there was a greater choice but they are the only such company to my knowledge. Which can make their service less competitive than ideal.

[@dahahaka]

The SSSS paper is legendary

[@artmanstudios7037]

All blender needs is his own AI model System Knowing the blender team they're going to do one hell of a job and making it the best model ever created uncensored unbiased complete autonomy And everything else in between!

[@MilesBellas]

Epic Stable Diffusion interface ?!

[@literallydoing4425]

Can it render a 5 by 5 checker board of mirrored spheres fast as well?

[@coced]

imagine if we had free video editing and CAD softwares as powerful as Blender is for 3d animation

[@amruzaky4939]

I was happy with EEVEE next, but I just found out that in 4.2, the Cycles were improved significantly that its render time goes near neck to neck with EEVEE. I don't know what to do😅😅😅

[@digital0785]

one of the last things we need is ies in eevee/ node on lights it's really came a long way i wish they did alpha mapped shadow casting POM instead of displacement but what a time to be alive for sure

[@josephbrandenburg4373]

I think you could make a POM shader tho

[@digital0785]

@@josephbrandenburg4373 oh 100% you can i just mean that would've been a good option and i thought that was part of the road map for eevee

[@SCPokSecondaccound]

One small but cool thing is, blender 4.2 Eevee niw uses virtual shadow mapping instead of cascades!

[@lorenzosorgatz4385]

Anyám 😮 ez fasza 🎉