The Best 3D Workflow to learn in 2024 | Eternal Ascent Winners

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Today on the livestream I'm joined by the Top 5 winners of our Eternal Ascent 3D Community Challenge! I'll interview all 5 artists for 30 minutes each, about their 3D workflow, tips, tricks and their most used tools of the trade. We'll dive into what inspires each artist, and why they do what they do, so you can walk away feeling excited for the next project regardless of your program of choice.
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Luiggi Spaudo: / abuelufx
Under: / under.cg
Miche-Miche: / cochardus
Manuel Peter: / @manuelpeter
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CHAPTERS:
0:00:00 Countdown
0:04:43 Intro
0:08:08 Honkai: Star Rail
0:09:21 5th Place: Robin Disch
0:44:15 4th Place: Manuel Peter
1:13:24 3rd Place: Miche-Miche
1:44:01 2nd Place: Under
2:15:30 1st Place: Luiggi Spaudo
3:01:57 Weekly Challenge (Solarpunk)
3:18:38 Weekly Challenge (Mirror)
3:32:13 Outro
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[@ThePhonk]

So much to learn. Could have watched 3.5 hours breakdown and q&a for each of the scenes.

[@MaxChe]

Surprisingly, most of the works are created in Blender, it's amazing! Clint seems to consider switching to blender every time he sees how convenient it is to work in blender, compared to C4D it does have some very handy tools, I think by combining them together you can achieve a good speed of work.

[@Ablumz]

There is not that much different between Blender and Maxon One, you can do just about everything the same between both of those, albeit with slightly different workflows, C4D is easier to learn from what I've heard, Blender is free vs $2k/year of Maxon. Other than that all you need is Houdini for Procedural/Accurate simulation work and Unreal engine for real time work.

[@peterblake988]

No wonder, Blender is the software of social networks

[@DarrinNoNAME]

Man I was hoping that Robin showed more of the blender scenes… but awesome stuff..

[@MichaelHurdleStudio]

Well done guys. Really great work here. There are so many amazing hidden 3D artists out here.

[@scambankrunfraud]

Wow, I didn't _node_ you can do that with Blender ;) ;) :D

[@poopiecon1489]

which part ??

[@scambankrunfraud]

@@poopiecon1489 idk I haven't actually watched the blender part yet

[@martin231181]

That joke is so bad that it’s funny ;)

[@dianaliashchenko616]

Alex did so much work, it's so impressive 😮

[@Les3srcm]

Luigi is also goated

[@abuelufx]

😃

[@ggwp1462]

thank u for ur hard work!!

[@Les3srcm]

Manuel is so goated

[@Soumik.Pixels]

This would have been my 6th consecutive participation, but i did not get time to get into it. Amazing works made as always. @Pwnisher man you rock ❤

[@jayk4985]

各位藝術家的指導，我有盡力的感受，在現在社會流行的Ai造成的心理影響，可能有人不喜歡，但我個人覺得每位藝術工作者的STYLE是不同的😊

[@skully959]

where's the blender stuff at? 😭

[@ADUuniverse]

clint is like oh man most of them are pro blender users am i the only noob?

[@T1murVandal]

I made my first donut 🍩 following the tutorial. Watching all this makes me sad.

[@martin231181]

Everyone started with a “donut”

[@Ablumz]

It's disappointing that Robin with his great wall clip didn't speak on the fact that he changed his great wall composition/shape to match that of the other guy's great wall submission after when confronted about the similarity between his render and that one he said he matched the composition because he liked the other guy's composition more than his own. Don't get me wrong, 99% of the work is Robin's, he worked extremely hard and he did a beautiful job with his render, but on principle, I would be very annoyed if any element of something I do gets copied without credit where it is due. At least the other guy doesn't seem to mind.

[@SpaceGhostNZ]

Tl:dw which one is the best to learn and don't say "whichever one is right for you"

[@mdoz]

don't learn whichever is not right for you.

[@SpaceGhostNZ]

​@@mdozoh you clever scoundrel!

[@abuelufx]

In my experience and nowadays i would say Blender, it is free and you can find a lot of help on internet :) But its always good to try so you can see for yourself which one works best for you. I have tried 3DMax - Maya - Cinema4D - Softimage and i can tell you I love Blender ❤

[@Ablumz]

There is not that much different between Blender and Maxon One, you can do just about everything the same between both of those, albeit with slightly different workflows, C4D is easier to learn from what I've heard, Blender is free vs $2k/year of Maxon. Other than that all you need is Houdini for Procedural/Accurate simulation work and Unreal engine for real time work.

[@oBCHANo]

If you want a job, Cinema4d or Maya with Houdini. If you don't have the money for those, just you know, find them somewhere because while Blender is free it's currently still not used outside of a few small studios.

[@brentpolk2431]

So I was right in saying these "winners" are ringers, not amateurs. See why waste your time with this channel.

[@slavsit7600]

wdym?

[@hundredfireify]

Doesn't mean you can't take the opportunity to learn. I don't participate myself because I don't know the slightest thing about 3d anything. I find the entries all super creative and inspiring, even those that don't make top 100

[@Ablumz]

I know at least one person who made top 100 and started Blender 4 months ago and 3d as a whole 10 months ago. Your comment has negative value to anyone outside of yourself. It seems as though you are trying to make yourself feel good. I hope it helped you at least.

[@tonywood2283]

What exactly are you angry about here...? The best entries won.

[@Ablumz]

@@tonywood2283 I have a theory that he entered and expected to get in after he convinced himself that he is an amateur prodigy. Then, when he didn't get in, he needed to convince himself that the reason is because only veterans are considered.