Why Blender 4.0 Is Amazing For Motion Graphics!

There are a few updates I think are amazing for motion graphics artists in the new Blender 4.0! I'm going to talk about my favorites today!
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🔥 Topics Explored:
1. **Voronoi Node**: Get a comprehensive breakdown of the new Voronoi node and discover how it can add intricate details and patterns to your motion graphics projects.
2. **Compatibility, Backwards, and Forwards**: Learn how Blender 4.0 ensures compatibility with previous versions while offering forward-looking features that empower your creative journey.
3. **Quality of Life Updates**: Explore time-saving features like "Save Incremental" and the all-new "Sheen" feature in the Principled node that streamline your workflow.
4. **Subsurface Materials**: Uncover the enhanced capabilities of subsurface materials, enabling you to achieve more realistic and captivating textures in your motion graphics.
5. **AGX Color Space**: Delve into the new AGX color space, opening up possibilities for richer and more vibrant color rendering in your projects.
6. **UV for Lights and Light Linking**: Discover how Blender 4.0 brings UV functionality to lights, offering precise control over lighting in your motion graphics scenes. Plus, explore the benefits of light linking for tailored illumination.
7. **Viewport Compositing**: Get hands-on with the groundbreaking viewport compositing feature, allowing you to fine-tune your compositions in real-time.
🎨 Whether you're a seasoned motion graphics pro or just starting your creative journey, these Blender 4.0 updates will revolutionize the way you work. Stay at the forefront of motion design by watching this video!
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[@kennyfully88]

I'm a web and app developer. I started using Blender because I was tired of not being able to get the right stock photos ans videos when needed. I've started loving how much fun it was to do things like simulations, character creation, making perfect loops etc. Yeah, I think putting in the time to learn Blender is worth it.

[@ALOKSHARMAMD]

+1 bro i had the same issue, i am still learning it though

[@mapuiachama2433]

L/

[@user-hf3ul8rf7n]

No, blender is not very good at creating characters, especially realistic characters. Blender is an animation, rendering, polygon modeling and shading program. The sculpted characters are almost awfully bad.

[@kennyfully88]

@@user-hf3ul8rf7n sounds like a skill issue on your end. You should get better.

[@user-hf3ul8rf7n]

@@kennyfully88 If you think I am incompetent at making sculptures, I suggest you look at the content on my Channel. I have been working in the Blender program for 5 years, the sculpting level is terrible.

[@EarthKingPrime]

Lightlinking and glare is really what was missing! Maya lightlinking was the only reason I preferred that. Blender gets better every patch

[@TheDucky3D]

I agree

realtime glare was actually available since 3.5

[@EarthKingPrime]

@ did not know that!

@@EarthKingPrime yep, the only issue with the realtime glare is that never matches with the final result :r

[@AyushBakshi]

Don't know bro.. in production maya light linking always been hit or miss for me.. It doesn't even work with USDs.

[@christopher3d475]

The Principled BSDF has received some pretty significant updates. It's now properly energy conserving which is a really big deal.

[@TheDucky3D]

It’s awesome

[@3dvfxprofessor]

And the IOR drives the fresnel now like know from ARNOLD.

[@TrueXiarno]

What does "energy conserving" means?

[@TysonBrazilleYHWH]

@@TrueXiarno my guess is how much processing it takes to use a material based on "Principled BSDF". This is probably been modified to use less of your CPU/GPU

[@danielbarros8299]

​@@TrueXiarnoit means objects can't reflect more light than comes in...

[@_blender_man_]

wow! Thanks a lot for such a deep overview of some new features in 4.0 B. Awesome man!

[@user-uu1vq7wt4w]

Hey @Ducky3D the Nike model in your video was made by me. I saw you purchased my model from CGTrader. As a person who learnt Blender from your video it's really amazing to see my own model in your video. 😁😁😁😁

[@TheDucky3D]

Dude that’s so cool!! It’s such a good model man!!

[@user-uu1vq7wt4w]

​@@TheDucky3DHey thank you soo much.

[@leecaste]

@@user-uu1vq7wt4w I’m curious, can you make profit from Nike’s intelectual property?

[@yotcprod]

Amazing as always! Thank you for the update!

[@TheDucky3D]

I’m glad you liked it

[@Didjelirium]

I'm happy they removed the step of clicking on Search when adding nodes cos I could never get used to it and I always started typing right away, which always lead me to having some random nodes popping in...so it added at least 3 or 4 extra steps for me each time. This is one of those tiny changes that are actually a real time-saver for sure ! Thanks for putting that video together once again !

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for the updates! Also congrats on half a million subs! 🥳

[@TheDucky3D]

Thanks dude! Love your material videos!!

[@Sandor3D]

thx i really needed a quick update from the new features

[@Sk8Wine]

Thanks for the new materials!!! :D

[@Mrflippyfloop]

Fantastic update!!!

[@BlenderDaily]

great overview, thank you!

[@latentspacex]

layer weight was such a tucked away and hidden feature, glad to see it pop out more now

[@TheDucky3D]

Me to!! Makes my life easier

[@nafiz2755]

thanks for the heads up Ducky!

[@KevinMarchese]

An amazing topic I’d keep watching you for, but I love your videos regardless 🙌

[@TripTilt]

cool summary! I really dig the new snapping features you didn't even mention, but I didn't know about that sheen and subsurf news, I really got to try that, thanks for showcasing that, that sheen coloring look really surreal cool, totally my thing :)

[@cleverpoly]

Loved the video... I've been seeing posts about these updates but this helps :)

[@chicao.do.blender]

great video, loved it

[@onurnidayi]

Thanks for the video bro :)

[@noriega211]

Im downloading 4.0 now❤❤. This tutorial gave me the confidence finally download it.

[@Ferodra]

The incremental saving feature already was present in the pie menu, actually! If you have pie menus enabled, Ctrl+S allows you to choose between a regular save and an incremental save. Really useful stuff

[@TheDucky3D]

Ahhh okay!

[@zbop220]

Yep Ferodra is right. Blender has had Save Incremental for quite a while now, but it was in Save As, a little + button next to where to type the file name. One of those super hidden features they never tell you about. Happy to have it a dedicated button for it now!

[@JCtheMusicMan_]

Your wealth of knowledge and skills in Blender is 🤯 I have so much to learn 😅 Phenomenal and quick presentation of the new features and shortcuts! You know your craft well!❤

[@TheDucky3D]

Thanks I’m glad you liked it man

[@akanatinayoutube]

Good that realtime materials is still working, I use it every day!

[@sebastianodibusti]

Thnx for this tutorial ducky 🙂🙌🏻

[@TheDucky3D]

Any time!

[@xDaShaanx]

I have been using the light linking feature and results are so so soo good.

[@CarlosGarcia-tf3hm]

Excelente tutorial!! Hermoso reloj!!

[@TheDucky3D]

Thank you

[@Frostroomhead]

Thank you!

[@dadafemi1005]

I'm so much excited about the viewport glare too. I was also using octane which became costly.

[@santabeats5650]

Finally ! real-time composition view is great.

[@triology612]

Blender did pretty good with 4.0. Can’t wait! Love your tutorials by the way

[@TheDucky3D]

Thank you!

[@romualdoandrade4527]

Ansioso pelo blender com motion graphic design e junção com after effects ❤

[@nic-ori]

👍Thank you. Useful information.

[@TheDucky3D]

Thanks!

[@Iwantapplez109]

if you have muscle memory with the search bar, you can activate the search bar by pressing space. take a a bit to get down but you'll get used to it

[@Relax-kb7tf]

Dang, this is awesome! This is why Blender is going to be the best creator software. It has so many features and it's so easy to learn compared to other software. And by the way, I love your products, man, and your tutorials are amazing.

[@DasBilligeAlien]

Incremental Saving is a Blender feature since i started. So way over 10 years ago. Apparently the community forgot about it, which is interesting. And makes clear these changes where very needed. Its curious how basically the first thing i learned when starting with blender got completly lost over time. HEre is old more complicated way: - go to "file" - "save as" or press crtl-shift-s - press the little plus sign next to the name hit enter or press "save as" so its 2 clicks more and not easy to find on your own. But it was very common community knowledge. So i think that's why i took so long to implement. Blender grew so much it just got lost with the generational shift with new teachers.

[@luftschloss5862]

I was wondering too:D

[@kaesekrustechannel]

my man doing the lord work here, thank you!

[@SonnuX]

Good stuff! I'm really liking how Agx looks so might be a convert now. And of course for me the biggest thing is having Light Linking, dear lord is it annoying without.

[@SenJacob]

Now I got why you are much better in blender than us normal folks. We are spending very much time and could not learn blender fully. You have been talking for 8 minutes and your time has not moved a bit ;) Jokes apart, its a great 8min overview and thank you for sharing the great tutorials with us to learn!

[@TheDucky3D]

Haha good one!

[@kwamijayden321]

Thank you 🎉

[@TheDucky3D]

Ur welcome!

[@WhateverOwO]

I love this omg

[@Gandolf50]

Oh my, that Sheen, that just made my day! That is something that I have wanted for ages. No more adding sheen and wondering where is it?

[@tutebonecco8768]

You're the best ducky ty!

[@TheDucky3D]

Thanks man!

[@gracefulPainter]

I'm in love!

[@gingerbearhaus]

OMG finally, Not having light linking was so ridiculous. THanks you Blender!

[@DerFinder]

Thanks for the video! Although I heard about everything by now this is a very good collection of the best features and why you want to use them. 4.0 is an awesome update!! still no update to texture painting :'(

[@vishisht8688]

Man I want that light setup you use to showcase your materials. It helps look materials for any object far better.

[@TheDucky3D]

A 3 point light set up with a HDRI at a low setting

[@vishisht8688]

@@TheDucky3D thanks. Will it be asking more of me if I will ask to see a proper demonstration. I know about 1 light setup due to polyfjord as he did that in detail. Will be great to see how everything works while working in 3d with 3 point light and hdri settings.

[@myztazynizta]

Glare when applied to the final render still uses the old glare code while viewport glare shares code with Eevee glare. That means your final render compositing won't match your viewport compositing

[@DonChups]

light linking ❤

[@ItsWesSmithYo]

Yo Ducky, thanks for the cool updates. I learned from a bunch of your audio visualizers in the past and I’m on your Patreon. Potential topic for you…Blender still seems limited in audio sync. F-curves are cool but that’s limited to waveform interpretation, not individual actions you want to sync and still, controls are so so, mostly by splitting freq ranges. Has anything improved with making actions happen related to music in the timeline? Some of the node tools you used were cool but still slip from audio grid because the video frame rate is always different than the audio time signature. I’ve explored a lot but still find it extremely time consuming to get Blender to cooperate with Music for a professional result. The default seems to be that you would change your audio to suit Blender. If any improvements, would love a vid on that. Thanks. 🖤🍭🫶😎

[@morizanova]

I would love if you re make one or two of your popular tutorial with those new features so we can really digging that something really change our way to build scenes Thanks again . I would not really understand or decide to learn Blender if not watching any of your tutorials

[@caste215]

Two things mentioned there I use in 3.6 so they are preset for current LTS users, my search in 3.6 always shows the last thing I searched at the top of the list. Second thing is glare in viewport compositing does work. Last one is kind of on the fence, but there is technically incremental save, it's just under Save As, little plus sign on the side of the file name. But having it's own menu command/shortcut is definitely more convenient

[@Lightly_Salted]

You’re right Glare does work in 3.6 but it’s broken. It creates a different level of effect in the viewport compared to the render. Hopefully they’ve fixed this in 4.0

[@SupperGammer]

It's a simple explanation why. Glare node, like many other (if not all) compositing nodes is relative to the render size. The bigger the render size the smaller the effect and vice versa. Since the viewport render tends to be smaller sized (in terms of resolution) than the final render you get such effect. Same goes for the transform node and probably a bunch of others. This might be solved if the node was resolution aware and scaled the effect based on the ratio between current render size and the one set for output. @@Lightly_Salted

[@Lightly_Salted]

I have read somewhere that it’s being worked on, my workaround in the meantime has been to set up a ‘preview glare’ node and a ‘render glare’ node and switch between them at render time. It’s annoying if you forget to switch it though!

[@maxim_si]

SHIFT + A AND IMMEDIATELY TYPING IS AWESOME

[@matthewclarke7318]

Thanks Ducky you're the best 👍... missed your cat though 😀

[@oneaspiringartist5822]

@Ducky3D I'm having a great time just modelling and making small scenes in 4.0. Somewhat touched on procedural materials but when I noticed the older shaders I've made (about 124 shaders) work ok so I'm not in a rush to make new ones. Also mine doesn't have the Agx set up. I don't know why.

[@raw_pc]

Can’t wait for the stable version of 4.0. Hyped!🥵

[@TheDucky3D]

Hopefully soon!!

[@velocityfpv5231]

the only thing that stops me moving to blender is the ability to change subdivision on primitives/ wireframe geometry attributes after they've been applied. In cinema4d it's so good to adjust throughout the project and it does my head in when I try out blender. If there is a way to replicate this workflow i'd move over straight away

[@alexmattheis]

Cool stuff.

[@TheDucky3D]

Thanks

[@virginiacarvalho7378]

Came here for the cool features and got punched in the face with the most simple and comprehensive explanation of voronoi in less than a minute. Amazing video!

[@iO-Sci]

Ye ! The visuals are very tranquil and amazing in this update 예, 이것의 영상은 조용하고 놀랍습니다!

[@sacifair]

Where can I get that wonderful shaderball mate? Looks gorgeous!

[@charlespayne5826]

I work with Apple Motion and Blender with the M1 Mac…the update seems to work much better with The M1 now…exciting 💪🏽💪🏽

[@kairon156]

As someone just starting out this sounds quite exciting. For my first year I just want to learn how the UI works and what most of the terms mean. the 2nd year I may get into character design and animation.

[@TysonBrazilleYHWH]

If you are putting in enough hours on a weekly bases, that first year you'll more than likely start working with the tools well ahead of your 2nd year. Terms will often come and go and is oftentimes based on relevancy to the work that you ultimately plan to focus upon.

[@kairon156]

​@@TysonBrazilleYHWHFor now this is simply a hobby as I like learning things at my own pace. With that said roughly 6 weeks in and I've been able to learn a lot about the UI thanks to already knowing Gimp as well as having fun with the Unreal Engine a few years back. I'm currently working on remaking my apartment in low poly and it's quite fun. By terms I mean learning what Extrude and Inseat do. While others I can learn the context based on other art programs I've known. Lighting and textures are things I feel will be very important for most projects.

[@Ziaddkhaledd]

Interesting!

[@cbengua]

Awesome! But I thought this time blender would announce some type handling enhancement. Bevelling, twisting, bending types is still awkward.

[@NightVisionOfficial]

With all this stuff (i manly like the rework of the Principled bsdf), i cant wait for the release of 4.0

[@TheMegaMinx]

Ducky probably the best begiiner-teaching blender youtuber to be!

[@TheDucky3D]

Thanks

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

Check out cross mind studios beginner tutorial you will be shocked 😎

[@one23neo]

Not probably, he's simply the best period.

[@kylejennings819]

Just letting you know, blender does have a feature called un subdivide. It works but i think your mesh needs all quads

[@MudraptorGaming]

It does work pretty well, but it does mess up in some cases for no discernable reason

[@Infinity_3D_N1]

Ducky Please make an emission that moves to the beat of the music in your next videos

[@MediaGraphica]

So, sadly the iridescence is still in development (and cool light caustics). I hope it will be realized for Principled shader at least. Thanks for preview!

[@LeiffNathanAMendoza]

TRUE AWESOME KUDOSES...

[@djtomoy]

I’m still using 2.8 and it’s fine

[@madrobots7919]

I'm waiting for camera morph to be added and I'll switch from cinema 4d to blender))

[@molecularcgi]

Wasn't viewport Glare there since Blender 3.4 or something? Is there anything new about it or am I missing something? However the light linking feature and the tint effect is awesome!

[@usimortis1940]

Hello Ducky, really love your content. I know you've been asked this a lot but would you actually recommend blender for motion design now or should I learn Cinema4D(without any other engine). I have worked some with both but I find Blender gets better and better plus it's free and I really don't want to start paying for C4D to use redshift and other stuff( I am not a professional so I don't want to buy it)

[@hudbud22]

blender can do it all

[@FlameForgedSoul]

Lovely, but if they're really going to lean into becoming more like Houdini(that bit at the beginning is a direct correlation to OTLs in Houdini) then they need to lean all the way in and allow tweaking afrer the fact.

[@jakejake6029]

Blender is trully god send

[@SendelStudio]

Where is the text to 3d option ?

[@Fahama]

There is one issue. The glare in the viewport and the glare in the final render is miles apart. The intensity is all wrong for some reason, it's not even close to what's being shown in the viewport ;(

[@one23neo]

My Mac is too old for this update but I'm watching this anyways 😢. I think I can't go higher that 3.3.2 Ducky3D you're awesome

[@phat80]

So buy a new one! You can even buy a windows machine much cheaper.

[@Desireshoping]

perfect

[@ahmedkhalil1396]

nice video they still need to work in glare the bad thing they made blender auto delete materials you don't use there should be option for that i made some nice test set but nex day all gone only one is on they still need to work in deformer effects and cloner with nice random and timer effect for dust or making fast butterflying animation as c4d

[@mistube]

Hey Ducky. theres alot of talk about filmic and now the new agx color management, and its all good. however when doing motion graphics i cometimes do stuff where a client can be very picky on logo colors, on a part of logo or background of logo and so on, however, when using Filmic, it can be very hard to get the correct RGB color on an object, and sometimes i can use hours to try to adjust it to get close, cause when i just paste in the normal rgb for the color it looks noware near it in render, do to light / reflections and Filmic settings, and some say, you need to use Standart then, but then light blows so easely and you miss alot of the soft lovely look that filmic gives...... How do you cope with this problem doing motion graphics, how do YOU get exact colors using filmic in blender, or do you edit and adjust in post in photoshop og edit after ? and how is AGX on this topic vs filmic and getting correct colors in situations like this ?

[@TysonBrazilleYHWH]

Great question for the community as well. My guess is developing a reliable post processing system, which can be pulled off internally as well. I suppose motion graphics falls under the umbrella of the color grading process?

[@BeefjerkyMusic]

Maybe look into colour grading, like in DaVinci resolve or something, idk I don't know nothing

[@shehranamin005]

Hi there just let you know that the cinema 4d has the light include or exclude option or what you called here the light linking.

[@marciobiza9384]

WOW

[@berkaytemel0]

Thanks to Foundry Modo. We all have that stuff(light linking etc.) from 5 years. 😇

[@scul.f.6781]

When will Blender 4.0 be released out of beta?

[@epicjonny155]

The Glare was already available to be used especially in cycles

[@Pulse2AM]

Love your tutorials! can you explain why eevee's reflections are messed up? I have a model that was working great in 3x the when I opened it in 3.6 everything is super glossy! I can't figure out the problem.

[@myztazynizta]

You probably need to change your IOR. The principle bsdf node has changed drastically. Values that you might have accidentally changed with no visual effect now have a huge visual effect. For example I have an old scene full of geometry imported from an old PlayStation game. The import plugin automatically created all the materials with an IOR of zero. That wasn't a problem on any materials except for glass. Now it's a problem for every material in 4.0

[@carlsonbench1827]

How would I add the Oklab colour wheel to Blender ?

[@imakegreateggs]

I'm still waiting on a way to import point cloud data with attributes via Alembic or some way to bring particles with custom attributes from Houdini into Blender. Such a shame.

[@atimagalleries]

Hello @TheDucky3D, do you have any tutorial on 2d motion graphics that you could recommend? Thanks

[@TreyCoursey]

Can you confirm your viewport GLARE doesn't look like your RENDERED/COMPOSITED Glare? Meaning what you see in the viewpoert with live compositing turned on....isn't what you see when you get a final render. Glare/Fog Bloom like you show in your video will not look the same (in intensity) on your render... Nice video...hope you can confirm or point me to why mine isn't looking the same.

[@manikrishnareddy5276]

Does this version work in HP Envy x360 Laptop?

[@S9universe]

I dare you to make a crazy mograph using all those crazy materials tweaks possible now. Just wow us bruh.

[@mathiaspfuetzner]

Did you play with the 4.1 alpha and ever next, yet? What do you think?

[@TheDucky3D]

I haven’t touched it yet

[@ALOKSHARMAMD]

Hello i have a query , my current rig is single gpu rtx 4080 super (16gb), if i get a new gpu say rtx 4090 24 gb will this be helpful in rendering animation or should i stuck with same make and model for this. my rig can support upto 3 gpus.

[@incaroads001]

Hey Ducky3D, will you update your motion graphics course to use the cool new effects? P.S. I think they might have included that recent search feature at some point, because I searched for something (I forget what) and, when I did it again, that last search was top of the list.

[@TheDucky3D]

Yes I’m releasing the updated version in January. Anybody who purchased the current version will be getting that one for free!

[@arbi018]

im still waiting for them to make a physical camera, so we can use real camera parameters in blender

[@RiverHeights]

Is 4.0 out yet?

[@catwithlonghair1850]

wow