Listen buddy, im still on the donut stage.

Do not overlook this video or complain that it's "not a tutorial" ... this might be one of the most valuable videos on the Blender Guru channel.

This is great! I'm intermediate at Blender. I'm only a few minutes through and have learned a handful of things I didn't know

Hey Blender Guru!! I am not that of an experienced artist but this might help with your render times for future large projects like this. At 14:41 when you were talking about render times, one thing that would drastically improve your render times is weight painting, in this scene the ground assets were scattered everywhere, which means that there were trees and plants that the camera would never be able to see, so after finalizing your camera movement, by drawing a weight paint mask only on where the camera would see the assets won't pe placed out of sight and thus your PC won't have to calculate light and geometry that won't be visible.... This has saved me tons of hours of rendering and hope it will be useful for you too!!

“..here’s the final animation” *car ad plays* Me: wow, this looks nothing like the wip renders!

I'm sorry but I only read "building a cabin in the woods in 15 minutes" And was impressed But now I'm even more impressed

This animation has inspired me to work 4 times as hard at blender and learning it and has given me a TREMENDOUS amount of confidence thank you so much I can’t wait to make some truly incredible stuff and show it off

I’m just here to reassure myself that I definitely don’t want to learn a new skillset

love the format, great work as always

Him: 250 renders overnight My pc: three take it or leave it.

Thank you for this! It is incredibly encouraging for new people to see that the pros go through challenges and doubt as well.

WOW, that part about starting from scratch after the discovery stage caught me off guard! I do that all the time and i feel guilty because part of me feels like I was giving up, but you've just helped me understand exactly why I do that. That is incredible, thank you so much!

Andrew: "in 15 minutes" Also Andrew: "...so i went to sleep"

I hope Blender Guru will make a tutorial about himself someday. He's the most realistic virtual UKpostsr I've ever seen.

What a fantastic channel, it's so refreshing to hear someone talk honestly about their process and about the sheer amount of time it takes to produce something that looks as stunning as this, what a great host too, brilliant work!

I learned so much watching this, and it made me feel way better about starting my own 3D Artist journey. Thank you.

It's amazing how the human mind can tell apart even this from reality, you can always tell that something is off no matter what you do

[...] I've been obssesed with the idea of isolated houses. [...] *baby cries in the background*

I love seeing your blender material and seeing this video inspires me to not just copy and paste a tutorial, but to really try and explore whenever I can with my own scenes. Thanks for the inspiration!

I am awed by this! Your honesty and the fact that you - like I think most of us - restart from scratch cause you make mistakes when you plan and create at once! Feel very inspired after watching this video and lots less of a failure. Very generous for such a great creator to share this with us. (And I am lucky, the geometry nodes are here now.)

"15 minutes" "2-3 weeks of full-time work"

I am very new to Blender and I thought creating something like this takes a professional artist couple of hours at max. I would still be on planting trees 5 days later and then abounded the project thinking I am very bad at it. Knowing it took you over 3 weeks to make this speaks very loud about what it takes to get the final render. Most tutorials make things look easy and us noobs get discouraged when it doesn't go as we would expect. Point is, keep trying until it works. Thank you for your awesome videos man!

Not a 3D artist in the slightest but I love how you support your community with the videos that you make. Its really cool to see the process that it takes to make the final product!

This is awesome. Thanks for showing us your process and more importantly, how you overcame each problem. As a beginner in blender, I look up to your work and hope to reach your level someday. It will take me years and a lot of re doing and doing it all over again but this is something I want to master. thanks again

Oh my god, the RNG overnight technique is just brilliant.

That “random camera” is a very interesting technique 😲

Amazing, I truly thought that it was easy for you putting tutorials together. It does make me feel better now when you explained how much trial and error that you have to deal with. I had given up for a while after about 10 years watching you on UKposts. Thank you

I'm finally working my way back through my "Watch Later" list that's been growing for nearly a year while I've barely been on UKposts, and I'm on this one to start off my Monday morning. Honestly, it's exactly what I needed for all the reasons you detailed at the beginning. As much as I love watching and following along with tutorials, it can definitely make you feel like you're not doing well enough in your art. I've gotten to a point where even getting up the motivation to follow a tutorial is a struggle with my limited free time after work each day, so I've been feeling like my growth as an artist is stagnating. It's hard to feel accomplished when almost all the art you feel like doing is a tutorial project that thousands of other people have also done. All this to say, thank you for making this to show us all the work that goes in to making these scenes and videos. Not only does it give me a new appreciation for the level of commitment and care it must take for someone to create tutorials in the first place, but it also shows that even the pros struggle sometimes. It makes me feel a lot better about my own struggles, and I feel like I can do this level of work if I find the time and put my mind to it.

hope to create scene in 15 minutes, takes 3 weeks instead very indepth explanation in this video tho, thankss

It's been 9 years of watching your tutorials man :) your particle city tutorial made me quit suicidal thoughts and launched pretty succesfull CGI artist career :) Cheers!

Great insights, especially on the takeaway end. I tend to think exploring the way yourself (or watching someone explore the way with all obstacles given) is very helpful for learning and really *understanding* the Why's and not just the How's - and that's mostly more sustainable information. I enjoyed the look under the hood! Feeling inspired

I'm so happy I've found this video. And even tho I'm not a 3D artist - it relates to my job immensely It's such an important thing to remember that struggling through a hard 'R&D' project gives us tools to do it faster in future Also the idea of writing a postmortem after finishing the project is just insanely efficient and professional Kudos to you for showing me that

Thanks Andrew. Sometimes spending 2-3 weeks on a scene can feel pointless when you're scrolling through hundreds of perfect renders everyday. We need to be reminded that 5 mins of scrolling Instagram is the product of thousands of hours of artist's hard work. Definitely worth it here, its a great scene.

You’re not Andrew Price, you’re Andrew Priceless.😊 God bless you mate!

Everything after the 15 minute mark is pure gold. incredibly valuable information. thank you

I think one of the most important takeaways for new artist in this field is understanding how much time, love and effort is involved with creating a scene. Thank you Blender Guru for illustrating the effort involved. Making something beautiful isn't easy even with todays technology and tools. Anything worth doing is worth taking the time do well.

Dude this really humanizes the whole process. I thought i was the only one doing 5 thousand renders to get one scene to look even partially good. Thanks.

The Post Mortem idea was the best tip I've ever heard

I really enjoyed this video, I am a complete beginner in blender, and I mostly take very long in creating something, but watching you recreating your scene over and over again makes me feel better. Really love this video

i watched a ted talk about being/becoming a graphic artist and it seemed repetition was a big key to progress. So i have made it a point to do something in blender everyday no matter how small, and your tutorials are perfect for just that. I'm currently on the donut tutorial now. and ventured off to this video lol, looks amazing. well back @ it. have a good one.

0:09 nice

That randomized render stuff at ~6:20 is one of the coolest hacks I've ever seen in my life, such an insanely clever way to do it!

This has been the most useful tutorial on your channel so far. I've learned so much in just 17 minutes, thanks.

Thank you for the walkthrough of what you did, it makes the end result more impressive

Joke's on you , my friend. I don't have to open a new blender file to build things again. Blender does it for me when it crashes before I have saved my project. :'(

One thing: camera moves too fast, my eyes can't focus.

This was one of my first Videos I watched from you, before I even started working with Blender. And I love to come back to it every so often and watch it, to see what I learned and now understand. Love your art.

It's all about those learning steps along the way. i believe this project has made you a much better artist after all the problems you had to solve.

The patience and perfection you look for to get this type of result is inspiring the animation is a masterpiece

The 'Scatter Gun Technique'. Brilliant. So simple, and yet so effective. Also an incredible time saver.

This was absolutely rewarding watching your workflow. The times you started over, and made mistakes...Your thought process, you literally shared the entire journey with us. It's rare to see videos like these, (that I've seen) I'd love to see more, though I know it must take an immense amount of work, just to create such a piece, but also to voice record over it, and edit it. Lol bro this is insane. I appreciate the hard work you've put into this. I'm no 3D artist by any means, still learning the ins, and outs of blender, but seeing this process really helps me have more grace for myself when creating. Blessings brothers! Keep up the awesome work (Obviously I'm a year late, but nonetheless keep it up haha)

The randomized camera setup should be it's own video. That technique is incredible.

Finally someone is mentioning making "post mortem" after each project.Thank you for spreading this "basic" knowledge.

Thank you for using my rendering as a reference, im honoured. 🙂

it was definetley worth it i am applying for a university in 3d modeling and i dont know nothing about it and started learning in blender like 3 days ago and immediately hit a stump in motivation and this video gave me so much motivation and inspiration thank you man you deserve the thanks

Your knowledge dwarfs mine, but I enjoy taking baby steps in that direction. Thanks for your work.

I have never thought of randomizing the camera position and rendering so many variants of the same scenes to choose and get inspiration from, and quite frankly, it's a really great tip

Wow I needed this! Literally everytime I encounter a monumental problem with my projects that adds time to the final result, I feel like I’m an absolute beginner who doesn’t know anything even though I’ve been experimenting for 2 1/2 years.

Fantastic demo! Great tips on how to improve as an artist. What inspired me most is how you get feedback and then reiterate.

Superb !!! BG, you are a great narrator, the official Blender tutorial bored me to sleep while yours reached entertainment level. More than entertainment, you demonstrated how powerful can randomization be and how it became a tool in scene or model creation. And you showed how trial and error ( normally is impractical in 3D modelling and rendering because of its time cost ) be practically done here because of your smart approach. You open our eyes on what a person + Blender can achieve. A million thanks !!!

I appreciate the poetry in a moment in a podcast changing your perspective and making you develop a procedure to optimize getting 250 new perspective over night.

Feedback is always the key. That rendering is insane. Crazy how it still takes ages. One thing about the animation... There's no wind :P

People forgot how collaborative art is. Our minds will always try to find satisfaction in our work and the longer we work on something the quicker our minds will find it. Feedback and different perspective is key in this industy.

Great video, I am making 2023 my year for getting into blender, videos like this are great to show what can be achieved and also the process. I have a steep learning curve ahead, and the only way is up

I’m a sucker for lighting, and I love how this looks- though I do feel like the trees are a bit repetitive, having the foliage at the same level

Great overview on the whole artist process! Interesting to see the parallels to the way buildings are designed, as architects, we start over multiple times

Tutorials that move at optimal speed are not tutorials, they are egotorials. You are not interested in teaching, you are always flexing your muscles. You want us all to see what an incredible genius you are.

It's really really good. I would love to do these kinds of scenes for fun, I just never had the perseverance to spend enough time learning more than being an amateur at Blender. As for intentionally searching for something that could be improved, my gut feeling tells me the green from the trees and vines is too different from the green of the forest floor. Also, the camera with random motions for renders is genius I love it.

I feel like the person who arrives at the movies too early

This was great, both the video and the result.

I'm 1:27 seconds into this, I spent 2 years at ITT Tech doing Graphic Design and I've always felt this way, but never said anything. I also thought I was the only one that felt this way, so glad to know I'm not crazy. Excellent video, thank you very much!

This is the perfect tutorial. Work smart not like robot and leave room for experimentation.

This looks like the legendary Polish Brda House! Loosely inspired by the American "Reese House". They began getting popular starting in the late 50s as a relatively cheap summerhouse solution. Usually for rent. They fit almost any rural context and had many different iterations and variants.

I have always found real improvements and growth when starting over on a project, like you said those little mistakes compound and many times a fresh do-over makes it all happen in the end.

This is very intriguing to watch. I’ve never made anything in blender, but this made me want to learn the basics. Great work!

Absolutely Great ! I know nothing about 3D and 3D animation but I could follow the flow of this video pretty well. I'm a metalsmith, and starting with Blender, and this video introduction is very stimulating . Thank you to you and Ton, and everybody around Blender, for having created such an accessible open source tool to create and elevate the human spirit. You have a place in Heaven.

That procedural camera is a big brain move

I have very little interest in digital art like this (not sure why it come up on my feed) but I watched this whole video because I found it so relevant to any complex project. How much trial & error is involved, how just starting over sometimes is ok, how important feedback is, starting simple and building from there... so many lessons that can be extracted. I also find people's dedication to a single effort (like one scene over two-three weeks) inspiring. I have trouble focusing on a single project (no matter how excited I was at first) for more than a few days - especially when working alone and having to only account to myself. Excellent work!

Love this. Love all your videos,pure gold to me tbh. I always wanted to lear 3d modelling and animation and your way to explain is simply perfect to me. Thank you

I liked it best at 12:06. Good composition, and the lighting really seemed realistic to me. Reminded me of when I hiked in nature before the world ended.

"I've been obsessed with the idea of Isolated houses... Lately for some reason..." *Baby cries in background* "...I felt the strong urge to escape to one." U ok, Drew? :P PS: Very informal video as always!

The only thing i can say is the atmospheric effect, i dont see dust in the air, bugs,light streaks etc, but it's amazing.... sorry for my english

It's so easy as an artist to forgot most forest are managed, as alot of our inspiration is soiled with 'the human look'. While searching for that natural feel you need to think about human intervention, and how we've changed the landscapes of, well everything in one way or another. Its a main reason to my obsession with dystopia and natural scenes. Loved the video, and content in general, even as a traditional artist I'm still very drawn too and learn (sometimes through thought provoking) almost every upload.

I have been looking for the reference software for months! Glad you mentioned it

Expectation: I'll be able to make a really cool scene in just 15 mins! Reality: 15 hours in, just got started on my 2nd attempt

Donut 🍩 in 3 days Take it or leave it 😤

So many great tips here, but the camera/lighting random testing at 6:15 is brilliant!!!

Thanks for throwing the old tutorial format out. As a software engineer, learning from those was certainly useful to achieve the goal of "I made this" but it didn't help at all when I would spin up my own project and have NO idea what I was doing.

now tell him somethings feels wrong after he rendered for 60 hours and he's gonna flip xD

This dude literally got me into 3d art and I love it :D

If I didn't pursue guitar in life I think I'd just sit around making Blender scenes all day. Started with Infini-D back in the day and should have stuck with it just because I think it's so cool to bring anything you can imagine to life.

This guy, honestly, if he had his own show on TV I'd watch the hell out of it.

That's great, I would like to watch more of these "not a tutorial". It's a "How I got here".

When ur class starts the same moment this live does

Wow that really took shape quickly

Amazing skills. I love watching masters at work.

"Here's what you've been waiting for, the final animation." Ads: "Heres my part."

This was incredibly informative. I always wondered how people created such complex scenes without going insane. As a beginner its also comforting to know that using add-ons is not cheating

Love the faint baby cry in the background during that clip. I feel ya brother

This video is why I decided to try blender for my animations and artwork. I erroneously thought a few weeks of learning may see me there. You may have noticed some of my comments on your tutorials. I am nearly seventy years old, and have been an artist all my life. Now I question whether I will live long enough to produce the movie I so desperately want to make. You are the Guru, and you inspire me with your artistic eye. I have so far made a passable donut, but nothing else yet. I committed myself to learning 8 hours a day, then extended it to 14. Simply because I live in hope. Thank you heaps.