/3/ - 3DCG

Blender is a generalist 3D application that does a reasonably good job of almost anything you can think of.

A generalist application is never going to match up to a specialist application, and well-monied industries are always going to be willing to pay extra for the top tier capabilities of specialist software.

The only area I ever hear about blender seeing serious use is in medical visualisation. I don't know enough about that to tell you why that is, but imagine medical industry has very different priorities when it comes to 3D graphics.

Nope. Never gonna shake the stigma of hobbyist software.

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>>805751
Animation sucks, they are trying to hire Jason Schleifer to fix it, they need some specialist for the new node shitfest, Pablo will try to modernize the texture paint too .....

>>805751
>industry standard
>no animation layers

doesnt really need to, to be useful. It gives you a free alternative for a lot of parts of your pipeline and the better it gets the more pressure there is on commercial software to improve or at least lower prices. like with all foss software there will be retards in the fanbase, but the benefits still remain.

It is already used a lot for modeling in the industry. Not much for anything else.

>>805751
I think numerous big studios would have to switch over to Blender and hire developers to work on it for that to ever happen. I don't see that happening any time soon.

Blender might find itself the go-to program for more niche things however. Grease Pencil for example continues to see a lot of development and could replace some 2d/3d animation software.

>>805793
nla

>>805804
numerical linear algebra?

>>805809
Non Linear Animation, I guess.

>>805809
it has an editor that could work as animation layers, the nla, but the workflow is horrible as usual
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOx_SAG7gl4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-J6IDphFs0

>>805829
maybe if ur a brainlet lol maya users need their software to wipe their ass for them

>>805751
pretty slim. two things need to happen - current standards suddenly going full SaaS jew and raising the sub costs beyond the capabilities of not only individual artists but medium sized studios and blender being split into several separate specialized packages each getting their own increased donation fund

>>805751
Blender is based
>open source
>written in C
>powerful python scripting

>>805751
LMAO just like GIMP replaced Photoshop

Entirely dependant on Pixologic and Autodesk.

>>805804
not the same
there's patches to make it useful, but they're collecting dust with the rest

>>805843
To be fair, Photoshop has a huge power gap to any competitor. CG-software is more diversified and less monopolistic.

>Shitty NURBS system
>No built in retopology
>Shitty curve tools

The only thing I think it does well are the modifiers.

>>805843
To be fair GIMP is not so bad because Photoshop is barely doing anything new to revolutionize and is only pushing subscriptions for a few features nobody ever uses. Adobe as a whole has been getting worse since it went that route. It's only a few big updates away from really being a good alternative.

>>805751
Blender is not trying to become a standard. Much like Nintendo is not trying to have the most greatest and powerful console ever. I do think though it can be useful for small teams and those who are on a budget. It will get better as more people begin to contribute to it as in my view it's made huge progress in one year alone compared to the last 6.

>>805829
That's horrible. Another reason why blender can't take Maya's place.

>>805912

>>805908
GIMP is hot garbage compared to Ps. Just because adobe is ran by scummy slugs doesn't mean you have to pretend a piece of shit is good.

>>805950
How so? Explain how current day GIMP is far behind Photoshop.

>>806161
Are you fucking serious?

>>805751
Very small, because blender's goal was never to replace anything. Studios don't need generalist tools, their pipeline uses many specialized and even custom made tools instead. Blender is not bad at all, but it's also not what they need

>>806161
I don't need to explain anything to you.

>>805843
Apples to oranges. Blender is way closer to maya than gimp is to photoshop. Photoshop itself is becoming less and less relevant too. But that's another discussion.

>>806161
its too obtuse. all these bells and whistles and things are separated into two different tools or vice versa.

>>806766
>Photoshop itself is becoming less and less relevant too
Another day, another retarded post on /3/

>>805751
Never zbrush. Maya would be improbable, but not impossible.

>>806794
Like a monolithic behemoth like Autodesk will ever allow that

>>806776
you mean bell and whistle

>>805751
Highly unlikely it'll take over Substance Painter or Modo--But its sculpting might be able to compete with ZBrush in a few years. But Blender needs to fix its broken per-datablock global undo before it even becomes usable in the industry as a whole, instead of dedicated hobbyists or an office of pajeets making finger family videos in eevee.

>>806791
Nigger, I work in graphic design. Photoshop is barely ever used anymore. Not for art, not for wireframing and prototyping, not for photo processing, not for vector graphics, not for print design. It's nearly dead. Only poos use it to make booba bigger.