as a complete newb to 3d, is it at all worth it to learn anim8or, or should I go straight into blender?

did you find anim8or easy to learn or use?

if anyone does regularly use anim8or here or had used it, what do you think of it?

>>1015142 (OP)
Use anim8or learn the basics and when ready learn Maya through the free 30 day trial. Watch their free tutorial videos on rigging, animation and UV. Then on the last day you can start the test for certificate and be better than someone who spent years on Blender.

Final step fake your student ID with photoshop or something related to photo editing software. Get Maya free for a year.

>>1015146
>Pretending like you can learn 3D in 30 days
>Advising to fake documents, scamming, pirating stuff, acting like a nigga
>All that to prove that Maya is supposedly so much better than Blender.
Wow, what great advice ...

>>1015142 (OP)
I can't give you any advice regarding Anima8or, because I haven't used it. But knowing how Blender works, I can definitely recommend it for starters. Not only does it have tons of tutorials for whatever you are trying to create, but also receives significant updates on a regular basis and is absolutely free and you can sell your work, because its run under the GPU license. Blender is very versatile and its great for exploring the world of 3D until you find something specific you want to go in depth (like modeling, texturing, sculpting, animating, VX etc.).

If you are looking for animations specifically, Blender is totally capable of it, though its often described as lacking and hard to get into. There are probably better tools available. However, they require subscriptions and what not. Unless you want to work as an animator professionally and make a living out of it, I wouldnt really recommend bothering with those expensive tools.

If you intend to install Blender, I'd suggest to wait with the download until a couple days, because a new update will be available on the 15th July (version 4.5.0) that will add layered animations to Blender, which can improve the workflow for animation creation significantly,

>>1015147
>Pretending Blender works as a alternative
>Leave out critical information like awful UI that also hides important tools
>Tutorials being outdated or not in current versions thus breaking people’s will to 3D model.
Shut up cultists, those “updates” are never helpful and always break something. There’s no blog or website that tell us the Blender’s foundation changes to Blender.

Blender can only do basic things, as you stated it can not be good enough for animation. Sculpting is also another flawed tool set that can’t handle polygons. Rigging is awful, once again only basic things, don’t learn to cheat by simply using rigfty it will never be compatible with Unity or others. UV is a joke, you better off using Affinity Photo.

Don’t listen to the blender cultists, there are free YouTube video tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHmAXsicpLK2EHMZo5_BtDA

Autodesk gets their money from corporate America so why should you care about their flaw ID checks for a software that cost nothing to download for them.

>>1015148
It's hilarious how retarded you are. Keep up the comedy routine, I love reading it.

>>1015148
>cultist
are you that one chinese loser, who keeps spamming the same nonsense over and over in other threads too?
Get a grip on life and stop advising people to engage in criminal activity.

Anim8or is how I started when I was a kid. If you're unsure if it's something you'll actually like doing, follow anim8or's tutorials. If you're certain, I wouldn't bother with it and go straight to Blender. Blender Guru has fantastic free tutorials on his youtube.

>>1015142 (OP)
See OP, cultists like actions with false information and nothing to stand their ground. The Blender community is well known for their toxicity and lies.

>>1015153
>"Blender community is toxic and lies"
>Keeps promotes faking student IDs to use Maya
Kek, get some help

>>1015154
>>1015150
Has if Blender community is safe from the same criticism. Paid plugins are always being pirated. Another example of crimes committed by Blender community is using it to grab in-game assets from mainstream games. Something Maya is not capable of doing because of anti-licensing rules. One other criminal activity blender allows people do is use stolen assets, transform it with prompts and publish without work done, oh wait it’s called AI generated art.

>>1015156
Making up lies to distract from previous claims now? Good job.

imagine you miserable losers argueing over software on 4chins instead of going outside, having sex and enjoying life with whatever software you want.

>>1015164
What are you? A microsoft paint user? Go kick some rocks ...

>>1015150
Funny coming from the guy who spam blender into everything and can take critcism. Keep deflecting anything is better then your blender religion.

>>1015164
Tell that to the blender cultist his spam everything with blender and can't take critcism.dgmv8

>>1015142 (OP)
there's no reason to not use blender for the sake of the available tutorials

>>1015176
There is a lot of reason to not use blender stop feeding them lies cultist.

>>1015142 (OP)
Anything is better then blender that software is full of unworkable shit and there community is a religious cult. If you want to learn a new 3d software learn cinema 4d.

>>1015169
>>1015170
>>1015178
>anons advising for blender are one person
Thanks for confirming that you are retarded.
On this entire board you are the only delusional nutjob, that keeps spewing the same crap with your "blender cultists" all over the place and shitting up every thread.

>>1015142 (OP)
>anim8or
LOL might as well learn Hash Animation Master or something equally esoteric

>>1015182
> say the cultist with multiple personality
Kek

>>1015157
Pirated plugins are real anon, blender Reddit communities are created because of people like you who are too obsessed with the perfect Blender instead of helping the developers or plugin creators.

People have used Blender to steal assets from games this will never not be true. Lastly, AI Blender is real https://blender-addons.org/blendergpt/

See how stupid you sound cultist.

>>1015200
>chatgpt
blender was always for zoomzooms with how to do X quickly in under 5 minutes

>>1015142 (OP)
I don't think anim8or is bad but if you are starting then start with blender right away transitioning later to blender would be just unnecessary pain.