The site Tutorials — blender.org shows a Blender Fundamentals 2.8x
pointing to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa1F2ddGya_-UvuAqHAksYnB0qL9yWDO6
This should be updated to 3. ? or is mainly still valid ?
The site Tutorials — blender.org shows a Blender Fundamentals 2.8x
pointing to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa1F2ddGya_-UvuAqHAksYnB0qL9yWDO6
This should be updated to 3. ? or is mainly still valid ?
The basics mostly apply, yes. There might be some UI cleanups here and there that won’t exactly match the tutorial. The series should probably be updated at some point. Maybe for the current LTS (or some LTS in the future).
Maybe the description should be changed, so it does not show a first impression that it is outdated.
Possibly, but since every title includes “Blender 2.80 Fundamentals” I think it’s pretty clear.
To sum it up, only 2 videos are completely useless, 4 have an important part of them outdated, 5 could confuse viewer. Half of the remaining ones have a slight UI difference that will not annoy viewing or could benefit of mention of a new little trick. The other half does not require any update.
Basically, redoing those videos for 3.3 would mean hours of work for the whole, just to update less than a fifth of content.
Blender 3.3 is a new LTS but some basics will continue to evolve and be introduced ( Asset Browser, Viewport Compositor, EEVEE next, brush management, texture layers, etc…)
That is probably better to wait, until next LTS, blender 3.6.
Wow! Thank you for the detailed breakdown!
It more or less confirms my suspicion that most of them are still applicable.
Would be nice to see an update, maybe even before the next LTS (Blender 3.7 btw.).
about video 35 : the file mentioned about only arm’s rig is messing, i couldn’t find it so there is already problem here.
also there is no official tutorial about Grease pencil for 2D users, in fact i saw an old one but there is big changes about IU and Modifiers and some operations so and about future developments projects …
by the way, are there any plans to update the features section? Features — blender.org it is also already quite outdated
My humble opinion is, the BF shouldn’t have to provide a video tutorial series about the software each time a new “major version” is out.
Firstly because, producing even one series that widely covers the software isn’t something trivial to produce.
Secondly: since v2.80, the release numbering itself is completely unrelated to how big the changes are across versions. In other words, having a v2.9, v3.0 or whatever doesn’t mean there is a huge gap of features like we got with 2.8, and therefore isn’t an indicator of “need” for a new series to cover that change.
It’s cool that they made series for 2.7 and 2.8, and a few other topics, but it’s not a small fish to fry and it doesn’t need to be as often as every few shiny version number.
Right now the only big things really missing since v2.80 are the Asset Manager and Geo Nodes, but the community is already covering these subjects quite well, and they are basically feature under heavy works so maybe it’s a bit early to start making big official video series “just” for these.
If the BF decides to make new series anyways, I just hope they will involve the community. I’m sure there are plenty of people ready to get involved to make something for everyone.
I agree with this. Just a small note: The 2.8 series was produced by Dillon Gu, who is not part of the BF. I think in general they do a good job in getting the community involved. Like with tutorials, example files or the beloved splash screens.
Yeah, it can take a significant amount of time if the videos are actually thorough, so every two-ish years or major version release seems to be about the right cadence. Feel free to reach out if you need a community created intro series in the future as we will likely be making them at the same time anyway.