- Feb 17, 2021
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Bumpy is an understatement. 26Region, Sumthindifrnt; they excel at animation. Not rendering, not modeling. The sets, the models they use were ripped, rigged, and or modeled by other people. SFM allows them to put all of those together and make it work because all those assets are ripped straight from the game. Blender is a whole new toolset that you'd need atleast a year of dedicated investment in learning. You can't really balance that while trying to push content out in a new software. The creators that use Maya/Blender like Nyl, Wildeer, Animopron,G_B probably have a background in the 3D industry, or atleast went to a school for it. Nyl and Wildeer know how to use the software but also make/modify the models to work best in those software Not only that, they personally work on the models used to animate themselves, so they have enough polygons to work with, they paint the weight correctly when rigging, they have/generate the texture maps, they probably render out the passes and composite it in Nuke or Aftereffects. It's unfortunate that those animators do not share much of their workflow.
26Region transitioning to Blender would be the deathknell for his brand in the long term. Learning Blender takes time no matter the documentation. Even then, the main goal is too match the aesthetic as if the animation came from the game; otherwise it would be jarring like watching anime where they use CGI characters along side the hand drawn bits. It's also why Zone-Sama was successful because he made his animations look like they came from whatever show. All respect to 26Region, but if you think him transitioning to Blender will lead him to be as quality of Nyl, Wildeer, KisX,G_B you are delusional as he would need to learn a new pipeline, prep the models to work optimally. Those guys went into the scene already having the knowledge of Maya/Blender. He definitely can, but it will take a significant amount of time and he would bleed subs doing so.
