Blender Vs. Unreal Engine 5

blender versus Unreal Engine these are two incredibly powerful programs with almost Limitless potential but only one can be crowned champion which one can bring your wildest imagination to life which one can realize your Creative Vision each of these programs bring a variety of different advantages to the table so today I want to examine the categories that I have found to be most important in either award-appoint to Unreal or blending through this process we'll see which is the more capable tool before we get started we need to get something out of the way both blender and Unreal Engine were created with completely different purposes in mind however a lot of the stuff that they can do it does overlap So today we're going to look at them from the standpoint of content creation so like making videos so if you're wanting to create a game Unreal Engine is going to be the clear winner both of these are free to use so figuring out which one is going to be best for you it's going to save you a ton of time and help to streamline your entire 3D workflow okay let's go ahead and get started with our first category number one is the learning curve this is a tricky one because Unreal Engine is really easy to get started with but it's also very hard to master let me explain when you first open up unreal you can navigate to the quixel bridge Tab and start placing in assets using quixel it's super easy to create an amazing environment I mean look at how good this looks this just took me like five minutes to make but when you're adding in characters objects to interact with rigging and all the other stuff you're going to need for game design unreal quickly becomes very complicated not that it's not worth it but it's difficult to learn blender on the other hand doesn't have a built-in library system like qixel I personally gravitate towards the UI blender it's super easy and beginner friendly and it's easy to get started and progress along your blender Journey so while it doesn't have a big old boost right when you get started with the blender it's a lot easier to master the programs I'll give this point to blender our second category is community so this is a category that you would a lot of times think isn't that important but if you have an expansive Community that's built out around a program it's much easier to learn and any questions that you have that are more like detail-oriented once they're in a project you can find specific tutorials to help you through that process it's difficult to pick a winner in this category because both of these two programs have expansive communities that have grown around them so it's easy to find specific tutorials for whatever you need but if I have to pick a winner I would still pick blender it's been more mainstream for a while a lot of people use it for video production purposes unlike unreal which has really started to pick up its video production side just in the past few years I think that generally the blender Community is a little bit more expansive and has more information to offer but really it's a close call you're not going to go wrong with the community and either these two programs but I'll still give the point in this category to blender alright category number three is assets this is a really important one one of the major advantages to Unreal is its massive asset library that comes built in pre-installed and free to use I've never found an asset Library that's quite as expansive and high quality as qixel and in unreal it's completely free to use which is huge now obviously inside of blender there are amazing add-ons with like asset libraries like kit bash 3D blender kit is one that's amazing and it's free at least partially to use but they really don't compare to quicksil qixels just more expansive it has more scans it just has more stuff involved in it so I'm going to give this category to unreal unreal is the winner has more assets the fourth category is rendering this is a very important category and I think if there is a clear winner even though it's somewhat debatable blender has an amazing photo reel and engine and the Cycles Render engine but when you compare that with unreal it's very slow and even though you're going to get amazing results sometimes the frames can take two or three or four minutes to roll in depending on the level of your graphics card and the complexity of your scene well for most of the same scene if you have that unreal it's going to be rendering that in real time which is very difficult to keep up with blender does have Eevee which is a real-time render engine but it doesn't really hold a candle to what unreal is able to do unreal on the other hand uses a game engine style of rendering it has a lumen and nanite built into it which vastly speeds up the process and lets you render way faster so even though for Quality if you're doing Cycles versus the unreal render engine they're probably going to be about the same maybe Cycles is a little bit better unreal just renders so quickly I'm gonna give the point to Unreal but if you're rendering mostly smaller animations and stuff like that they're both going to work for you but I think unreal still wins this category by a landslide number five are the different features and capabilities of each program what they can do what Their Specialties are this is the category that it all comes down to because all the stuff we've talked about that's leading up at this point they're all important they'll help you to make an informed decision but ultimately this is the category that it comes down to this is why you're going to pick a 3D program because by very nature each of these two programs is very different let's go through blender first so first of all blender as opposed to Unreal Engine has the amazing ability to model unreal just doesn't really have that capability and while unreal does have some rudimentary modeling systems like you can scale and different things like that it just really does not compare to what you can do inside a blender blender is all kinds of different tools as well as an almost infinite variety of add-ons that you can add into blender to make your modeling system even better and more streamlined and personalized to you essentially blender has for free the same sort of modeling system that you're going to get in an industry standard program like Maya now Maya does have some advantages it is a little bit more developed but for free blender is amazing at modeling and unreal just doesn't really compete there blender also has the upper hand when it comes to animation there are obviously tons of different things that you can do with animation inside of unreal but when it comes to complex character and product animation blender is just the way to go it's just going to be better for that sort of stuff so if that's what you're looking to do then blender is going to win that category so essentially if you were wanting to do work where you create all the assets you're the one that's able to model anything blender is the program for you you can make pretty much anything you can imagine if you put enough time into the process well under real you really can't do that but unreal has some amazing advantages as well don't just ride it all unreal unlike blender has an extremely sophisticated real-time render engine so while it might take 15 seconds to render a frame of the same scene inside a blender unreal can probably render that same scene and 30 frames per second which is crazy and opens up all kinds of different possibilities with a virtual production but it won't get into all of that in this video but essentially it's just streamlining the compositing process making it way faster and making it look way better but because unreal has a Nani and Lumen and all of these other efficient tools it's able to render larger scenes so if you're wanting to render a scene with millions of polygons in blender you're gonna get bogged down after a little while but unreal because of mostly Nani you're able to do that with ease and you can create vast environments that are basically just down samples that your computer can process those so with that last category where we talked about all the different special things that each of these programs can do I'm not really going to award a winner but it's really up to you which one of those you think won that category but the last one here is just your personal preference which one is going to work best for you if we look at the scores it's tied right now too too if we're discounting the last category they're both amazing and well qualified programs but hopefully you're learning more in this video which one's going to best fit your needs which one's going to be best for you help you to accomplish your goals so if you did that you should subscribe obviously if you enjoyed this video but I appreciate you watching I appreciate all the support thank you for watching

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Published: Thu Jul 20 2023