I found this video very encouraging support the creator as well Good Luck
Of course I appreciate the general message of this video–a lot of beginners and even intermediate artists like myself fall into the “tutorial trap” of thinking we can learn everything we need to know about, say, Blender simply by watching a lot of tutorials or reading industry articles when in reality the only way we really learn is by simply making stuff and learning from the mistakes along the way. Tutorials are fine when I’m learning a completely new software or technique and don’t know where to even begin, but after just one “beginner’s guide” I find I just need to experiment and make stuff to really absorb the information I’ve just learned, and without rigidly following every step of the original video (working on my ability to solve problems without a tutorial telling me what to do all the time).
However, as usual with these YouTube videos I find it ironic that the video rambles on and on for 30+ minutes–probably because “regular” YouTube, as if to be the exact mirror of the “YouTube Shorts” side, seems to reward people who consistently put out long 20+ minute videos even if it means beating around the bush or going on unrelated autistic rants to fill that time.
The video thumbnail alone already succinctly explains the entire point of the video (another strange consequence of the modern YouTube algorithm–with the obvious exception of videos about divisive and likely-poorly-researched/opinionated political/current event issues, 99% of popular thumbnails reveal the entire argument of the video just in the thumbnail and make watching the actual video a waste of time). All the time I spent actually watching the video in hopes of more insights beyond the headline could have been spent, ironically enough, making my own 30-minute practice project in any medium I choose instead.
It’s rarely, if ever, the content creator’s fault, though, I’m just fatigued by how YouTube in general keeps getting worse and worse over the years, rewarding low-effort vlogs while our high-effort animations with actual decent pacing that respects the audience’s time are far more likely to be buried by the almighty “algorithm” to the point where not even our irl friends and family can see our uploads unless we literally shove it in their faces, regardless whether they’re subscribed to our channel (I don’t remember the last time YouTube properly notified me when a channel I subscribed to put out a new video).
Thank goodness for BlenderArtists here for ensuring my YouTube animations reach at least 5 extra people if I share it here–so long as I upload it as a “regular” widescreen video, learned the hard way recently that this site currently does not embed YouTube Shorts the same way–as well as genuine animator-friendly alternative sites like Newgrounds.
…But enough talk; I’m gonna go make something or other in Blender now.