YouTube setup
@blenderguru· 3.5M followersEditing software2
- Blender
cited in 15 videos

“If you add a window to your scene in Blender and then you set the shader to glass, cycles will say, "Oh, glass. I need to calculate co sticks and then everything in the scene gets darker, there's fireflies, and it's pointless because thin glass does not produce core sticks.”
- DaVinci Resolve Studio
first cited August 2026 · positive

“I turned it off and then I did that in, uh, Da Vinci Resolve.”
View source at 77:03from August 2026
AI software3
- Tripo P2.0
first cited September 2026 · negative
“I reached out to Tripo to comment on my findings and they said that I could achieve sharper textures by using the multi- view generation feature, but I tried that and I didn't see much of a difference.”
View source at 7:15from September 2026 - ChatGPT
first cited September 2026 · Mixed — said both good and bad
“So I installed Chat GPT and I typed out the exact prompts that they said that they used from their announcement post.”
View source at 0:54from September 2026 - Nano Banana Pro
first cited September 2026 · positive

“So, I use Nano Banana to generate a T- pose of the character facing the camera and that seemed to fix the placement.”
View source at 5:50from September 2026
Creator tools10
- Blender 5.0
cited in 5 videos

“The alternative way. Um, and it's something that we didn't used to be able to do, and that's to just, uh, drag over from wherever it is on your computer and then just drop it into Blender, and it will recognize it as an image, and it will bring it in as an image object.”
- ZoomIt
cited in 2 videos · first cited December 2025

“Oh gosh, I hit the wrong button on my Zoomit tool and I flew in there.”
- Eevee (Blender render engine)
cited in 2 videos · first cited November 2025 · Mixed — said both good and bad
“Part of the reason I stuck to Eevee for all this tutorial up until now is that uh I learned from uh talking to people who did the previous donut that some people's renders were taking like over 20 minutes.”
- Mio3 UV (Blender extension)
first cited January 2026 · strongly positive
“And now in our UV editor over here in this window, if I hit N to bring up properties, you can see I've got a little option here that says Mio3.”
View source at 168:04from January 2026 “But to make the camera follow the track realistically, my team created a geometry node setup that simulates gravity and inertia along the curve, which is what gives us that dynamic motion that follows the actual curve without any extra work on key framing.”
View source at 8:55from September 2025- Substance
first cited December 2025 · Mixed — said both good and bad

“Cuz like bubbles you can't get the shape of those bubbles like so we use like substance first.”
View source at 31:05from December 2025 - Poliigon
first cited December 2025 · strongly positive
“The best website that I think is Polygon. P O L I I G O N.com. The link is below. Um, and I think it's the best website because it's my website. It's my company.”
View source at 2:41from December 2025 - Node Wrangler
first cited August 2026
“which I believe you have to have the node wrangler uh extension turned on.”
View source at 18:50from August 2026 - Polygon add-on for Blender (texture library)
first cited August 2026 · strongly positive
“Why not instead just use the Polygon add-on for Blender? It is free.”
View source at 22:45from August 2026 - Cycles (Blender render engine)
first cited December 2025 · Mixed — said both good and bad
“You should be using cycles cycles cycles cycles.”
View source at 25:32from December 2025
Computers7
- Dell Pro Max T2 Pro Max workstation
cited in 3 videos · positive
“Um and because I've got a uh Dell T2 Pro with a Nvidia 6000 that they gifted me. Thank you for that, guys.”
- RTX 6000
first cited August 2026

“My PC is a #DellProMaxDell (T2 Pro Max) with a #Nvidia 6000 RTX Blackwell Workstation Edition.”
View sourcefrom August 2026 - Dell Pro Max T2 tower
first cited August 2026

“So, even on a high-powered Dell Pro Max T2, [music] single frames still take minutes.”
View source at 7:31from August 2026 - Dell Pro Max T2 Pro workstation
first cited December 2025 · strongly positive
“They gave me a Whisbang um Dell T2 Pro, and uh it's amazing.”
View source at 26:51from December 2025 - Dell T2 Pro Max workstation
first cited January 2026 · strongly positive

“They gave me a Whisbang um Dell T2 Pro, and uh it's amazing.”
View source at 253:04from January 2026 - NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000
$17,999.99 · first cited December 2025 · strongly positive

“Um, in my case, I've got a uh Overkill RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition, which I just got, given to me by the kind folks at Dell.”
View source at 26:39from December 2025 - RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition
first cited January 2026 · strongly positive

“Um, in my case, I've got a uh Overkill RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition, which I just got, given to me by the kind folks at Dell.”
View source at 252:53from January 2026
Peripherals1
- 3D space mouse
first cited August 2026 · strongly positive
“That's why I like to use this um 3D space mouse, which I'll make a video on soon.”
View source at 32:42from August 2026
Courses2
- The Blender Guru Academy
first cited August 2026 · positive
“And if you want to learn more like framing, lighting, um I've got a full course, the Blender Guru Academy, which I teach you all of those things along with modeling and texturing and the full pipeline uh for learning Blender.”
View source at 80:48from August 2026 - Blender Guru Beginners Academy
first cited December 2025 · positive
“that's all covered in my course called the beginners academy which I designed for people who have finished this tutorial uh, and want to go further.”
View source at 33:26from December 2025
Other2
- RTX 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition
$17,999.99

“Rendered with the #DellProMaxDell (T2 Pro Max) with a #Nvidia 6000 RTX Blackwell Workstation Edition.”
View sourcefrom September 2025 - NVIDIA RTX 6000
first cited May 2026 · positive

“Um and because I've got a uh Dell T2 Pro with a Nvidia 6000 that they gifted me. Thank you for that, guys.”
View source at 20:09from May 2026
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