We’ve done a lot of editing challenges on the Finzar channel – and underneath each video, there’s always the same comment: “Fin, Fin, Fin, can you try Blender?”

Well, today, we’ve finally done it – we made a video using Blender’s video-editing functionality, and the results… speak for themselves. We’ll let you judge. Watch the video above.

As said in the video, we have technically used Blender before, when making this sketch, which is somehow sitting on almost 740K views. With that one, all we did was create the 3D poop emoji in Blender for the finale, because at the time, Blender didn’t have a proper video editor. But now we’ve used Blender to edit an entire video, it leaves a lot to be desired – we won’t be giving up on Premiere or DaVinci anytime soon.

How We Made Our Blender Video

Going into this challenge, we thought creating a new 3D animation in Blender would be pretty simple, because we had done it before. It was not. Even though the scene we had filmed wasn’t hugely ambitious, we did want to create a 3D blob that could eat me, and we imagined creating this morphing 3D thing with my legs sticking out of it. However, when we got into the 3D side of Blender, it was damn hard to use.

We would need to do a proper course to learn the basics again, but that wasn’t why we were using the software here: we were here to test the video-editing capabilities.

With that in mind, we’re putting the basic edit without any animation onto a second channel, so you guys with 3D knowledge can have a go at editing something into the scene. Have a go and send it my way, and we’ll post them on Finzar’s Twitter!

Behind the scenes, this video was a classic challenge where Jack filmed Fin struggling with Blender. It wasn’t as tough as Flame or Avid, which means the video is perhaps a bit more educational than pure challenge, like those videos.

In the edit, that meant spending a bit more time with the editing screen, and then trying to make that exciting using voice-over and a few memes (and there’s one part where it goes pretty meme-heavy). Let us know in the comments what you think of the vid!