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1:37for
2:59e
4:13let's try this can you hear me now can
4:16you hear me now can you hear me
4:20now what about now let's see so many
4:24technical difficulties my
4:27goodness hopefully this works
4:31my my
4:34my there we go yeah we here now you can
4:38hear me we're alive now it's echoing
4:42what about this ah wow you're beginning
4:46to understand why we were running so
4:47late in the first place
4:51h ah y'all are good
4:53sports uh excellent perfect okay okay
4:58should we start over should we start the
5:00stream over again wait five more minutes
5:02all right so as I was saying that you
5:06couldn't actually hear me for what I was
5:07saying is it this is going to be mostly
5:10all of your Q&A where we're just going
5:12to be answering all the questions that
5:14you have about blender and getting
5:16started and doing live model requests so
5:18if you're on YouTube there should be a
5:20pinned Link at the top of the chat up
5:23there that shows you how to get to the
5:25chat that's over here and that's on
5:27events. roblox.com and there's a mod
5:29over there that's open up a Q&A section
5:31right now mod please of submitting your
5:35requests of what you want to have talked
5:37about of what you want to have answered
5:39and it'll be great so I'm going to
5:41introduce the guest here who if you've
5:42seen a past stream you know of him
5:44already and he's going to kind of get
5:47the ball rolling of some general highle
5:48things and then after you all have voted
5:50on the Q&A of the answers that you want
5:53we're going to go through and do them
5:55and it's going to be great okay so
5:56without further Ado please welcome every
5:59everybody
6:02schl hey
6:04schl welcome
6:09back oh man after all the technical
6:12difficulties oh and I'm behind the
6:15chair the technical hey you know at
6:18least your mouth is working right at
6:19least your mouth is
6:21working perfect let's see if I can get
6:24come out from behind the chair here
6:26let's see
6:29let's see anyway so while I'm uh
6:31figuring out how to get behind the chair
6:32why don't you start talking about the uh
6:35the ins and outs of blender just the
6:37high level beginning stuff as we start
6:39getting requests in you I see you
6:40started a toilet already which is very
6:43fun
7:27uhoh uhoh Adam Adam guess what guess
7:30what they can't hear
7:32[Laughter]
7:35you hold on hold on hold on hold on hold
7:39on
7:41hold
7:44hold say something now say something now
7:47do challenges every day uhhuh now
7:51yes I think so I think
7:54so I think so waiting for confirmation
7:58waiting for confirmation
8:01ah okay excellent I think you're good to
8:04go okay right well I'll pick up where I
8:07was yeah just hello audience if you're
8:09just now here hello audience I'm going
8:11to recalibrate this uh virtual body here
8:13don't mind me please schl take it away
8:15so actually yeah yeah so just highle
8:17blender get started started with a
8:20toilet highlea we're just gonna look at
8:22this toilet here uh to get us started in
8:25blender and basically the first things
8:27you're going to want to know how to do
8:28is how to move things around around so
8:30most of that is done with your Mouse um
8:33the middle Mouse wheel if you scroll it
8:35up and down that zooms you in and out uh
8:39if you press down on the middle Mouse
8:41wheel it kind of rotates around
8:45things and if you hold shift in Middle
8:48Mouse wheel grabs the scene and pans it
8:51around so that's basically your there
8:54kind of three primary ways to move
8:56around in the viewport and see the
8:57different sides of your mesh that's Zoom
9:00wheel in and out hold down the uh middle
9:04Mouse to uh orbit or rotate around
9:08objects and hold shift in Middle Mouse
9:10to pan but there's one other thing that
9:13I do like to to use quite often and
9:15that's if you have something selected
9:17and you press uh the period on the
9:20number pad it'll kind of focus your
9:23camera in on whatever you have selected
9:25let's say we put some stuff over here
9:28and messing around uh and I go over and
9:30I select toilet and I press the period
9:32on the num number pad number pad yes
9:37puts me right over to look at it very
9:39convenient perfect so schl when you say
9:41number pad for blender specifically it's
9:44not the same if the numberers up on the
9:45top right it needs to be specifically
9:47the number pad off to the side that's
9:49exactly right and uh just as a
9:52recommendation uh it's it's strongly
9:54recommended not to change any of the hot
9:55keys in blend just keep them as they are
9:57by default because if you start Chang
9:59around too much of them a lot of the
10:01plugins stop working because they rely
10:02on the functionality of that I would
10:04definitely recommend
10:06people okay keep it keep it as default
10:09if you can perfect couple other like
10:12simple things that I think would help
10:14anyone get started is just the concept
10:17of like go uh selecting an object is
10:19done with left clicking and then you can
10:21go into from object mode which lets you
10:23select different things and then you can
10:24press tab to go into edit mode which
10:26lets you kind of select the polygons do
10:29things to
10:31them the kind of major principles there
10:34all right schal due to the unfortunate
10:38reality of being virtual avatars on the
10:41internet we have already shaved off 13
10:43minutes of our precious time together
10:46hustle so so we're gonna we're gonna
10:48start with the Q&A questions the first
10:50question that we have right now is more
10:51of a like a it's not a demonstration but
10:53it's a technical question and the
10:55technical question is does importing a
10:56Roblox Union into blender and then
10:59exporting really optimize the union or
11:01how would you kind of deal with that
11:03importing Union to blender
11:06flow that's a pretty good question it's
11:08not something I've done very often uh
11:11but my understand is that my my
11:14understanding is that if you were to
11:15export a union uh part out of Studio it
11:20would give you a obj file which is
11:24basically a type of a 3D file basically
11:28okay and it's going to give it to you
11:29entirely in triangles going to be
11:32horribly triangulated in probably just a
11:34very procedural way a I don't know if it
11:38optimizes it for you or not I think that
11:41you would have to do that by hand okay
11:44got it do that by stitching together
11:46vertices and retopologizing that mesh to
11:49the way that you would like it to be
11:52then when you bring it back out of
11:54blender and back into Studio you
11:56wouldn't be working with a union any
11:58longer you would mesh or mesh part at
12:01that okay so actually it's funny you
12:03mention topology because we have a next
12:05question that also since we're showing
12:07off the tech chat you want to see
12:09something cool look at this uhuh it's a
12:12question mark uhuh the
12:15question the question is is topology
12:18really that important SCH you know a lot
12:20of a lot of blender artists are are
12:21complaining uh maybe not complaining but
12:24there's a lot of emphasis on get your
12:25topology right make your poly count this
12:27poly count that optimize what making how
12:30much really does it matter with with
12:33what you're trying to actually make in
12:34uh uh it matters in two ways yeah the
12:38two most important things that you're
12:39going to want to keep in mind about
12:40topology of your mesh is that you have a
12:44nice even distribution of triangles and
12:47and polygons uh for example the
12:50underside of our toilet lid is is pretty
12:52nicely segmented but this is not very
12:54optimized uh like something to keep in
12:57mind would be to avoid really long
13:00skinny triangles like these because they
13:04triangulate very poorly inside studio
13:07and you can get some really uh kind of
13:09ugly
13:10artifacts might see things like this uh
13:14where you get like pinches and really
13:16long tries like that so having more even
13:20distribution of meshes like like this uh
13:23usually tends to look a lot better got
13:25it so that's one thing the other thing
13:27about uh topology is that you're going
13:28to be able to basically control how many
13:31polygons you are using on a mesh and of
13:34course there's a limit of
13:3610,000 question for you so let's start
13:40so we have a toilet here right A lot of
13:42these are technical questions let's
13:43start actually modeling something else
13:45while we wait for a request to come in
13:47and then we can try to showcase the
13:50things that we're talking about so the
13:52poly count for those of you who aren't
13:53familiar with blender um polycount just
13:55means how dense uh a mesh is an object
13:58is um and how complex it is typically um
14:01so these are like optimization questions
14:02for topology um which have it hasn't
14:05really been covered because this is like
14:06an intro to to blender but the next
14:09question is how do I make round corners
14:11on objects so let's start with making
14:13something that has round corners and
14:15then we can try to Showcase some
14:16technical things while actually modeling
14:19itself okay sure um I'll make a cube
14:22really fast by pressing shift a and uh
14:25highlighting mesh and then choosing Cube
14:28that's going to put a cube into the
14:29world and right here you can see that
14:31appear in my collection and here's some
14:32of its properties over on the other side
14:34here but mostly what we want to focus on
14:37today is just let's look at the cube and
14:39do some modeling you see in the top left
14:41hand corner here I show some statistics
14:43right I just toggled that on in the
14:45overlays panel here I can turn it on and
14:48off I recommend having this on so that
14:50you can see how many fit polygons
14:52triangles edges and vertices this is
14:54just a good way to keep a an eye on how
14:56many polygons you're got it get into 3D
14:59model something to keep in mind making a
15:02a flat Edge rounded we're going to do
15:04that by selecting our cube with left
15:07click pressing tab to go into edit mode
15:09pressing two to go into Edge select mode
15:13select any Edge we'll go ahead and just
15:15select these three edges right here and
15:17make them rounder using the bevel
15:20operation ah okay so to make rounded
15:23Corners you use bevel
15:26correct how get B real quick like are
15:29bevel rounded Corners there's two ways
15:32you can right click in the viewport and
15:33get this menu here and just look for
15:35bevel bevel edges right here of course
15:38you you see this grade out text says
15:40control B press escape to remove this
15:42menu I can also just press control B and
15:45that activates bevel okay now while
15:47bevel's active I can just slide the
15:49mouse back and forth and it'll give you
15:52a little bit of beveling or a lot of bit
15:54of beveling we're going to go kind of
15:55somewhere in between let's stop right
15:57there and when I left click again it
15:59executes and leaves it got it so you
16:01select the edge that you want to Bevel
16:03or make rounded and then it becomes
16:05round exactly now by default uh after
16:09you make that click to commit that you
16:12uh are have chosen how much beveling you
16:14want to add in the bottom left hand
16:16corner you're going to get this little
16:16context menu that you can fly open by
16:18clicking on the arrow and this is going
16:20to give you some more sub options you
16:22can choose how many edges you want it to
16:24have by default it's going to be one it
16:26was showing like six a moment ago that's
16:28because I was modeling earlier changed
16:31it to six you can put this number as
16:33high as you want it and just get really
16:35really really smooth mesh I wouldn't
16:37recommend it though because this gives
16:38just way too much geometry and we want
16:40to keep this as low as possible still
16:42letting it look around got it let's go
16:44about three so you see we're adding one
16:47two three faces into the bevel and it
16:50naturally sort of like intersects this
16:53really nicely here as well perfect okay
16:56can we get a rubber ducky in the toilet
16:59a rubber ducky in the toilet a rubber
17:01ducky in the toilet let's go that's what
17:04they want all right okay let's do it uh
17:07shift a let's make a another Cube I'm
17:11gonna press G to grab and press Z to
17:14move it up excuse me
17:16gz oh my gosh what am I
17:19doing hey you know it's good to see I'm
17:21not the only one struggling with
17:22technology
17:24today um a as an added question could
17:27you could you uh talk out loud when
17:29you're as you're making the rubber ducky
17:30just in your mind how you uh would view
17:34topology as you're making it or if
17:36you're not like I'm not worried about
17:37topology at this point for this reasons
17:38so on and so forth because that seems to
17:40have been a theme so far okay well Step
17:42One is I'm G to go over to my browser
17:45scen and I'm just going to look up
17:47rubber ducky I'd recommend every modeler
17:50just use reference that's the first
17:52thing you need to do because that's
17:53going to help guide your vision unless
17:54you're just pulling everything straight
17:56out of your imagination it's very
17:57helpful to have some some reference I
18:00have a rubber ducky on my other
18:02screen look at it oh absolutely always
18:05okay so you don't have to be like
18:06Precious about it just use a reference
18:08nope yeah it's a it's you know it's
18:10great for people if they don't need it
18:13that's wonderful but most artists do and
18:16there's nothing wrong with uh using
18:18reference in fact U I've been modeling
18:20for 16 years and I still use it every
18:23awesome the thing I keep in mind is I
18:25want to turn this Cube basically into
18:28the shape of a rubber ducky and I'm
18:29thinking big to small now I know a
18:32rubber ducky has kind of a long bottom
18:34shape so I'll go into edit mode and I'll
18:37press three to go into face mode I'm
18:39just going to select this front face and
18:40I'm going to press G and then middle
18:43Mouse while I drag forward and you see
18:45that red line that appeared that means
18:47I'm locked to the x axis that's also
18:50reflected here in the top right corner
18:51you see how the red xais is shown you
18:54can press all the different directions
18:56to lock it to different axes by pressing
18:59middle Mouse and dragging in that
19:00direction see I can change that at any
19:03time I'm changing it to Z I want to and
19:05if I want to go to x I can just hold
19:07middle Mouse and drag in X and it locks
19:09it to that one got it that's that's one
19:11thing to keep in mind so I'm gonna make
19:13the long base first okay hey the the
19:16next question actually um is how do you
19:19make something smooth which this will be
19:21a rubber ducky so it seems that that
19:23should be something that you would have
19:24to show off anyway you know what I will
19:27let me make a couple more Cuts here here
19:28and I then I can show a very clear
19:30example of how got it now when you say
19:32Cuts what exactly do you mean by Cuts
19:36okay so we started with a cube right and
19:38the cube has uh six polygons or six
19:41faces one on each side six-sided Cube
19:44okay but it doesn't have any geometry
19:46inside where if we look at the toilet
19:49it's got lots of different pieces of
19:51geometry cutting through it that's
19:53basically what I'm referring to as Cuts
19:55or new polygons inserted into the body
19:58of the
19:59we're g add some more Cuts or Loops into
20:02this mesh do that by pring sorry I'm
20:05just just I'm just thinking because it's
20:07kind of complicated but the more Cuts
20:09you make the more details you can have
20:12from it it's like it's like setting
20:13yourself up to be able to do more and
20:15make it more complex and add more
20:16information exactly so like I want to
20:19have the middle of the bottom of the
20:21duck buddy body be kind of fat and I
20:23want the tail to be skinnier and I want
20:25the front chest to be a little skinnier
20:28too
20:29so caness R Andes this yellow line up
20:33that's the loop cut and slide tool
20:36that's initiated by pressing
20:39controlr then I choose which axis I want
20:41to add to you see how it kind of updates
20:43when I hover around on different parts
20:45of the
20:45model so here we go I want it on this
20:48axis and when I left click it commits to
20:51that axis and now I can slide anywhere
20:53within it I'm going to bias this a
20:55little bit closer to the front we can
20:56have a longer aft tail and a shorter
20:59front just like my
21:01reference now so now I added a cut or
21:05another loop and I can deselect it and
21:08you see I now have more resolution it's
21:10still basically a cube but there's more
21:12lines to it I can manipulate these
21:14different sections now with different
21:17dimensions like I said a moment ago my
21:20plan was to make the front a little
21:22smaller I'm going to scale by pressing s
21:25front end a little smaller on the Y axis
21:29okay I'm
21:30tracking scale on the Z axis to move it
21:35together and then I can grab with G and
21:38press Z to come up on the z- axis and I
21:43can just let it go there I'm going to do
21:45the same thing on the back side now
21:47again I'm just orbiting around with my
21:48middle Mouse still clicking on that face
21:52nail it to be small e and z and there we
21:56have it so that's what I'm going to
21:59treat as the sort of the bottom of the
22:00duck body okay I want to give him a
22:03little head now you can see that uh the
22:05mesh is now starting to look very kind
22:07of polygonal and it's looking very boxy
22:11yeah not very smooth like we were
22:12running like a duck exactly not very
22:14smooth now at any time we can just right
22:17uh you can just left click on it see let
22:20me go ahead
22:22and to clean up my work so that what is
22:25this what is this see-through Vision
22:27what is this source
22:29what are you doing this is alt Z alt Z
22:32puts us in XR so we can see through
22:34everything I see so we can see through
22:37what's inside the toilet and some old
22:39geometry that was left from her on the
22:41clean it you can toggle it on and off
22:43really quickly
22:44like okay uh so if I press tab to go
22:48into object mode and I select the cube
22:51or I'm G to rename this
22:53duck I can then rightclick on the model
22:56in the viewport and just click shade
22:57smooth
22:59that will put a smoothing group on the
23:01entire mesh the whole thing got smooth
23:05but just can you do that again just like
23:07just that was super
23:08simple it's like somebody's question got
23:10answered in like two seconds right click
23:12shade smooth that's it done now you see
23:15it has these shading artifacts on the
23:17edges where it gets really dark you can
23:19make that look a little better uh later
23:21when we start adding a little bit more
23:24I'm going to do another bevel to the
23:25bottom Edge just to show you how that
23:26works oh
23:29bevels to make it curved that starts to
23:32look a little better like that I can the
23:34more go we add the better it's gonna
23:36look yeah yeah yeah we'll leave it like
23:39this um but actually I find it easier to
23:42work in a a shade flat mode so we can go
23:45back and forth at any time I find this a
23:47little easier to understand my geometry
23:49while I'm modeling and then I can and
23:51once I hit a certain point of resolution
23:53then I kind of turn it
23:54over modeling with a smooth
23:57shaving right let's get ahead on this
23:59stuck what do you say I love that right
24:02now it looks just like a body and we're
24:04going to make it C right I'm assuming
24:06it's G to be cute gonna be the cutest
24:08duck all right hey uh bonus bonus
24:10question for chat as you have questions
24:12see if you can put it in the context of
24:14a duck so we can keep going with like
24:15the main thing but then also get
24:18questions that you might have still
24:21because if you don't care about a duck
24:22think of maybe there's a question that
24:24could fit into a
24:25duck and and more technical questions
24:27too keep
24:28coming so the next step is I want to
24:31have a little skinny neck come out of
24:33the top of the body here so to get but
24:36this is too big if I were to just
24:37rightclick extrude here which is a good
24:41function that's just a little bit too
24:43fat of a duck I'm gonna let control Z
24:46and undo thick duck thick duck I need to
24:48make a little uh a little shape out here
24:51so I'm gonna press I for
24:53inset then basically inset lets me pull
24:56in polygons from the what from the
24:58widest spot and to make kind of a it'll
25:02basically give me another polygon on
25:03every single side of this
25:06inset I can press gz to move it up on
25:09the z-axis a little bit right we're
25:12starting to see a little a little duck
25:13shape start to emerge you seeing it
25:15folks slowly but
25:17surely all right I'm gonna add another
25:19loop on this axis now so that I can get
25:22a little more roundness to the back of
25:23the neck and the front of the chest
25:25control R again Loop cut and SL slide
25:29just click it right there in the middle
25:32and then I'm going to select right here
25:34on this polygon and press G to grab it
25:37oopsie what did I
25:40do move back on the XA you have to know
25:43what you're doing one of us has to know
25:45what we're
25:46doing that's a little whoopsy Daisy
25:48fortunately we have the ability to
25:51undo always and UND is the same right
25:53just control z contr z and pretty much
25:56everything now I got a little round neck
25:58shape to play with by adding those extra
26:01polygons now let's pull the neck up out
26:04of the chest here now you see how I grab
26:06two faces one left click lets me click a
26:09face but if I hold down the shift button
26:11I can click another face and another
26:13face and another face another face and
26:16so on so that's how you get more
26:18polygons selected at the same time so I
26:20want to have these two selected now I'm
26:23going to extrude these out this is a new
26:25operation so we've seen bevel in set
26:28loop cut and slide now we're going to do
26:31extrude and that's pretty much all you
26:33need to know to do 3D modeling that's
26:37your core
26:38tools and you can do that by extrude
26:40faces or extrude faces along normals
26:44that uh this one will make it just come
26:45straight out of the face and extrude
26:47faces kind of averages out in the
26:49different got it it's a very subtle
26:51difference how these two work but if you
26:54mess around with it you'll start to int
26:55the difference doesn't make a big a
26:57great bit deal deal of difference at
26:59this point we're just going to do
27:00extrude faces of course once again in
27:03the right click menu you see we see the
27:05letter e grade out so I'm G to press
27:07escape and I can just press the E key
27:10and start extruding got it you see how
27:12as soon as I press e that blue line
27:14appears that shows the direction that
27:16the extrude is going to happen on and
27:19it's this case it's it's Z so straight
27:22up yes
27:24exactly so we'll just drag that up make
27:27a Little Neck there and and let's do it
27:29again
27:30e why twice why did I do that two times
27:34because I want to make the head bigger
27:36and let the neck stay skinny so I made
27:38the neck this size that's not going to
27:40get
27:40any so let's do some cool uh selection
27:44stuff real quick let's go to Edge mode
27:47grab this Edge press gz and move it up
27:49on the Z
27:51axis and just to give us a round
27:55top and let's go back into to uh face
27:59mode and I can hold alt while I click
28:02now you see if I hold alt and I click
28:04right next to this this edge here it
28:07selects all the way around it gives me a
28:09like a a loop selection got it now it
28:13will choose it will Loop the selection
28:16around to the nearest Edge that you
28:18click on if I were to be uh next to this
28:21Edge and hold alt and click it'll select
28:23the ones down the loop got it all right
28:27so AR the faces I want this is this is
28:32exceedingly wonderful the The Edge Loops
28:34the extruding it's all great but the
28:37question that everyone's really asking
28:39for now as we're developing the the
28:42Glorious cute head for this little duck
28:44is if the duck could also have a top
28:46hat of course it can so when you when
28:49you're so let's say hypothetically that
28:50This brilliant idea of having a duck
28:53with a top hat was all you and you were
28:55having this thought in your head and
28:57you're modeling this duck does knowing
28:59that you want to put a top hat on it
29:00change how you model it now or do you
29:03model the duckhead like normal and then
29:05you're like okay now I'm going to add a
29:07hat or like how do you break up you know
29:09your ideas as you're making something or
29:12does it matter or how do you deal with
29:15you know iterating and building as
29:17things come to you yeah that's a that's
29:20a great question actually uh I think
29:22that the answer is uh there's not a
29:24straight answer and it depends on what
29:26you're doing and
29:29and how long you've been modeling it
29:30depends it depends um I'll I'll say this
29:34you can add a hat you can always add a
29:37new thing onto another thing and because
29:39a hat is another object completely it
29:41would be very safe to just build the
29:43duck first and then build a hat later uh
29:46but we can also do something like
29:48controlr and insert another loop there
29:53and select the ring around extrude along
29:56normals and I can make a hat like oh my
29:58gosh instant instant duck hat that's
30:01amazing so if I wanted this to be
30:04removable from the duck I would not do
30:06that okay but if I want it to be part of
30:08the duck I would just do it this way but
30:11I don't know exactly where the duck's
30:12eyes and Beak are going to go so I'm
30:14gonna control Z and undo that first and
30:17get the beak on here very similar method
30:20and why would you why would you want to
30:21do that is it to like to orient yourself
30:23for proportions uh so you make sure that
30:25it like looks right first or is there
30:27another
30:28question fantastic
30:31question it is it's gonna help me get
30:34the proportions figured yes it's exactly
30:36right I'll get the proportions figured
30:37out first and then uh and then like I
30:41won't be constrained by the hat if the
30:43Hat's not there I can have more freedom
30:46with exactly how the Hat sits on the
30:47head later after I have a better
30:49understanding of what the shape of the
30:51head's going to be like which right now
30:52is a little bit up in the air got
30:56it so if we if you had to summarize the
30:59the highest level most universal things
31:02it sounds like this is I'm going to get
31:03do my best to summarize and you let me
31:04know how close I am um is extrude is one
31:09um G for grab and then control R right
31:14to make a cut to be able to slide cut
31:17the slide to be able to add more detail
31:19to to whatever it is you're cutting
31:22MH and then e to extrude e to extrude
31:26yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah mhmh e B
31:28to Bevel oh b b b to Bevel yeah that was
31:30that was somebody's question was
31:31actually how do I make a round Edge and
31:33the answer is B to Bevel in like two
31:35clicks yep oh and for anybody that's
31:38tuning in and is new to blender uh all
31:41of these operations are detailed on the
31:44dev Forum in an article called box
31:46modeling 101 Link in the chat to that um
31:49and it goes into great detail on all of
31:52this stuff and the exercise is to make a
31:54treasure chest there so if you forget
31:56something or can't follow along at any
31:59point we can always reference you back
32:01to
32:02that amazing all right now I'm going to
32:05insue another alert Loop here because I
32:08kind of want to give a
32:10little curl up to the shape of the beak
32:13it's kind of cool I wouldn't have been
32:14able to yeah I wouldn't have been able
32:16to make that shape if I didn't put that
32:18other loop there so I'll undo that and
32:19show you like why I have to do that so I
32:22was I was going to say like it's kind of
32:24neat that you're able to make something
32:25and seemingly anything from like just a
32:27handful of operations
32:28um and we just mentioned what some of
32:30those were but I'm noticing now like you
32:31have dots on the screen and they were
32:33lines and other times you were like
32:36whole like portions of it like that what
32:38like how do what is that and how does
32:40that matter and how does that fit into
32:42to how you make things yeah good
32:45question um so when we select a
32:48mesh in object mode which is reflected
32:50up here in the top left of the screen
32:52and how do you get to object mode you
32:54can just hit this drop down and change
32:55between object and edit there's other
32:57modes but we're not going to use those
32:59we're just going to object to select
33:01things and edit to make changes to the
33:03mesh so object lets me choose toilet or
33:06choose Dock and I can move the whole
33:08dock or move the whole toilet or rotate
33:11the whole
33:13toilet take the whole dock scale the
33:16whole dock got it so object mode is like
33:18the higher level and then the other one
33:21you said edit mode is like that's where
33:22you actually do stuff yep and you can
33:24press tab to enter edit mode or you can
33:26click click the mouse over here and then
33:29you have a choice to operate on vertices
33:31which are the dots which are the points
33:33between all of the edges or if we press
33:36two we can select the edges and edit
33:39those which is basically controlling two
33:42points two
33:44vertices or I can go into face mode
33:48which is enabled by pressing three and I
33:51can select full faces
33:53orely three or more vertices at once and
33:56it just is set the same as a polygon a
34:00quad a face a
34:03triangle and you just use you just
34:05switch between whichever one meets the
34:08need so like when you were doing the uh
34:10the bill a second ago like the duck like
34:12mouth you were on vertex instead of face
34:15and like what in your mind like why when
34:17would you do something in vertex mode
34:19when would you do something in you know
34:20the other one like face like why how how
34:23should somebody think about which one to
34:24use for what broad you just a little bit
34:28process while
34:30you're and sometimes you want really
34:33really super fine control over just a
34:35single point like on the top of this
34:38beak I don't mind if the sides of the
34:40beak are still flat I just wanted a
34:42little bit of curvature kind of on the
34:44top of the beak all I needed to do was
34:47isolate that one vertex and move it down
34:51got it that but if I would have tried to
34:53do that with the
34:55edge it would have brought the front of
34:57the down with it and give me the wrong
34:59shape okay or the back of the nose and
35:02would it g me the wrong shape or would
35:04have flattened it out in the wrong and
35:05it would have affected the face and I
35:07didn't want to do that got it so you
35:09just got to kind of think about what
35:11you're moving how it impacts other
35:14things right exactly right okay so okay
35:17great sorry that was a bit of a tangent
35:19there about uh you know important
35:21blender things but we have very
35:22important businesses like uh adding a
35:24top hat that we still have yet to do
35:28yeah we do here let me real quick just
35:30get this little tail
35:33fluttered this is another
35:37extrude and I'm going to add a little
35:39bit more here to get my body a little
35:42bit
35:44rounder you know what this edge here is
35:46looking mighty harsh isn't it let's grab
35:49these edges and bevel them so grab the
35:51edge bevel and it's curved and then if
35:54you wanted to make it smooth there was
35:55like two things that you did
35:58right click shade smooth right click
36:01shade smooth just like that Smooths the
36:03entire
36:04duck but over here in the side panel in
36:08the properties panel we can go down here
36:10to the green triangle object data
36:12properties there's a area here called
36:14normals you could ignore all this other
36:16garbage doesn't matter normals is one we
36:19care about we're going to look at
36:20normals and this is where we can turn on
36:22auto smooth and we can change the angle
36:27uh or the degrees to which something
36:28gets smooth to work done by default it's
36:31set to
36:3230° that means any two polygons next to
36:35each other that are uh that have an
36:38angle between them that's less than 30
36:39degrees they'll get smoothed together we
36:42can see that this angle here is more
36:45than 30 degrees apart from its
36:47neighboring faces if I turn it up to
36:49like
36:5245 get smoothing between them so you can
36:55control you have to know math to do
36:57blender is that what I'm saying that
36:59seems like what I have to know if I
37:00would to only just a tiny bit C just a
37:03tiny bit no just a tiny bit no we became
37:06an artist to not do math and here I am
37:09oh that's not true artists are perfectly
37:11capable of doing a little bit of math
37:14you know it encouraging it is
37:15encouraging to see you know actual math
37:19being used in an artistic field and to
37:20make things cooler and better so I do
37:24not have math brain lots of our uh
37:26engineering and scripting friends have
37:28incredible math brain I have art brain
37:30and I promise this is doable even art
37:33brain can do this math yep I swear we
37:37can do math let's get our eyeballs on
37:41here let's make some eyeballs and then
37:43we can move so one thing I want to show
37:45is K if you press K that puts you in
37:47knife mode oh brings out a little
37:49scalpel and when you hover over a Vertex
37:52you see it kind of snaps to it I can
37:54press click and I start a cut and I can
37:58end a cut anywhere when it sort of shows
38:01me a snap it's going to snap me to
38:04different areas or I can cut right onto
38:06the line
38:07here up to here so forth and then I can
38:10press enter to commit now I have a new
38:13Edge that got cut in there that I have
38:15total control over so um so that's a
38:18little different that I'm a little I'm a
38:21little confused to be honest um when you
38:24you did control R right to make the
38:26whole to do a whole Edge Loop all the
38:27way across like that right but if you
38:29want something small you just do K for
38:33knife and then that that's how you some
38:35kind of details that are smaller which
38:37our next question is actually it might
38:38be related to this it's do you have any
38:40recommendations for making small details
38:42and it seems like now an i is a small
38:44detail and you're using a different tool
38:45that we haven't seen before yeah exactly
38:48uh I use the knife tool to just be add
38:51very uh Precision Cuts and I'm very
38:54specific about where I want them so this
38:57is sort of like a smaller detail uh the
39:00eyeball and but I don't want it down all
39:01the way touching the beak so I cut a big
39:03shape and I'm going to press I to inset
39:05off a little bit EZ to move it up on the
39:08G
39:09axis sorry on the
39:12z-axis then I can press Tilda and this
39:15brings up a new menu here I can choose a
39:18top camera a back camera a right camera
39:21this gives me orthographic views I want
39:23to see this from the top got it because
39:26oh so you can just
39:29much fix my topology just a little bit
39:32here I want to get this all kind of
39:34lined up a little I go too much further
39:37start making too complicated of shapes
39:39and doing an orthographic camera like
39:41that can be really helpful one other
39:43thing I don't need this polygon here I
39:45can select it and press control X and
39:48that dissolves the selection it just
39:50makes it go away okay now now I can
39:55extrude the eyeball
39:58it's terrifying see how like this is all
40:01the wrong shape this is most terrible
40:03eyeball what I can do is press s to
40:06scale no that's making it worse it goes
40:09all over the place but if I press zero
40:12while
40:12scaling it scales all of the uh
40:15selection down to zero on itself so zero
40:18boom gone and press enter now I just
40:21have this little kind of pointy
40:24shape where they all collapse on a
40:26single point but now I need to make it
40:28round so grab it and I can bevel these
40:30vertices shift control B oh lucky oh oh
40:35need to merge them at Center
40:38first okay now there was one two three
40:42four five six vertices all on top of
40:44each other a moment ago here I'll just
40:46grab one and move it now they're all
40:49just sitting on top of each other like
40:50that oh
40:51interesting because all I did was scale
40:54them to zero to sit on top of each other
40:56I didn't collapse them into
40:57okay which is the next step which is the
41:00next step and the reason you want to do
41:02that is because you don't need them like
41:05that's not something you want to right
41:07exactly because if I bevel them out from
41:09there each of are G to Bevel and I want
41:12to Bevel them as one so I can control
41:14that shape more accurate got it okay
41:17okay okay if you go into x-ray mode you
41:19can then select through your mesh and
41:22what's x-ray mode real quick I know the
41:23shortcuts on the screen but just it is
41:25alt Z alt Z Okay Okay Okay the reason
41:29you want to do x-ray mode is because you
41:31were
41:32saying because then you can select
41:34things on the back side of your MCH or
41:35even when vertices are all on top of
41:37each other in this mode you'll only
41:39select one of them got it one one's in
41:42front of the other technically according
41:44to blender I see so you want to go into
41:46x-ray mode first and then lasso select
41:49then it gets them all so you get all of
41:51them got it inste through the whole mesh
41:54how like if I select like this oh great
41:57I selected the things that are in the
41:59camera view nothing behind
42:01it the model blocks that selection so if
42:04I go into x-ray mode and I do the same
42:08thing I selected things all the way
42:10through the other got it so you do x-ray
42:12mode to make sure that you catch
42:14everything that's stacked on top of each
42:15other even if it just looks like it's
42:17one thing you go to x-ray mode to make
42:19sure you get all of them because they
42:20might be be duplicated on top exactly
42:23and they will block each other even
42:24though they're tiny infantes
42:28right so one now that I got these all
42:29selected here sh hold on pause we have
42:3315 minutes and we haven't gotten to the
42:36top hat and we also have an egg cued so
42:38we gota like we gotta go we gotta we're
42:40gonna merge those vertices then we're
42:42gonna bevel them out and we're
42:45gonna nice round
42:50eye at that it's round now wow so it
42:55looks kind of weird should you shade
42:56smooth to make it not weird or is it
42:59just how do we make it not look
43:01funky uh well there's a couple things
43:04this is where modeling gets a little
43:05tricky you just have to combine those
43:07simple things that we've already done so
43:09I could bevel a little bit like that
43:13um I would I could use the knife tool to
43:17cut another row in oh so it's more
43:22circular and then grab that one Central
43:26vertex and
43:29something weird happen with my mouse I
43:31can just sort of bring and kind of move
43:33it in like that so it's a little bit
43:35more of a reasonable sure sure sure
43:38okay okay it's like a photo realistic
43:40eye on a super cartoon duck yeah let's
43:44uh let's go ahead and get these edges
43:45selected and we can there's another
43:48thing is we can uh create like sharp the
43:50edges and then it will not smooth that
43:54edge anymore so Define the eyeball
43:56differently from body okay okay that
43:58removed the smoothing between them can
44:01you do that in Edge selection mode
44:03select an edge and right click and do
44:04Mark Sharp okay all right so we have one
44:07very angular kind of creepy eye we need
44:10another eye a top hat and an
44:12egg it's like a sh list just like before
44:16I'm see I'm actually putting uh that Top
44:19Hat above where it went last time and
44:22you know that because you put the the
44:24beak and the bill in before exactly you
44:27remember earlier when I was showing
44:29technique where you hold alt and you
44:31select next to an edge and it gives you
44:32the whole ring how it didn't complete
44:34the ring yeah why that's because it only
44:37works with foursided polygons oh is this
44:41a foursided polygon here it looks for to
44:44me but clearly somehow not why Let's uh
44:48let's go to vertex mode we got one two
44:51three oh four five there it is right so
44:56it's a fided polygon so it stops there
44:58and then you have to manually complete
45:00your selection sure sure sure another
45:03another way to do is I could go back to
45:04knife mode and turn that into another
45:06quad another foursided and then it'll go
45:09all the way around then it'll go all the
45:11way around hey wow there you go okay so
45:14let's extrude along those oops nope
45:17let's use extrude faces gosh you see how
45:20it's just going the way that it wants to
45:22go and it's because these faces kind of
45:24Point upwards a little bit got it so
45:26what I can do is just work with that and
45:29instead use the scale tool by pressing s
45:33and scaling them
45:34outward there we
45:38go z e z just maneuver that around just
45:44a
45:45little and I'm just scaling on different
45:47axes to kind of get the shape I like
45:50that then I don't even make you need to
45:52make any more Geo I can just scale this
45:55out and by go you mean geometry you can
45:57just use what's already there don't have
45:59to add anything else and
46:01we look at it it's so cute look at that
46:06oh my gosh make it like super long make
46:08it like gigal long make it like to space
46:10all the way up here's a really cool
46:12trick I'm gonna actually remove this
46:15edgear so that I can add a full loop
46:18around
46:19here and I'm going to put it pretty
46:21close to the top best to scale it small
46:25like Adam what are you doing that makes
46:27no sense check this out I can bevel
46:30it then I get a cool
46:32curve wow incredible I love one thing
46:37that does happen when you Bevel like
46:38that is just like when uh we were
46:41messing with the eyeball it makes extra
46:43vertices watch PR gz to move it down you
46:46see how it revealed like a whole new
46:47polygon that was just invisible it's
46:49because it moves that edge all the way
46:52to the edge so to clean those up when
46:55you get done with an operation like that
46:57always go to vertex mode press a to
46:59select all then right click to merge
47:02vertices by distance and we can sort
47:05anything that's uh closer together than
47:0801 meters sure like basically on top of
47:12each other it'll merge those all
47:14together and there we go wow now now
47:18there won't be that weird thing
47:20funkiness all right Adam we're do or uh
47:23we're we're doing good so far we got uh
47:27you want to see a a modifier to put
47:29symmetry on this so we don't have to
47:31model the other side that was the
47:33question the question was do you just
47:35copy the eye and put it on the other
47:37side or do you have to do it all from
47:39scratch but you seem to have an answer
47:40for that check it out yep I I'll answer
47:42it both ways yes you can just copy the
47:44eye we're going to do a selection trick
47:47let's select the middle one so I've got
47:49this middle uh uh vert selected I can
47:52press control+ Plus on the numpad and it
47:55grows my selection plus just grows and
48:00and it selects all neighboring um
48:02vertices that's a quick way to select a
48:05complex shape like that and then you see
48:07how these are all vertex selections oops
48:10uh and it's just highlighting uh its
48:12neighboring edges and things if I switch
48:14to face mode while I have this selected
48:16it'll just select those fa just the
48:18faces and not have to deal with
48:19everything else yep and now I can hold
48:21shift and select this as well and I can
48:24press shift d D is dog there it is
48:29duplicate all right so I could take this
48:31and press s and type minus
48:34one and scale it on
48:38oops let's do s y so I'm scaling on the
48:42y axis only and type minus one press
48:46enter and then I've got a mirrored
48:48version of it got the duplicated goo I
48:51scaled it
48:54negatively is that's what I get it's
48:56opposite from
49:00yep could just line this up Stitch it in
49:04by
49:05hand that so that's one way but that's
49:08that's very tedious but it is a way okay
49:12if you can't it's away but you might
49:15there's nothing wrong with it it's
49:17totally fine but it's it's not as easy
49:19I'm gonna press delete to delete those
49:21faces and whenever you press delete it
49:22brings up this dialogue you can delete
49:24just the vertices just the edges I'm
49:26almost always always wanting to delete
49:27faces recommend faces and that just gets
49:31rid of it or I can press tab to get out
49:35of object mode and I can go over to this
49:38little wrench here which is the modifier
49:40properties panel and I can click add
49:42modifier which gives you a big old list
49:45you don't need to worry about any of
49:46overwhelming not gonna lie y worry about
49:49those some other day not a big deal
49:51you're hardly ever going to use them um
49:53or you'll start using more of them over
49:55time but I'd say I use 15% of these and
49:57I've been doing this for 16 years wow
50:00good know Mirror Mirror Mirror just
50:03going to mirror the model and you can
50:05choose which axis we're going to want to
50:06mirror on the Y AIS if you ever forget
50:09which axis is which it's always nice to
50:11look at this little widget in the top
50:12right hand corner and we want to mirror
50:14it you know kind of left to right I can
50:16just look up here and see which one of
50:17these is going left and right and that's
50:18the green one that's Y axis turn off
50:21xaxis here which is on by default and
50:24we'll choose Y and you can choose to
50:27bisect which will means it'll split the
50:30model down the middle without this it
50:32just duplicates the model and flips it
50:34over you actually want to cut it down
50:36its Center and mirror the other side so
50:38it's identical and stitched together so
50:42I pressed bisect and immediately the
50:43eyeball
50:44disappear so that must mean I need to
50:47flip the mirror boom other way and we
50:50can toggle that back and forth you see
50:52it's this is the right side this is the
50:54left side right left right
50:56there we have it and then when we get
50:58the setting we like we can click apply
51:01there's just a little drop down arrow
51:02and you apply the modifier it disappears
51:04from the stack and your mesh now has
51:07those properties
51:08forever look at that ducky look at the
51:11big old hey that's pretty cute not gonna
51:14lie I love it so the last question is
51:18the egg they want to make an egg for our
51:21wonderful duck with his wonderful top
51:24hat so easy let's do it actually hold on
51:28uh SCH this is a question for you do you
51:30think you can when you make the egg like
51:34so that you look at this duck in the top
51:35hat and you're like wow incredible goals
51:38like that's that's everything I want to
51:39be as an artist so could but yeah you
51:42use like the same four five six moves
51:46over and over and over and over again do
51:49you think that you can make the egg
51:50which is pretty simple right and most
51:53people might be less intimidated by like
51:55oh I can make an egg and blender like
51:56sure yeah do you think that you can make
51:58the egg but then annotate each step that
52:01you also use to make the duck just to
52:03show the contrast of like hey this looks
52:05really simple and you can make an egg
52:06but if you do this on repeat with some
52:08design you can also make something more
52:09complex like a duck sure let's okay yes
52:14let's go all right the first thing we'll
52:16do is press shift a to add a new mesh
52:19that Springs up the add menu we're going
52:21to start with a sphere let's do a UV
52:24sphere and as as you can see it puts it
52:27down here and it's outlined and it's
52:28kind of underneath uh the toilet and it
52:31starts off with 32 segments and 16 rings
52:34in a radius of one meter that's just
52:38there we are you can see it down there
52:40can change these properties to add more
52:41or
52:42less you know we can start with like 16
52:45by eight so it's a little more
52:48reasonably low po remember we keep easy
52:50to deal with so to speak exactly and
52:53then let's just move it out of the way
52:56now we can at it uh I would say next
53:00let's go ahead and shade smooth shade
53:02smooth that was the first qu one of the
53:04first questions we had easy done two
53:06clicks all right and then let's go into
53:09uh an orthographic
53:11camera alt alt Z to for the X-ray also
53:15that we used and we want to go into edit
53:18mode and press one to go into vertex
53:21selection mode and I'm going to select
53:23the top half of these just by selecting
53:26through the whole object and because
53:28yeah yeah yeah yeah I get both sides I
53:32will press s to scale I don't want to
53:34scale it on every axis I just want to
53:36make this taller let's do
53:40SZ I'm gonna make that tall and then I'm
53:43GNA press G and z and drag those
53:45vertices up and round out my egg there
53:47we go you got an egg there's an egg but
53:50now that's that's a really simple one
53:53let's make a cracked egg so we can talk
53:54about maybe some more aspects of
53:58modeling perfect you know to deliver on
54:01the because you can't you can't really
54:02extrude from here like it's done so if
54:04you wanted to show extruding which
54:05you've done a fair bit of or cutting
54:07you'd probably have to make this a
54:08little more complex yeah let's make this
54:11a plastic egg okay and
54:16inside egg and an egg an egg and an egg
54:20boy let's press control R to add another
54:23loop and this and we do loops to add
54:25more detail exactly now we have an
54:27opportunity here to add more uh
54:29resolution see this is a really long
54:32straight line opportunity now to just
54:34scale it up a little bit more press s
54:37and just move it
54:39out now let's also go in here and so we
54:43have Ed a Vertex selected we just press
54:45two and give us the edges let's bevel
54:48those edges it's a little bit of a split
54:50and this is where we're going to cut the
54:51egg don't need seven we only need one
54:56there we
54:57go now we'll do x-ray again we'll press
55:00three to go into face selection and
55:02select that whole row that's so clutch
55:05to just be able to look at one side but
55:07use x-ray to get the whole thing around
55:08instead of having to select every single
55:10one all the way around manually very
55:13convenient now let's press contrl
55:16L select linked all select all linked
55:20faces uh uh basically based on their
55:23seams there are no seams here so it goes
55:25all the way to the seam where mesh end
55:28so it's how to select like a portion of
55:30of what you've made exactly and you can
55:32select things by whether it's sharp or
55:34not UV Islands normals or materials
55:38we're not doing that today we're just
55:39going to select to the seam and it'll
55:41blood fill the selection all the way
55:42until the mesh ends which in this case
55:44is right along where we cut it got it
55:46all right sh pause for one second I need
55:48to address the crowd hello crowd hello
55:50Chad uh we are currently like 2 minutes
55:54from our the end of our schedule
55:56programming um we're not with Inspire
55:58which means you're not going to get any
56:00goodies from us outside of knowledge
56:02you'll get knowledge which hopefully
56:03you've already had um so there are other
56:05Inspire streams that are going on that
56:07you should attend um we're going to be
56:09wrapping up here soon we're going to be
56:10going a little bit over but I just want
56:12to let you know that if you were waiting
56:13for the next Inspire event uh the time
56:15to leave our wonderful stream and see
56:17their wonderful stream is now
56:19so don't leave schle hey hey they have
56:23Inspire is good they can they can leave
56:25they can watch the VOD afterwards all
56:27good I will be so jealous that's okay
56:30that's okay anyway wrap it up we got to
56:32go we're running a little over thanks
56:35for stopping in y'all okay let's grab
56:37this with G move it out of the way
56:38remember you can hold middle Mount use
56:40an axis move it out of the way go back
56:43to Edge selection mode and press alt
56:46shift select click one Edge and select
56:49that whole Edge and let's extrude it
56:52inward we'll extrude a little bit right
56:55click so it goes nowhere and press s to
56:57scale that
56:59extruded then I can press e to extrude
57:02again and you see how it just goes any
57:03old way I'm gonna lock this to the z-
57:05axis by pressing Z all right and E sorry
57:10e again e again then s to scale it in
57:14I'm basically just kind of building out
57:16the interior of it gotow to time you're
57:18you're you're basically making a little
57:20wall in between this middle section and
57:23the outside
57:24section exactly l e e
57:30s0 enter one go back to vertex selection
57:34mode and remember I had all those edges
57:36in there selected when I convert that to
57:38vertices this this is selecting all of
57:41those vertices don't even have to go to
57:43x-ray mode and I can merge at Center
57:46they become one
57:48vertex that's the bottom half of the egg
57:51uh you could even repeat the uh process
57:54with the top half pressing three
57:56selecting a face L to get all of those
57:59faces if I press
58:01P get to separate the selection it's
58:05make like it own item off to the side
58:09exactly now it's its own mesh over here
58:11I can do unique things with
58:13this and an even faster way to do what
58:16we just did by hand
58:18here except with the top half is do
58:20another modifier just click add modifier
58:23again over here on the right side panel
58:25the properties panel remember this is
58:26modifiers these are on the little wrench
58:28MH and we can go to
58:31solidify and then we just mess with the
58:33thickness and choose how thick we want
58:36it and then apply there you go and
58:40there's our
58:41egg all right well everybody thank you
58:45so much for stopping by thank you for
58:48excusing the scuff uh it's uh we're
58:51still kind of figuring it out so we we
58:54appreciate you dealing with
58:56our our well intentions here the next
58:58ones will be more polished we promise
59:00it'll be great um in the meantime though
59:02something we wanted to tell you is that
59:04we have a lot more resources outside of
59:07streams um that are really really cool
59:10that you can watch we have a lot more
59:12other things um that you can do like
59:18like these tutorials that we've made uh
59:21there'ss about scripting they have code
59:23samples we also have ai which is amazing
59:25and you use it to look up more specific
59:27questions that you have you can even use
59:29it in studio and then of course as most
59:31of you know we also have Dev Forum so
59:33between those things and the links will
59:35all be underneath this video where it's
59:37embedded you'll have access to the other
59:39tutorials that are written some with
59:41videos some with not and then all the
59:43other tools available to help you start
59:45making the things that you see in your
59:46head uh we'll have more streams come in
59:48your way um and continue to let us know
59:52what kind of topics you would like to
59:53see and what types of things that you're
59:55interested in we're really excited to be
59:57making more of these for you and hope
59:58that you get things out of it uh SCH
1:00:01anything to say before we wrap
1:00:06here excellent
1:00:10okay all right than

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