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0:00welcome to art with McKenzie I am your
0:02artist Mackenzie be sure to check out my
0:06Etsy page where you can buy artwork
0:07including sculpts in paintings
0:13today we're going to start part two of
0:15our T-Rex modeling tutorial
0:18last time we built the base shape her
0:21head and her eye sockets and we got her
0:24looking pretty good
0:27today we'll be adding arms and legs
0:31so let's get right to it
0:36[Music]
0:41open up your file take a gander at where
0:45you're at so far
0:47if you're doing this in one go I'm
0:49really proud of you if you're doing it
0:50in different sections
0:53I'm also proud of you
0:57so what we're doing is reminding
1:00ourselves where we left off
1:02we're looking at our leg and where we
1:04are going to extrude
1:06and create her lick from it has to come
1:09out of her body
1:12[Music]
1:16so we'll move these lines
1:18a little bit forward and back to her leg
1:24and we have to decide which faces that
1:28we want to select
1:30to bring out and extend past her body
1:34so we're going to add an edge Loop here
1:39and this is going to help us
1:42shape out her leg in a little bit
1:49we are going to select these faces
1:54here
1:55here
1:58here and here maybe here and here
2:03hold down shift and select to select
2:05multiple faces
2:07I'd say that looks pretty good
2:09let's do this one and this one
2:12it looks good
2:14hit e to extrude
2:18give it up just a little bit
2:20we don't need to go too far we're going
2:22to adjust the vertices from here
2:26but I'd say that looks all right
2:31and if you want to give your T-Rex
2:33chunky hips give her chunky hips
2:37I'm Gonna Keep mine as scientifically
2:40accurate as I can
2:42but you can make your T-Rex any way you
2:44want
2:48so now we'll start adjusting the
2:49vertices
2:50start shaping out her thigh
2:52[Laughter]
2:56[Music]
2:59I'm just eyeballing it to what I think
3:02looks good
3:03you can eyeball yours into however you
3:06think looks good
3:08this is art
3:10so art the way you want
3:17remember select your vertices hit GG
3:20to bring it in along the edge
3:26what we're looking for is enough
3:29face to extend at the bottom of her
3:32thigh
3:34but when you're modeling one of the most
3:36important things to remember is always
3:38adjust your vertices always keep
3:40correcting
3:41as you go
3:44this makes life a lot easier later on
3:48when you're fine-tuning because if you
3:50do a little bit of fine tuning
3:51beforehand
3:53while you're going
3:55it'll let you do less fine-tuning later
3:58now we're going to bring this vertices
4:00out
4:02to about the thickness of her leg
4:08and this is looking good for me if yours
4:11is looking good for you give yourself a
4:13high five
4:13[Music]
4:15so go to the face selection
4:20hit e to extrude
4:22come down to about her knee
4:24[Music]
4:26and here I am rotating it but I still
4:29have
4:31rotation on the 3D cursor active so I'm
4:34going to take that off and this upper
4:35menu is where you turn it back off
4:38now when you hit R to rotate it'll
4:41rotate on your selection
4:44[Music]
4:50once again rotate on the 3D cursor
4:54and that's where you last had it and
4:56that's where it rotates upper menu
5:00turn it off
5:01[Music]
5:03and it will rotate on your selection
5:07so we will hit s to scale
5:10G to move
5:13R to rotate s to scale again get it up
5:19I said it looks just about good
5:22we're gonna hit G and X to move them out
5:25a little bit
5:27she has a bit of a wide stance
5:30now that we know we're in a good spot
5:33we're going to hit e to extrude
5:39go through that same process G to move s
5:42to scale we want to get it right around
5:46her top ankle there
5:52once again we'll hit e to extrude G to
5:55move
5:56R to rotate
6:01and we'll get it set up
6:03close as we can
6:06we'll go to the front view GX to move
6:10along the x-axis
6:12to keep that stance slightly wider we'll
6:15move her ankle out a little bit too
6:18she looks right get all that weight down
6:20on her feet and not on her ankles
6:23[Music]
6:28there we go
6:29[Music]
6:36now we'll add some Loop cuts
6:39so we can shape her leg a little more
6:41I'm adding four to try to keep the loop
6:45Cuts as even as I can and I'll add three
6:49here
6:50so all the boxes are about the same size
6:54we'll grab pairs of vertices
6:59you'll see we got both of them and we'll
7:01move these G to move
7:04to the edge of our reference photo
7:11remember to keep that last vertice on
7:13the outside put that on the outside of
7:15the reference
7:16the way you maintain a nice
7:19smooth line for your reference photo
7:24[Music]
7:28see that looks good but she's still
7:30looking kind of square
7:33you can fix that up a little bit
7:35[Music]
7:37so I'll hit alt click on the line S to
7:41scale
7:43try to get her calf muscles a little bit
7:45bigger now when you scale it's going to
7:47scale the entire thing
7:49so go back to the x-axis view grab your
7:54vertices and then move them back in
7:57to look chunky on the x-axis and on the
8:00y-axis
8:02she'll match her
8:05reference photo
8:09[Music]
8:11she's got a nice big calves to hold up
8:13all that weight
8:16so the TRX weighs eight tons about
8:18sixteen thousand pounds so if she's
8:20gonna have some big old muscles to hold
8:22up all that weight
8:46foreign
8:56now we need to make her toes
8:59so we're going to grab these faces
9:01[Music]
9:03we're going to rotate
9:05until it's about even with
9:07the ground
9:09and we'll bring them down
9:10[Music]
9:12because that front face is going to end
9:15up being her toes
9:18so we'll move that along to match up
9:20with our reference photo
9:24take a look
9:27I'd say that looks pretty good
9:31now a neat trick I like to do is flatten
9:34out everything along one plane
9:37to do that grab these faces
9:40hit s
9:42Z and then zero and that will flatten
9:46them out
9:47along the z-axis at a zero degree angle
9:51[Music]
9:54and now that that's done
9:59we'll take a gander and make toes
10:05[Music]
10:10so we are going to spread out these
10:11vertices a little bit
10:13give us some room
10:14[Music]
10:22I'm gonna give her a little bit more of
10:25a
10:26footprint
10:28to sit on
10:31and these three faces are going to end
10:33up being her three toes
10:37thank you
10:40[Music]
10:41make a little adjustment
10:42[Music]
10:50and yes I will go back and adjust these
10:53vertices
10:54you see something that doesn't look
10:56right in your sculpt
10:58then change it while you're thinking
11:00about it
11:02because that will affect every other
11:04change you have moving forward
11:09we will add a loop cut
11:15[Music]
11:18alt Z I messed up on that Loop cut
11:21we'll add a loop cut here in the middle
11:23of her leg
11:26towel
11:28this will help shape out her leg a
11:30little bit more so she's not so square
11:32and blocky
11:37and this will help us determine how big
11:39the toes are
11:41and how rounded they need to be
11:46it would be a lot harder to tell
11:49how big our toes needs to be if her leg
11:51was still
11:53a nice big Square so we round It Off
11:57to see how she's looking
12:01and move along the edges
12:03[Music]
12:06roll around at her calf a little bit
12:07more
12:08[Music]
12:12whenever you add vertices
12:14you need to touch them all
12:17this is just like clay modeling there's
12:19not a single portion of your model
12:22that you will not manually handle
12:26[Music]
12:29so we'll grab this face e to extrude
12:33and it'll extrude along the
12:36plane that it's facing
12:39s to scale
12:42gz to move down or to rotate
12:48that's a big old toe
12:50so we'll move it in a little bit
12:55[Music]
12:57it's good we'll grab these two faces
13:00e to extrude again
13:02or middle toe is a little bit longer
13:04so it'll come out a little bit further
13:06[Music]
13:12then we'll hit s to scale
13:15G to move
13:17and we'll bring that in just about here
13:20[Music]
13:24move this toe back to kind of match
13:30and that looks good
13:33all right her last toe e to extrude
13:36s to scale
13:40then we'll hit G to move it and kind of
13:42position it
13:43so it looks kind of natural
13:48we'll move it down along the z-axis
13:52there we go and once again we'll grab
13:55these bottom faces
13:57hit s z
14:00and then zero and that'll flatten out
14:03all of the bottom faces to that bottom
14:06plane and while they're selected g z and
14:10then move them up
14:13and that looks good it's a good start
14:15[Music]
14:19now we need to start making these look
14:20like toes
14:23and this is where the claws are going to
14:25be
14:27move these vertices out
14:33we don't really need to worry about that
14:35bottom plate and again because we're
14:36going to fix it later so just move them
14:39and get her toes nice and thick
14:43because again she has all that weight
14:45she has to support
14:47so she has nice big fat toes to do it
14:52[Laughter]
15:02[Music]
15:04we'll add a loop cut in the middle
15:07this way we can start rounding out her
15:09toes
15:09[Music]
15:12take your time with it and make it look
15:14right
15:17we want them a little bit rounded off
15:23maybe a little bit fatter in the middle
15:25[Music]
15:30good
15:32[Music]
15:41[Music]
15:47[Music]
15:51now we're going to start adjusting the
15:53length of them
15:56and make room for a future claw the
16:00claws will be made on a different video
16:03and the link for that will be posted at
16:06the end of this video
16:09but don't worry about the claw we're not
16:11going to add it too soon
16:14you can check out that video later
16:18right now we're just getting the meat of
16:20her toes
16:21where we need them to be
16:23[Music]
16:27we'll grab each line move it back so
16:30it's angled
16:32and that looks good
16:40all you want to do is get everything
16:42close
16:43[Music]
16:44nothing has to be precise
16:49we're just getting it a basic shape so
16:51it looks good
16:55and I think that looks good
16:57[Music]
17:10now we're going to make an inset for her
17:11claw we'll grab these two faces
17:15click I to inset scroll in a little bit
17:19so there's a little bit of meat around
17:20uh the middle of that square
17:23e to extrude
17:24[Music]
17:27if you extrude too far you'll go to the
17:28through the bottom of the foot
17:31and if that happens it's not a big deal
17:33hit s to scale metal
17:36shrink that up a little bit
17:39we'll go to this toe
17:41[Laughter]
17:42grab these faces
17:46look at this toe
17:49we're going to adjust a little bit more
17:51[Music]
17:54now we'll grab these faces
17:56eye to inset
17:59you need to extrude a little bit
18:01[Music]
18:04do the same with this toe
18:06eye to inset
18:08you need to extrude a little bit
18:13a little n
18:22there we go
18:25now we'll hit s to scale
18:29we'll do the same with this toe
18:34now eventually this model is going to be
18:363D printed
18:39so this helps with future prints we will
18:43print the Clause separately then the
18:44feet
18:45and this will help with modeling
18:48molding and casting if that's what you
18:51want to do otherwise
18:53you'll just glue in your claws to your
18:553D print
18:57and she'll look good
19:01[Music]
19:09so now we're going to grab these
19:10vertices move them along the edge
19:14bring those toes down a bit
19:16[Music]
19:19[Laughter]
19:24[Music]
19:29adjust your model
19:30foreign
19:31[Music]
19:39and remember always look at your model
19:41from different angles
19:44you stick on one angle it's only going
19:46to look good from that angle you want to
19:47look at it all over the place to make
19:50sure she looks good
19:51all over the place
19:54she has an inner toe and we'll grab
19:56these faces
19:58e to extrude
20:01s to scale
20:06that looks pretty decent
20:08[Music]
20:14we'll grab these faces
20:16move them in just a little bit
20:20go to line mode
20:22GG to move along the two outer lines
20:28[Music]
20:30we'll move this line up
20:34[Music]
20:36the tip where her tiny little Claw is
20:38going to come out
20:42[Music]
20:45I'm going to hit Ida inset e to extrude
20:50s to scale a little bit
20:54that's where we're going to inset her
20:56inner toe claw
20:59and it gives us faces to sculpt with
21:02later on
21:07[Music]
21:10she's getting there
21:18[Music]
21:25we'll continue refining her shape
21:29getting her all lined up
21:35[Music]
21:37that way she looks good from any profile
21:40[Music]
21:56foreign
22:03vertices move them and adjust them
22:08one by one and you'll see her slowly
22:10come into life
22:12now we'll go back to the toes
22:15we'll put in some Edge loops on each toe
22:18I'm going to do two per toe
22:22that'll give me enough faces edges and
22:25vertices to round them out a little bit
22:28and make them look more natural
22:30[Music]
22:36I'll add an edge Loop here
22:39you can add as many as you want
22:42to round off your model
22:44this is how I'm doing it
22:47and this is giving me more lines and
22:50vertices
22:53to adjust my model
22:55you do the same with your model
22:58and adjust it as you like
23:01with all that moving around we've gotten
23:03off the profile from our reference
23:07so we'll grab the vertices and we'll
23:08adjust until it fits the reference
23:10profile
23:15foreign
23:17[Music]
23:28[Music]
23:56pretty close I'm gonna let uh the
24:00program help out a little bit
24:02we'll select everything and edit
24:07we'll go to vertices
24:09and here you can add these to your quick
24:11links
24:14and mine already says removed from Quick
24:15links but right click and edit and then
24:18hit Q
24:20and that'll show your quick links
24:22I hit smooth vertices
24:25just like we did before
24:28and it kind of evens all your vertices
24:30out
24:32makes it look more natural
24:37and then just go back and then adjust
24:39vertices put on some music because it
24:41might take a minute
24:45and readjust your model
24:48to your reference profile
24:50[Music]
24:55[Laughter]
25:05[Music]
25:42okay we'll work on the toes now
25:48from those Edge Loops we added earlier
25:51we can move them down and start rounding
25:53out
25:54the shape of her toes
25:58and sometimes your model does get in the
26:00way it's okay just move your camera
26:01until you can see
26:07give them a nice
26:09natural looking curve
26:11[Music]
26:16and like before take your time grab your
26:18vertices and adjust it
26:21so she looks right
26:26how do you know if she looks right
26:28that's on you
26:30I like adding these big fat pads like uh
26:33big birds
26:36and I want to flatten these out
26:38because I want my model to sit on her
26:41feet
26:42so this is the surface area where she's
26:44going to sit
26:45we'll grab these faces
26:48hit s to scale
26:50Z for the z-axis and zero and boom
26:55flattens them out
27:01foreign
27:03if you make it as close to a real body
27:06as you can
27:08nature does its thing and she will
27:10balance herself on the small surface
27:13area that you made
27:15on her feet
27:16[Music]
27:19we'll go through keep adjusting our
27:22vertices
27:23[Music]
27:27and make her look good
27:30I want to adjust her head a little bit
27:31we'll add an edge loop around her
27:33jawline
27:34[Music]
27:37and just like before we'll adjust our
27:39vertices
27:39[Music]
27:44[Laughter]
27:48[Music]
27:54[Laughter]
27:59so I'm going to go through I'll add edge
28:01Loops where I think I need an edge Loop
28:03[Music]
28:04anywhere
28:06anywhere where there's a space
28:09that shows background and not
28:12my reference picture I will add an edge
28:14Loop
28:16grab that outer vertices and then move
28:18it up
28:19to get a better profile
28:24you'll need more around the neck head
28:26legs and feet than you will around your
28:28body
28:30that's perfectly normal
28:56so now let's start working on her arms
29:01look at your reference picture
29:04and move
29:06your vertices
29:08around where her shoulder is because
29:10that's where we're going to extrude from
29:18[Music]
29:26we'll go into face mode
29:29we're going to grab these four faces
29:32hit shift and click to grab all four
29:35[Music]
29:42I'll hit e to extrude again
29:46s to scale
29:48[Music]
29:51get it just about there
29:57we'll go to our x-axis View
30:05move these vertices around to make them
30:08more natural looking
30:11[Music]
30:15those bottom two faces are what we're
30:17going to use to extrude her tiny little
30:20arms
30:23look at her shoulder
30:26looking close to normal or natural as we
30:29possibly can before we do that
30:31[Music]
30:44so that looks good
30:46we'll grab these two faces
30:49and if you extrude down what you're
30:52going to have are
30:55really hard surfaces to work with
30:59so we want to do something different
31:03we're going to go to our Loop tools by
31:04right clicking
31:07go to Circle click on Circle
31:10and there we have
31:12two good looking round
31:15faces to extrude the rest of our arm
31:18with
31:18[Music]
31:22so we'll go back to our profile view
31:25G to move
31:27start getting it lined up with our
31:28reference R to rotate
31:33then we'll s to scale trying to get it
31:36kind of close
31:37[Music]
31:38G to move
31:41that looks good
31:47I'll hit e to extrude
31:50are to rotate once more
31:54s to scale a little bit
31:57go to a different view bring the arms in
32:00[Music]
32:03say that looks good
32:06[Music]
32:13so we'll grab these faces
32:15do the same thing that we've been doing
32:18e to extrude
32:21G to move we'll take this about to her
32:23wrist
32:24[Music]
32:25hit R to rotate
32:33we'll do the same thing we did before
32:34bring her arms in
32:41we'll adjust vertices as we go along
32:46if I'm moving too fast remember you can
32:48pause adjust all your vertices and then
32:50come back to me
32:52I will be here
32:56we'll add an edge Loop
32:57to the middle of her arm
33:03and we will hit X
33:04and dissolve the edge
33:07these two faces will become her fingers
33:11[Music]
33:18so we'll grab one face
33:20need to extrude this is one or one of
33:22her fingers
33:27just like before extrude scale rotate
33:30move
33:32try to get it lined up as best you can
33:34to your reference photo
33:41look around that's her one finger this
33:44is her other
33:46so e to extrude
33:50s to scale
33:55hit G and move it away from her other
33:57fingers so
33:58separated
34:01you to extrude again s to scale
34:05G to move or to rotate
34:17[Music]
34:18[Laughter]
34:19[Music]
34:23foreign
34:24[Laughter]
34:29[Music]
34:36there we go that looks good
34:38[Laughter]
34:40[Music]
34:47and now it's just a matter of lining up
34:49her fingers to the reference photo
34:53we want to keep it to the reference
34:54photo for now
34:57that way we can model it properly and
34:59then later we can move her arms and
35:01fingers any direction that we want
35:05and just like the toes we're going to
35:07rotate them
35:09fatten them up
35:12and make them
35:15as circular as possible instead of
35:18Square thing that we have
35:20so we'll add edge loops
35:22grab the vertices and adjust
35:26we'll have a nice open face to add her
35:28claw in
35:34[Music]
35:37so grab the face eye to inset
35:41he took extrude in
35:44s to scale
35:46same thing with her other finger
35:52I to nset
35:55grab it
35:56I had to inset
35:58e to extrude
36:01estoscope
36:02[Music]
36:11that looks decent
36:16so now our T-Rex has a body head
36:19legs arms hands and feet
36:27and this is a very good very low poly
36:30count
36:31T-Rex that you can play with
36:35join me next time and we'll continue
36:37modeling and shaping our dinosaur
36:39and she's going to look even more
36:41beautiful than she is now but as for
36:43today you did a great job you have a
36:46great looking dinosaur in front of you
36:47you should be proud of yourself and
36:49thank you for doing art with MacKenzie
36:54[Music]

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