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0:00[Music]
0:03Welcome To Earth McKenzie I Am the
0:06Artist Mackenzie
0:08be sure to check out my Etsy page for
0:10all kinds of sculpts and artwork for
0:13your home
0:17today we are going to start part three
0:19of our
0:21T-Rex modeling Adventure
0:23[Music]
0:25that means we'll be adding faces and
0:27refining our Dino so she is looking
0:30smooth
0:31and adding lots of realism
0:34just make sure you have
0:37your file opened up
0:40and we'll get right to it we're going to
0:42do a few new things today
0:45so I'm gonna try to take it nice and
0:46slow
0:48uh
0:49so
0:52what I'm going to do
0:55is I'm going to end up
0:58cutting Mina's head off
1:02and then I'm going to use it
1:04I'm going to 3D print it
1:07and then
1:08mold it and cast it for prints to sell
1:13now you can do the same I would highly
1:15suggest it people love having dinosaur
1:18heads on their walls
1:22or you can just keep it together with a
1:24model and you can skip this part
1:26but doing it now when it's low poly what
1:29I'm about to do is uh
1:31[Music]
1:33this is this is when you want to do it
1:34when it's nice and low poly so
1:38we are going to
1:40figure out
1:43where we want to cut the head off
1:45eventually
1:48and separate it
1:51from the rest of the body
1:55so let's get into it
1:58figure out the part where you want to
1:59cut
2:01I'd say I want to cut mine about here
2:07I'll go to align selection
2:10click alt click on the line
2:16and we're going to add a seam
2:18[Music]
2:21is right here
2:24foreign
2:26all the way around
2:27[Laughter]
2:32and seams are good for other parts of
2:34blender but for me I just like
2:37figuring out uh
2:39cutting it up to to what I want
2:45um you can do that anywhere I made
2:48Mina's legs because I will be selling
2:50those
2:53and I usually cut them around here
2:57and you go back to
2:58Edge and Mark seam or right click
3:02you'll get this other pop-up menu and
3:04yours should say add quick favorites if
3:07it's already in your quick favorites
3:08it'll say remove from Quick favorites
3:10because I use it often enough
3:14click on it
3:15hit Q
3:17go down to Mark seam and it'll Mark that
3:20same
3:24may want her arms
3:30but we don't have enough
3:34lines for that yet
3:36so we'll just wait
3:39now we'll focus on the head
3:43right now what we're going to do is
3:46going to object mode and show you
3:48another neat trick so you can see how
3:50your object is coming
3:52click on your dinosaur right click on it
3:55shade smooth
3:58and this will show you
4:01what it looks like with the smooth
4:02shading
4:04now doing this every once in a while is
4:05a good idea because if you have bad
4:08topology
4:09the shading won't look smooth you'll
4:12have strange lines in certain places
4:16see if I can find any
4:19nothing too weird now
4:21which is a good sign and if yours looks
4:23the same which should if you've been
4:25following along with me
4:27then you won't see any either
4:29so we'll go back to click on the object
4:33shape flat
4:36and we're going to pop some eyeballs
4:37into her
4:39shift a
4:43UV sphere
4:46look at it
4:48we want it to be
4:50[Music]
4:53a little more
4:55smooth
4:58so down here we'll put segments at 150.
5:02see how that works Rings we will put at
5:0550.
5:07nope 75 that looks better
5:10[Music]
5:12let's see what 200 segments look like
5:15getting there with 100 rings
5:20that looks good
5:21[Music]
5:23let's get rid of mina for a second we'll
5:25come up here
5:27a good time to now that we're going to
5:29be adding a few a few more things
5:32we should start organizing our
5:34collection in this corner so we'll
5:36double click
5:38on Mina
5:39I will type in her name you put in the
5:42name of your dinosaur make sure your
5:44dinosaur is named it's very important
5:46for all your sculpts to be named
5:49so do that
5:52this is sphere
5:53we will also put in as eyeball
5:58there we go
5:59foreign
6:03move it
6:05[Music]
6:07so we like G
6:10y
6:13I don't know where she needs to be
6:16s for scale
6:18we'll scale it in
6:20gz
6:24it's looking good
6:27g x
6:29popper in
6:31[Music]
6:36for freely with the G
6:39[Music]
6:43scalar up just a little bit
6:46so mean is going to need two eyes
6:49so we are going to add a modifier again
6:52and click here come over here to
6:54modifiers
6:56get our menu it is in alphabetical order
7:00so when you hit mirror you know to go
7:01searching everywhere you're going to
7:04generate a mirror
7:06and
7:08all right now where did it go it's hard
7:10to tell
7:12it'll mirror it off of your eyeball we
7:15want want it to be on the other side of
7:17her face
7:19so this mirror object hit the dropper
7:22click on your dinosaur boom now she has
7:25two eyes
7:26[Music]
7:28and we will
7:30take one and we will move it and as you
7:32see
7:34it moves it
7:36in the mirror
7:37together
7:38[Laughter]
7:39so we're just going to leave that there
7:41for now
7:44so we will go back to Mina
7:45[Music]
7:48edit mode
7:52and now we will start refining her shape
7:56so let's bring up one of our references
8:02there we go
8:04she is going to be screaming nice and
8:07loud
8:08we are going
8:10to move this reference image
8:13over to Mina
8:15click on Mina make her invisible a
8:17little bit
8:19click on the reference image we're going
8:21to rotate it
8:23until she matches
8:26I'm just gonna line her up
8:29Gail
8:31G to move
8:39does it look good that looks a little
8:42big so let's get it down a little bit
8:46a little small it takes a little uh
8:49adjustment refining
8:51so take your time
8:56there we go
9:00that looks close enough
9:03but
9:05let's line up
9:09that bottom will look a little better
9:15then this
9:19is how we will
9:23refine her
9:26bottom jaw
9:32take off wire
9:35to take off the X-ray
9:37[Music]
9:38and as before
9:40come up here turn on our 3D cursor when
9:44we opened this jar earlier we put our 3D
9:46cursor here
9:47so when it rotates her jaw
9:49it'll rotate at the cursor and that's
9:51what we're going to do again because we
9:52want our mouth a little more open
9:58we are going to take
10:01all of these oops
10:05she has more
10:08faces and stuff on the inside
10:12hold down shift
10:16to collect uh to select all the faces
10:19rotate
10:22nope why because now we have to come up
10:25here
10:27to our pivot point and we want to change
10:29our Pivot Point to 3D cursor boom
10:33now when we hit rotate
10:35rotate on that 3D cursor
10:39[Music]
10:41so we will line up that bottom mouth as
10:46quick on it
10:48I like to change this back to the
10:51bounding box center for future reference
10:53in case I need to Pivot something else
10:55it won't pivot around this 3D cursor
10:59turn that off
11:01get out of x-ray mode
11:05yeah it actually looks scary
11:10all right
11:13we will now add in this skin flap
11:16very easy to do
11:19or an enema object mode
11:20[Music]
11:22day
11:23add a cube
11:26there we go scale it on the X
11:28[Music]
11:31it's nice and thin
11:35and we want a g and move it or to rotate
11:39that's the scale
11:42[Music]
11:44into this View and we'll hit
11:46[Music]
11:47this g x to move it in
11:52R and Z to rotate it on the z-axis
11:59now
12:02oops
12:04that's just a matter of playing with it
12:07getting it
12:09to match up with our reference a little
12:12bit better
12:14so
12:17it's pretty close
12:21we'll go into edit mode
12:25remove
12:28these vertices in
12:30[Music]
12:32[Laughter]
12:35these vertices
12:36[Music]
12:39and start getting that shape out of
12:41x-ray
12:49go back into x-ray
12:50[Music]
13:00want
13:03your skin flap to be inside because
13:06we're going to eventually join
13:09her cheek to the different parts of
13:13her face
13:18[Music]
13:22just take your time
13:27doesn't have to be perfect
13:33we're going to be modifying it more
13:35[Music]
13:47you know that's a good start
13:52click on the object
13:55Ctrl R to add a couple Edge loops
13:59I'll do three nope
14:03and then we'll hit Ctrl r
14:05three click
14:07right click
14:09what we want
14:12[Music]
14:14and now we can take these vertices
14:19and move them back
14:22start getting some of that rounded shape
14:25foreign
14:25[Laughter]
14:26[Music]
14:30[Laughter]
14:33[Music]
14:37just like the eyeballs we're going to do
14:39the same thing here
14:44modifier
14:48mirror
14:50dropper
14:53click on your dinosaur
14:55[Music]
14:57and then we have decent looking
15:00cheek flaps
15:04a little click
15:06shade smooth click shade smooth
15:10as you can see she's already looking
15:12better
15:15so we'll go back to shape flat
15:17look on the shade flat
15:20now let's see if we can add some awesome
15:24detail
15:26so we'll go to edit mode
15:28[Music]
15:34through
15:39since we open this mouth
15:43we have to adjust for
15:46all of the
15:49lines that we hid
15:51[Music]
15:52we'll look in here
15:54edit
15:56see there are a lot of overlapping lines
15:59[Music]
16:00and if we
16:02shade smooth we should see some problems
16:05with it
16:09gets dark over here light over here we
16:12know we're having
16:13issues with overlap here so we're going
16:16to fix that
16:18we'll go back to shape flat
16:21edit
16:23x-ray
16:25then we are going to move these back
16:33[Music]
16:40[Music]
16:48foreign
16:57[Music]
17:05[Laughter]
17:15grab this line
17:17[Music]
17:18a little bit back there we go
17:24there we go
17:28[Music]
17:32[Laughter]
17:40[Music]
17:45let's look at it normally and we can see
17:51all of our faces now which is a very
17:54good sign
17:56go back and look at it
17:59it's smooth and now
18:01boom you can see
18:04proper shading
18:07be very careful with your models
18:15editing so you can avoid that overlap
18:22great this is all good stuff
18:33gets a little more Square
18:37well
18:38looks good
18:40[Laughter]
18:42now we'll go back to shade Flats
18:49we're going to add more
18:52of Our Own
18:57faces and lines
18:59[Music]
19:03until we start before we start these
19:05sculpting so we're going to do a lot of
19:08edge loops
19:12control R
19:14we'll just see where our Edge Loops are
19:21quite a few
19:23so we'll do two there
19:27a little bit three there
19:29and there
19:31and I'm just trying to keep all of my
19:35squares
19:37slash rectangles about the same size
19:40[Music]
19:42because it will make life easier
19:44[Music]
19:48later when we sculpt
19:51and when you get a lot of lines like
19:54this close together a lot of vertices
19:56you can manipulate
19:57it's good in the face
20:00and the tail because there's gonna be a
20:02lot of detail there so don't worry about
20:04it being
20:06the same size uh faces on the body as it
20:09is on the face and tail and arms and
20:12feet
20:14because the body's not going to have too
20:15much detail but the everything else will
20:23[Music]
20:26Edge loops
20:28[Music]
20:42foreign
20:49[Music]
20:53by the eye
20:58there is
21:00a lot of detail to be had around the eye
21:04[Music]
21:10[Music]
21:18[Music]
21:34look all around your model
21:37or any open spaces
21:41another one here
21:43another one here
21:45[Music]
21:51let's play with the arms a little bit
21:54[Music]
22:04and you can add as many
22:07oops
22:09I won't see to delete
22:13or undo
22:16God bless it
22:19controller there we go
22:22you can add as many Edge Loops as you
22:24want depending on
22:26your system
22:29and how detailed you want this
22:32I'm going to make her extremely detailed
22:35so we are adding
22:39a lot of faces
22:42to manipulate
22:48[Laughter]
22:52[Music]
22:57[Laughter]
23:02[Music]
23:04foreign
23:08[Music]
23:15[Laughter]
23:17monotonous
23:24but again we want to add bunch of faces
23:26and vertices here not so many around the
23:29body
23:29[Music]
23:56[Music]
24:02[Music]
24:10thank you
24:13because we want a lot of triangles here
24:15a lot of triangles here don't need so
24:18many around there
24:19[Music]
24:21[Laughter]
24:30[Music]
24:33[Laughter]
24:37[Music]
24:50[Music]
24:55[Laughter]
25:01now I want more here
25:03[Music]
25:06more there
25:10[Music]
25:29now we are at the point where we're
25:31going to smooth things out
25:33very slightly
25:38with our tablet everything I've been
25:40doing has been with a mouse
25:43now we are going to go to tablet
25:49so I'm going to sculpt
25:52our tools are on the left
25:56and you can grab here pull the menu out
25:59and shorten the menu pull it out some
26:01more
26:02and it tells you
26:04what all of your tools are
26:07so I'm going to keep it like that so you
26:09can see what I'm doing it's going to
26:11stay on draw
26:14have a nice big cursor we'll go over
26:17some shortcuts
26:20any of the tools that you have if you
26:22hold down shift
26:24and then apply it
26:26is going to smooth out wherever you are
26:29real we'll shift tap
26:33and it will smooth out
26:35[Music]
26:37Where You Are
26:40Open Bracket close bracket Will Open
26:44Bracket
26:45I guess the right side bracket
26:47will make your cursor large left side
26:49bracket will make it small and
26:51everything and that blue area will
26:56be affected so I'm going to hit shift
27:01go over stuff
27:03it's only in a small area if we do big
27:08it'll smooth things out
27:11on a big area
27:14and we want to be careful here
27:16I'm going to show you why because if I
27:18smooth things out here let me keep
27:20smoothing it out
27:22it out you see this hard Edge
27:25and we don't want that
27:27control we'll see a couple times
27:31there we go
27:33so we'll keep our cursor small avoid
27:36this midline until we are done with our
27:38mirror modifier
27:40still be active
27:45so we will just smooth
27:48out our T-Rex a bit
27:50[Music]
27:54[Laughter]
27:58see all of your
28:01vertices that you added
28:06are now
28:08being smoothed together
28:14and I'm just slightly tapping
28:18because I don't want to get too crazy
28:19with it
28:20this overlapping part also we want to
28:22make sure
28:25it stays
28:27not overlapping
28:38those vertices
28:40that we added
28:42can now be rounded off
28:50again avoid the center of mine for now
28:56going to manipulate that later
29:00when we get heavy into the sculpting
29:05so right now just smooth out
29:08you've already done
29:19put on some tunes
29:23and uh
29:25[Music]
29:27do your smoothing follow along and I'll
29:29be with you
29:31when we're done smoothing
29:34[Music]
29:42[Music]
29:57[Music]
30:09[Music]
30:15good reminder avoid this bottom side
30:19if you are planning on printing this out
30:21you want to keep this flat for your
30:24printer
30:24also you want to have a stable base for
30:27your sculpt
30:30so if you start
30:33that up
30:34you see here
30:37this could be a big pain in the butt to
30:39try to flatten out later so
30:42Ctrl Z
30:44undo that and just avoid this as best as
30:47you can
30:52[Music]
31:13[Music]
31:21[Music]
31:59[Laughter]
32:08[Music]
32:21[Music]
32:24foreign
32:26[Music]
32:38[Laughter]
32:46[Music]
32:51[Laughter]
32:56this out
32:58but first we want to connect
33:03B's as best as we can so we will hit k
33:05for the shortcut for the knife
33:08also find it over here
33:10[Music]
33:12go to a point click click enter nice
33:17click click thanks
33:18[Music]
33:20Okay click enter all right
33:24Point through this so we will just add
33:26and view there
33:28[Music]
33:32I'm gonna add one here
33:36and
33:37when you draw your knife across any line
33:39it'll automatically add vertices for you
33:42to adjust later
33:46that looks good so we will go back to
33:48sculpt
33:51and we'll zoom in nice and close
33:56because we don't want this to get too
33:59wonky
34:05[Music]
34:12just lightly tap
34:17[Music]
34:18[Laughter]
34:19[Music]
34:24[Laughter]
34:29I don't see here we go
34:32need to keep the inside of the mouth as
34:35flat as possible we'll be adding in
34:37teeth and gums
34:38and a tongue later in more detail
34:43for right now
34:46we'll keep it as is
34:50I'd say that's a good
34:52finishing point
34:57let's take a look at
34:59our dinosaur this is my Mina
35:01[Music]
35:04she's getting better
35:07and I'm sure yours is getting better too
35:09[Music]
35:13yep that'll be it for the day
35:16next time we are going to work more on
35:20[Music]
35:21the toes
35:24work on the defeat next time add in some
35:27claws
35:29and uh
35:32we'll add in some claws on the hands
35:36we'll see what else we can do
35:39so that was it thank you for joining me
35:41today all right with McKenzie
35:43I like doing art with you
35:47so make sure to hit like And subscribe
35:50so you can see the next video click that
35:52notification Bell for when I drop it
35:54it'll be in about a week
35:57[Music]
36:05[Music]

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