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Modeling a T Rex in Blender Part 4 Tutorial — Transcript

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0:00[Music]
0:01welcome to art with McKenzie thanks for
0:04being here so we can do some art
0:05together we are going to make something
0:07awesome
0:10be sure to check out my website netsy
0:12page for all kinds of cool art for your
0:14home
0:16and welcome back
0:19today we are going to be focusing on our
0:21dinosaur feet
0:24so your dinosaur model open and let's
0:27just jump right into it
0:30now if you haven't already
0:34go watch my YouTube video on how to
0:38sculpt a claw
0:40we're going to add that and we're gonna
0:42finagle these feet a little bit to
0:44accept the claw
0:46and I'll show you how we do that now so
0:49if you haven't done that go check it out
0:50because I'm about to
0:53add it into our dinosaur model
0:56to do that we will go into file
1:01and you'll see two options link
1:04depend
1:06now from what I've learned if you link
1:08another blender object
1:11you are actually linking it to its
1:14original file so whatever you modify
1:16here will modify in the original file
1:21I haven't gotten that to work
1:23but that's supposedly what it does so
1:26what we're going to do anyway is append
1:28which means we're just going to attach
1:30it to our current model and that's what
1:32we will do now so click append so we'll
1:34add that mesh and it might show up in a
1:37weird spot
1:39which is fine there it is
1:42and you'll see our number of triangles
1:44has increased dramatically over here in
1:48the upper right hand corner is the
1:49cylinder
1:51we'll put this one as outer
1:55law
1:58and if we get rid of it
2:00you will see our triangles drop back
2:01down to 98 000.
2:04let's open that back up
2:06we'll get our front view and we'll start
2:09moving it
2:10g x
2:14about
2:16our side view rotates on the X
2:21to get it about where we need
2:24Z
2:27g y
2:29and it's getting pretty close
2:32so now we're going to scale it has to
2:34scale
2:38there we go that looks pretty good so
2:40far we'll rotate it on the z-axis
2:44to get it lined up
2:46now we're going to free move it on the G
2:48and just get it about where it needs to
2:50be
2:51from here I'll just keep using G
2:54Onna get it in and as you see
2:58the edges
2:59where it combines
3:01that's what we're looking for
3:04so we'll keep that right there
3:06[Music]
3:07and that is way
3:09[Music]
3:11underneath where we have it cut off
3:16so we'll go on the side and we'll rotate
3:19it a bit
3:21G to move
3:24that's looking better
3:27oh
3:29without a claw
3:32rotate on the z a bit
3:35[Music]
3:39I'll be good for now it's a good
3:42starting point
3:44but we need whoa
3:48we need to tell on the other side so if
3:50you remember we'll go to our mirror
3:52modifiers
3:54add the mirror
3:55[Music]
3:57trippy tool
3:59mirror object will be our dinosaur and
4:01boom
4:03she's on the other side
4:05don't need to worry about clipping
4:09uh
4:12because we're not modifying anything on
4:14each side of itself
4:17oh grab it
4:19d
4:22okay
4:24I'll bring it up
4:27and we'll move it like we always do with
4:30the G rotate on the Z
4:35and we want to get this lined up
4:38with the line of the toe so get it as
4:41close as you can for now
4:45that looks good we'll duplicate it again
4:47see
4:49bring it over to this toe
4:52take on the Z
4:54G to move
4:59good angle R to rotate
5:04you move
5:06it's pretty good if I rotate that up a
5:08little bit again boom
5:10or up to you down boom
5:15now our dinosaur has claws we're gonna
5:17wait for this inner toe until we get
5:19this uh moved out a little bit more
5:23but for now this is what we're looking
5:24for we're going to
5:27work on the toes a little bit of our
5:30dinosaur
5:31before we do that
5:33click on these toes
5:36and rename them
5:38in the middle
5:41click on this one
5:43learning on this one enter
5:51and I'll just get rid of this 002
5:53because that
5:55uh
5:57finds it away from when you
6:00duplicate it'll add its own numerical
6:03value to differentiate the names between
6:06but that's where we want so far
6:09that looks good
6:11okay we'll click on our dinosaur and we
6:13will get into
6:14sculpting as I've said before a Wacom
6:18tablet or another similar tablet
6:21crucial
6:22for sculpting
6:24and modeling I highly suggest you get
6:26one if you're still doing this by a
6:27mouse
6:28that is very impressive
6:32and on the left side are our tools
6:35show you again
6:37[Music]
6:40the tools in
6:42there will be a double column bring it
6:45in a little bit further it's a single
6:47column
6:48bring it all the way out
6:50tells you what all your tools are
6:53we are going to grab
6:56we're gonna grab our grab tool
7:00we're going to just start gently easing
7:02in
7:07close bracket to make a bigger
7:11[Music]
7:13cursor
7:15and Open Bracket to make it smaller
7:17bigger
7:19smaller
7:21we'll just start working on this outer
7:23toe
7:24oh before we really start getting at it
7:27up here
7:29I'll make sure your X
7:31is is marked
7:33this little butterfly shows you the
7:35midline of what it's talking about so if
7:38you're on your x-axis
7:40you will see
7:42the yellow cursor on the left foot on
7:45the left screen
7:46and the cursor on the right screen
7:48that's just showing you where it is
7:51mirrored
7:55oh man
7:57grab
7:59your cursor a little bit bigger
8:05a little lightly grab and bring this out
8:10and grab
8:12and bring this up
8:20this is all we're doing
8:23for now
8:28and it's grabbing all of the vertices
8:30that you've added
8:35it's not adding any more
8:39so the more vertices you have the more
8:42areas it has to play with
8:47go into edit mode and we'll see where
8:49our lines are
8:50[Music]
8:53looks good for now
9:06so that we have those in
9:11back to object mode
9:13our total number of triangles just below
9:16two hundred thousand
9:20cost for now
9:25that we know they're basically okay
9:37[Music]
9:39thank you
9:45let's add more vertices
9:50into edit mode front facing
9:54I'm going to go to x-ray
9:57this x-ray will grab everything in front
10:00and behind
10:08and from about her knee down or the grab
10:11all of those
10:14if you don't have your quick shortcut
10:17setup by hitting Q
10:20for your quick favorites
10:23we'll come up to
10:25Edge
10:27and we'll click subdivide we're going to
10:29subdivide
10:31all of these vertices
10:33or hit cubed
10:35and hit subdivide
10:40and we have a lot more vertices and
10:42we're going to do that one more time
10:48and then we'll go back to sculpt
10:52get rid of X-ray and now this is where
10:55cool stuff happens
10:59shift
11:01smaller hold down shift
11:04and run your
11:06cursor up the leg
11:10it will become extremely smooth
11:14that's what we're looking for
11:18because now it has a whole bunch of
11:19vertices
11:23to smooth out
11:29and be careful around
11:32these edges
11:36because we don't want them
11:38to misshapen
11:41so take your time
11:45smooth out
11:49every face that you can
11:57and we don't need to worry about the
11:59inside because that is going to be
12:01hidden by the toe
12:05all right
12:12you don't want to flatten everything so
12:14much that you ruin it I'll show you
12:20this is ruining your model
12:24that's completely flat now we just lost
12:26the toe
12:28but if you do mess up that's okay
12:29because you just hit Ctrl Z
12:32and take it back to a spot that you
12:34liked
12:36and if you're going to get to an area
12:38where you are concerned
12:42just make sure you come up and hit save
12:44save your work
12:50always say it will
12:54save for you
12:58but manually saving is just always a
13:01good practice
13:07just keep hitting shift
13:09[Music]
13:10smoothing everything out
13:12[Music]
13:15foreign
13:22this is where most of your
13:27detail is going to be it's going to be
13:28less detail up here in the legs
13:33but for now just this bottom part is
13:34what we're focused on
13:47[Music]
13:49there looks beautiful now
13:51come back over here
13:53and we'll add our claws again
13:59see what we have done
14:02[Music]
14:06beautiful
14:07and we'll work on this another claw
14:13not do not want a shift we don't want to
14:15grab it out
14:28I just want this just
14:32the outside of the claw
14:38bring everything up from the inside
14:42hold down shift and tap blue
14:49just flat
14:56[Music]
15:00there we go
15:03bring it in nice and easy
15:07change the size of your
15:09cursor if you need to
15:16try to make it to where
15:20it looks like the claws coming out of
15:22her toe pad
15:26forward
15:35and this is where your Artistry comes in
15:40you can have it look any way you want
15:42this is just the way I am doing it
15:45the way you're doing it will be just
15:47fine too
15:51over here so bad out a little bit more
15:53at the bottom
15:56that's where a lot of the fat is
15:59for her weight
16:03and you'll see this on Mini modern
16:06Birds
16:08big birds
16:10maybe even the Big Bird but mostly
16:12ostriches and emus
16:16I'll have these nice big fat toe pads
16:20come over to the milk law
16:23we'll do the same
16:36to bring this out
16:38to bring this up
16:45nice and easy
16:47and it's okay if it goes inside the claw
16:51it's not that big deal we're going to
16:53add some Mega detail out there later
16:58now
17:05here we go
17:07that looks good okay come over here
17:11and concussion a little bit bigger
17:16not soften that out so I'm hitting shift
17:18to do that now
17:21I'm bringing this out forward
17:27and up
17:35I can't tell you exactly how
17:41to do every stroke because
17:45[Music]
17:48every stroke is going to be different
17:49you are going to be different
17:56all I can do is kind of show you a path
17:59you take the path and you make the path
18:01the way you want it to look
18:06this is how I want mine to look
18:13and it looks good look same on both
18:15sides
18:17with some pretty legs
18:21all right we'll come up here
18:26[Music]
18:28we'll see you out a bit
18:32we'll bring you down
18:36bring you up
18:39we're just gonna keep bringing this down
18:43we're bringing this up
18:55[Music]
19:04group
19:22it's gonna look silly
19:25for a moment
19:45shift to smooth everything out on the
19:47inside
19:48like that
19:54oh not that far
20:06just smooth you out of bed
20:15I think you may mess this up slightly
20:16but it's nothing we can't fix
20:23art is all about making mistakes
20:27and fixing them
20:28[Music]
20:34that's what we're doing
20:37make mistakes in fixing them we'll come
20:40to our draw tool
20:43just does
20:48a little bit on the outside
20:53draw a little bit on the inside we're
20:55going to close this up a little bit
21:08smooth it out
21:10just a tad
21:15[Music]
21:17okay come back to our grab
21:21bring it in nice and big I'll grab a lot
21:24of it
21:25bring in
21:28you know it's a good start now
21:30now we need
21:33I need this little baby claw
21:37now we need this little baby claw
21:39[Music]
21:41objects we'll grab this
21:43shift d to duplicate
21:47and we'll bring it around using G
21:51R to rotate s to scale
21:55G to move I'll plug that little bad boy
21:58in there
22:04G
22:11Onna well I'm too big it has to scale
22:14there we go d
22:19all right now we have something
22:23to grab onto the claw so on the back
22:26here
22:28we will call this our
22:32detail
22:34I don't know
22:35that's what I'm calling it
22:38go back to scum objects make sure you're
22:41clicked on your dinosaur object come
22:43back to sculpt
22:51and he'll zoom in a bit get a good angle
22:54to see how you're working
22:58[Music]
23:03everything in
23:07bring everything in from the inside as
23:09best you can
23:17[Music]
23:21you can't care in just a minute
23:32you know we did a lot of moving
23:36stuff around shift
23:39smooth things out a bit
23:49they're gonna add a ton of
23:51vertices right here
23:53go back into edit
23:56you'll see
23:57now everything is kind of
24:00cattywampus but we want to add a lot of
24:02detail right here to bring this skin
24:04flap in to the claw
24:08when we go back into sculpt we're going
24:10to come up here to dynatompo
24:13and click on the spons you will always
24:15get this warning saying that you're
24:16going to be adding a lot of vertices and
24:19faces to your object
24:21that's all right hit okay
24:24we are going to do subdivide collapse
24:27brush detail
24:29smooth shading
24:37draw
24:40we're just going to tap a little bit
24:46and we're going to be adding
24:49a lot of polys to this area
24:54to work with
24:58this should be it
25:02edit mode
25:04now you see all these new policies that
25:06we got
25:07this was from the dynatopo and we have a
25:10lot more to work with a lot more to play
25:11with when we
25:13go back to sculpting
25:16and when you hop off sculpting or hop
25:19off to edit mode or object mode and go
25:22back your dinosaur bow will
25:23automatically turn itself off
25:25[Music]
25:27will smooth out all this new geometry
25:30real fast
25:33shift
25:36there we go
25:37grab
25:40and you will see you have
25:44a lot more to play with
25:47and it does not
25:50distort your work
25:54at all
25:59adjust yours as you want
26:05play with it until you get it looking
26:08the way you want it
26:16hopefully I'm going slow enough for you
26:19so we can do this together if not you
26:21can always pause
26:24work on your dinosaur
26:27and then come back
26:30I like hitting
26:32shift to smooth this out
26:39there we go
26:44that's really good
26:53you do Gotta Die on top of it all
26:58and give you weird looks uh
27:04makes things look a little weird
27:05[Music]
27:07but now that we're still in sculpt let
27:09us
27:14work on our legs more
27:20she has big old calves
27:24to support that weight
27:32doing several different ways we're using
27:35grab right now let's move this out real
27:37fast
27:41another way to beef in up your model
27:45is inflate
27:48you need to hold down and rub
27:52it will inflate
28:01is she talking let's see how big we can
28:02get
28:03whoa someone didn't Skip Leg Day
28:08not that big
28:11here
28:13now would be a good time to look at our
28:15reference
28:20yep
28:25we have changed up a lot so let's fix
28:31this reference
28:35gonna order grab
28:39when you do this you want a nice big
28:40cursor
28:44so it moves
28:47a large area
28:55when and just take note of where your
28:58cursor is on your model
29:01you and
29:02grab you and we'll bring you out
29:10put this back out
29:15there we go
29:18we'll see how here I'm looking
29:20you fatter let's make her a little
29:22fatter
29:25beautiful
29:27oh hope Louisiana yeah a little bit
29:32so we will bring this back in there we
29:35go get off our x-ray mode
29:40just back to the good profile
29:45front oh
29:48oh he does look chunky anymore
29:51I can fix that anytime
29:54let's fix that now because she does look
29:55weird
29:57it's about the outside shift we'll
30:00smooth that in a little bit
30:03too much
30:06click click click
30:08just a little bit I remember
30:11up here you have less vertices
30:15so don't get
30:17you know caught up in this area too much
30:21for now with your detail because it's
30:23going to be slightly different
30:25because this will grab more vertices
30:26this is going to grab less it's just
30:28going to look a little bit off
30:32[Music]
30:35that's looking
30:40let's keep playing with her feet
30:44we will turn off
30:47these claws just keeps them off
30:53okay
30:58let's do this
31:01look you out
31:11okay now is a good time to have
31:15references for your feet you can have
31:18dinosaur references you find online I
31:20prefer to have
31:23references from birds
31:27because the T-Rex is much like a giant
31:30bird so let's see if I can find one
31:33for you object
31:40shift a image
31:47so I have added
31:54[Music]
31:55this reference oh
32:04I'm gonna make her feet a lot like this
32:08because I like the way this looks
32:11[Music]
32:15flat scales
32:19on the side a bunch of tiny scales
32:23and along her upper toe uses long fat
32:26ones again and then
32:28it's cool brickwork brick work
32:31main type scales and then tiny around
32:33her knee that's what we're gonna go with
32:40around you continue
32:48be out of the way
32:53I am a fan of this fat flap
32:55[Music]
33:00so let's add it
33:02into our dinosaur
33:03sculpt make sure our X is still checked
33:07and this is really easy
33:11thing to do you'll just grab
33:18part of
33:20your leg and just bring it forward for
33:24now
33:25[Music]
33:30and as you start
33:33the more advanced looks
33:37of your model the rest of it will kind
33:39of fall into shape
33:42you'll see where things go
33:45this naturally wants to go down
33:48so maybe we'll keep bringing it down
33:50like that
33:53and now the other part is to
33:56bring this part in just underneath
34:01give it a little tuck
34:04[Music]
34:10and now you have a Leading Edge to play
34:12with
34:15so you grab it forward
34:17[Music]
34:25and down
34:28I'm just making a little fold
34:32[Laughter]
34:33[Music]
34:36[Laughter]
34:41and there's that and it looks pretty
34:44accurate
34:46let's see if we have enough vertices
34:49[Music]
34:54[Music]
34:58keep going with more detail so
35:03on our reference
35:08this Edge right here is not that big in
35:10fat
35:13so I don't want mine to be as big and
35:15fat
35:19so I'm gonna bring mine in
35:24Mr wheat
35:34[Music]
35:46oh it just does a good job
35:50flattening things out for you
35:53[Music]
36:01you can see it's nice and fat below the
36:04toes
36:04[Music]
36:05whoa sorry if I'm making you dizzy
36:08[Music]
36:14let me keep that there she should have a
36:16lot of fat right there
36:20um
36:23control Z so I fix my mess up
36:28shift
36:31around the edges a bit
36:37you know what
36:38this tub looks funny
36:41I'm gonna fix it now while I I see it
36:44object rotate on the Z
36:47[Music]
37:03[Music]
37:14one here
37:16[Music]
37:19rotate from the C
37:21[Music]
37:23d
37:25[Music]
37:32let's make this a little bit smaller
37:38there we go
37:46foreign
37:51[Music]
37:55this green wine line
38:00there we go
38:07there it is
38:11that's how she's supposed
38:12that looks better
38:18go back into
38:21the dinosaur sculpt
38:28and then keep playing
38:55foreign
39:01foreign
39:04trick to fix this flat area later if we
39:07need
39:09so it looks like a good stopping point
39:11for us for the day thank you for doing
39:13art with McKenzie I have enjoyed doing
39:15art with you
39:17please like And subscribe and
39:20we'll keep modeling our dinosaur next
39:23time and we'll work on our hands
39:26[Laughter]
39:30[Music]

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