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Modeling a T Rex in Blender Part 5 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 work more on our
0:21dinosaur and get her looking
0:24better
0:25and that's what we're going to be doing
0:27from here on out if you already have
0:28your dinosaur made
0:29and he followed me this far
0:31then the rest of everything we'll be
0:33doing is just making our dinosaur better
0:36so here in edit mode we are going to
0:38look at the vertices that we have so far
0:41and you'll see in the leg that there are
0:43more vertices in the body
0:45hopefully yours looks the same
0:48we're looking at
0:50where we stretched out a little bit so
0:53when you are sculpting and molding be
0:55mindful that when you
0:56use your grab tool
0:58that you are expanding the vertices in
1:03between other vertices to get that
1:06surface
1:07but it's nothing to worry about because
1:09we can fix that later it's just
1:11something to be mindful of
1:17and we're going to be looking at our arm
1:20I'm going to go into x-ray View
1:24and to grab just the arm right now we
1:27have select box so when you select
1:29anything in x-ray you'll be selecting
1:32everything behind it
1:33but we want to add vertices to just the
1:35arm
1:36so when you hold down on select box
1:38you'll get a sub menu
1:40that has all these different options for
1:43you
1:44select lasso
1:46select Circle select box and tweak
1:50we're going to go with select Circle and
1:52when you hold down the left Mouse button
1:55and go across your model you're only
1:58going to select what the circle
2:00goes over
2:02and remember in x-ray it will
2:05um
2:06select everything behind it
2:10so one option is to be out of x-ray
2:14and
2:17select one face but as you see the
2:19vertices behind it aren't selected so
2:22you'd have to rotate around the whole
2:23model to select everything you want I
2:26stay in X-ray and I just carefully
2:28select everything that I need
2:32and as you see we have nothing selected
2:35on the body
2:36nothing selected behind it
2:39but we want to select just these on the
2:42arm
2:44because this is where more detail is
2:46going to be
2:49so we're going to subdivide again and
2:51you can do that in the edge menu or your
2:52quick link
2:54I hope you have it in your quick link
2:56because we've used it a lot so far
3:00and once it's subdivided you'll see that
3:02it looks like the lake there are a lot
3:04of vertices selected
3:08and this gives you more
3:11areas to smooth everything out
3:16and manipulate
3:17and add detail too
3:21[Music]
3:24and in object mode I noticed we were
3:27still in shade smooth
3:30we want to keep this in shape flat
3:32so their shade smooth
3:36and it Smooths out all of your vertices
3:38for you through the program and we don't
3:40want that
3:41we want to see exactly where uh
3:46our faces are and how sharp they are
3:49because if you go to print this out
3:50later it will print those sharp surfaces
3:54and as you see in the shade flat on her
3:57foot where it was extended earlier
4:01um
4:02in the edit mode you can see it
4:06the the faces there looking kind of
4:09rough
4:11so we are going to go into sculpt
4:14and the first thing we're going to do is
4:16just start smoothing everything out a
4:18little bit
4:19and be mindful of the area where you
4:23have that transition between a lot of
4:25vertices to not so many
4:27and hold down shift
4:30to smooth everything out
4:32and be mindful that you don't over
4:35smooth like that
4:37if you do Ctrl Z is your friend
4:40so get a smaller cursor
4:43and
4:45get to it uh smoothing nice and easy
4:48little bits at a time
4:50you want to get those raggedy Square
4:54fingers into
4:56beautiful round fingers
4:59since the whole point of sculpting to
5:01get things
5:02from raggedy
5:04too smooth and beautiful
5:07now I like to use a draw to do this
5:10because I can start heading
5:14some muscle
5:15[Music]
5:17so if you need if you see part of your
5:19sculpt that needs a little bit more beef
5:22to it
5:23um
5:24staying on using your draw tool you can
5:28smooth and
5:30add to your sculpt as you go
5:42and we are still in mirror mode
5:44[Music]
5:46so everything that you do to one side of
5:49your sculpt is going to affect the other
5:51side
5:52we're going to change that up here in
5:54just a little bit
5:58and I want to see if there's enough
6:00vertices to smooth everything out
6:07but I'm going to select everything in
6:09just the hand
6:11uh subdivide to get more vertices so I
6:14can make this even smoother and as you
6:17smooth you'll see
6:20that it does in fact do get a lot
6:22smoother
6:26and you can subdivide as many times as
6:28you want as your system allows we're
6:30doing it in stages
6:33um
6:35because we don't want to add too many
6:37polygons right off the bat to our sculpt
6:42so I like to subdivide
6:46do a little sculpting
6:48get it closer to where I want and then
6:51subdivide again
6:52do some more sculpting and just continue
6:54that process
6:57because it's easier on my system
6:59should be easier on yours
7:01and we still get get the same effect
7:05so I'm just going to fatten out her
7:06fingers
7:09a little meaty pads on there
7:15and again this is still just the draw
7:16tool
7:21and I'm not worried about Precision
7:23right now uh because we're still working
7:26on base shapes
7:29so
7:31your fingers nice and fat plump they are
7:33very strong fingers to hold prey
7:37[Music]
7:38[Laughter]
7:42[Music]
7:44and with your draw tool you'll see that
7:46your
7:47adding more meat with a lot more
7:50vertices that you had when you subdivide
8:06and just play with it have fun
8:09that's what art is about it's about
8:11having fun
8:12because I'm not doing anything special
8:13here
8:14okay so we're going to add claws to her
8:17hands and I'm going to use her toe claws
8:20so I'm going to click on one and I hit
8:22shift d
8:24and then start hitting a g
8:27an axis to move it exactly where I want
8:32so I hit g y g x and now I hit r z to
8:35rotate
8:38and then I'm going to hit R again to
8:40rotate it backwards and upside down
8:43s to scale
8:47GX to move along the x-axis
8:53and I like moving along the axes just
8:55because it gives me a lot more control
8:56at first
8:58and then when I get it close I just hit
9:00G
9:01uh to move it where I need
9:05and her fingers are going to be a little
9:07bit thinner than her toes so I scale it
9:10on the x-axis to thin up the claw
9:13[Music]
9:14I'm going to get it to about the size
9:16that I want something that looks right
9:19and look at it compared to the rest of
9:21her body
9:24and I go from there fears needs to be
9:26bigger or smaller just adjust it as you
9:28want
9:28[Music]
9:35[Music]
9:40okay
9:42over here in the upper right hand menu
9:44we're going to start uh
9:47naming things
9:48again
9:49[Music]
9:52um
9:53so we know what every part is so make
9:56sure you name all your objects
10:00so I hit shift d and move the claw over
10:03now we have a second claw
10:06I'll grab the
10:07grab brush the grab tool
10:10and I'll start moving in the sculpt to
10:13fit around our new claw
10:19in just little bits at a time nothing
10:20too fancy no big movements
10:25[Music]
10:28yeah I look at it for different angles
10:31it looks good
10:33so again if you're happy with your
10:35dinosaur you can leave her as B we are
10:38going to keep going forward and adding
10:41more detail
10:46so we're going to work on the head check
10:48out our triangle count on everything
10:51we will subdivide the entire body
10:57and we'll see that we are still in
10:58mirror mode
11:00I think it's probably about time that we
11:01take that off
11:05[Music]
11:16and just to check that you're on mirror
11:18grab a vertice and move it around and
11:20you'll see yeah
11:22that's on mirror mode
11:27so we're going to apply the mirror
11:33and we're going to go back to edit
11:37and when you pull out you'll see both
11:41sides and that is because in our mirror
11:44Sub menu
11:45we still have that X
11:48checked
11:51so if you pull out a vertices and it's
11:54just on one side double check to make
11:56sure
11:57that you're
11:59mirror Sub menu is is clicked because if
12:03you are sculpting
12:05and you're sculpting just one side of
12:07the body
12:08and then you look at the other side and
12:09you realize you've done nothing it is
12:11very frustrating so it's very important
12:13to make sure that that is always checked
12:17but with the mirror modifier finally
12:19applied we can start uh
12:22sculpting on her whole body and using uh
12:26this sub mirror
12:29we can smooth out this hard line along
12:32her spine
12:33[Music]
12:36and if you had done this with just a
12:37mirror modifier added it would have
12:39given us a hard line and that's what we
12:40didn't want
12:42and be careful when you smooth
12:46um because you can like you just saw
12:49with the tail
12:50like totally ruin your sculpt
12:53but again that's what control Z is for
12:56so you can undo anything you just did
13:00and with all these new vertices that we
13:02just added with the most recent recent
13:03subdivine
13:05as always we're going to go through and
13:07we're going to smooth out
13:09just the rest of her body
13:12so we can start seeing how we want her
13:14to look
13:17for the final
13:20[Music]
13:25just moved out how we want it to look
13:27when she's done
13:30that sounds right
13:32[Music]
13:34so every time you subdivide smooth out
13:37your model
13:39be careful not to smooth out anything on
13:41the inside of her mouth
13:43but we're going to do a lot of work
13:46inside that separately
13:47[Music]
13:49and my goal is to print out
13:52our dinosaur
13:55and if you do a lot of work on the
13:57inside of the mouth uh
13:59you are going to
14:01[Music]
14:02um
14:03add a lot of complications later so the
14:06the more simple uh her mouth is on the
14:09inside
14:10the easier it is going to be for prints
14:15because I will print her teeth
14:18and had separately for casting
14:22[Music]
14:27as you see when you subdivide and go
14:30over something that's already been
14:31subdivided a lot and you smooth things
14:33out you'll have
14:35less drastic changes
14:39uh when you when you smooth it
14:43um because there are more vertices
14:45more polygons to smooth out
14:48[Music]
14:51so if you subdivided this 10 times uh it
14:56would be a lot harder to smooth
14:58because there are 10 times as many faces
15:01for you to to play with
15:03so that's why I do it after every
15:04subdivide
15:07manipulate my
15:09sculpt
15:10and mover where I want her to be
15:16all right when you smooth things out
15:18you are kind of shrinking your whole
15:22model
15:24so go back into your profile view
15:28[Music]
15:29bring up your reference photo
15:32[Music]
15:33take your time
15:35and grab everything on the
15:38topmost part of your sculpt
15:40and align it with your reference photo
15:47make sure you're grabbing really close
15:49to the bottom
15:51because you're grabbing the side and
15:52bringing it down
15:54I'm just gonna look awful
15:57and the parts you can't see that are
15:58hidden by her legs and arms
16:01um just eyeball it the way I did
16:04it doesn't have to be perfect because
16:06you're going to fix it later
16:08and we'll go over it uh tap smooth
16:13and just take a gander
16:17okay so I've been promising you uh the
16:20fun part
16:21and we are at it
16:24we're gonna grab the select box grab her
16:27head
16:28and we're going to subdivide her head
16:31last thing we'll be doing today is
16:33adding some detail to her face
16:36and giving her
16:38um
16:39some
16:40personality
16:42grab her head
16:43anywhere to her neck is fine
16:46it's subdivide
16:49and subdivider head to give us a lot
16:51more surfaces to play with
17:04you see it more than doubles
17:05[Music]
17:08our triangles
17:13and we'll go into sculpt
17:15and always make sure that X is uh
17:19the X mirror is checked
17:24so we will smooth out real fast
17:28drop our cursor down a little bit
17:30smaller
17:33and just do a quick smooth
17:36of her entire face on the outside again
17:39leave the inside of her mouth alone
17:41we will work on that a little bit later
17:47smooth out all of our neck like any face
17:50that you see just smooth out for now
17:55and I'll let you see what you're working
17:57with
18:00so a little smooth smooth
18:04I do have the grab tool from last time
18:08still selected it doesn't matter because
18:09as long as you hold down shift
18:12on any tool it will smooth out your
18:14model
18:23okay so we're going to use the grab
18:25brush and we're gonna start and hold the
18:26molding her face
18:28bringing out her cheeks
18:30get her brows going
18:33fatten up
18:37all around her head
18:40and we're gonna start shaping her
18:42to our
18:44[Music]
18:46imagination shape it any way you want
18:49so we'll talk about the tools for a
18:51second
18:52here I grab
18:55smooth out and I don't like it so I'm
18:57going to go to draw
18:59and in the upper left hand part of your
19:03screen you'll have your radius and your
19:05strength
19:07and you can adjust that
19:09um
19:10using the Open Bracket and closed
19:12bracket on your keyboard
19:14you use this little button right here is
19:17for pin strength
19:19and if you don't have uh
19:22a Wacom pen then
19:24it'll just go based off what the numeric
19:27value is in that box
19:30and here there is a positive and
19:32negative
19:33one means that you will add to your
19:36model the other one means you will take
19:37away so here it adds
19:40and here it takes away
19:42so that's what positive and negative
19:44mean
19:46um
19:46or to do the opposite you can hold down
19:48control because as you see we have it on
19:51positive now but I'm taken away from the
19:54model and I do that by holding down
19:56control
19:57and as a good
19:59uh
20:01that's a good shortcut to use is that
20:03control button
20:05because you don't have to go back and
20:06forth between
20:08adding to your model and taking away
20:10just hold down control to take away uh
20:14and
20:15have at it by not ultimate
20:19so we're going to be adding to her skull
20:22I like to add and then smooth add and
20:25smooth
20:27because it slowly builds up on our model
20:30just like you would with clay
20:32you don't want to just throw a whole
20:33chunk of clay onto your sculpt you want
20:36to add a little bit work it out add a
20:39little bit and work it out that's what
20:40we're doing here
20:42so we're using the draw tool to and uh
20:47where we want
20:50more detail
20:53and just have fun with it I can't really
20:55tell you how to do it
20:57uh
20:59just
21:00go with it and see what you can do
21:02because that's basically what I do with
21:05all of my scopes
21:06I'm just having fun and and working it
21:09and seeing what looks right
21:12and the more you do it the easier it'll
21:14get the better your artist Eye will be
21:18I mean I've been playing with Dinosaurs
21:20for
21:20way too long
21:22so I generally know how I like mine to
21:24look
21:25we'll go into edit mode
21:27and we'll take another look and you can
21:29see these faces are expanding
21:32so remember that on the foot how we
21:34expanded uh
21:36as we
21:37dragged out part of the foot the same
21:40works with
21:41the draw tool when you add you're
21:44expanding those faces you're not adding
21:47any vertices to it
21:49but we will later but right now with
21:51just a regular draw tool you're not
21:53adding or taking away any polies you're
21:55just manipulating what's already there
21:57and that's why we've been subdividing so
21:59much
22:02around the eye build up her eyelid then
22:05I take my grab tool and I kind of
22:07finagle it into the shape that I want
22:12um it will hide inside of the eyeball so
22:16be aware of that because your eyeball is
22:18not part of your dinosaur model yet
22:22it is its own separate thing
22:25um
22:28but I'd say that's a pretty good uh
22:31stopping point
22:34she doesn't look good there's always an
22:37ugly step and that's where we're at
22:39so trust the process
22:42and we'll work on her more next time
22:46so make sure and hit that like And
22:48subscribe follow along I'll be posting
22:50these about once a week
22:51check out my other videos on making
22:55teeth and Claws if you haven't already
22:57and I had fun doing art with you I'll
22:59see you next time

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