WEBVTT 00:04.520 --> 00:05.840 Hello everybody and welcome back. 00:05.840 --> 00:11.720 Now before I give you your final section challenge this is something that you guys can already make 00:11.720 --> 00:13.430 with the knowledge that you have. 00:13.610 --> 00:18.530 Now you might doubt that with its complexity but it really really is that simple. 00:18.560 --> 00:24.970 This whole church is made up of little blocks I can go and pick them up and literally move them about 00:24.980 --> 00:25.760 you can see here. 00:25.760 --> 00:28.160 I painstakingly put these together. 00:28.160 --> 00:35.140 Now there are better modelling methods in order to do what you just saw in front of you there. 00:35.240 --> 00:41.420 However none are quite as therapeutic as stacking blocks on top of one another is going to be a lot 00:41.420 --> 00:43.760 harder to get that aesthetic. 00:44.360 --> 00:48.300 But there is some smoke and mirrors and this is a really important thing. 00:48.330 --> 00:56.870 A lot of people when they first start making 3D models go down the route of trying to do too much. 00:56.870 --> 01:01.770 Now if we zoom out look the rest of the world isn't modeled it's just a square. 01:01.940 --> 01:07.890 But from the camera's perspective you don't need to know that that moon in the sky. 01:08.390 --> 01:10.910 I'm just going to I'm going to fly. 01:10.910 --> 01:14.810 I was just going to walk over there and speed up a little as I go round. 01:15.290 --> 01:21.250 So we have just a plane on the ground and oh what's this. 01:21.260 --> 01:27.220 How about that our moon is just the circle in the sky place behind. 01:27.290 --> 01:28.570 What about the background. 01:28.660 --> 01:31.130 It seems to be blue rather than that horrible Gray. 01:31.580 --> 01:36.530 Well let me show you how to change the color of the background in blender. 01:36.530 --> 01:39.500 So that's come out controlling space. 01:39.500 --> 01:46.730 And if we go down the properties panel you'll see there's a picture of a world and in fact it says world 01:46.730 --> 01:52.310 if you hover over it long enough if you click that we've got a color and we can literally change the 01:52.310 --> 01:54.640 background to any color we want. 01:54.650 --> 02:00.110 So since it was a nighttime scene I thought a dark blue would be ideal for it. 02:00.140 --> 02:02.390 Now there's one more file that I want to show you. 02:02.390 --> 02:09.530 And how I'm going to open it I'm going to go to my files and I'm going to find the blender file and 02:09.530 --> 02:13.440 I'm going to click and drag it in and drop it click open. 02:13.730 --> 02:14.300 And there we go. 02:14.300 --> 02:15.410 We've got a rocket. 02:15.440 --> 02:18.660 Let's go and render that and see what it looks like. 02:18.680 --> 02:19.730 Awesome. 02:19.730 --> 02:21.450 Let's go to fully rendered mode. 02:21.500 --> 02:27.050 So once again what you're seeing in front of you here is a very simple shape is a series of cones and 02:27.050 --> 02:29.640 salads stacked on top of one another. 02:29.660 --> 02:35.810 In fact if you have a look at wireframe you can see that the cone here is stuck inside itself in order 02:35.810 --> 02:38.030 to produce that's effects. 02:38.210 --> 02:42.980 And there's a cylinder here and they've just been colored the indifferently to give us this overall 02:42.980 --> 02:44.010 effect. 02:44.180 --> 02:51.800 And I've got these sky bright blue you might think no if we come out of that there is no sky. 02:52.130 --> 02:54.470 It's just the plane in the background. 02:54.470 --> 03:01.790 So that's another way that you can go and make yourself a background is simply by putting a plane which 03:01.790 --> 03:03.230 is just one of the primitives. 03:03.410 --> 03:11.450 We can go shift in a and a plane in scale lit up color in whatever color we want in this case I'm just 03:11.450 --> 03:16.850 going to grab another material that's do oranges and orange sunset in the distance then it's just a 03:16.850 --> 03:23.720 matter of rotating it's around I'm going to rotate around 90 on the axis and then 45 on the z axis. 03:23.840 --> 03:31.490 And I think that's all I did actually in order to put it into the appropriate place G not Z shift it 03:31.490 --> 03:33.890 forward slightly make it really big. 03:33.890 --> 03:36.450 Now go back and we've got an orange background. 03:36.470 --> 03:38.900 It's as simple as that to create backgrounds. 03:39.050 --> 03:45.470 Remember anything that's not within the border of the camera it doesn't matter if it's not going to 03:45.470 --> 03:48.080 be seen then don't waste your time on it. 03:48.080 --> 03:53.960 Focus on the model that you're making all the parts of the model or the parts of the scene rather than 03:53.960 --> 03:59.180 trying to do things that the viewer or what you're going to render at the end of it is never going to 03:59.180 --> 04:03.210 see Hello everybody and welcome to the challenge. 04:03.240 --> 04:07.860 We're going to put our knowledge together in this end of section challenge and I do encourage you to 04:07.860 --> 04:11.830 have a look at other students work for inspiration as well. 04:11.850 --> 04:18.220 So start with a simple model and make a couple of different models to practice your skills. 04:18.900 --> 04:24.330 And a big tip here look at the real object and reference material as well that really really help. 04:24.330 --> 04:29.510 Now before we jump into the challenge let me give you a couple of examples of what you could do. 04:29.550 --> 04:35.430 Here we have a very simple speaker that sat on my desk in front of me very low poly very simple but 04:35.430 --> 04:37.880 it's just to get those skills honed in. 04:37.890 --> 04:43.010 Then I decided to put some squares and cylinders together squares some cubes and cylinders together. 04:43.020 --> 04:47.760 And before you know you've got this lovely tractor next we can go a little bit on from that. 04:47.760 --> 04:54.450 I've stacked some cubes together you can see I've gone ahead and made this castle with a couple of hills 04:54.450 --> 04:57.330 around a blue background and some trees. 04:57.330 --> 05:03.150 Very simple very straightforward and they're much like the tractor if you stack a few more of those 05:03.150 --> 05:07.070 cylinders and cubes together you can end up with something like this train. 05:07.110 --> 05:13.650 Yes this is just manipulating primitives and no other modelling techniques. 05:13.650 --> 05:21.360 And finally here are another couple of examples to give you an idea of where you could go make yourself 05:21.480 --> 05:27.150 a couple of models basic if you're new to this little bit more advanced if you think you already know 05:27.150 --> 05:30.120 blender and remember to share your work over on the forum. 05:30.390 --> 05:32.820 So go ahead pulls a video now and give that's a go 05:35.580 --> 05:37.060 Okay everybody Welcome back. 05:37.110 --> 05:40.830 Let's go hop on over into blender and see what I came up with. 05:40.830 --> 05:42.480 Hello everybody welcome back. 05:42.510 --> 05:42.870 Okay. 05:42.900 --> 05:49.380 So I'm not going to cause myself too much grief by trying to redo that church. 05:49.380 --> 05:55.980 I did take over an hour to do with those blobs but what I am going to do is I like space travel so I'm 05:55.980 --> 05:58.110 going to make myself a rocket. 05:58.110 --> 06:01.660 So I'm going to do the main body first and I'm going to cheat a little. 06:01.660 --> 06:09.460 Well now that's the thing I wouldn't say is cheating that's it's important to get through that. 06:09.510 --> 06:12.320 Being efficient is not cheating. 06:12.360 --> 06:13.170 There's a difference. 06:13.170 --> 06:17.560 So I've got myself a boost cone there. 06:17.760 --> 06:24.840 In fact I'm going to scale that down by point five says half the size maybe point to the look from the 06:24.840 --> 06:27.210 top. 06:27.210 --> 06:32.010 I can't see the grid so I'm going to go over to the plane itself. 06:32.010 --> 06:38.150 I'm going to call it ground so I know what it is good practice to get naming in early. 06:38.190 --> 06:44.730 Even I sometimes forget especially when I'm doing you know simple for simple in quotation marks things 06:44.730 --> 06:45.550 like this. 06:45.690 --> 06:49.530 So let's lower this booster down and I'm going to turn snapping onto do this. 06:49.920 --> 06:52.170 So let's get it says flush on the floor. 06:52.170 --> 06:53.150 Perfect. 06:53.200 --> 06:55.770 Okay I'm going to let them move this across the head. 06:55.770 --> 07:02.250 Duplicate it and move it over here and then look at it from the other angle and just move both of these 07:02.250 --> 07:03.660 to one side. 07:03.770 --> 07:12.180 Going to highlight them both duplicate them again and move them here and then go into add in a cylinder 07:12.800 --> 07:15.640 on the scale that cylinder down. 07:15.660 --> 07:17.740 It's going to be about that big in total. 07:17.790 --> 07:23.130 Now so if I scared it by point five that's going to be about right. 07:23.160 --> 07:27.960 I think to GZ and just lift it up until it's within. 07:28.500 --> 07:29.100 So there we go. 07:29.090 --> 07:37.950 There's the booster looking good so far as the lower parts and I'm just going to duplicate and press 07:37.950 --> 07:39.450 Z to lock it in the z axis. 07:39.450 --> 07:43.050 This is the second part and I can start color coding them now. 07:43.050 --> 07:44.850 So this is going to be a booster. 07:44.850 --> 07:46.890 So it's going to be a darker color isn't it. 07:47.430 --> 07:56.260 So let's make it a dark color go to look Dev mode as well so I can see that it's a dark color X and 07:56.320 --> 08:01.320 I'm going to call this booster nozzle. 08:01.570 --> 08:08.340 I think a nozzle then I'm going it's just going to select these other three that one at the end and 08:08.340 --> 08:10.250 make a link to those materials. 08:10.260 --> 08:19.980 I could have gone in and manually selected them and I'm gonna call this one here rockets white and actually 08:19.980 --> 08:21.360 make it a little lighter. 08:24.190 --> 08:27.750 And this one I'm going to call it rockets black. 08:28.180 --> 08:36.010 Now some of you might be thinking Well Mike if you're just using colors why don't you set the boosters 08:36.520 --> 08:39.090 and this section to be the same color. 08:39.630 --> 08:45.310 And the reason for that is because then I can't just change those things without affecting things that 08:45.700 --> 08:48.680 well really they shouldn't affect. 08:48.850 --> 08:55.900 Now what I'm going to do here is I'm going to scale that cylinder on the z axis by point of five and 08:55.900 --> 08:57.790 GZ lower it down. 08:57.940 --> 09:00.840 Now it's not quite clipping to the right place. 09:00.940 --> 09:07.340 It's going to hold down shift to do a gradual lowering down to about there. 09:07.410 --> 09:12.790 Now we can see some intersection that's going to go into all the graphic view and zoom in a little so 09:13.100 --> 09:17.670 you know g z left it up to the right place. 09:17.690 --> 09:24.720 Grab this lower one duplicate it g z. 09:24.910 --> 09:28.880 I haven't given myself much room to get that right. 09:30.580 --> 09:33.060 Maybe I said let's bring that back down 09:36.160 --> 09:43.340 okay so this point I want a tapered off but I don't want it going all the way. 09:43.810 --> 09:51.070 So I'm going to add in a cone and open up the operator panel for the cone. 09:51.240 --> 09:56.840 We're still in first two vertices because that's what the cylinder underneath has been noted it has 09:56.850 --> 09:58.660 radius 1 and radius 2. 09:58.670 --> 10:10.900 So when I set this is point five and then go GZ to lift this thing up half scale by 2.5 GZ lower it 10:10.910 --> 10:18.430 down we're almost there we just need to align it's a bit better here we go. 10:18.720 --> 10:20.530 Starting to look pretty good. 10:22.050 --> 10:32.970 Now once again we can take this one here duplicate it GZ lift it up and then scale that by point five. 10:33.130 --> 10:41.670 Look at it from the side scan it by two on the z axis and then go g z and lift it. 10:41.700 --> 10:43.030 Oh it was right. 10:43.030 --> 10:49.680 Perfect I'm now going to go G. 10:49.680 --> 10:57.570 Z lift it up to their and I'm going to add another cylinder going to duplicate one and just scale it 10:57.570 --> 10:59.350 down on the z axis. 10:59.670 --> 11:03.300 By point 1 I think that I'll fit in this gap. 11:03.300 --> 11:08.890 I'm going to make this one rocket black and go GZ and lower it down to the right place. 11:09.090 --> 11:12.690 She's about there and then I just need to check that it fits properly. 11:12.690 --> 11:13.290 Oh it does. 11:13.290 --> 11:17.010 Perfect and I might do the same here. 11:17.020 --> 11:22.080 So I'm gonna grab both of these areas go GZ and lift the two way up. 11:22.090 --> 11:22.960 Grab this one here. 11:23.020 --> 11:25.680 Now I'm starting to repeat myself lots. 11:25.760 --> 11:28.350 I think you guys are getting what I'm doing here. 11:28.450 --> 11:34.750 So I'm going to fast forward the video now because I'm just going over the same stuff repeatedly getting 11:34.750 --> 11:36.140 that sorted. 11:36.190 --> 11:42.270 The final thing here is going to be a nozzle on the end and nozzle on the end. 11:42.280 --> 11:46.810 What am I thinking a cone on the hand nozzle. 11:46.910 --> 11:48.910 Okay so let's go ahead. 11:48.940 --> 11:54.400 I can't duplicate that because it doesn't have the right end but what I can do is create a new cone 11:55.830 --> 11:57.630 K we're almost there. 11:57.650 --> 12:03.860 I'm gonna go for a very sharp cone go and there's a very dotted looking rocket. 12:04.310 --> 12:11.360 Let's see if we can make these boosters a bit more boost the I'm going to put these all in a collection 12:11.360 --> 12:14.810 called rockets so it's easy to manage. 12:15.180 --> 12:16.030 That's looking good. 12:16.060 --> 12:20.570 So all of the rockets together bring back the ground give the ground material. 12:20.570 --> 12:22.530 I'm going to cool the material ground. 12:22.540 --> 12:30.230 I'm going to still make it portray in it's aspect ratio by going to the output properties and changing 12:30.230 --> 12:31.440 these around. 12:31.460 --> 12:35.790 So this will be 10 80 by 1920. 12:35.870 --> 12:36.600 There we go. 12:36.740 --> 12:39.740 And we can do a quick render just to see how things are looking. 12:39.950 --> 12:40.790 Excellent. 12:40.790 --> 12:46.600 So the final thing that I'm going to fake the sky is one of the things that can happen with a lighter 12:46.610 --> 12:53.100 Sky which I'm sure some of you have now discovered is it will contribute to the light. 12:53.100 --> 13:00.760 So if you just change the background to a bright blue it changes the entire scene which is not great. 13:00.920 --> 13:07.630 So I'm going to keep the background a darker color of gray and then we just need a fake sky. 13:07.640 --> 13:09.520 So let's go ahead and pop back in. 13:09.540 --> 13:13.810 Going to put a plane in rotate it's on x or y by night. 13:13.910 --> 13:19.330 Then rotate by 45 degrees on the z axis and put it behind the rocket. 13:19.370 --> 13:25.730 Usually it has to be far enough away that it's not going to cast a shadow on it and we'll break the 13:25.730 --> 13:33.230 illusion and let's call this one sky and I'm going to make this a very light blue and will render that 13:33.230 --> 13:33.770 out. 13:33.860 --> 13:34.640 Awesome. 13:34.640 --> 13:41.810 And the great thing is because it's being lit up we've got this lovely fall off across the image as 13:41.810 --> 13:47.960 well so it's lighter on one side than the other creating that lovely little gradient on both the ground 13:48.050 --> 13:49.390 and the sky element. 13:49.760 --> 13:51.300 That's pretty awesome. 13:51.380 --> 13:54.800 And just going to name this sky as well so I know what it is. 13:54.800 --> 13:56.750 I really liked how that worked out. 13:57.020 --> 13:57.770 Well there we go. 13:57.770 --> 14:03.890 Just using some very fundamental skills were able to make some quite convincing models straight off 14:03.890 --> 14:04.410 the bat. 14:04.490 --> 14:11.840 And of course the more time you put in you can create some really intricate objects and houses and vehicles 14:12.230 --> 14:16.400 just by slapping together primitives and maybe scaling them and stretching them. 14:16.640 --> 14:18.020 Okay so there we go. 14:18.020 --> 14:19.100 Well done. 14:19.100 --> 14:20.740 I'm happy with my rocket here. 14:20.740 --> 14:23.450 I hope you're really happy with whatever you've made as well. 14:23.660 --> 14:28.280 I'm really looking forward to seeing them so please do share them over in the discussions and really 14:28.280 --> 14:29.510 looking forward to it. 14:29.510 --> 14:35.230 I can't wait to see what you guys have managed to make up from just primitives and sticking them together. 14:35.240 --> 14:41.330 Did you make a castle or a fort perhaps a train a vehicle please do share your work and I'll see you 14:41.330 --> 14:43.040 all in the next lecture.