WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.933 --> 00:00:05.933 So in this video we're going to explore some basic modeling 2 00:00:05.933 --> 00:00:09.933 concepts! Let's hop over and draw something! 3 00:00:09.966 --> 00:00:13.833 Hi guys, welcome back! Now, we're going to do a little 4 00:00:13.833 --> 00:00:17.833 exercise with the board behind! Take a step back from Blender, just to grasp 5 00:00:17.833 --> 00:00:21.833 a few concepts, and then, we're going to hop into Blender and start 6 00:00:21.833 --> 00:00:25.833 working, using those concepts. So Blender 7 00:00:25.833 --> 00:00:29.833 is great for modeling, as we all know, but it's 8 00:00:29.833 --> 00:00:33.833 always worthwhile starting with some fundamentals. So we've already played 9 00:00:33.833 --> 00:00:37.833 with some primitives. Now we're going to work on those primitives 10 00:00:37.833 --> 00:00:41.833 and make them work for us, rather than the other way around. So 11 00:00:41.833 --> 00:00:45.833 I'm going to use this red pen here, to represent what we call a 12 00:00:45.833 --> 00:00:49.833 vertex or vertices. One vertex, many 13 00:00:49.833 --> 00:00:53.833 vertices. So if you remember dot to dot, when you were little. 14 00:00:56.466 --> 00:00:59.733 [Marker Board Squeaky Sounds] Isn't that great! I've just drawn what could be many things. 15 00:00:59.733 --> 00:01:03.733 I'll draw the top bit there. So that would represent 16 00:01:03.733 --> 00:01:07.733 our vertices. If I was then to join these 17 00:01:07.733 --> 00:01:11.733 vertices together 18 00:01:11.733 --> 00:01:15.733 with what are known as edges, we will end up 19 00:01:15.733 --> 00:01:19.733 with something. Now, depending on 20 00:01:19.733 --> 00:01:23.733 what you want to call that, most people I think would say a house. 21 00:01:23.733 --> 00:01:27.733 Now I know of no houses that look like that, but it 22 00:01:27.733 --> 00:01:31.733 represents the house itself. A similar argument can be 23 00:01:31.733 --> 00:01:35.733 said for.. if I was to draw something like this 24 00:01:35.733 --> 00:01:39.733 and then do that. Yes, some people may 25 00:01:39.733 --> 00:01:43.733 say it's a mushroom cloud or some may say it's a tree. In fact, in this 26 00:01:43.733 --> 00:01:47.733 case, I've drawn a tree, but it's not a reallistic tree, 27 00:01:47.733 --> 00:01:51.733 it's a representation of a tree. And essentailly that's all 28 00:01:51.733 --> 00:01:55.733 what low poly modeling is all about, it's enough polygons to 29 00:01:55.733 --> 00:01:59.733 make sure what you're trying to show people, what it's representing, 30 00:01:59.733 --> 00:02:03.733 is close enough. One final example, if we do 31 00:02:03.733 --> 00:02:07.733 a couple of circles, put a line in, 32 00:02:07.733 --> 00:02:11.733 and go around our model like that, 33 00:02:11.733 --> 00:02:15.733 most people will see that as a car, and I don't know many cars that look 34 00:02:15.733 --> 00:02:16.733 like that. 35 00:02:17.200 --> 00:02:21.200 It's challenge time! Draw or model something simple. 36 00:02:21.200 --> 00:02:25.200 Now this is a bit of an odd one, of course, we've taken a step away from Blender, and the whole 37 00:02:25.200 --> 00:02:29.200 purpose of this is to get you thinking about how things 38 00:02:29.200 --> 00:02:33.200 are constructed on a fundamental level. So I'd like you 39 00:02:33.200 --> 00:02:37.200 to just grab a bit of paper and pen and draw somre representations 40 00:02:37.200 --> 00:02:41.200 of common objects. Whether it's copying what I've done with the house, 41 00:02:41.200 --> 00:02:45.200 perhaps add something to it, etc. Think about 42 00:02:45.200 --> 00:02:49.200 animals, how are they constructed? For instance, a stick man and things 43 00:02:49.200 --> 00:02:53.200 like that. It's important to grasp how things are constructed, 44 00:02:53.200 --> 00:02:57.200 because that's going to help you massively, moving on when we start 45 00:02:57.200 --> 00:03:01.200 modeling things within Blender. If you do have some Play 46 00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:05.200 Dough or anything similar to that, maybe Plasticine, then try that too! 47 00:03:05.300 --> 00:03:09.200 It's great fun, [Laughs] I certainly had fun doing it! And 48 00:03:09.700 --> 00:03:13.700 it's very very satisfying creating something, so 49 00:03:13.700 --> 00:03:17.700 pause the video now, go off and just sketch some representations, 50 00:03:17.700 --> 00:03:21.700 and model if you've got your access to Play Dough, 51 00:03:21.700 --> 00:03:25.700 Plasticine, etc. 52 00:03:25.700 --> 00:03:28.766 Alright welcome back! Alright, let's see 53 00:03:28.766 --> 00:03:30.233 what I got up to! Well I 54 00:03:30.966 --> 00:03:34.966 grabbed my white board and I drew some representations. I 55 00:03:34.966 --> 00:03:38.966 know what all of those items are, just by looking at them, 56 00:03:38.966 --> 00:03:40.866 um, but I didn't look at 57 00:03:41.833 --> 00:03:43.233 any reference material, 58 00:03:43.333 --> 00:03:47.333 I just used what was in my mind, what do I think 59 00:03:47.333 --> 00:03:51.333 these things look like. And we're got a ship, a rocket, 60 00:03:51.333 --> 00:03:55.333 a tree, a house, some sort of bird, 61 00:03:55.333 --> 00:03:59.333 and a train. Now, I'm not sure how closely those 62 00:03:59.333 --> 00:04:03.333 resemble real world items, in fact, they're probably 63 00:04:03.333 --> 00:04:07.333 far from them, but they're very similar to how kids toys are constructed. 64 00:04:07.333 --> 00:04:11.333 I also got my hands on my 65 00:04:11.333 --> 00:04:15.333 childrens' Plasticine and did a little tree and a little 66 00:04:15.333 --> 00:04:19.333 house. Again they're not realistic, but if you showed them 67 00:04:19.333 --> 00:04:23.333 to someone, they would grasp immediately what you were trying to show them. 68 00:04:23.333 --> 00:04:27.333 Alright let's take the concepts we've learned now and head on 69 00:04:27.333 --> 00:04:30.433 over into Blender!