WEBVTT 00:00.680 --> 00:03.650 Welcome to the edge splits modifier. 00:03.890 --> 00:10.680 So in this video we're going to be focussing on creating our free for model the body of our web night. 00:10.700 --> 00:17.500 We're going to be insuring the faces are not triangulated when being created to keep with our style 00:17.510 --> 00:22.000 so we don't we can have a render window open just so we can spot if that's happening. 00:22.010 --> 00:26.930 We're going to be introducing the edge split modifier and that's going to help us with the issue. 00:26.940 --> 00:31.010 We're going to suffer when modelling this night. 00:31.010 --> 00:36.390 And essentially what we're going to do here this is the basis of organic modelling. 00:36.390 --> 00:41.270 So is a great introduction to more organic forms a horse being an animal. 00:41.390 --> 00:43.840 So let's hop straight on over into blender. 00:44.890 --> 00:51.040 Right so we have the bass that we've just created and let's hop over to a side view. 00:51.070 --> 00:54.470 Let's grab the right view. 00:54.700 --> 00:55.120 Excellent. 00:55.120 --> 01:01.570 So we need to do a bit of modifying the bass here we can see that the night itself is much chunkier 01:01.660 --> 01:07.870 than the other the other pieces on our board so I didn't mean to move away I wasn't holding down the 01:07.870 --> 01:08.550 right key. 01:08.920 --> 01:14.680 So we're going to select these couple of edged loops at the top and just pull them out slightly. 01:14.770 --> 01:21.730 But before we do that if I move our model around now that we've got selected if I'm just scale that's 01:21.730 --> 01:29.350 you can see on our model that it separates on the mirror modifier or it pushes through and creates horrible 01:29.350 --> 01:30.320 geometry. 01:30.340 --> 01:36.220 So before we do that it's escape out of it and just turn on under the options on the mirror modifier 01:36.330 --> 01:37.490 clipping. 01:37.600 --> 01:43.280 And this is a great example of what it does is it doesn't allow it to go through itself. 01:43.300 --> 01:43.950 Great. 01:44.140 --> 01:51.400 So let's hop over into the right hand view again and just scale that out ever so slightly. 01:51.610 --> 01:53.950 So it's a good starting point for the rest of our night. 01:54.280 --> 01:59.140 This top edge loop in fact I'm going to remove I don't think I need it in this case. 01:59.140 --> 02:00.290 I'm going to delete it. 02:00.330 --> 02:06.350 I'm going to delete the vertices so the edge is coming down from it as well or so get removed and the 02:06.370 --> 02:07.980 select this. 02:08.060 --> 02:09.410 Loop around the top. 02:09.400 --> 02:13.540 Make sure it is selected because it doesn't go all the way around because that it's over there does 02:13.540 --> 02:15.000 not exist. 02:15.120 --> 02:22.240 Flip back over into the right view and I'm simply going to extrude upwards. 02:22.740 --> 02:26.640 It doesn't really matter if we slight slant going forwards and back. 02:26.770 --> 02:32.130 I'm just going to put in a basic I'm going to place it. 02:32.140 --> 02:38.800 Every time there's a change in direction just helps with the model itself because I don't want too much 02:38.800 --> 02:41.620 detail but I do want to keep enough for it to go. 02:41.720 --> 02:48.310 Now has in place in this I'm going to have to do some scaling or rotating or doing something with it 02:48.320 --> 02:53.440 in a moment in order to make it go round the horse's head. 02:53.650 --> 02:58.790 So on this next one that we extrude up and then to place it roughly. 02:58.810 --> 03:00.010 Think about there. 03:00.190 --> 03:03.120 But this time I press the archey to move it round. 03:03.130 --> 03:10.810 No we don't do it too quickly otherwise it will screw the horse's head into itself and we don't want 03:10.810 --> 03:12.020 to do that. 03:12.100 --> 03:15.700 I'm just going to move this one round as well. 03:16.270 --> 03:16.740 Okay. 03:16.750 --> 03:20.710 So that's starting to look quite good moving around there before we carry on. 03:20.710 --> 03:23.300 Let's just have a look at our model already. 03:23.350 --> 03:31.210 I'm going to turn on the meche analysis we had a look at earlier and I'm going to turn it on to distortion. 03:31.250 --> 03:35.260 Set it at just one degree there and zero over here. 03:35.260 --> 03:37.070 Now there's no collars on our model yet. 03:37.090 --> 03:39.100 And that's because our mirror modify is turned on. 03:39.100 --> 03:41.900 So if I click with a thought I will see that. 03:41.910 --> 03:48.320 Well we've got some planer quads but also some non-paying quads going on. 03:48.520 --> 03:56.170 So if we hop over insoo rendered mode on the viewport shading here we can see was starting to get some 03:56.170 --> 03:59.880 triangulation going on and that's not what I want. 03:59.890 --> 04:02.230 Now we could go through and we can try and correct this. 04:02.230 --> 04:07.310 But there's a great tool that will solve this for us. 04:07.360 --> 04:14.050 First of all what we do need to do is just make this window do windows so we can see what goes on on 04:14.050 --> 04:15.360 one side. 04:15.760 --> 04:16.400 Okay. 04:16.600 --> 04:22.860 So in object mode on the tool shelf you can enable smooth shading and it makes it look a bit odd. 04:22.870 --> 04:29.650 Being so low poly However in our modifiers we can add a modifier another one. 04:29.650 --> 04:36.010 So where it says add modifier we can have a drop down drop up depending on your size of screen and we 04:36.010 --> 04:42.650 can enable if I can see it the edge split so it's the fifth one down on it's probably further down than 04:42.650 --> 04:43.140 that. 04:43.240 --> 04:45.610 It's the sixth seventh one down. 04:45.610 --> 04:50.410 One two three four five six is the second that on the generate column. 04:50.560 --> 04:56.590 Now when we put the edge split modifier on what that does with a smooth model is when the angle between 04:56.590 --> 05:04.960 two faces is more or two edges rather is greater than a certain amount in this case we see lower down 05:05.020 --> 05:11.710 our edge split modifier the split angle is 30 degrees. 05:11.710 --> 05:18.220 Now if I decrease that it becomes more and more blocky and obviously if I increase that all the way 05:18.220 --> 05:21.090 up to 180 it goes smooth everywhere. 05:21.110 --> 05:27.330 It's a great way of making a model with angles it's not the only way but it is one of the easiest ways. 05:27.330 --> 05:36.110 And if I set that zero lo and behold it's managed to make our triangles go away very very useful indeed. 05:36.580 --> 05:38.490 Okay it's challenged time. 05:38.500 --> 05:40.550 I'd like you to create the night. 05:40.630 --> 05:41.910 So we started. 05:41.950 --> 05:43.990 And so we will finish. 05:44.100 --> 05:51.390 Finishing off the knight's body focussing on quads now because we've started from quads and we've extruded 05:51.390 --> 05:53.820 from quads we will end up with quads. 05:53.820 --> 05:59.270 If you continue creating the rest of your model like that I suggest creating the main and the. 05:59.270 --> 06:06.000 Is using a loop cut rather than subdividing because this will enable you to carry on looping around 06:06.000 --> 06:10.740 your model and be able to divide it when necessary. 06:10.740 --> 06:16.530 Now just before you go and do this challenge there are a couple things I want to reassure you basically 06:16.530 --> 06:17.000 with. 06:17.170 --> 06:24.480 So first of all making it your all your quads planer is going to be a challenge if your model is already 06:24.480 --> 06:26.010 quite skewed. 06:26.010 --> 06:29.480 Amanda edged split modifier might not actually work. 06:29.490 --> 06:33.150 Speaking the village split modifier I wouldn't recommend you apply it. 06:33.270 --> 06:35.900 That will not solve your problems. 06:35.910 --> 06:39.590 If you're still struggling to get them plainer again do focus on quad. 06:39.600 --> 06:43.110 Try make them non triangular where possible. 06:43.110 --> 06:51.150 Now it did take me six attempts at the night in order to make sure all the play all the faces were plainer. 06:51.390 --> 06:55.270 So don't be afraid to restart your model if necessary. 06:55.290 --> 07:00.930 Now this won't be a problem in general when you're modelling this is an extreme example where every 07:00.930 --> 07:06.910 face of your model is flat and it's a quad and not a triangle or any other shape. 07:07.110 --> 07:08.770 So this is just to highlight the problem. 07:08.790 --> 07:14.910 In the extreme example do your best and if necessary practice and practice and you will get there. 07:15.240 --> 07:22.770 So one of the things to watch out for with modifiers in in particular unless you have a need to apply 07:22.800 --> 07:23.660 a modifier. 07:23.820 --> 07:24.940 Then do not apply it. 07:24.950 --> 07:28.200 It enables you to edit your model really quickly. 07:28.260 --> 07:34.800 So for instance in this particular model I've got the edge split modifier that I'm going to use but 07:34.800 --> 07:36.630 I am not going to apply it. 07:36.780 --> 07:44.460 If I do apply the edge split modifier as the name suggests it will split all of the edges so we'll go 07:44.460 --> 07:49.250 from our couple of hundred polygon that will have two a couple of thousand. 07:49.260 --> 07:55.330 Because every vertex of every face will be duplicated and that's a bit crazy. 07:55.530 --> 07:59.570 So just in general don't apply a modifier unless you need to. 07:59.630 --> 08:06.290 The modifiers are there to speed up workflow so you don't have to repeat yourself or do an extra operation. 08:06.500 --> 08:09.350 Okay pause the video now and give that a go. 08:11.470 --> 08:12.110 Okay guys. 08:12.130 --> 08:13.070 Welcome back. 08:13.090 --> 08:15.350 Let's go finish off our night. 08:16.190 --> 08:21.280 Welcome back over into blender so let's finish off creating our nights. 08:21.320 --> 08:26.120 One of the things I'm going to do here is I'm happy with the rendering output for the moment and I've 08:26.120 --> 08:30.970 got very limited screen space so I'm just going to hide that away. 08:30.980 --> 08:34.040 And I'm also going to make this a little small. 08:34.030 --> 08:36.770 I don't really need to at the moment but I may need it in a bit. 08:36.810 --> 08:40.060 I'm just going to drag it away so I can pull it out again later. 08:40.070 --> 08:43.130 But I'm not going to get rid of it because they can't to be useful. 08:43.150 --> 08:48.740 I'm gonna hop straight back over into the right view so I can finish off creating a song and hop into 08:48.830 --> 08:52.270 edit mode extrude a bit more here. 08:52.280 --> 08:54.980 Place that they're rotating round. 08:55.010 --> 09:01.310 Not too much of course I am just going to move it out in fact and we can differ and scale it in and 09:01.310 --> 09:07.120 we can move things about a bit more in a moment and rotate around just a little bit more extrude. 09:07.900 --> 09:14.260 And we're going to carry on working like this as we go round up sped up the video just a slightly because 09:14.260 --> 09:22.960 I'm literally at this moment in time selecting edges extruding scaling those in rotating them as you 09:22.960 --> 09:26.680 can see they're checking around the model now to see what's going on. 09:26.680 --> 09:34.210 I hadn't applied the mirror modify and it looks like I pulled out slightly just undone those last few 09:34.210 --> 09:42.100 extrudes hopped back over into this side view here and started just working on the front again. 09:42.220 --> 09:45.020 So again emphasizing the point of lean. 09:45.040 --> 09:48.880 Check your model regularly and thoroughly as you go forward. 09:48.970 --> 09:53.650 So you detect these problems as you go and they don't surprise you at the end. 09:53.650 --> 09:58.230 Now here I want to follow the natural curvature of our horse. 09:58.300 --> 10:05.800 So switching to virtex select and I'm pulling these vertices in to follow the natural definition of 10:05.800 --> 10:12.700 the horse itself as we go round leaving space of course for the main has we go it will be creating the 10:12.700 --> 10:15.850 main in a few moments right. 10:15.850 --> 10:22.090 The final thing here is just adjusting the head shape so it feels right and looks right just as a low 10:22.090 --> 10:23.130 poly model. 10:24.480 --> 10:25.480 As you can see. 10:25.740 --> 10:34.170 Just want to balance out the horse as it comes around because these these loops of face loops going 10:34.170 --> 10:36.270 around will define that shape itself. 10:36.300 --> 10:42.690 As we go let's go tuck that in a little more give it a little more of a rounded nose and let's just 10:42.690 --> 10:44.310 hop around and see how that's looking. 10:44.310 --> 10:48.870 Now looks a bit odd at the moment but rest assured we it will look more like in the moment one of the 10:48.870 --> 10:54.570 problems is it's of a almost continuous width as we go and we don't want that. 10:54.570 --> 10:59.340 So one of things we can do here is start grabbing. 11:00.700 --> 11:02.480 A couple of edges going around. 11:02.500 --> 11:08.840 Not necessarily edge loops but that edge that one hold down Shift as we go round. 11:10.010 --> 11:18.260 Those ones there but not this one here but that one there and maybe the one right next to it. 11:18.610 --> 11:27.110 And what we can do then is once we've got these selected is we can actually just move them in slightly 11:27.110 --> 11:35.930 making our horse a bit narrower because horses aren't so they're here gets wider base where the body 11:35.930 --> 11:40.330 is slightly narrower at the top front and to make it even narrower. 11:41.650 --> 11:42.890 I prefer that. 11:42.940 --> 11:46.910 Now there's a loop going around where the neck is. 11:46.960 --> 11:53.820 Well actually I'm going to add a loop here for a bit more definition around here. 11:54.100 --> 11:56.490 And I'm going to scale that in. 11:56.540 --> 11:57.120 Oh. 11:57.300 --> 11:59.410 Looks like I'm strangling the horse. 11:59.410 --> 12:00.910 Do I want to scale it in. 12:00.920 --> 12:02.850 Does that just look really odd now. 12:03.220 --> 12:05.610 I think I'm going to leave it as it is. 12:05.710 --> 12:11.860 Had an idea of bringing the neck in ever so slightly perhaps just this bit here to give it a bit more 12:11.860 --> 12:13.840 form as it goes around. 12:13.870 --> 12:17.850 Now this end bit here let's think how that's going to be defined. 12:17.850 --> 12:20.580 So one two three. 12:20.940 --> 12:26.130 So we could have one two three four that would work. 12:27.750 --> 12:28.500 So let's. 12:28.560 --> 12:37.000 One two three will want a fourth one bang in the middle and then maybe one two three. 12:37.140 --> 12:40.420 Yes so we could have quads on right on the end here. 12:40.420 --> 12:48.540 Fact this is far too pointy for our horse anyway so let's just lift that up ever so slightly and pull 12:48.540 --> 12:50.260 it out as well. 12:50.460 --> 12:50.970 There we go. 12:50.990 --> 12:53.430 That's a better shape for our horse in this pool. 12:53.430 --> 12:59.490 This town is well because horses aren't that pointy and pretty sure K brilliant. 12:59.670 --> 13:03.370 So let's fill in this face first of all. 13:05.760 --> 13:06.570 Here we go. 13:09.310 --> 13:12.450 In fact still looks like it's pinched ever so slightly. 13:12.670 --> 13:15.910 It's not going to have to pull that one out I think. 13:15.920 --> 13:17.080 And let's just. 13:17.720 --> 13:20.600 Move it a z z. 13:20.600 --> 13:24.330 Now we need to change this down here to normal. 13:26.360 --> 13:29.980 And then we should be able to move z z. 13:30.190 --> 13:32.850 Pull it out from its position. 13:32.850 --> 13:33.820 That's a bit better. 13:33.830 --> 13:35.380 We'll do the same for this one. 13:35.540 --> 13:37.600 Move z z. 13:40.280 --> 13:40.530 OK. 13:40.550 --> 13:45.980 I'm not going to delve too much into the details there because I could be here for a couple of hours 13:45.980 --> 13:47.030 modifying that. 13:47.260 --> 13:47.590 Okay. 13:47.600 --> 13:54.190 So I'm happy with the general shape there so let's add the main in so we're going to apply a loop current 13:54.190 --> 13:55.140 as we've done quads. 13:55.160 --> 13:58.190 It will run all the way around our model. 13:58.190 --> 14:02.950 Now remember it's doubled so it doesn't need to be too thick we're going around here. 14:03.650 --> 14:04.100 Excellent. 14:04.110 --> 14:06.320 So you've got the loop running all the way around. 14:06.340 --> 14:11.780 Though obviously the main doesn't start at the horse its nose but it does run all the way down its back. 14:11.780 --> 14:12.460 Excellent. 14:12.650 --> 14:18.360 So I'm going to from that new geometry if we hop you in two shading. 14:18.380 --> 14:24.050 We can see that there isn't there any extra geometry now clouding our model. 14:24.050 --> 14:32.540 I am going to change ardell Lamp type here to a Hemi So it's more evenly lit and just going around. 14:32.570 --> 14:39.900 I'm just making sure that the extra loop cut we've put in hasn't added another layer to it. 14:40.100 --> 14:46.200 So it has done down here you can see it's got a little bit down the front. 14:46.260 --> 14:48.250 Well this is the back of our stand the back here. 14:48.410 --> 14:52.160 But that's okay because that's where our main is going to be. 14:52.190 --> 14:55.650 Has it affected the front of our horse at all. 14:55.650 --> 14:59.080 Let's go in and have a look a little bit. 14:59.090 --> 15:00.640 Yes it has. 15:00.770 --> 15:06.750 So what we can do there is just twirl that around a little more. 15:06.800 --> 15:12.680 Let's start making our main out of that so we're going to hop back into edit mode. 15:14.540 --> 15:15.820 In solid view. 15:15.830 --> 15:19.010 Hop back over into edit mode on our night. 15:20.850 --> 15:21.450 Excellent. 15:21.480 --> 15:25.270 And let's go to View right. 15:25.290 --> 15:28.020 So we know right the main does start there. 15:28.170 --> 15:32.020 And fortunately we can just go around here and select these. 15:33.440 --> 15:38.090 Okay so now that those are selected we can extrude. 15:38.420 --> 15:40.060 Excellent. 15:40.310 --> 15:42.930 I don't think that's going to be coming out in the right. 15:42.960 --> 15:45.780 Oh not really. 15:45.800 --> 15:48.980 That doesn't look too great so let's just undo that extrude. 15:49.010 --> 15:58.190 We want a global extrude just in the y axis so it's extrude that in the y axis that Polytech doesn't 15:58.190 --> 16:00.240 need to be too far back. 16:00.270 --> 16:06.310 I had like Fats and finally it will probably taper in naturally at the top. 16:06.320 --> 16:09.430 Well it looks a bit horrible at the top move that in the moment. 16:09.440 --> 16:15.580 This bottom bit here however I'm going to switch to edge mode on our snapping. 16:16.010 --> 16:17.520 Zoom in to this area. 16:17.510 --> 16:23.810 Make sure that it merges vertices and select this edge just here. 16:24.140 --> 16:30.620 And I'm going to just grab it freeform and literally pop it on top of this one here. 16:30.650 --> 16:31.800 It will snap. 16:31.800 --> 16:32.820 Why is it not snapping. 16:32.820 --> 16:35.520 Are we not on edge we are on it on virtex. 16:35.540 --> 16:39.100 I do apologize because then I can snap right to that one there. 16:39.410 --> 16:44.720 And I believe the number of vertices is currently ninety three. 16:44.720 --> 16:47.020 If I move in Snap On top of that should be 91. 16:47.020 --> 16:47.960 Brilliant. 16:48.050 --> 16:56.780 So that's the main gone in and we can now we do need to just move whilst we're down here move these 16:56.780 --> 17:01.460 two faces grab them and pull them in ever so slightly. 17:02.900 --> 17:03.720 That's better. 17:03.830 --> 17:06.400 Otherwise this main is a bits. 17:06.560 --> 17:12.860 It doesn't matter if it goes too thin in places as long as it's in the right place or it was still a 17:12.860 --> 17:18.640 snapping turned on to turn that off excellence and that's one it too wide. 17:18.650 --> 17:20.390 But also not too narrow. 17:20.400 --> 17:23.430 Then finally this top bit it is a bit of a mess. 17:23.540 --> 17:24.950 Just pull it up. 17:26.320 --> 17:34.410 And we certainly don't know certainly probably don't want it looking like that share from that. 17:34.450 --> 17:40.210 So simple way of doing that is to grab this said here and just move it forward. 17:40.270 --> 17:42.380 So it's the appropriate way around. 17:42.490 --> 17:45.690 And let's have a look at that running round. 17:46.750 --> 17:48.280 That looks good to me. 17:48.280 --> 17:53.930 So finally am adding a couple of ears I do want to add a couple of is to our model. 17:54.100 --> 17:55.920 And there's a couple of ways that we can do this. 17:55.930 --> 18:04.300 But keeping the spirit of lupe's arm I will use loop cuts to add it rather than subdividing since that 18:04.300 --> 18:06.130 will ruin our geometry. 18:06.370 --> 18:08.340 Question is where does an ear go. 18:09.660 --> 18:13.310 So let's head on over to the view where we can see and hear. 18:13.620 --> 18:18.210 It looks like it's coming from somewhere around this area here. 18:18.630 --> 18:19.200 That's great. 18:19.200 --> 18:20.790 We can work on that. 18:20.820 --> 18:26.520 So let's put a loop cut in either here or here. 18:26.640 --> 18:27.510 There will do. 18:27.510 --> 18:34.980 And I'll move that up ever so slightly brilliant So now that we've got that area there we can grab one 18:34.980 --> 18:37.620 of these faces and can zoom in. 18:38.820 --> 18:40.590 And move round ever so slightly. 18:40.620 --> 18:43.670 The is going to come from this face here. 18:43.740 --> 18:48.100 I am going to insets ever so slightly you can do this in a number of ways. 18:48.240 --> 18:50.580 And then I'm just going to pull that out. 18:50.660 --> 18:55.950 Let's see how that looks all looks like a very angry horse will win or mess with that and going to go 18:55.950 --> 19:01.020 into a corner of a freefall mode here and see how that works. 19:01.500 --> 19:03.570 A bit more friendly now that the years. 19:03.780 --> 19:05.400 Let's make them a bit longer. 19:05.460 --> 19:09.290 And again you can adjust these to your heart's content. 19:09.300 --> 19:14.830 I think I might leave them there for the moment kind of stuck back ready to fight. 19:14.850 --> 19:18.210 Well it is a night in a war game that is chess. 19:18.240 --> 19:19.440 So that is brilliant. 19:19.440 --> 19:23.310 Let's have a look how it looks over in rendered mode. 19:23.750 --> 19:25.230 Yeah I'm liking that. 19:25.230 --> 19:26.000 Brilliant. 19:26.010 --> 19:27.360 How did you guys get on. 19:27.360 --> 19:31.540 I hope you could spend a bit more time on the model than I can when I'm teaching you guys. 19:31.620 --> 19:37.110 I really like to see what you've got up to please share your nights in the discussions and I will see 19:37.110 --> 19:38.800 you in the next lecture.