WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.700 Welcome to Using the Bevel Tool! In this video we're going to 2 00:00:03.700 --> 00:00:07.700 box model the chess piece base and then using the bevel tool 3 00:00:07.700 --> 00:00:11.700 to round off our sharp edges! So let's hop over 4 00:00:11.700 --> 00:00:13.300 into Blender! 5 00:00:13.300 --> 00:00:17.300 So here we are in Blender! So let's start 6 00:00:17.300 --> 00:00:21.300 working on our shape here! So before, when we've 7 00:00:21.300 --> 00:00:25.300 had a curvy shape like this we've used Bezier Curves, but I fancy doing this with 8 00:00:25.300 --> 00:00:29.300 box modeling. So we've got it at the top here and the 9 00:00:29.300 --> 00:00:33.300 bottom, that's absolutely fine, but we're going to have to put in some loop cuts, 1 00:00:33.300 --> 00:00:37.300 in order to make this work properly. So let's go ahead 1 00:00:37.300 --> 00:00:41.300 and do that now! Control and 1 00:00:41.300 --> 00:00:45.300 R, there we go we've got a loop! And I'm just using the 1 00:00:45.300 --> 00:00:49.300 Scroll Wheel here to add our level of detail. Now, I'm guessing it's going 1 00:00:49.300 --> 00:00:53.300 to need to be about, this is going to be 1, 1 00:00:53.300 --> 00:00:57.300 2, 3, 4, 5, 1 00:00:57.300 --> 00:01:01.300 and then, this one here. So 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, so that 1 00:01:01.300 --> 00:01:05.300 is perfect! Then, once we've positioned them, I'll position the first one 1 00:01:05.300 --> 00:01:09.300 here. Now, I'm going to leave 1 00:01:09.300 --> 00:01:13.300 this flat, right at the very bottom, so that all of the pieces 2 00:01:13.300 --> 00:01:17.300 have a really nice flat bottom. And now, we can 2 00:01:17.300 --> 00:01:21.300 select the loop edges that run 2 00:01:21.300 --> 00:01:25.300 around, and we can just make sure, by disappearing from that view, that we've 2 00:01:25.300 --> 00:01:29.300 selected the loop edge all around and just go back to 2 00:01:29.300 --> 00:01:33.300 our Front View, so we can model it. And first of all, I'm just going to 2 00:01:33.300 --> 00:01:37.300 move some of these edges into a more appropriate place. So that one's 2 00:01:37.300 --> 00:01:41.300 fine. Let's select that one and move it up 2 00:01:41.300 --> 00:01:45.300 slightly. Let's go and select this one and move it up, 2 00:01:45.300 --> 00:01:46.933 so it's in the middle of there. 2 00:01:46.933 --> 00:01:49.199 So we're moving these edge loops, 3 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:53.200 so they're in line with our reference material 3 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:57.200 there, and then, we're going to grab these edge loops and 3 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:01.200 scale them accordingly. So in the 3D realm, obviously we're looking 3 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:05.200 from this front on, but on the 3D we'll be shrinking and pulling that 3 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:06.966 in and out. So 3 00:02:06.966 --> 00:02:09.532 this one here, we can lift up much higher, 3 00:02:09.533 --> 00:02:13.533 and this one here is going to be right on the edge, where that little lump 3 00:02:13.533 --> 00:02:17.533 is around here. So that's fine, as far as that goes, but this 3 00:02:17.533 --> 00:02:21.533 still is just a cylinder, at the moment. So let's go ahead and 3 00:02:21.533 --> 00:02:25.533 go to Solid Mode here and just make our Background 4 00:02:25.533 --> 00:02:29.533 Image a little bit dimmer, so we can work with it. 4 00:02:29.533 --> 00:02:33.533 Alright, so let's grab this one here 4 00:02:33.533 --> 00:02:37.533 and scale it just inwards, 4 00:02:37.533 --> 00:02:41.533 until it's roughly in the right place. 4 00:02:41.533 --> 00:02:45.533 Perfect! And let's do the same to this one here, let's scale 4 00:02:45.533 --> 00:02:49.533 that inwards, grab this one and 4 00:02:49.533 --> 00:02:53.533 scale... Ooh, let's make sure we grab the whole edge loop 4 00:02:53.533 --> 00:02:57.533 and scale that inwards. You see what I'm doing here, 4 00:02:57.533 --> 00:03:01.533 I'm just modeling our... Oops, I can't see my keyboard! 4 00:03:01.533 --> 00:03:05.533 Be careful which keys you press! That one there, and then, finally 5 00:03:05.533 --> 00:03:09.533 this top edge loop here, I can scale that all the way 5 00:03:09.533 --> 00:03:13.533 in to the appropriate place, so I've got a rough outline of 5 00:03:13.533 --> 00:03:17.533 our model there. So we're going to want to, now, 5 00:03:17.533 --> 00:03:21.533 smooth out these edges, and you can do that using the Bevel 5 00:03:21.533 --> 00:03:25.533 Tool. So we'll start down at the bottom edge here. 5 00:03:25.533 --> 00:03:29.533 So select the edge you want to apply a bevel to, 5 00:03:29.533 --> 00:03:33.533 and then, the shortcut keys for it are control and 5 00:03:33.533 --> 00:03:37.533 B. That's a nice easy one to remember for Bevel, B for 5 00:03:37.533 --> 00:03:41.533 Bevel. And as you move the cursor 5 00:03:41.533 --> 00:03:45.533 further away, we start to add that beveled edge in, and you can use the 6 00:03:45.533 --> 00:03:49.533 Scroll Wheel to increase the detail level in that bevel. 6 00:03:49.533 --> 00:03:53.533 You can, of course, go too far and force your model to look 6 00:03:53.533 --> 00:03:57.533 very odd. There may be an application for that but I can't think of one, 6 00:03:57.533 --> 00:04:01.533 at the moment. And of course, the more detail you put in there, you can start getting silly, that's the 6 00:04:01.533 --> 00:04:05.533 amount of segments it's going to make up. Because we're working on the low poly, 6 00:04:05.533 --> 00:04:09.533 probably 3 or 4, something like that, then we can just left-click to 6 00:04:09.533 --> 00:04:10.833 apply that. 6 00:04:10.833 --> 00:04:14.833 And in the menu system, because we've selected an edge there, 6 00:04:14.833 --> 00:04:18.833 let's go have a look at the Mesh, Edges 6 00:04:18.833 --> 00:04:22.833 OK, and there we go, Bevel is 7 00:04:22.833 --> 00:04:26.833 at the bottom for me, depending on your resolution. But it looks like it's about 7 00:04:26.833 --> 00:04:30.833 in the middle. So there we go, Bevel is also in the menu selection there, and 7 00:04:30.833 --> 00:04:33.199 we can see the shortcut Control and B. 7 00:04:33.200 --> 00:04:37.166 And finally, we've introduced it a couple of times, but 7 00:04:37.166 --> 00:04:41.166 you can just press the Spacebar and then 7 00:04:41.166 --> 00:04:45.166 type in what you're looking for. And there we go, 7 00:04:45.166 --> 00:04:49.166 Bevel! It's a very powerful, a very quick way of finding things 7 00:04:49.166 --> 00:04:53.166 in Blender, if you know what they're called. So remember that, Spacebar and 7 00:04:53.166 --> 00:04:56.066 then you start typing the command you're looking for. 7 00:04:56.066 --> 00:04:59.532 OK, so there's one final thing to go over with the Bevel 8 00:04:59.533 --> 00:05:03.533 Tool, and that's when you can Bevel an individual vertex. So let's 8 00:05:03.533 --> 00:05:07.533 go ahead and open up a default cube, because I don't think there's anywhere on this pawn 8 00:05:07.533 --> 00:05:11.533 that we can use that on. OK, so now 8 00:05:11.533 --> 00:05:15.533 we're on a default cube! Let's go ahead and go into 8 00:05:15.533 --> 00:05:19.533 Edit Mode and select, let's say, this edge here. Now, 8 00:05:19.533 --> 00:05:23.533 of course, the edge is made up of two vertices, one at either end. 8 00:05:23.533 --> 00:05:27.533 If I go ahead and use Control and B to bevel, we will get what we 8 00:05:27.533 --> 00:05:31.533 usually get, and then, if we go into the Operator 8 00:05:31.533 --> 00:05:35.533 Panel, in the lower-left, we can see we've got some options, so we can 8 00:05:35.533 --> 00:05:39.533 change the Amount of the bevel, the Segments, etc. Or we could have 9 00:05:39.533 --> 00:05:43.533 changed those with the Scroll Wheel, as we were creating it. 9 00:05:43.533 --> 00:05:47.533 Now, one of the options there is Vertex Only, and if you select that you can 9 00:05:47.533 --> 00:05:51.533 see that the vertices themselves are now being beveled, rather than the 9 00:05:51.533 --> 00:05:55.533 edge, and that can come in use, depending on what you're modeling. I don't think that's going to be 9 00:05:55.533 --> 00:05:59.533 use for it in the chess set, but do prove me wrong and make yourselves 9 00:05:59.533 --> 00:06:03.533 some beveled vertices in there, if you wanted to. But what we can 9 00:06:03.533 --> 00:06:07.533 do here is also use a shortcut key, so we don't have to go down and check this 9 00:06:07.533 --> 00:06:11.533 box every time. So I'm going to undo the bevel that I've 9 00:06:11.533 --> 00:06:15.533 just done and go to Vertex Select. I'm going to select this individual 9 00:06:15.533 --> 00:06:19.533 vertex here, in the corner, and hold down Control, 1 00:06:19.533 --> 00:06:23.533 Shift, and B. So it's not just Control B, it's Control, Shift, 1 00:06:23.533 --> 00:06:27.533 and B, and then, we can bevel that edge there. And of course, with the 1 00:06:27.533 --> 00:06:31.533 Scroll Wheel we can add more segments, if we wanted to, to smooth 1 00:06:31.533 --> 00:06:35.533 that out. And there we go, we've beveled a corner, we've cut 1 00:06:35.533 --> 00:06:39.533 a slice through our cube. Now, of course, this has got many uses, 1 00:06:39.533 --> 00:06:43.533 in the chess set it might not be but I'm sure you'll find lots of uses 1 00:06:43.533 --> 00:06:47.533 in your own work, as well, and if you do use it to create something funky, 1 00:06:47.533 --> 00:06:51.533 of course, share it with us all. So now, it's challenge 1 00:06:51.533 --> 00:06:53.299 time! I'd like you 1 00:06:53.300 --> 00:06:53.900 1 00:06:57.900 --> 00:07:01.900 our sharp edges that are left, finish of the detail to the 1 00:07:01.900 --> 00:07:05.900 base, if you feel it needs more. I think it does, towards the top, as it just bulges out 1 00:07:05.900 --> 00:07:09.900 slightly towards the neck of those pieces. And then, of course, 1 00:07:09.900 --> 00:07:13.900 use your artistic license, go wild if you want to, try and be a little bit 1 00:07:13.900 --> 00:07:17.900 sensible because these are official chess pieces, and then finally, remember to 1 00:07:17.900 --> 00:07:19.200 save your file. Pause the video 1 00:07:19.200 --> 00:07:19.800 1 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:27.400 welcome back! Let's hop back over into Blender! 1 00:07:27.400 --> 00:07:31.400 OK, so I'm going to start with this big bulgy bit 1 00:07:31.400 --> 00:07:35.400 here and try and smooth that out a little. So let's select the edge 1 00:07:35.400 --> 00:07:39.400 here and edge loop and add 1 00:07:39.400 --> 00:07:43.400 ourselves another bevel. Now that's good 1 00:07:43.400 --> 00:07:47.400 what it's done there, because it's a pointy edge, it's beveling on both sides for us. 1 00:07:47.400 --> 00:07:51.400 I'm liking that! 1 00:07:51.400 --> 00:07:55.400 I'm going to move out and have a look at how it is! In fact, I'm going to hop into 1 00:07:55.400 --> 00:07:59.400 Object Mode, and... Well let's 1 00:07:59.400 --> 00:08:03.400 pull this down a little and set the shading in the Tools menu, 1 00:08:03.400 --> 00:08:07.400 over here, to smooth, just so I get a better impression of 1 00:08:07.400 --> 00:08:11.400 how it looks. I do want that to move in a bit further there, 1 00:08:11.400 --> 00:08:15.400 so I'm going to go straight back into Edit Mode, grab this edge loop 1 00:08:15.400 --> 00:08:19.400 here, and simply scale it in. 1 00:08:19.400 --> 00:08:23.400 Let's hop back into Object Mode and see how that looks! That seems much 1 00:08:23.400 --> 00:08:27.400 better, but this whole section here does now need lifting up, I 1 00:08:27.400 --> 00:08:31.400 feel just a little. And we can play with this to our hearts' content! So in this 1 00:08:31.400 --> 00:08:35.400 case, I think I made a bit of a mistake there, I should have 1 00:08:35.400 --> 00:08:39.400 brought that in first before making that beveled edge, because it's made it look a bit weird. 1 00:08:39.400 --> 00:08:43.400 Fortunately, I've got enough undos to go back and do that now, 1 00:08:43.400 --> 00:08:47.400 so I'm going to go to here and grab the edge loop, scale 1 00:08:47.400 --> 00:08:51.400 it in. That's great! And in fact, I could even 1 00:08:51.400 --> 00:08:55.400 add a tiny bit of a bevel inside there, not much, 1 00:08:55.400 --> 00:08:59.400 but just enough to round it off as we go around. 1 00:08:59.400 --> 00:09:03.400 This one here, I'm going to use my artistic license and lift it up a little, so it's a bit 1 00:09:03.400 --> 00:09:07.400 more equidistant here, apply another bevel on this edge, 1 00:09:07.400 --> 00:09:11.400 and let's round it out. Probably 1 00:09:11.400 --> 00:09:15.400 only that many is necessary around there. Let's flip around, back 1 00:09:15.400 --> 00:09:19.400 to the front again. Oops, I need the cursor on the 3D view to do that, 1 00:09:19.400 --> 00:09:23.400 and yes, I think we can scale that out! Because it's all selected, 1 00:09:23.400 --> 00:09:27.400 you can grab it and straight away scale it out, just push it out ever so 1 00:09:27.400 --> 00:09:31.400 slightly. Brilliant! So I'm happy with those bits there, so it's just this 1 00:09:31.400 --> 00:09:35.400 bit towards the top. So let's just bring the Opacity up. 1 00:09:35.400 --> 00:09:39.400 You can see on this image that there's kind of like another bulge 1 00:09:39.400 --> 00:09:43.400 ring that runs around here, until it goes into the neck, 1 00:09:43.400 --> 00:09:47.400 so I'm just going to use a couple of the tools we've done already, in order 1 00:09:47.400 --> 00:09:51.400 to do that. So first of all, I feel like 1 00:09:51.400 --> 00:09:55.400 I probably need to inset this top face just a little. So 1 00:09:55.400 --> 00:09:59.400 I'm going to select the face and inset ever so slightly, not by 1 00:09:59.400 --> 00:10:03.400 much and there we go! And we're going to need a a couple bits more of 1 00:10:03.400 --> 00:10:07.400 detail around here, because it kind of bulges out. So we're going to go back 1 00:10:07.400 --> 00:10:11.400 into Edge Mode 1 00:10:11.400 --> 00:10:15.400 and put in an edge loop or two 1 00:10:15.400 --> 00:10:19.400 around here. Now, I've simply, once I've placed those 1 00:10:19.400 --> 00:10:23.400 about there I think, we can hop into Face 1 00:10:23.400 --> 00:10:27.400 Select, and I'm going to select this face ring going around 1 00:10:27.400 --> 00:10:31.400 and scale that out, ever so slightly. 1 00:10:31.400 --> 00:10:35.400 I think that's going to have the desired result 1 00:10:35.400 --> 00:10:39.400 I'm going for. Let's just have a look here and see! 1 00:10:39.400 --> 00:10:43.400 Now, there's a bit of a sharp edge there, I can 1 00:10:43.400 --> 00:10:47.400 pull that down to rectify that, so let's hop back into Edit Mode. 1 00:10:47.400 --> 00:10:51.400 So moving backwards and forwards between them and checking your model out is a 1 00:10:51.400 --> 00:10:55.400 great way of making sure that your model is exactly how you like it. 1 00:10:55.400 --> 00:10:59.400 Hop in and out and in and out. I'm just going to set that back to Smooth Shading. 1 00:10:59.400 --> 00:11:03.400 In fact, I think that comes out a bit too far, 1 00:11:03.400 --> 00:11:07.400 I didn't want it quite that large. So again, back in ever so slightly! 1 00:11:07.400 --> 00:11:11.400 We've got the hump there, I do feel like that needs to come down ever so slightly, 1 00:11:11.400 --> 00:11:15.400 so I'll select this top one here and pull that down, 1 00:11:15.400 --> 00:11:19.400 as well. So we've got this lump coming up and I'm going to pull that one down, 1 00:11:19.400 --> 00:11:23.400 and you can do this and tweak it till your heart's content, but I think 1 00:11:23.400 --> 00:11:27.400 I'm going to leave it there, as I believe I've reached my 1 00:11:27.400 --> 00:11:31.400 80/20 principle going on there. So I'm happy with 1 00:11:31.400 --> 00:11:35.400 that as my standard base, that we're going to use across all of our models now, 1 00:11:35.400 --> 00:11:39.400 and remember, at the end, we do need to save it. So we've saved 1 00:11:39.400 --> 00:11:43.400 our chess piece base! Brilliant! I will see you in the next 1 00:11:43.400 --> 00:11:45.366 lecture!