WEBVTT 00:00.090 --> 00:07.410 Welcome to creating a backdrop in this video we're going to decide on a scale of our project that we're 00:07.410 --> 00:08.210 working on. 00:08.220 --> 00:10.840 We're going to create a basic environment for our lamp. 00:10.840 --> 00:15.240 So up until this point we've just been making models in isolation. 00:15.510 --> 00:21.900 I suppose the chess set the pieces had an environment to be in which was the chess board but the chess 00:21.900 --> 00:23.600 set itself didn't really have. 00:23.600 --> 00:26.080 It wasn't on a table in a room etc.. 00:26.400 --> 00:30.570 So we're going to create an environment for our lamp to be in and we're going to run through a couple 00:30.570 --> 00:32.730 of options with that and you can pick either one. 00:32.730 --> 00:38.420 This is an artistic choice rather than an exact choice of right or wrong you can do whatever you like 00:38.430 --> 00:42.270 you can even produce some steps if you like but I'm going to keep it simple in this. 00:42.270 --> 00:45.040 So let's hop over into blender. 00:45.450 --> 00:51.480 So in blender we've got our default cube here and we don't want this what we want to do is get rid of 00:51.480 --> 00:54.880 that so we will go ahead and delete that from our scene. 00:55.790 --> 00:59.110 After we've removed the default key you will want to add ourselves a plane. 00:59.110 --> 01:02.310 Now notice the 3D cursor is all the way up here. 01:02.310 --> 01:05.660 So I'm going to recentre that first with shift and see. 01:07.070 --> 01:08.120 There we go. 01:08.120 --> 01:15.410 So now that these 3D cursor is there we can add ourselves a plane and just kind of scale that up so 01:15.410 --> 01:17.970 it's nice and large so we can work on it. 01:18.020 --> 01:24.200 Now when we position our lamp and move it later on Im literally going to is going to be a 3D object. 01:24.200 --> 01:30.740 But thinking ahead we're just going to move it along a three a 2D path we're probably going to move 01:30.800 --> 01:35.880 along the x axis and make it hop or something along there and worked out the moves Yes. 01:36.140 --> 01:41.090 So that's a basic flaw but of course it's a basic flaw. 01:41.370 --> 01:44.650 We don't want a basic floor we want an environment for it to be in. 01:44.870 --> 01:50.720 So the next thing we can do is just grab this and edge over here so hop into edit mode and select this 01:50.810 --> 01:51.700 edge here. 01:51.950 --> 01:56.550 I'm going to extrude on the z axis and just lift that up. 01:56.660 --> 02:00.940 Now that produces a lovely corner for us to work on. 02:01.160 --> 02:06.530 Now with corn as you generally get some harsh shadows Let's quickly hop over into rendered mode and 02:06.530 --> 02:08.140 just see how that's going to come out. 02:08.150 --> 02:12.410 You can see as well hopefully you can see his bit dark around here. 02:12.560 --> 02:14.320 But there's a harsh line there. 02:14.450 --> 02:17.380 And your gent generally gets shadows casting against that. 02:17.380 --> 02:20.190 And though usually be quite harsh. 02:20.360 --> 02:22.890 So that helps define an edge of a room. 02:22.910 --> 02:31.070 However if you wanted it to be a bit smoother then we can have what's almost like a studio backdrop 02:31.130 --> 02:38.900 and a simple way of doing that is using the bevelled so however we're going to beville it slightly differently 02:38.900 --> 02:45.560 we're not just going to bevell this edge here we're going to add another one along this x axis so if 02:45.560 --> 02:53.900 we select Well if we do control and are and pop a loop cuts along here and just shift that back ever 02:53.930 --> 02:59.270 so slightly maybe to blend the units one two we can see on the grid they're only roughly It doesn't 02:59.270 --> 03:02.410 matter at this stage the exact thing and we can alter this later on. 03:02.540 --> 03:08.960 Whilst we're here I'm going to rename our plane back drop must be consistent with this. 03:09.020 --> 03:14.040 Now when we select this edge here we can go and bevel that with control and be. 03:14.120 --> 03:18.830 And as you can see there the reason why when we've put this line in here and the reason that lines there 03:19.040 --> 03:22.360 is because the bevel all stop at that point. 03:22.370 --> 03:23.180 Excellent. 03:23.180 --> 03:26.560 So then we can add a couple of segments. 03:26.570 --> 03:28.670 Doesn't matter how many. 03:28.760 --> 03:30.500 That's probably enough. 03:30.500 --> 03:37.120 Hop back over into object mode and set it to smooth shading and it looks pretty smooth there. 03:37.160 --> 03:40.290 And although the renderer Isn't that great at the moment. 03:40.310 --> 03:45.110 If we move around in rended mode that looks pretty smooth to me as well. 03:45.110 --> 03:49.800 Of course if you need it higher more geometry then you can add a few more cuts. 03:49.820 --> 03:51.890 But I think that's absolutely fine. 03:53.190 --> 03:59.250 So the final thing to decide here is scale that we're working on now if I hop back on over into just 03:59.260 --> 04:05.940 solid render this backdrop is infinitely scalable now so we can select that any time and just scale 04:05.940 --> 04:09.480 it along its x axis and drag it out infinitely. 04:09.480 --> 04:11.130 So that's absolutely fine. 04:11.220 --> 04:13.960 But the scale off the lamp itself. 04:14.090 --> 04:18.620 Now I think we should work with the lamp to one blender unit. 04:18.750 --> 04:20.120 It's going to be a big lamp. 04:20.160 --> 04:26.380 If that was a real a real lamp that would be approximately one meter across. 04:26.400 --> 04:30.940 But again I like dealing with whole numbers and I think one's a great starting point for it. 04:31.020 --> 04:38.280 And then at the end once we've produced it if we wanted it to have a let's say 30 centimetre base rather 04:38.280 --> 04:44.850 than a meter base then we can just scale it down by a factor of point three and the whole lamp would 04:45.030 --> 04:47.160 reduce down to the appropriate size. 04:47.220 --> 04:53.670 Since we're not dealing with physics or anything along those that at the moment its physicality its 04:53.670 --> 05:00.270 size its weight etc. dont really matter as long as we get the impression that its a lamp and its animating 05:00.300 --> 05:05.700 we stick to the core principles that were going to be working on I think a base of one would be brilliant. 05:05.700 --> 05:07.060 So well go for that. 05:07.140 --> 05:09.460 And now I have got a challenge for you. 05:10.650 --> 05:12.600 Okay guys it's Challenge time. 05:12.600 --> 05:14.950 I would like you to create your stage. 05:14.970 --> 05:17.790 So go ahead and create a backdrop ready for the lamp. 05:17.790 --> 05:21.270 Now you can choose whether to have a sharp corner. 05:21.330 --> 05:27.190 You can make it a bit more funky if you want but do keep where the lamp is moving absolutely flat. 05:27.330 --> 05:35.460 Add in a place holder primitive Just so you can get an idea of scale within there just leave it as a 05:35.460 --> 05:38.180 default one radius for the moment. 05:38.310 --> 05:38.920 Okay. 05:39.000 --> 05:40.440 Hop over into blender. 05:40.440 --> 05:43.800 Give it a go now pause a video and I will see you in a second. 05:46.370 --> 05:47.050 Okay guys. 05:47.060 --> 05:48.170 Welcome back. 05:48.230 --> 05:52.390 Let's finish off our stage so let's hop back over into blender. 05:54.120 --> 05:59.320 So I'm quite happy with the stage that I already have here. 05:59.670 --> 06:05.160 I am going to make it just a little bit wider so I am doing and skate along the x axis by to some jazz 06:05.160 --> 06:11.090 can make it twice as wide so I know that if we look at it from an angle it would probably going to be 06:11.140 --> 06:12.140 okay. 06:12.300 --> 06:21.240 So let's add in our place holder so I'm going to add in all lots of choices here a cylinder or a cone. 06:21.240 --> 06:24.680 So which one of these Shall I go for Eeny Meeny M.O.. 06:24.750 --> 06:25.700 Oh a cone. 06:25.830 --> 06:27.200 Oh that sounds good to me. 06:27.460 --> 06:29.910 So we're going to have the lift back out to the floor. 06:30.090 --> 06:34.860 It's got a depth of two so let's lift it up on the z axis by one. 06:35.020 --> 06:35.380 There we go. 06:35.380 --> 06:37.820 So that's definitely on the floor now. 06:37.860 --> 06:45.300 And finally we just need to make sure that one blender units across and not to because it's got a radius 06:45.300 --> 06:46.160 of one. 06:46.530 --> 06:52.260 It's actually going to be two across a radius of point five that sorted that out. 06:52.290 --> 06:56.830 Now Kate let's just see how that looks in rendered mode take it through to their ex. 06:56.840 --> 07:00.730 That's not very good lighting at the moment I think in the next lecture. 07:00.930 --> 07:02.510 We can sort that out. 07:02.760 --> 07:04.590 So how did you guys get on. 07:04.680 --> 07:06.730 What sort of background did you go for. 07:06.780 --> 07:10.550 Share in the discussions and I will see you in the next lecture.