WEBVTT 00:01.330 --> 00:08.550 Welcome to the solidify modifier in this video you will create a 3D object from just curves. 00:08.710 --> 00:13.180 Give the new object thickness using the solidify modifier. 00:13.180 --> 00:15.420 So let's hop over into blender. 00:16.570 --> 00:22.360 So here we are we're tantalizingly close to having what's almost a complete lamp but it's missing the 00:22.360 --> 00:27.730 lampshade at the top so we give you some similar skills that we learnt when making the base in order 00:27.730 --> 00:31.840 to make the lamba of course the lamp is actually whole low because it needs a bulb in the middle of 00:31.840 --> 00:32.250 it. 00:32.320 --> 00:39.640 So let's create ourselves a new blender file so let's go ahead and do that now so you can just practice 00:39.670 --> 00:41.660 these skills that we need to work on. 00:42.280 --> 00:45.080 Only get rid of the default cube from our scene. 00:45.810 --> 00:50.800 I'm also going to get rid of the camera and the lamp just to make it simple to follow. 00:51.120 --> 00:55.680 So the first thing I want to do is add myself to Curves. 00:55.740 --> 00:58.030 One is going to be a circle. 00:58.960 --> 01:01.030 So let's add the circle. 01:01.060 --> 01:06.500 And it doesn't actually it does matter because that's the throws the other curve that matters as well. 01:06.530 --> 01:08.770 So let's leave it in the middle. 01:08.770 --> 01:13.830 I'm going to rotate it so it's locked to the x axis and facing down the y axis D. 01:13.840 --> 01:14.260 There we go. 01:14.270 --> 01:18.540 That's that's the way the lamps are going to be generated from this circle. 01:18.580 --> 01:20.790 The next thing we need to do is add a Bezier curve. 01:20.800 --> 01:22.890 I want to be able to see what I'm doing. 01:22.920 --> 01:28.130 I'm going to flip around to the left and I need to be in orthographic projection. 01:28.210 --> 01:28.600 There we go. 01:28.600 --> 01:31.740 So there's our circle and I want to Bezier curve. 01:31.750 --> 01:32.340 I can see here. 01:32.350 --> 01:37.490 So let's add a curve making sure were in object mode Bezier I can't see it at the moment cause it's 01:37.510 --> 01:38.550 on the x y plane. 01:38.560 --> 01:40.830 I think I just need to rotate it here. 01:41.320 --> 01:45.990 And 90 degrees there and on the why is it. 01:46.110 --> 01:48.290 Oh that's translation. 01:48.380 --> 01:49.580 Don't make it disappear. 01:49.690 --> 01:52.010 Let's try 90 on here. 01:52.030 --> 01:53.130 So that looks good. 01:53.170 --> 01:56.630 And then 90 on the Y as well. 01:59.060 --> 01:59.560 X. 01:59.610 --> 01:59.970 Okay. 02:00.030 --> 02:01.890 So that that's good. 02:01.890 --> 02:05.020 And it's actually going the way that I want it to go as well. 02:05.040 --> 02:07.560 I'm going to I'm happy with that. 02:07.590 --> 02:15.660 I need to lift it up and buy one on the z axis so look at the the z axis and press 1 so it's on the 02:15.660 --> 02:22.260 origin itself just as uncreating this case so let's link these two together so we can see it as we build 02:22.260 --> 02:23.250 it up. 02:23.250 --> 02:30.420 So we need to go to the curve properties over here and we need the circle to have the bevel object of 02:30.420 --> 02:35.760 this definition curve that we've got here haven't named any thing at the moment. 02:35.810 --> 02:37.610 So call this outline. 02:40.120 --> 02:41.570 Out out link. 02:41.640 --> 02:45.160 That's not right or doing very well here with my typing right. 02:45.220 --> 02:45.720 Am. 02:45.730 --> 02:51.610 And let's set the bevell object to the owner the circle needs the one of the outline. 02:51.730 --> 02:52.120 There we go. 02:52.120 --> 02:54.390 So we're starting to get something building up here. 02:54.640 --> 03:02.410 And what we need to do I'm going to go into edit mode and start moving these points about so that's 03:02.410 --> 03:09.170 a rough lamp obviously but we can think we're going to need two control points to get a rough shape. 03:09.840 --> 03:15.600 It's going to extrude out and pop one there rotate the handles around little. 03:15.650 --> 03:21.630 Here we go and perhaps rotate this one around here and pull that down. 03:21.680 --> 03:23.740 So it's a bit sharper. 03:27.540 --> 03:29.630 They only just pull it up actually. 03:30.400 --> 03:32.310 There you go that gives a better five. 03:32.470 --> 03:37.400 And you can obviously play about with this to your heart's content to get the shape that you want. 03:38.450 --> 03:40.160 I'm going to leave it like that for the moment. 03:40.390 --> 03:40.620 Okay. 03:40.640 --> 03:47.240 So here we have a basically a two dimensional object now in the curved properties here if we hit two 03:47.360 --> 03:54.860 two deep on the circle it'll fill it in and become a flat shape and we can have a look at the wire frame 03:54.920 --> 03:59.510 and see that there's nothing inside it is just a completely solid object. 03:59.510 --> 04:04.720 Once you've done that now then hop back onto 3D because I want it hollow but that is essentially just 04:04.720 --> 04:07.610 a skin there's no thickness to it. 04:07.610 --> 04:12.120 So we need to use what's called a modifier and we need to solidify modify. 04:12.140 --> 04:19.670 So we're going to go to a modifiers add a modifier and go down to solidify which is under generate. 04:19.670 --> 04:22.770 Now once we've done that we can see it changes straight away. 04:22.870 --> 04:23.750 That looks good. 04:23.990 --> 04:26.450 And if we hop into wireframe mode. 04:27.180 --> 04:32.550 We can't see anything at the moment that's probably because the thickness is very very low. 04:32.700 --> 04:35.950 So let's have a thickness of one and all. 04:35.970 --> 04:40.220 There we go is could say a great thickness there perhaps one was a little too high. 04:40.220 --> 04:40.590 Let's go. 04:40.590 --> 04:42.040 Point five. 04:42.450 --> 04:46.990 And now hop out of wireframe mode and just see what's going on. 04:47.110 --> 04:48.890 That's absolutely brilliant. 04:49.020 --> 04:53.420 We actually want a hole in the back here so we can change our curve. 04:53.430 --> 04:55.870 If we wanted to to make that happen. 04:55.950 --> 04:59.070 Now the clamp feature is very useful. 04:59.070 --> 05:03.520 It actually allows us to constrain the amount of thickness we add. 05:03.690 --> 05:10.230 So if we go here and increase the clamp value it doesn't matter how much you increase or decrease as 05:10.240 --> 05:13.570 far you've got negative thickness and positive thickness. 05:13.620 --> 05:15.430 It clamps it to a certain ratio. 05:15.430 --> 05:20.550 That's that's very helpful to making sure that you don't push geometry through itself. 05:20.550 --> 05:26.880 So if I turn the clamp completely off and in this wire frame mode just keep increasing the thickness 05:26.910 --> 05:33.510 essentially the thinnest parts as you can see start passing through one another and that will continue 05:33.510 --> 05:35.900 happening again and again and again. 05:35.970 --> 05:40.940 So eventually if you push out you get something wacky like this going on. 05:41.010 --> 05:47.140 Although to be quite honest that is almost a jet fighter engine again or a Tannoy attention. 05:47.280 --> 05:49.490 Everybody take this course now. 05:49.500 --> 05:50.180 Brilliant. 05:50.520 --> 05:56.460 So we made the tannoy but there's obviously a lot of geometry inside it's a very messy model doing it 05:56.460 --> 05:57.120 that way. 05:57.120 --> 06:00.060 You'd be much better at just defining this with curves. 06:00.420 --> 06:07.290 So let's push that back so sensible and increase the clamp and depending on how high you set that clamp 06:07.290 --> 06:09.690 it's got a value between nought and two. 06:09.840 --> 06:15.240 Depends on the amount of clamping that will actually happen so again in wireframe mode it gives us a 06:15.240 --> 06:21.000 good indication of Wall thickness throughout Germany just need to play with these two figures here. 06:21.000 --> 06:28.230 The thickness and clamp in order to get yourself a reasonable looking lampshade or bell or anything 06:28.230 --> 06:34.650 else that has this shape here or anything that follows a thickness pattern so if you've defined anything 06:34.650 --> 06:37.960 else using curves you can have the thickness here or indeed just a plane. 06:37.980 --> 06:41.660 You can add thickness using the solidify modify. 06:42.890 --> 06:49.400 Okay guys it's Challenge time I'd like you to create the lampshade so create the lampshade using curves 06:49.430 --> 06:51.640 with s solidify modifier. 06:51.860 --> 06:58.400 Now for ease I do suggest you set a new rest position of the upper arm going along the y axis. 06:58.430 --> 07:01.990 Just make creating your lampshade and a lot easier. 07:02.210 --> 07:08.150 Now if you're following along with my exact model then do feel free to add a ball for the joint at the 07:08.150 --> 07:09.050 top of the lower arm. 07:09.050 --> 07:14.850 I'm going to make this top section really simple so this head has not 360 degree movement. 07:14.990 --> 07:20.210 We're going to constrain it later on but do add a ball at the top of the lower arm. 07:20.210 --> 07:24.380 If you've got a slightly different mechanism then go ahead and create that with the knowledge you've 07:24.380 --> 07:25.310 now got. 07:25.340 --> 07:33.470 If you have created a ball joint then set it as the parent of both curves add another bone to your armature 07:33.790 --> 07:39.130 name that's one appropriately and then parent that bone to the lampshade ball joint. 07:40.030 --> 07:41.360 Okay one final thing. 07:41.380 --> 07:44.330 When you're done reset the rest pose. 07:44.470 --> 07:47.210 So it looks like this in the picture. 07:48.520 --> 07:51.110 Pause video now and give that a go. 07:54.100 --> 07:55.170 Welcome back guys. 07:55.330 --> 07:58.900 Let's hop straight on over into blender and create our lampshade. 07:59.880 --> 08:02.850 So let's go ahead and make our lampshade. 08:02.850 --> 08:05.630 So the first thing I want to do is just a line this. 08:05.640 --> 08:11.570 So basically it's just running flat now because I've already put the constraints on and they're accurate. 08:11.610 --> 08:19.470 I know that I can literally just grab that and move it down and it will be locked in position. 08:19.470 --> 08:23.320 If we move to the left view or the right view it doesn't matter. 08:23.340 --> 08:26.160 You can see that it's running straight along there. 08:26.160 --> 08:34.920 Finally I want to use control and a and apply the pose as the rest pose Now that then changes the edit 08:34.920 --> 08:37.120 mode will be now the same. 08:37.120 --> 08:43.830 Now if we had done it in the edit mode it actually screws up all of the angles and constraints that 08:43.830 --> 08:49.630 we've put in because it changes the angles so you need to make those sorts of changes impose mode. 08:49.710 --> 08:55.730 Now that we have that there we need to actually create our circle in our Bezier curve. 08:55.800 --> 09:03.440 So the first thing I will do is move the cursor to the 3D cursor to the end of this section here. 09:03.650 --> 09:07.850 So I'm going to come out of edit mode select our upper arm. 09:08.590 --> 09:13.410 Hop into edit mode again and excellent the top faces selected if it's not I select it. 09:13.420 --> 09:18.730 I'm going to move the 3D cursor to selection to selected which I'll put it smack bang in the middle 09:18.730 --> 09:19.970 of that face. 09:20.580 --> 09:21.100 Right. 09:21.100 --> 09:28.540 The next thing I would need to do is come out of edit out Sadr and arc herbs to the object and create 09:28.600 --> 09:31.750 us a circle that's going to be pretty big. 09:31.750 --> 09:38.730 By default it's going to be one something to do the rotation on the x axis by 90. 09:38.740 --> 09:42.760 That's fine and I'm going to hear the radius. 09:42.820 --> 09:44.550 I've been playing with some figures. 09:44.560 --> 09:50.380 I think it's going to need to be about 0 point nought eight or thereabouts perfect. 09:50.380 --> 09:53.850 I'm happy with that circle so now we need to add a nother. 09:54.730 --> 10:01.840 Curve which is going to define the outline of our model essence that's in there will do some tinkering 10:01.840 --> 10:02.490 with this curve. 10:02.500 --> 10:07.870 In a moment it doesn't really matter on the size but I'm just going to make it roughly the same size 10:07.960 --> 10:17.920 as our circle that we have here now that we've got that we need to make sure that the circle uses the 10:18.670 --> 10:22.870 line here the Bezier curve as it's bevell object. 10:23.020 --> 10:25.650 And we can do some renaming in a moment. 10:26.140 --> 10:34.270 So now that we've got there let's let's actually sort of have this curve here so that it actually follows 10:34.270 --> 10:35.880 the shape that we're making. 10:35.890 --> 10:42.020 Otherwise it's just a bit confusing if you're moving things one way and they're moving on another axis. 10:42.190 --> 10:45.700 So the way that I'm going to do that I'm just going to flip round to the top view so I can see this 10:45.700 --> 10:56.560 curve and I'm going to rotate it's round in the z axis by 90 and let's just move it out as well so we 10:56.560 --> 10:58.370 can see what's going on. 10:58.600 --> 11:02.310 Now let's go in and edit that and see what happens when we move this one. 11:02.320 --> 11:07.090 Okay so when we move left and right the actual curve itself is moving forwards and back. 11:07.090 --> 11:09.730 So we need a 90 degree rotation somewhere. 11:09.830 --> 11:16.140 So as hop back into object mode and let's try it rotating it's 90 degrees. 11:16.150 --> 11:20.450 Well let's counsel the 90 degrees on the z and try that again. 11:21.490 --> 11:25.950 And that's still moving left and right there so let's do 90 degrees on the X. 11:27.120 --> 11:32.880 That's where it rotated around so we can't see it from this angle but it looks like from the side that's 11:32.880 --> 11:35.190 going to make excellent sense. 11:35.190 --> 11:38.730 So let's go round here and just see what's going on. 11:38.730 --> 11:42.590 Hop in to the left hand view. 11:42.630 --> 11:47.910 Now that's starting to look more like our lampshade shape so we hop into edit mode and I pull it forward 11:47.910 --> 11:48.730 and back. 11:51.800 --> 11:55.630 It is going forward and back but it looks like the curve itself is the wrong way round. 11:55.640 --> 12:02.530 So I'm just going to move the curve literally round itself and grab this point over here. 12:02.540 --> 12:03.960 I can see it anymore. 12:05.500 --> 12:06.640 There it is. 12:06.640 --> 12:08.980 And move it this way. 12:08.980 --> 12:10.090 Perfect. 12:10.090 --> 12:13.920 So then we've got this bit here we she's going forward and back. 12:15.130 --> 12:21.110 Still not quite right so we need to rotate it once more on another axis that's cancelled that one there. 12:22.060 --> 12:23.570 And View it from the top. 12:25.690 --> 12:28.290 And put a 90 degree rotation in there. 12:31.320 --> 12:35.560 It is going to need 90 and all of them are going to need a 180 somewhere. 12:35.560 --> 12:38.050 By the looks of it they're stride 180 x. 12:39.540 --> 12:39.820 Okay. 12:39.820 --> 12:40.920 That looks perfect. 12:40.920 --> 12:44.320 So a bit of playing about there and we got ourselves the right shape. 12:44.320 --> 12:50.260 So let's go around to the left again and edit that curve and we can see now when we pull it forward 12:50.290 --> 12:56.080 and back it matches and it's even got the little incorrect inflection going on so we can rotate that 12:56.080 --> 12:56.870 round. 12:57.160 --> 12:59.090 So it's not being. 13:00.260 --> 13:02.320 Fussy and coming in on itself. 13:02.570 --> 13:05.780 So we can move that back ever so slightly now. 13:05.900 --> 13:11.300 This one here click the wrong thing and we've got a hole in there that's absolutely fine we can cover 13:11.310 --> 13:13.580 that up in a moment with a ball joint. 13:13.790 --> 13:19.940 I'm just going to move this one in a little because that's just a little bit wide and move these controls 13:20.000 --> 13:22.390 around Okay that's looking good. 13:22.490 --> 13:28.300 So let's just have a look for scale that might end up being a bit big I'm not sure yet. 13:28.550 --> 13:35.120 We can always scale up and down or modify these curves later and skin each rude and put another bit 13:35.120 --> 13:38.080 in here and around there. 13:38.420 --> 13:39.510 How's that looking. 13:39.650 --> 13:46.760 That's pretty much in proportion it's looking a bit thick so let's go here and push that in slightly. 13:46.760 --> 13:51.910 Move that one in again and just make this a bit smaller as well. 13:52.220 --> 13:52.750 Brilliant. 13:52.880 --> 13:54.430 I'm happy with that for the moment. 13:54.430 --> 13:59.770 I could probably spend the next hour or so filling about with it and getting it more perfect. 13:59.780 --> 14:03.290 But remember don't chase perfection all the time. 14:03.290 --> 14:10.880 So we need to add ourselves in a come out of edit mode into object mode and add a solidify modifier. 14:11.180 --> 14:15.630 So in the modifiers making sure that's our busiest circle is select. 14:15.640 --> 14:20.850 That's the thing we're applying the fickleness to and go to solidify. 14:21.170 --> 14:23.350 Oh that looks pretty good already. 14:23.360 --> 14:25.610 Let's just play with a couple of values. 14:25.610 --> 14:29.640 No actually not points one seems absolutely fine. 14:29.930 --> 14:31.060 Looks not point not one. 14:33.490 --> 14:34.960 There we go. 14:34.970 --> 14:38.910 Right so I'm going to move the cursor to selected again. 14:39.850 --> 14:42.900 With the right key combo of shift in S. 14:42.920 --> 14:51.350 Now place it's back there and I'm going to add a mesh object that's a u.b. Sphere classics can be massive. 14:51.460 --> 14:54.630 I'm simply going to downsize it too. 14:54.850 --> 14:57.600 It was point eight earlier I think or point nought eight. 14:57.610 --> 15:01.770 One of the two point forty eight said no point not eight. 15:01.780 --> 15:05.720 And again you will have to play with some figures that suits your model fine. 15:05.920 --> 15:10.370 So now that we've got that in place that's created the ball joint there I'm happy with that. 15:10.480 --> 15:15.650 We will just set it as smooth shading so much as the rest of the model. 15:16.210 --> 15:16.800 Okay. 15:16.810 --> 15:17.530 Brilliant. 15:17.590 --> 15:20.250 That's starting to look much like a lamp. 15:20.260 --> 15:26.540 The final thing I'm going to do is change it to the rest position is similar to how it was before so 15:26.550 --> 15:31.520 I'm going to hop over into PPO's mode after selecting the lamp rake. 15:32.050 --> 15:39.640 Once we've done that I'm going to move this by 90 degrees up here but it's not connected to anything 15:39.640 --> 15:40.340 yet. 15:40.420 --> 15:45.120 So let's go ahead and create a nother bone coming out of here. 15:45.130 --> 15:46.780 Lock it to the y axis. 15:47.060 --> 15:48.510 So it's coming out of there. 15:48.700 --> 15:53.690 And then finally we've got a bit of parenting to do here so this. 15:53.710 --> 16:00.460 Let's have this area here the actual lampshade and the ball almost connected and being as one. 16:00.460 --> 16:06.970 So we've got our sphere here so I'm going to call that lamp shade at joint because that's essentially 16:06.970 --> 16:08.440 what it's doing. 16:08.530 --> 16:10.420 And then we've got our Bezier circles. 16:10.420 --> 16:15.460 This is the lamp shade profile. 16:15.640 --> 16:19.320 And then the curve is the lamp shade. 16:19.410 --> 16:24.850 Outline excellence and now we have those three things named. 16:24.850 --> 16:28.400 I'm going to basically make the curves I think. 16:29.330 --> 16:30.670 Children of the joints. 16:30.680 --> 16:36.110 And then I can select the joints select the arm chair and we do need to be imposed mode for this so 16:36.110 --> 16:38.150 let's hop back over to the rake. 16:39.280 --> 16:39.800 Poe's note. 16:39.820 --> 16:41.940 Excellent Sir select the joints if I can. 16:41.940 --> 16:42.480 Yep. 16:42.480 --> 16:44.090 Select the arm chair. 16:45.180 --> 16:51.330 Or more specifically the bone that's connected and then parent it with control and P to the bone. 16:51.750 --> 16:57.310 Okay so now we should see that that is constrained there. 16:57.310 --> 17:01.920 And if we move around should be able to move it to left to the right etc.. 17:01.920 --> 17:02.340 Perfect. 17:02.340 --> 17:04.290 I'm going to reset the rotation. 17:04.560 --> 17:10.610 And finally I'm going to lift this up are going to rotate that by 45 degrees. 17:10.830 --> 17:20.980 And I think this one here rotate it by minus 90 in the in the z y playing which will be shift the expression. 17:21.300 --> 17:22.980 So that is that set. 17:22.980 --> 17:30.090 And finally I want to go control an A and apply the pose as the rest pose. 17:30.270 --> 17:31.800 That's the default state. 17:31.800 --> 17:33.400 Our lamp is going to be in. 17:33.810 --> 17:40.190 Okay let's have a look at our lamp and see how it's doing and just going to turn x ray off on the armatures 17:40.500 --> 17:46.390 around crunches going to hide the rig for the moment that probably be easier post mode and now should 17:46.400 --> 17:47.730 Bill return that rake off. 17:47.730 --> 17:48.520 Brilliant. 17:48.540 --> 17:55.800 So the only thing that I can see here for changing later on is potentially making this ball joints where 17:55.800 --> 17:58.790 it joins on the upper arm perhaps making the upper arm a bit thinner. 17:59.130 --> 18:00.970 So it's not. 18:01.110 --> 18:02.930 Doesn't look so ridiculous at the top there. 18:02.940 --> 18:06.690 Otherwise we've got ourselves a pretty good looking lamp. 18:06.690 --> 18:08.070 How are you guys getting on. 18:08.070 --> 18:09.340 Please share in the discussions. 18:09.330 --> 18:10.780 I'd love to see how you're getting on. 18:11.010 --> 18:13.850 And I will see you in the next lecture.