WEBVTT 00:00.270 --> 00:05.170 Welcome to balls in this video you'll learn how to add a metal ball. 00:05.220 --> 00:08.040 Use them quickly to build up a base framework. 00:08.040 --> 00:14.040 See that they're great for modelling organic objects and understand they need converting afterwards 00:14.040 --> 00:20.050 to a mesh so we can add further detail so that hop straight on over into blender. 00:21.990 --> 00:24.300 Right so back over in blender. 00:24.360 --> 00:26.960 Let's go and play with metal balls. 00:26.970 --> 00:32.770 So first of all make sure your file is saved and then go ahead and open a new file. 00:33.920 --> 00:39.000 Right so we've got the default keep on going to get rid of that and we're going to add a metal ball 00:39.020 --> 00:42.370 so you can go through the ADD menu here. 00:42.440 --> 00:48.890 And we see if we go up we have met a ball and we've got five different types of metal ball and a great 00:48.890 --> 00:54.140 thing is we can switch between those at a later point as well so they're not solidified at this point 00:54.170 --> 00:55.190 in time. 00:55.190 --> 00:59.810 You can also use the shortcut menu with shift in A and select the one you want. 00:59.960 --> 01:03.000 So I'm going to add a ball to our scene. 01:03.200 --> 01:08.480 Now if you glance over at the right hand side are just expand mine out a little. 01:08.480 --> 01:10.580 We've got a metal ball type object. 01:10.580 --> 01:18.350 And notice this symbol here the same symbol has now appeared in the Properties window just here out 01:18.410 --> 01:19.850 in edit mode. 01:19.850 --> 01:26.300 If we go into that now you'll see that we've got a few more options under active elements. 01:26.300 --> 01:31.450 We'll deal with the top part of this in the moments just hide that away under active element. 01:31.460 --> 01:38.750 It gives you a chance to change the type so we can set to cube we can go down to plain captial ball 01:38.810 --> 01:41.960 etc. so you can switch between them. 01:41.960 --> 01:47.030 Now let's add a nother met a ball to our scene. 01:47.240 --> 01:53.900 So I'm just going to duplicate the capsule that we've got here and I'm just going to lift it up and 01:53.900 --> 01:54.770 I'm going to change it. 01:54.770 --> 01:57.920 Type in edit mode to a ball. 01:57.950 --> 02:00.230 Now we can see what it's done here and it's really cool. 02:00.230 --> 02:05.190 As we move it closer and closer as the boundary's come together. 02:06.390 --> 02:12.960 They start to join one end of her which as you can imagine is incredibly powerful when it comes to modelling. 02:12.960 --> 02:19.110 I'm going to add another one to our sea and pop it underneath and scale it up so you can do all the 02:19.110 --> 02:25.950 usual things you would do scaling rotating obviously a metal ball if it's just a ball shape it's just 02:26.030 --> 02:29.730 gonna well remain a ball shape if you rotate it. 02:29.770 --> 02:37.770 But if we go ahead and select this middle one here which is our first starting one and rotate it we 02:37.770 --> 02:40.280 can of course twist our model around. 02:40.560 --> 02:41.670 Brilliant. 02:41.730 --> 02:46.830 So the resolution let's have a look at these settings here the view is what we're going to see now and 02:46.830 --> 02:50.300 the render is what's going to happen if we render it out. 02:50.400 --> 02:57.840 And it's counterintuitive initially but the higher the resolution setting the lower resolution the model 02:57.870 --> 02:58.440 will be. 02:58.620 --> 03:04.030 So if we increase this number here you can see it's getting more and more blocky as we go. 03:04.320 --> 03:07.180 Until eventually it just disappears. 03:07.290 --> 03:12.470 If we lower that number there is a finite resolution it will go to but it ends up much smoother. 03:12.480 --> 03:18.270 But it will slow down the actual view ports a little so when you're rotating You may depending on the 03:18.270 --> 03:23.170 speed of your computer get a little bit of judder which is why they've got these two options here. 03:23.250 --> 03:27.260 So you can have the view resolution higher than that of the render and the render. 03:27.270 --> 03:30.300 As you can see there goes much further down. 03:30.340 --> 03:37.410 Now in order to do anything with the curves themselves not curve sorry the metal balls they're kind 03:37.410 --> 03:38.930 of three dimensional curves. 03:39.210 --> 03:46.200 But to do anything with these metal supply we'd need to solidify them in from a metter ball to a mesh 03:46.500 --> 03:54.930 and we can do that as we've done before I can use the shortcut keys out and see and we get the convert 03:54.930 --> 03:55.350 to. 03:55.350 --> 03:57.240 We've got mesh here and. 03:58.180 --> 03:59.960 Mesh From met her. 04:00.340 --> 04:01.980 That's the one there are lots see. 04:02.020 --> 04:04.380 You can also do it under the object menu. 04:05.620 --> 04:09.250 Right at the top they're under convert. 04:09.360 --> 04:11.440 So it's hidden under there as well. 04:11.440 --> 04:16.780 Now before we do any converting and seeing how that comes out the final thing I want to show you is 04:16.780 --> 04:17.610 quite cool. 04:17.620 --> 04:18.590 While I think it's cool. 04:18.630 --> 04:24.730 Anyway so if we hop over into edit mode we've got a few other options here. 04:24.730 --> 04:29.260 So we're working on this middle one at the moment I don't want to do if I want to work on this top one. 04:29.260 --> 04:35.050 Let's do that and let's hop into edit mode again because come out now we've got a couple of options 04:35.050 --> 04:36.640 down here under active elements. 04:36.650 --> 04:44.770 Not only can we change what type it is but we can also set its stiffness and that determines the inner 04:44.830 --> 04:46.650 area of that circle. 04:46.790 --> 04:54.460 So if we set that quite small we can get a quite stretched out version of it going on there and then 04:54.460 --> 04:57.970 set them back to to where it was before and lower it back down a little. 04:58.060 --> 05:01.270 The next one negative is quite cool as we take that. 05:01.390 --> 05:07.150 It now subtracts from the other metal balls it comes into contact with rather then adds to them which 05:07.150 --> 05:13.630 is a great way of putting a dent in that and of course if it was smaller we could even put a hole in 05:13.630 --> 05:16.000 the object just like that. 05:16.000 --> 05:16.720 Brilliant. 05:16.960 --> 05:21.160 So let's convert the shape we've got here to a mesh. 05:21.310 --> 05:29.410 So in object mode with all of the metal balls selected staff selected them in the outline and just a 05:29.410 --> 05:35.350 quick note and make sure you are happy with the resolution you've got set. 05:35.350 --> 05:43.150 Now when we do make this net and mesh object in a few moments it's going to use the view resolution 05:43.150 --> 05:50.480 that we had set over on the met ball on the right hand side a moment ago and then oltz and see. 05:50.560 --> 05:55.550 And that will then give us the convert menu and we can select mesh from curve. 05:56.020 --> 05:56.600 Okay. 05:56.660 --> 05:59.890 Now we can start editing it we can do lots of things. 05:59.890 --> 06:04.030 So let's have a look at what it's generated when we hop into edit mode. 06:04.850 --> 06:05.350 Wow. 06:05.360 --> 06:07.770 There's lots of detail going on there. 06:07.970 --> 06:13.290 And it kind of looks nice but it's also quite messy in places as well. 06:13.310 --> 06:21.500 Blender does its best to keep things organized but that is a bit of a mess you'd never build a mesh 06:21.560 --> 06:22.670 looking like that. 06:22.820 --> 06:24.580 But it's a good starting point. 06:24.680 --> 06:29.530 Now there's a thing called reid's apology which were not going to do at the moment since our bunnies 06:29.530 --> 06:35.280 are going to be covered up with fur so we can leave this as our base mesh and then build upon it. 06:35.570 --> 06:37.580 Okay guys it's Challenge time. 06:37.580 --> 06:40.480 I'd like you to make a basic rabbits. 06:40.640 --> 06:44.590 So create the head and body leaving the ears for the moment. 06:44.810 --> 06:51.050 You need at least two metal balls keep the metal ball resolution around Oak Point too so it's not too 06:51.050 --> 06:52.020 high. 06:52.130 --> 06:55.520 Use reference material for an accurate shape. 06:55.520 --> 07:00.940 Now if you don't have any reference material at the moment there some provided in the asset packs so 07:00.950 --> 07:02.180 go ahead and download that. 07:02.180 --> 07:04.580 Now if you haven't done already. 07:04.580 --> 07:08.280 Remember you can scale and rotate the metal balls. 07:08.630 --> 07:14.290 Then finally once you're happy with the shape convert it into a mesh object. 07:14.600 --> 07:17.580 So go ahead pause a video and give that a go. 07:20.190 --> 07:21.310 You guys welcome back. 07:21.320 --> 07:24.510 Let's go ahead and make a basic rabbit over in blender. 07:25.590 --> 07:29.930 All right so we're back over in blender and I've opened up my fluffy bunny file. 07:30.090 --> 07:35.760 So I want to go to layer one which is the rabbit layer and at the moment it's just got a cube on it. 07:35.790 --> 07:40.000 So the first thing I'm going to do is flip around to the left hand side. 07:40.260 --> 07:46.840 And yes that's with the y direction facing to the left so you can see there with the Arab I'm going 07:46.840 --> 07:52.230 to delete that cube and I'm going to bring in some reference material. 07:52.230 --> 07:54.960 So I've opened up the 3D propertys. 07:55.350 --> 07:58.020 Let's term background images on. 07:58.290 --> 08:00.270 Let's open and go fine. 08:00.270 --> 08:00.950 So here we go. 08:00.950 --> 08:02.430 Your section assets. 08:02.430 --> 08:08.190 I could actually use my bunny sketch we did earlier on but I think I use a real rabbit as reference 08:08.190 --> 08:08.860 material. 08:09.030 --> 08:13.280 So I've got three rabbits here to choose from I can pick any of them. 08:13.370 --> 08:19.530 I'm going to probably pick this one here is more upright than the others is showing more yes more side 08:19.530 --> 08:19.980 on. 08:20.190 --> 08:21.540 So that's perfect start point. 08:21.540 --> 08:25.380 I want to lift that up a little so let's do that now. 08:26.320 --> 08:26.900 Or. 08:27.020 --> 08:33.140 Yeah opacity per 50 percent want in front of whatever I'm working on maybe a little lower on opacity 08:33.140 --> 08:33.650 there. 08:33.950 --> 08:35.390 Let's lift it up. 08:35.390 --> 08:39.950 If ATLAS I'm going to make it a bit bigger to work on so I know we're not working with anything too 08:39.950 --> 08:40.450 small. 08:40.460 --> 08:43.860 And then let's lift it up scale in this instance. 08:43.970 --> 08:46.210 I'm not too bothered about because. 08:46.220 --> 08:50.140 We can always alter the rabbit's scale at any point as one solid objects. 08:50.270 --> 08:57.040 I don't want to flip it does me why but I want the rabbit's head on the left hand side rather than right. 08:57.110 --> 08:58.010 Flip that round. 08:58.070 --> 09:04.760 So I'm going to the 3D cursor smack bang in the middle of the head and add ourselves a metal ball which 09:04.760 --> 09:08.690 is roughly the right size which is kind of cool. 09:08.780 --> 09:16.430 So I want to scale that so I will squish it in both x and z but not white scale shift and why. 09:17.400 --> 09:23.360 And that should bring it down a little Ragna rotate around the x axis which we can't see at the moment 09:24.260 --> 09:27.080 and then just move it up slightly. 09:27.080 --> 09:33.470 That has worked out really well actually and then we've got a body here so let's go ahead masood we 09:33.470 --> 09:39.340 can get away with only to plop back roughly in the middle of duplicated that I'm going to rotate it 09:39.370 --> 09:41.040 round the x axis. 09:41.780 --> 09:46.720 And under this you just can scale that up and need to move it a little more down. 09:47.840 --> 09:51.350 Pace that's a good starting shape going on there. 09:52.520 --> 09:56.280 In fact let's just hop around to see what it's looking like. 09:56.320 --> 10:02.000 AB That's a pretty good start point actually doesn't look too rough around the neck and places like 10:02.000 --> 10:09.170 that as hop over into the metal ball options view resolution is relatively low at the moment. 10:09.260 --> 10:11.820 So let's up that resolution a little. 10:13.290 --> 10:19.110 Case to point not point to five not point two yet. 10:19.130 --> 10:20.810 That's looking pretty good there. 10:21.950 --> 10:28.310 Okay so let's hop back in to the left hand view here and just see if there's any other tweaking we can 10:28.310 --> 10:30.620 do at this front bit of the rabbit. 10:30.620 --> 10:34.900 Here's pretty much all fluff and no good at puffing their chests out there. 10:34.910 --> 10:38.410 Nick comes in a little here but we can deal with that later on. 10:38.450 --> 10:41.310 But it does come up a little here some schooling too. 10:41.360 --> 10:42.660 I don't know if this is going to work. 10:42.660 --> 10:43.970 So bear with me. 10:45.210 --> 10:47.370 Trying out a few different things here. 10:47.550 --> 10:49.870 And I'm going to give that a new one. 10:49.870 --> 10:51.320 Yes there is a new one as we can see there. 10:51.320 --> 10:53.640 That's not what a rabbit looks like. 10:53.640 --> 10:56.170 I'm just going to scale that right down. 10:56.940 --> 11:00.160 And then move it back towards here. 11:00.180 --> 11:04.770 Produce that extra bump and see how that looks. 11:04.770 --> 11:08.240 Looks like there's like a bit of a lump on the back. 11:08.340 --> 11:11.740 But let's ascared it out in the x-axis Whilst looking around here. 11:11.760 --> 11:14.390 A scale in the x axis is bringing it out. 11:20.150 --> 11:21.780 I'm not sure whether I like that or not. 11:21.820 --> 11:26.090 Push in a little to blend out and then scale it up again. 11:26.210 --> 11:31.250 That's a that is much better in terms of underly Remember that are it's going to be covered in fluff 11:31.250 --> 11:32.080 as well. 11:32.120 --> 11:34.120 Then no one telling you that I should remember that. 11:34.220 --> 11:37.430 And that's a much better shape now as well. 11:37.490 --> 11:40.310 I'm just going to duplicate that and add a bit more of a bump. 11:40.310 --> 11:41.770 Down at the bottom here. 11:44.600 --> 11:49.780 I'm going to rotate round to make sure it's absolutely fine for one to push that into the body. 11:49.780 --> 11:51.140 Just a little bit more. 11:52.510 --> 11:56.450 Pull it back using the transform will just. 11:56.920 --> 11:57.580 Excellent. 11:57.670 --> 11:59.170 I'm quite happy with that. 11:59.170 --> 12:03.310 I'd love to see how yours came out before I actually finished this lecture. 12:03.310 --> 12:05.280 Of course I haven't converted it to a mesh. 12:05.310 --> 12:14.260 Tut tut tut nociolo it's all of our curves and not cursory metal balls the 3D curves and I'm going to 12:14.290 --> 12:22.510 go Olsen see and convert that to a mesh which is right and I'm just going to quickly investigate what 12:22.510 --> 12:23.840 that mesh looks like. 12:23.950 --> 12:27.660 That doesn't look like it's too over the top is very very bitty. 12:27.910 --> 12:29.370 But again we are. 12:29.370 --> 12:34.930 We could go round this and trace it called a with a method called reet apology which will visit later 12:34.930 --> 12:36.400 Ron in the course. 12:36.400 --> 12:41.210 But for the moment because were covered up with fur I'm quite happy with that not happening. 12:41.350 --> 12:41.860 Okay. 12:42.070 --> 12:46.330 So there's our base rabbit shape I'd love to see what you guys come up perhaps you've got your rabbit 12:46.330 --> 12:50.440 in a slightly different pose perhaps you've added more detail or less detail. 12:50.440 --> 12:53.130 It's entirely up to you how you make your rabbits of course. 12:53.230 --> 12:58.890 So please share what you've come up with in the discussions and I will see you guys in the next lecture.