WEBVTT 00:00.270 --> 00:03.110 Welcome to possible construction efforts. 00:03.120 --> 00:07.860 So before we get cracking on with any actual modelling we need to plan our journey. 00:07.890 --> 00:10.440 And there are many ones we can take. 00:10.650 --> 00:12.140 And has always with everything. 00:12.140 --> 00:14.680 There is no right way. 00:14.930 --> 00:20.280 Now we could go ahead doing box modelling we could build up the model from a primitive adding more and 00:20.280 --> 00:22.830 more detail as we go. 00:22.830 --> 00:29.640 We could do what's called Polly to Polly which is building up your model one polygon at a time. 00:29.790 --> 00:31.170 And this can be. 00:31.200 --> 00:37.160 It feels like it's going to be a slow way but it does give you a lot of control over your model. 00:37.270 --> 00:44.240 And then finally we could sculpt the actual head and bust itself and then reet apologize. 00:44.250 --> 00:48.600 And this can be very time consuming so there's a balance to be had. 00:48.870 --> 00:54.990 The box modelling at the top may be great if you didn't need to animates because you're likely to end 00:54.990 --> 01:00.990 up with your edge flows that we were talking about in the previous lecture in the wrong place you'd 01:00.990 --> 01:07.830 have to do a lot of Rita apologizing which is where you reconstruct your mesh and in order to add that 01:07.830 --> 01:10.720 detail and add the loops going in the right way. 01:10.800 --> 01:16.290 Polly to Polly is great because it does allow us to create the loops from scratch and that gives us 01:16.290 --> 01:23.940 a lot of control over the model with something as complicated as a head that might be the way to go. 01:24.060 --> 01:30.780 Now sculpting and then reet apologizing afterwards can be very time consuming but it does give us a 01:30.780 --> 01:37.950 high detailed model that we could potentially bape detail from back onto a lower poly model and then 01:38.040 --> 01:40.570 that does give us some advantages. 01:40.740 --> 01:45.900 However there is no right way so it depends what you want to achieve. 01:45.900 --> 01:53.130 So let's hop on over in a blender and have a look at all three and see which ones we could work with. 01:53.530 --> 01:58.260 Hey so we're back over in blender here and I've got the default cube in the scene and we have a quick 01:58.260 --> 02:04.710 look about how we would go about just a quick rough model here how we might go about making it in a 02:04.710 --> 02:06.260 block model style. 02:06.450 --> 02:11.680 So I'm going to hop into edit mode on my Cuban scale it up by about two times. 02:11.680 --> 02:16.380 So it's a bit easier to work on can always scale it backwards forwards afterwards. 02:16.390 --> 02:22.620 I'm now going to hop back into object mode because I'm going to use the subdivision surface modifier 02:22.620 --> 02:27.750 to actually make it more give me more polygons to work with. 02:27.750 --> 02:34.140 Now you could use loop and slide and work from there or indeed you could just subdivide the cube. 02:34.300 --> 02:40.470 But I'm going to go to the modifiers tab and do a subdivision surface modifier and set it to number 02:40.650 --> 02:43.420 level two and then click apply. 02:43.650 --> 02:50.550 Now before I go any further because that gives me a good starting point to work from I would probably 02:50.610 --> 02:58.320 go around to the front view in orthographic projection and then either with wireframe mode turned on 02:58.380 --> 03:02.020 or limits a selection limited selection to visible turned on. 03:02.050 --> 03:08.210 Course we need to be in edit mode to do that which is there so we could use each other one. 03:08.230 --> 03:13.390 It doesn't really matter I only use wireframe make sure nothing is selected and then using the board 03:13.390 --> 03:20.160 a select highlight half the models vertices and delete them. 03:20.190 --> 03:27.480 Now I'm going to go in and add another modifier which would be the mirror modifier and make sure clipping 03:27.480 --> 03:30.970 is ticked so I can't cross over the barrier in the middle. 03:31.140 --> 03:33.370 Now this gives me another turn. 03:33.850 --> 03:35.160 Wireframe back off. 03:35.160 --> 03:38.610 This gives me a basic head shape for I can work from. 03:38.730 --> 03:47.700 And of course here then I would start going here and maybe it should doing vose downwards we go. 03:47.880 --> 03:51.570 So that gives you an idea of how we can start block modelling. 03:51.570 --> 03:58.200 I grab that and pull it slightly forward etc etc. and we can go round and use proportional editing of 03:58.200 --> 04:00.110 course to help us out. 04:00.120 --> 04:05.510 We of moving lots of hertz's it was easy to see how very quickly you can build up a shape from there. 04:05.670 --> 04:10.630 But this does have loops but they're kind of in the wrong place. 04:10.680 --> 04:12.000 This one's got all. 04:12.210 --> 04:20.350 I say they're in the wrong place but this one has a loop around the face but it's kind of broken up. 04:20.550 --> 04:28.360 We see here in the corner there is a Pole where three joins us not continue sedgley going round there. 04:28.500 --> 04:32.080 The loop itself is broken by the acts of their being. 04:32.160 --> 04:35.000 These three edges meeting one another. 04:35.280 --> 04:40.290 So that's an example of a pole stopping an edge loop. 04:40.290 --> 04:43.590 If I were to try and select this one just beneath it. 04:43.830 --> 04:45.910 We can see it runs all the way round. 04:46.050 --> 04:52.650 So in many ways that's a good starting point but it doesn't give us any flexibility straight away over 04:52.650 --> 04:59.940 the eyes themselves or the nose we'd have to add a lot of detail in and let's have a look. 05:00.030 --> 05:06.560 Now at Poly to poly modelling so I'll start my self up a new file and then get rid of the cube. 05:06.560 --> 05:14.150 In this case I'm going to move around to the front view and just zoom in a little and I'm going to add 05:14.540 --> 05:19.610 mesh and single vertex there is. 05:19.670 --> 05:26.570 Add a single vertex and then from this single vertex you can literally extrude and start making the 05:26.570 --> 05:28.260 shape that you want. 05:28.550 --> 05:32.790 And of course once you've done that there is our first polygon. 05:32.840 --> 05:37.610 Now I don't have any reference material on the screen at the moment which is something I would advise 05:37.910 --> 05:39.270 you always have. 05:39.270 --> 05:44.730 And of course from this point you could do things like grab the edge and extrude. 05:44.840 --> 05:50.840 I do want to be on the front view at the moment so that not extruding into the middle of nowhere and 05:50.840 --> 05:57.260 then I could rotate that edge extrude rotate that edge and you can probably guess what I'm building 05:57.260 --> 05:58.010 up at the moment. 05:58.010 --> 06:04.910 It's going to become the eye and of course we want to make sure there's a much detail in there as possible 06:05.270 --> 06:10.130 and you can go round and you can do this unless you can see this can be a little bit time consuming 06:10.490 --> 06:15.810 but it does give you lots of lots control of the model as we go. 06:15.840 --> 06:23.360 And of course I do need to do things like rotate a few bits around should press rotate instead of E. 06:23.960 --> 06:25.740 Omega rotate that one round. 06:25.760 --> 06:29.600 Of course I can turn snapping on make it edge select. 06:29.610 --> 06:33.100 Now let's do virtex and move it in. 06:33.110 --> 06:34.130 That's that one done. 06:34.150 --> 06:35.570 Going to get a furtak Select here. 06:35.570 --> 06:37.130 Move that one across. 06:37.130 --> 06:44.960 Now because I haven't turned on the merging vertices on the snapping at all over here I'm going to have 06:44.960 --> 06:51.560 to just select everything and under the new space and type in doubles and remove those doubles and that's 06:51.620 --> 06:55.430 remove those extra bits there then I can play with this to my heart's content. 06:55.910 --> 07:02.270 Then I can select one of these outer loops perhaps extrude it by nothing and scale it out as starts 07:02.300 --> 07:03.780 create the loops around me. 07:03.780 --> 07:07.760 I very powerful doing it that way because it gives us a lot of control. 07:07.760 --> 07:13.160 Of course we do need to remember this is a 3D package and we'd need to start moving these in and out 07:13.250 --> 07:16.340 as well to get the face shape that we want. 07:16.820 --> 07:19.700 Finally let's have a look at sculpting. 07:21.900 --> 07:27.850 So here we are back with the standard cube in our scene now going through the sculpting method. 07:27.870 --> 07:36.750 You could start by working with this and strain to sculpt and then obviously you can't do anything when 07:36.750 --> 07:38.210 it's just Scott's. 07:38.340 --> 07:42.840 These four vertices in but you could turn on dynamics apology and work from their mouth. 07:42.870 --> 07:50.670 I wouldn't recommend doing that straight away as it somewhat destroys the mesh topology having good 07:50.670 --> 07:51.430 topology. 07:51.450 --> 07:54.690 You definitely have to re to apologize if you did that. 07:54.690 --> 08:02.130 However that is good adding detail in certain areas for baking that to a lower polygon model. 08:02.130 --> 08:05.990 So one of the first things I would do here would be to subdivide it again. 08:06.010 --> 08:07.890 Oh I missed subdivide there. 08:07.960 --> 08:13.740 I would subdivide it again by a couple of times just to get started from there. 08:13.740 --> 08:22.140 I would once again go into edit mode around the front in their orthographic projection and wireframe 08:22.140 --> 08:28.080 on to the border select off the sand deselecting everything and just getting rid of those vertices and 08:28.080 --> 08:32.490 then adding in the mirror modifier with clippings turned on. 08:32.760 --> 08:33.870 That's absolutely fine. 08:33.990 --> 08:40.960 But from here because I'm sculpting I would then go and add in a multi resolution modifier and subdivided 08:40.950 --> 08:44.260 a couple of times in object mode. 08:45.250 --> 08:50.310 Perhaps to this level initially so you can see it pinches slightly in the corner. 08:50.350 --> 08:54.440 It's not going to be great topology to begin with but it's somewhere to start. 08:54.460 --> 08:56.540 Especially if you want to sculpt. 08:56.710 --> 09:02.500 And now I can unhide that and they go there's a basic nose coming in. 09:02.650 --> 09:04.720 And if we were to recess. 09:04.780 --> 09:06.740 I shif. 09:07.060 --> 09:09.420 That's moving that's just subtract. 09:09.730 --> 09:17.890 Okay so you can see here how with a bit of care you can start building up a head and obviously heads 09:17.920 --> 09:23.830 aren't spherical like vats so you'd change the size of your brush perhaps push in the back a bit at 09:23.830 --> 09:25.220 the back of the neck. 09:25.450 --> 09:29.590 And of course most people don't have a face looking support. 09:29.600 --> 09:33.100 Height fat you'd need to pull it out down here. 09:33.280 --> 09:38.110 Course what we're not seeing at the moment is how it's looking in this mode. 09:38.110 --> 09:41.020 In object mode so we'd switch to that. 09:41.120 --> 09:43.440 See here that the preview as we build it up. 09:43.450 --> 09:48.940 When you get there and we can see that there's a seam happy down the front face as well so that something 09:48.940 --> 09:51.790 will have to pay attention to later on. 09:51.880 --> 09:53.810 Does it disappear with higher subdivisions. 09:53.950 --> 10:01.090 No and that's basically the mirror modifier when it joins together it's not joined together completely 10:01.090 --> 10:03.630 flush so would have to bear that in mind. 10:03.640 --> 10:09.220 In fact at this point does re the mirror modifier actually make a difference. 10:09.220 --> 10:14.230 No because the mortie Rose has to exist at the top in this case so we can't do that. 10:14.230 --> 10:16.550 But you can then play around with this. 10:16.660 --> 10:22.000 If we hop back into sculped mode of course we only see one half so it's worthwhile bearing in mind that 10:22.000 --> 10:28.560 we only see one half and then you can really start to zoom in and say well let's make it easier. 10:28.640 --> 10:30.550 It's mean that Brusher bit smaller. 10:31.540 --> 10:36.360 In there we go very quickly you start building it up and of course this is rough and ready. 10:36.470 --> 10:41.300 You could take a bit more care over it and I have at the moment but you can see how you could start 10:41.300 --> 10:43.730 building up a model really quickly. 10:44.560 --> 10:46.600 Okay guys it's challenged time. 10:46.600 --> 10:49.750 I would like you to think about your construction. 10:49.750 --> 10:53.460 So plan how you're going to build up your model. 10:53.560 --> 11:02.110 Sketch out your plan whether you're using the blender itself to mock it up in 3D or using plain old 11:02.110 --> 11:04.870 pen paper or digital pen and paper. 11:04.870 --> 11:06.100 It's absolutely fine. 11:06.100 --> 11:11.880 Just so you get an idea and start thinking forward about your modelling. 11:11.890 --> 11:19.750 Now think carefully about each stage how are you going to generate the shapes that you want to generate. 11:19.750 --> 11:25.330 Now at this stage I'd like you to keep the level of detail to a rough shape because this will be the 11:25.330 --> 11:28.870 base mesh that we could use for other things as well. 11:28.870 --> 11:33.230 And remember to place loops at key features. 11:33.310 --> 11:38.020 Now at the moment you're not going to be making the detail for the eyes or things like that but you 11:38.020 --> 11:43.250 will be keeping the general level of detail so if you. 11:44.640 --> 11:50.920 But you will be defining where things are both horizontally and vertically across your model. 11:51.030 --> 11:57.310 And at those points that's a good place to place the loops so balls of video now and give that a go. 11:59.590 --> 12:00.210 Okay guys. 12:00.220 --> 12:01.340 Welcome back. 12:01.360 --> 12:04.060 I just like to show you my sketch of the plan. 12:04.120 --> 12:08.440 I am going to go through it of course if you got a slightly different plan I encourage you to stick 12:08.440 --> 12:11.670 to yours and see how it pans out as well. 12:11.710 --> 12:13.290 So let's have a look at it. 12:13.480 --> 12:19.350 Okay so as you can see here I am going to start with something that looks very much like a cube. 12:19.360 --> 12:21.130 I'm then going to subdivide the cube. 12:21.130 --> 12:27.310 Now we've been through that in the previous example and then I'm going to go ahead and get the rough 12:27.370 --> 12:28.950 shape. 12:29.020 --> 12:33.400 Of course I'm going to mirror it at some point I've forgotten to write down that step so I don't have 12:33.400 --> 12:39.780 to do the same thing on both sides and the extra loops in to help define some more shape as we go No 12:39.780 --> 12:45.850 for there and extrude down the neck area and then the final thing that I am going to do with this base 12:46.150 --> 12:53.880 is I'm going to finalize the shape and if we have a look in at the face itself you can see I've started 12:53.900 --> 12:56.070 think about where things are going to go. 12:56.110 --> 12:59.880 There's going to have to be an extra couple of loop around there. 12:59.890 --> 13:03.970 Of course I might already have placed one in the right place which is great. 13:04.030 --> 13:09.270 I'm going to use the reference material for the position as well which is very important. 13:09.370 --> 13:16.060 And finally just a reminder there for myself not adding too much detail at the moment so even though 13:16.060 --> 13:20.920 we're going to define whether features will be unknot going to be defined in the actual features just 13:20.920 --> 13:21.650 as yet. 13:21.730 --> 13:22.780 And then of course um. 13:22.780 --> 13:24.610 Just a reminder there to savour as. 13:24.620 --> 13:30.760 So that's going to be my base meche done and I can obviously take that mesh and use it for other characters 13:30.760 --> 13:33.460 as well as it's just going to be a generic shape. 13:33.460 --> 13:38.490 Of course it is going to be based upon my particular reference material. 13:38.500 --> 13:43.480 So if you want to use your own reference material than of course it's going to be a slightly different 13:43.480 --> 13:45.660 shapes you go along with me. 13:45.940 --> 13:46.290 Okay. 13:46.290 --> 13:47.160 Brilliant right. 13:47.170 --> 13:50.020 I think we're almost ready now to start modelling. 13:50.240 --> 13:58.330 So please share your methodology in the discussions so we can see how your planning to get your particular 13:58.330 --> 13:59.110 model made. 13:59.110 --> 14:02.320 Are there any steps that you've thought about that aren't here. 14:02.860 --> 14:04.650 As I say I've missed out mirror there. 14:04.660 --> 14:08.770 Be interesting to see how your going to develop your model forward. 14:08.770 --> 14:12.700 So thank you for sharing and I will see you guys in the next lecture.