WEBVTT 00:00.210 --> 00:02.920 Welcome to creating the base mesh. 00:03.120 --> 00:05.910 In this video well we're going to crack on and start modelling. 00:05.910 --> 00:07.740 I know you've been itching to do this. 00:07.740 --> 00:12.460 We've gone through a lot of preparation and now's the time to put it into practice. 00:12.540 --> 00:17.440 So remember you can add images as planes This allows you to see them all the time in the viewport. 00:17.460 --> 00:22.340 I personally am going to be adding images to the background and then it's only going to be available 00:22.340 --> 00:26.410 when in orthographic view when viewed from the top or bottom left right front back etc.. 00:26.550 --> 00:33.870 And that also allows me to focus on the model and put the image in front and make it basically transparent 00:33.870 --> 00:35.720 so I can see through a model. 00:35.790 --> 00:41.130 Now create a base mesh to start with and save as when you reach a point where you can branch to make 00:41.130 --> 00:42.360 different models. 00:42.420 --> 00:47.070 Do remember to save as you go and do please remember to use reference material. 00:47.250 --> 00:47.930 So go ahead. 00:48.030 --> 00:52.940 Pause video now expect this to take maybe 10 minutes or so maybe 20. 00:52.950 --> 00:56.050 So pause a video and I will see you guys back in a bit. 00:57.850 --> 00:58.520 Okay guys. 00:58.540 --> 00:59.460 Welcome back. 00:59.620 --> 01:03.070 Let's go make a base smash the rim blender. 01:03.490 --> 01:10.520 Okay so I'm gonna start with the default cube I'm going to scale it up just a little here. 01:11.040 --> 01:14.020 And yeah I'm happy with. 01:14.100 --> 01:16.690 I'm gonna hop into edit mode. 01:16.840 --> 01:18.430 Now I'm not going to hobbins adipose jets. 01:18.430 --> 01:19.650 I'm being indecisive here. 01:19.660 --> 01:25.830 I'm going to go down the route of a subdivision just looking at my notes that have got to the side here. 01:25.990 --> 01:32.690 And of course once I've applied that what I can do is hop into edit mode go round to the front or for 01:32.710 --> 01:40.360 graphic turn or a D selects everything turn wireframe on highlight half of the model and delete the 01:40.360 --> 01:41.540 verses. 01:41.540 --> 01:47.230 I'm going to go back in here and add in a mirror modify and turn on clipping so I can't go over the 01:47.230 --> 01:47.680 middle part. 01:47.680 --> 01:51.840 I'm not going to apply the mirror modifier though that's just going to sit there for the moment. 01:52.120 --> 01:56.400 So that's the basic shape sorted out. 01:56.500 --> 02:05.710 The next thing I'm going to do here is each drood outs the necklace cells and circle extrude that down 02:05.710 --> 02:08.760 and let's can I have a couple of loop cuts in it. 02:08.760 --> 02:12.910 I am pretty sure Glueck should it all the way down to here and then. 02:12.920 --> 02:14.280 Or how many. 02:14.530 --> 02:19.270 Maybe for around there but that looks pretty good. 02:19.440 --> 02:25.460 K And of course down here if we're getting a rough shape I'm going to grab these two here. 02:25.540 --> 02:29.820 Now I'm going to turn on proportional editing at this point in time. 02:29.920 --> 02:31.010 So down here. 02:31.020 --> 02:32.030 Turn that on. 02:32.030 --> 02:41.050 Of course that's the o key is well turn on and off with a literally go round to the front and which 02:41.500 --> 02:42.670 I've made in back to front. 02:42.670 --> 02:46.920 Never mind I'm going to pull that out because a got proportional editing turned on it. 02:46.960 --> 02:55.240 It pulls out the other bits as well and that's a relatively straightforward way of getting some detail. 02:55.240 --> 03:02.170 What I'm not doing of course is using any reference images so let's slap my hands and add some naughty 03:02.170 --> 03:04.720 naughty is not going to be too far off. 03:04.720 --> 03:09.500 What I've got I hope it could be horribly horribly different. 03:09.700 --> 03:17.230 So let's go ahead and open up see how incredibly easy it is to try on jumping crack on and then realize 03:17.260 --> 03:22.540 that you haven't quite got what you wanted something to import. 03:22.540 --> 03:25.260 The front and put it on the front. 03:25.330 --> 03:26.670 MM or maybe the bat. 03:26.710 --> 03:32.110 I'm not sure MM As popped on the front first but I'm pretty sure that I've made my model the wrong way 03:32.110 --> 03:32.850 round an. 03:33.160 --> 03:36.520 And then the those go down hill. 03:36.580 --> 03:38.310 Add another image. 03:41.090 --> 03:43.490 And then open. 03:44.050 --> 03:44.510 Or not. 03:44.520 --> 03:45.860 Bear here. 03:46.090 --> 03:54.430 Must remember a stall in the side so let's just hop in to orthographic and set this to. 03:54.430 --> 03:58.210 I dunno whether it's going to be left or right at this point. 03:58.660 --> 04:02.670 So that looks good at the moment looking down there. 04:02.690 --> 04:04.380 So moving to the front. 04:04.390 --> 04:11.020 We get that purrfect solely to scale things up there but that's a good start looking from the side which 04:11.020 --> 04:13.570 side door wants to work from. 04:13.570 --> 04:19.320 Preferably the right actually so let's have a look at putting this on the right one now. 04:19.420 --> 04:25.500 Good chance here I'll need to flip it horizontally so it fits. 04:25.520 --> 04:27.330 Okay so that's looking good so far. 04:27.340 --> 04:35.950 I'm going to go and select everything and just scale it up so it's in you know roughly in the right 04:35.950 --> 04:41.600 place and I have to move it back slightly to fit in so that's that's a good start. 04:41.800 --> 04:47.890 I'm going to move that round to the front and make the capacity just a little smaller as Haswell so 04:47.890 --> 04:51.330 I can actually see my model. 04:51.670 --> 04:56.860 That much more clearly right and round at the front as well. 04:57.010 --> 04:58.100 So. 04:58.300 --> 04:59.640 Well that's kind of good. 04:59.640 --> 05:07.660 The way I pulled that up because that stretch the head and it's pretty much how I want it needs come 05:07.660 --> 05:11.920 down a little lower here but we'll work on that in a moment so let's go round to the front image and 05:12.010 --> 05:17.600 to minimize the right as I don't need it at the moment and put that in front. 05:17.730 --> 05:20.850 A There I am staring at myself. 05:20.850 --> 05:22.270 It's a bit freaky. 05:22.630 --> 05:30.460 Okay so I'm going to start just moving some of these out and again this is only a rough guide at the 05:30.460 --> 05:31.690 moment. 05:32.260 --> 05:39.820 Pull that up just get the F face roughly right so that's going to be the bottom there that's going to 05:39.820 --> 05:43.540 be roughly where the chin is so that's the bit I'm going to pull down it's a whiz. 05:43.540 --> 05:46.560 Background to the front and pull that down. 05:46.690 --> 05:55.030 I'm going to have to expand with the mouse wheel that so it got there now the neck is far far too thin 05:55.030 --> 06:00.230 at the moment certainly for me are not that thin at all. 06:01.460 --> 06:03.210 Let's move that out slightly. 06:03.210 --> 06:09.460 That's starting to look better so that's Gramp this one down here was around to the front pool. 06:09.480 --> 06:11.190 That's how that's looking better. 06:11.190 --> 06:16.800 Going to pull that up but reduce its okay so we're almost there. 06:16.800 --> 06:22.590 I think we need to pull this one out a bit further and pull this one up and that will be kind of a rough 06:22.590 --> 06:26.710 shape starting to come together on a course. 06:26.910 --> 06:32.670 You can spend a lot of time doing this and at the moment I'm not interested in spending a lot of time 06:32.670 --> 06:33.750 doing this. 06:33.750 --> 06:41.370 What I do want of course to make sure is that the model is not oddly shaped so I'm going to pull some 06:41.370 --> 06:47.190 of these bits out just to round off the head a little. 06:47.190 --> 06:52.680 Looks a bit odd from there so that's flic round to the side now and work on this. 06:52.860 --> 06:55.740 So I think that's the middle Yes it is back around to the side. 06:55.740 --> 07:02.460 You'll find yourself nipping backwards and forwards quite a bit some just rotating here to try and make 07:02.460 --> 07:04.200 it a bit smoother as it goes round. 07:04.200 --> 07:08.840 Pull that up a little more right where it goes in to the back of the neck. 07:08.850 --> 07:10.880 Paul that's how it's now. 07:10.890 --> 07:21.200 Again this is only a rough guide because obviously I need to build up detail later on rather than now 07:21.210 --> 07:22.050 so. 07:23.150 --> 07:25.650 That then let's pull this down to here. 07:25.850 --> 07:33.060 Again I'm just using the reference material to make sure things end up in the right place. 07:33.110 --> 07:37.330 A case of this needs to be pulled out much much more. 07:37.340 --> 07:40.050 I'm not quite sure where my neck ends here. 07:40.520 --> 07:48.620 And again I don't spend too much time at this stage basically faffing about with it because as you all 07:48.620 --> 07:54.650 know you can end up spending hours and hours on modelling when that's not what you want to do. 07:54.650 --> 07:59.730 Perhaps you want to spend some time with your family or just go out and enjoy the sun. 08:00.140 --> 08:00.600 There we go. 08:00.620 --> 08:05.580 So that's a that's a good rough shape going on that's a bit pointy round the front. 08:05.600 --> 08:10.230 What we can do now of course is just check what loops we have at the moment. 08:10.370 --> 08:12.370 So there is one going around the entire face. 08:12.380 --> 08:14.170 Now that is good. 08:14.360 --> 08:18.890 I'm probably going to add a couple more loops in now to help definition. 08:19.070 --> 08:20.360 So where the eyes are. 08:20.370 --> 08:23.450 This loop here is roughly in the right place. 08:23.450 --> 08:27.500 What I can do here is put actually she just grab it. 08:27.500 --> 08:31.040 Shift it up and make sure it sits in the right place. 08:31.040 --> 08:37.310 We're going to need another loop songas going to grab that and push it in ever so slightly. 08:37.310 --> 08:38.760 That's better. 08:39.230 --> 08:43.460 So you going to need a couple of loops defining where some other bits and bobs are. 08:43.570 --> 08:50.930 I'm gonna use such control in art have put in at the bottom of the nose for the moments and the top 08:50.960 --> 08:52.210 of the brow. 08:52.400 --> 08:53.720 That's the wrong way. 08:53.730 --> 08:57.060 That's undo that's top of the brow here. 08:57.930 --> 08:59.180 I can just get that in. 08:59.180 --> 09:00.190 There we go. 09:00.470 --> 09:01.930 So that's around there. 09:01.940 --> 09:08.690 And of course remember you can go in these aren't be perfect first time round so you might have to go 09:08.690 --> 09:12.270 in and modify these to make sure they fit. 09:12.350 --> 09:18.020 We can see here that there would be quite nice to have a line go probably going through the centre of 09:18.020 --> 09:19.040 the I. 09:19.400 --> 09:22.120 So let's give that a go now. 09:23.730 --> 09:24.170 There we go. 09:24.170 --> 09:29.520 That's going to the centre of the eye not necessarily where we want it to be going round the entire 09:29.520 --> 09:30.260 model. 09:30.300 --> 09:39.450 So we just got to move things about kind of try and keep things going round features move the as possible 09:39.450 --> 09:42.480 so on definitely want that bit in the middle. 09:42.510 --> 09:46.400 Probably want this bit in slightly So we start to define the nose. 09:46.410 --> 09:48.660 You could start to see shapes coming together. 09:48.810 --> 09:51.350 Make sure that's the. 09:52.750 --> 09:54.970 Make sure the proportional editing isn't. 09:56.180 --> 09:59.810 Changing too much at any one time. 09:59.900 --> 10:03.560 Or sometimes if you want to make a big big change is quite useful. 10:03.560 --> 10:04.940 Having that now. 10:04.970 --> 10:08.260 This bit here I feel should be brought down to next. 10:08.270 --> 10:13.190 The front of the chin is literally where everything is going to go to. 10:13.190 --> 10:17.550 So let's pull that down to about there. 10:18.260 --> 10:25.400 And I'm probably going to have to not use Bridgeport just proportional editing probably grab a few extras 10:25.400 --> 10:32.860 here and move them all down at the same time they're going around the face and nicely there s that change 10:32.870 --> 10:33.440 the front. 10:33.450 --> 10:40.370 So no it's quite a sharp edge there or smooth that out in the bits or even now start pulling things 10:40.430 --> 10:45.500 back ever so slight to help define as we go. 10:45.500 --> 10:52.130 And again we can refine this again and again and again as we go so obviously as this as you worked for 10:52.130 --> 10:54.710 it from one angle you move things about. 10:54.710 --> 10:58.070 You may have to come back to another and work it out from there. 10:58.070 --> 11:04.130 Of course what it could do as well is have more than one view open once and hop between them. 11:04.130 --> 11:11.510 I've not got too much luxury on screen space so I am not going to do that at the moment but that is 11:11.510 --> 11:13.960 starting to come together quite nicely. 11:14.180 --> 11:16.850 So we need a few extra loops. 11:16.880 --> 11:22.440 We got a top and bottom of the nose rolling through the eye the brow in there I'm happy with that. 11:22.490 --> 11:26.650 I want one around the bottom of the mouth as well. 11:27.870 --> 11:33.230 As we can see here these things are lifting up as they go around the model. 11:33.230 --> 11:39.910 Now that's not always desirable so I'm going to pull these back down ever so slightly. 11:40.100 --> 11:46.120 It's just to help them go around the model in what feels like a more natural way. 11:48.280 --> 11:49.100 There we go. 11:49.330 --> 11:51.870 And the fact is. 11:52.800 --> 11:56.490 Starting to look quite good now. 11:56.520 --> 12:02.470 We can just go around the model check from the side and I am missing any features on the side. 12:02.760 --> 12:05.310 I think probably the brown sticks out a little too far. 12:05.310 --> 12:06.750 There we can look here. 12:06.750 --> 12:08.540 Which one of these is the centre of the eye. 12:08.540 --> 12:12.510 It's that one there so we can actually go well hang on a minute. 12:12.540 --> 12:16.120 These pictures aren't perfectly aligned. 12:17.140 --> 12:19.700 I just noticed that I thought they would be. 12:19.920 --> 12:25.670 I do apologize suède the side one here and I'm going to let me just lift it up. 12:26.480 --> 12:28.610 So that that's in the right place. 12:28.610 --> 12:32.360 And then when we flip from here to here it is in the right place. 12:32.420 --> 12:37.580 Now that's going to be the centre of the eye socket so I can actually pull that back to roughly there 12:38.060 --> 12:44.430 and then we can work on a definition going around later and able to pull that one back ever so slightly. 12:44.480 --> 12:45.930 I'm going to raise the capacity here. 12:45.960 --> 12:48.580 I am having trouble seeing so we can see here. 12:48.600 --> 12:54.560 I'm coming down foot for this particular reference model or me and coming down a bit too sleek steeply 12:54.560 --> 12:55.140 there. 12:55.520 --> 12:58.990 And probably about there would be good seat. 12:59.120 --> 13:05.270 Again you move these things around and you get roughly not not perfect we're not shooting for perfection 13:05.270 --> 13:10.130 at this point in time but so we get so roughly a right shape. 13:10.130 --> 13:15.800 Now this is obviously all quads at the moment but we are starting to get some loops going around our 13:15.800 --> 13:21.140 model we got a nice loop going around there to define the face itself that is important. 13:21.140 --> 13:29.090 We'll be getting to the ear later on but it's worthwhile putting a loop cuts down there as well. 13:29.450 --> 13:36.350 And then we've got the ear defined within a certain area and of course we can grab some of these other 13:36.350 --> 13:43.240 ones and just move them ever so slightly to help define the contours of the head itself. 13:43.250 --> 13:46.970 And again this is not the only way of doing this. 13:46.970 --> 13:52.310 There are lots of different ways of doing this by like this sort of base mesh that's going on so I can 13:52.310 --> 13:58.860 see what's actually going on underneath and start building up from a low poly upwards. 13:59.060 --> 14:02.660 As you can see in about 10 minutes or so we've got a lovely base mesh. 14:02.660 --> 14:07.940 Now there are a couple of other things I'm just going to do some can hop into object mode and I'm going 14:07.940 --> 14:11.370 to turn on smooth shading to make it look a bit smoother. 14:11.510 --> 14:18.770 And I'm also going to add a subdivision surface modifier on top of this so I can just get a feel of 14:18.770 --> 14:19.640 how it's going. 14:19.640 --> 14:23.420 Now you can see here it does look a bit pointy round. 14:23.600 --> 14:26.270 Our round the actual front where it's mirroring. 14:26.330 --> 14:32.270 So I do have to be conscious of that and it's worthwhile having a look at that now and working out if 14:32.270 --> 14:34.460 that's going to cause us any issues. 14:34.460 --> 14:38.120 Now of course at this point in time are a couple of ways we can solve that. 14:38.120 --> 14:42.370 The first reason it's doing it is because the angle here is quite steep. 14:42.530 --> 14:50.930 So we can see them make it not too steep but or I was going to say but that my interrupt whatevers here 14:50.930 --> 14:52.080 in the first place. 14:52.160 --> 14:56.020 Of course we can add in another edge loop and work to have our way. 14:56.150 --> 15:03.320 So in this case I'm going to make sure it's turned on in edit mode which is so I can see if we grab 15:03.350 --> 15:05.470 this here. 15:06.070 --> 15:08.760 Basically we wanted to line up. 15:09.580 --> 15:12.500 More or less with that for moments. 15:12.520 --> 15:19.480 And that should help take off some of the pinching now around the nose. 15:19.480 --> 15:27.600 We do want some pinching of course because well it's the nose is going to be more defined on the face 15:27.600 --> 15:33.380 so that's starting to look a bit better around the brow I think it just needs to be wider in general 15:33.380 --> 15:34.660 at the top point. 15:34.660 --> 15:40.780 Here of course be careful what you do you can give yourself horns which is well depending on what you're 15:40.780 --> 15:46.390 making if you're making a character that resembles the devil or something along those lines. 15:46.390 --> 15:49.170 You very well might want horns on your model. 15:49.180 --> 15:53.200 So go ahead have some fun grab something and put it up like that. 15:53.200 --> 15:53.820 And there we go. 15:53.820 --> 15:56.860 That's what I would look like if I were the devil. 15:57.110 --> 15:57.650 OK. 15:57.710 --> 15:59.240 Right back to modelling. 15:59.500 --> 16:06.220 But do you seriously do have fun as you go it takes some of the annoyance or when you're moving vs. 16:06.220 --> 16:09.580 round bit by bit trying to smooth out your model. 16:09.580 --> 16:16.390 Sometimes having a bit of fun helps move things along and you never know you might actually end up creating 16:16.390 --> 16:22.370 a character that you absolutely love but thought it was going nowhere initially. 16:22.510 --> 16:26.880 Now I'm pretty sure it's a bit of a pointy chin for me as well. 16:27.040 --> 16:29.750 But again that's something we can work on later. 16:29.980 --> 16:38.970 And if it's just not wide enough as it goes around there so that should help move that out. 16:39.070 --> 16:41.160 That is starting to look pretty good. 16:41.340 --> 16:45.360 There's a bit pinching at the back but I'm happy with that as it is at the moment. 16:45.370 --> 16:52.030 I'm going to push this bit in here zuki of the neck a bit more form and make that bigger as well of 16:52.030 --> 16:57.640 course if you make this proportional editing really big you can do some strange things with your models. 16:57.660 --> 17:03.120 So just take care with how that is okay. 17:03.190 --> 17:11.450 I am going to get rid of this pinching at the back here iscan to try and just lift a few bits up. 17:12.260 --> 17:13.900 To prevent that from happening. 17:14.030 --> 17:19.080 Of course it depends whether I'm going to give myself hair I probably won't see what I look like. 17:19.210 --> 17:19.800 Now there we go. 17:19.820 --> 17:22.490 See what I look like with no hair. 17:22.640 --> 17:28.580 I don't look great with no hair and look like some sort of fuck so I don't really want to make myself 17:28.580 --> 17:29.190 with no hair. 17:29.300 --> 17:35.300 Of course one of the other things here is if we're working on a model one of the things to remember 17:35.300 --> 17:40.430 of course is subdivision shrinks thing so if I keep if we just lower this subdivision level you can 17:40.430 --> 17:46.860 see as I increase its level the model shrinks as we go. 17:46.880 --> 17:52.460 Now obviously that's got to stop at some point but it's worthwhile knowing when you start making features 17:52.460 --> 17:57.910 when you turn up the subdivision's and it's worthwhile having this on so you can see what it looks like 17:57.920 --> 18:00.680 once you smooth things out a little. 18:00.680 --> 18:03.390 Once you've got that on have it. 18:03.470 --> 18:05.690 Are your features getting too small. 18:05.810 --> 18:07.680 We'll find out more about that later. 18:07.730 --> 18:12.630 So I'm happy with that as my base mesh some are going to go ahead and save as why I haven't saved it 18:12.630 --> 18:16.560 at all yet so slapped my hand again for doing that. 18:16.700 --> 18:22.060 So I want to make sure I'm in the right folder and I'm going to call this. 18:22.310 --> 18:23.770 Mikey's head. 18:23.840 --> 18:25.460 Why nots. 18:25.880 --> 18:28.450 And I'm going to save ours. 18:28.610 --> 18:29.220 And. 18:29.330 --> 18:33.350 I'm actually going to save it and then save as a. 18:35.140 --> 18:41.140 Or what shall I call it head base mesh or something along those lines. 18:41.150 --> 18:47.170 So now I know Virts I can work on mikey's head saga and reopen that site and make sure I'm on the right 18:47.170 --> 18:47.680 file. 18:47.830 --> 18:54.310 I'm going to work on mikey's head and I'm going to keep the other one in case I do something horrendous 18:54.310 --> 18:56.860 with this one it gives me a chance to go back to it. 18:56.890 --> 19:01.360 Or of course if I want to make some someone else it's a great start. 19:01.360 --> 19:06.280 Obviously I need to move things around now you will have to of course balance the points up if you've 19:06.280 --> 19:08.380 got a template for head. 19:08.530 --> 19:14.320 But the person who you are doing is significantly different than the head you are working on. 19:14.320 --> 19:18.840 You may have to start again anyway but it's worthwhile just weighing up. 19:18.860 --> 19:21.130 If there's a significant difference. 19:21.130 --> 19:26.890 Probably best to model it a fresh rather than try and alter lots of vertices as almost reet apologizing 19:26.890 --> 19:32.320 about point which we got to kind of avoid wherever possible because of the time involved. 19:32.320 --> 19:34.440 It's a necessary evil sometimes. 19:34.520 --> 19:39.580 Anyway I am done with my base mash I'm quite happy with that. 19:39.580 --> 19:41.140 How did you guys get on. 19:41.150 --> 19:43.690 I've obviously modelled myself as you modelled me. 19:43.690 --> 19:45.030 I'd love to see that. 19:45.100 --> 19:50.560 Of course if you model yourself or a character you've created love to see that as well so remember to 19:50.560 --> 19:51.170 share. 19:51.200 --> 19:54.600 And of course I will see you guys in the next lecture.