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>> So perhaps you've always wanted to learn
how to make really cool stuff in 3D software.

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You might not have done it, you might
have dabbled in it a little bit.

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In this tutorial, what I'm going to be doing
is trying to take one video and introduce a lot

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of the fundamental things, the things
you really need to get started.

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And I'm going to show you how to do
it in a free software called Blender

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that you can very easily download without an
account or a password or anything like that.

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So you can see here, this is the final result.

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I'm going to show you, first of all, the
software itself, just the very basics,

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not covering all the thousands
of different things.

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And then I'm going to take you step
by step after that through the making

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of this character here, and how to
render it out as a final result.

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And you can use this same low poly modeling
technique here, which is really simple

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and beginner friendly to
make all sorts of things.

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So hopefully this video grabs your interest
if you want to learn as an absolute beginner.

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If you already know something about Blender,
maybe this is just a little bit too basic

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and repetitive, but this is
definitely more for absolute beginners,

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people who really don't know anything

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and they just want a simple video
that's going to make it make sense.

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And you can also, after an hour
or so, walk away with something

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that you can feel really
good about, a final result.

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And from there you can choose if you want
to go on and learn more about the discipline

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of 3D modeling, maybe even animation later on.

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So let's get into the video
and I hope you enjoy it.

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I will be adding some timestamps so it can make
it easier for you guys, the different chapters,

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and you can bounce back and
forth if you get stuck.

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Let's hop in.

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Getting your hands on Blender is quite simple.

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You go to your internet browser.

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You can type in blender.org, open
up the site, and you're going to go

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to the tab here called downloads.

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And what you can do is just
click on this blue button here.

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That's going to download an installation
file so you can install it on your computer.

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Another option, which I prefer to do, is to go
to this little drop down here and you're going

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to actually see the portable versions here.

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So it's for Windows and Mac.

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In my case, I have a Windows computer.

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I would click on the zip file here for the
Windows portable, download that zip folder,

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then extract it like you do with any zip folder,
and then just open that folder inside of there.

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There's going to be Blender.

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You click on it.

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You run the program.

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And when it runs for the first
time, you can just right click

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and pin that program to your taskbar.

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And there you have it.

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So very, very simple.

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No signing in, no passwords, no accounts.

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And you can do that anytime
there is a new release.

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You can even have multiple versions of Blender.

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So that is very self-explanatory, very easy.

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So I'm not going to go any more into that.

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Let's get into the next thing where we actually
open it up and I'll show you how to use it.

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So if you go ahead and open up Blender, you
may even be doing it for the very first time.

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And if you do, it may even
seem a little bit intimidating.

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But rest assured, all of these different
tabs and windows and features that you see,

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most of them you will not need to know
a thing about when just getting started.

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You'll learn that with time.

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Now this thing you see here, the
box when you first open up Blender,

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what most people do is they
just left click somewhere

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in the viewport and that box just pops away.

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Now getting on to the user interface itself,

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what you're going to see here
is the one that just stands out.

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And this is, like I said, the 3D viewport.

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This is where everything happens.

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This is where we see our objects, where we
add things in, where we can set up our layout.

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Now I'm not going to be covering
navigation just yet.

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I promise I'll get into that in a bit.

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But for now, I'm just explaining what these
different windows are or these different boxes.

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Going on to this little box that sits
up here, that is our scene outliner.

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And essentially what we see
here is the different items

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and objects that are in our scene.

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It really is a great organizational tool.

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And if you're a beginner, this
really makes things easier as well.

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Getting organized, especially when
your projects get a little bit bigger,

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is one of the most important
things you can learn as a beginner.

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And what you can see here is these collections.

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Now collections are essentially
just these things you can create

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where you can group different
objects in your 3D scene together.

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You can put them in that group.

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Look at it almost like layers in Photoshop.

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I'm not saying there are layers, but
you can almost look at it like that

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in a sense if that helps you visualize it.

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You can add in different collections and
you can also name the different objects.

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You can even directly come here and click
on these objects instead of actually coming

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into your scene and left-clicking on an object.

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The outliner is just another
way you can visualize what's

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in your scene and select things.

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You can even go to the drop-down and see
more information about certain objects

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or what relationship they
have to different objects.

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Now don't worry if that doesn't
make any sense to you.

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You don't need to know that right now.

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If it doesn't make sense, I will
explain it later on in the tutorial

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if it's relevant to what we're doing.

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But that is our scene outliner essentially.

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Now we have that out of the way, we
can come down here to our properties.

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And this is where different things that you
do in Blender, you can see their properties.

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For example, let me just click on an object.

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Say for example you just
left-click on the cube to select it.

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Then you can go over here to
all of the different properties.

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So if you click on this little tab,
which is the materials property,

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the properties of the material
that this thing has are here.

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So we can change values, we can
change different sets of information

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that relate to the materials on this cube.

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Now we have for example over here
one called the object properties.

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So over here we can see the
different transforms for this object.

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Now transforms essentially, I'll get into
that in a little bit, but it is the things

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that we can use to move an object in 3D space.

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So we have an X, Y, and a Z coordinate.

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You can see for example here in the
scene, we have the green line here,

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which is our Y coordinate and
the X is our X coordinate.

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So pretty simple.

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So essentially here you can see
all of these are set to zero

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and that's why our cube is
in the middle of our world.

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If we move any one of these on a certain axis,
you can see that the cube here is moving.

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Doesn't matter if you don't fully get it,
I'll definitely get into that more later.

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But that's what properties are, different
things relating to the objects in our scene.

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We can come over here and see their properties.

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Now sometimes some of these properties are
not relating to an object in our scene.

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For example, if you click over here,
we can see the world properties

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and the world properties has
to do with the environment,

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which you can't really see now
because we're not rendering.

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So these three windows here are just the
three main windows you need to know for now.

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Another thing I'll quickly mention
is obviously just this little thing

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down here called the timeline.

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That's just when you're doing animating
and it's just like a timeline on a lot

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of different softwares, even 2D softwares.

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It's where you can come and
scroll through on different frames

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and go to different time intervals within
your 3D scene and then you can change things

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and this is where you would be doing
your animation and stuff like that.

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So not to worry about that right now
because that's not what we're doing,

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but you get the general idea here.

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So just these three main
ones, keep them in your mind.

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Okay, so now we're going to talk
a little bit about navigation.

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It's actually pretty simple, but
before we can even get into that,

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we have to talk about the
number pad on the keyboard.

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So if you have ever seen a keyboard, you know
that it has a little number pad down here.

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Now, some computers or more like laptops don't
have this number pad and if that's the case,

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there's something you can do about that

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where you can make these numbers
up here emulate a number pad.

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So let's just quickly go over into Edit.

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Once we have Blender open, Preferences and
then you're going to go over here to the input,

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go up to keyboard and make sure emulate number
pad is enabled if you don't have a number pad.

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For me, I have a number pad, so
I'm not going to have that enabled.

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Then I'm going to close that and now you
should be able to use your number pad as well.

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So while we're on the subject of number pad,
you could actually go over here to view,

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go to viewport and then go to, for
example, the front view or go over here

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and go to the right view, but it's
just good to use the number pad.

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So if you use 1 on your number pad, you
can go into the front orthographic view.

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You can see over here it
says front orthographic.

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If you press 3 on your number pad, you
can go into the right orthographic view,

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so you see it says right over here.

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7 goes to the top and if you want to, for
example, go to the bottom, you can just hold

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and control or command seven
and then go to the bottom.

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So it just does the opposite of.

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So for example, it's the same with 1.

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If you press 1 on your number
pad, it goes to the front view.

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What if you want to look from the back?

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So to make it the opposite
of, you just hold and control

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and then press 1 and now
you're at the back view.

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So very, very easy.

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You can note that down, write
it down and it's super simple.

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So just experiment with the
numbers on your number pad

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and that will take you into different views.

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Primarily, you're going to be working
in 1 or the front orthographic view.

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So you'll almost always be using one or
sometimes even three to see the side view.

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So not really that much you have to
learn as far as changing the views.

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That's about the main thing
we have to cover for now.

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But as far as actually moving around with the
mouse, if you hold in the middle mouse button

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on your mouse and you hold
it in and you move the mouse,

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you can actually rotate around like this.

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And that's pretty simple.

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So just middle mouse button holding it in,
and if you wanted to go side to side like pan,

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all you have to do is hold and shift, then
the middle mouse button, and hold that in

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and just move side to side, and then
if you wanted to zoom in and out,

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you can literally just roll
the middle mouse button.

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There's also the option of holding and control
and then the middle mouse button, holding it in

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and then moving the mouse,
but it really is just simpler

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and more intuitive just to
roll the middle mouse button.

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So Blender's navigations
are actually really easy.

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So just a quick recap, middle mouse
button by itself, you can rotate, shift,

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middle mouse button, you can move side to side

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and then just rolling the middle
mouse button, you can zoom in and out.

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Extremely simple.

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There's a lot more you could probably say but
those are some of the fundamental things as far

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as navigation goes and this
isn't really navigation but what

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if you actually want to move an object?

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Well, all you have to do
is left click on an object.

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And you can just come over here to these
things here, they're called the tool panels

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but you have this one here called the move.

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You can click on it and then you can just
click on any one of these handles here.

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So the red one is the X axis, the green here
is the Y and the blue is the Z. If you press N

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on your keyboard, you can go over
here to the control panel, go to item,

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and you can actually see here
these are our transforms.

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So the Z here for example is the blue so you can
actually come here to the Z under the location

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and move it that way or this way.

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It's just really the same thing,
just a different way of doing it

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and if you just press G, G is the
shortcut key for moving things.

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So just pressing G, you can
actually move things.

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And also you can go G and
then press Z to restrict it

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to the Z axis, X to the X or Y to the Y.

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So all the same thing, just
a different way of doing it.

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If you don't really understand what I just
did, don't worry, we'll be recapping it

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as we get into the modeling tutorial.

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So it's just something you need to be aware of
and then you have this one here called rotate

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and scale, and it's the exact same thing.

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Obviously of rotation, you
still have these axes here

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but now instead of moving, you're just rotating.

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So you can left click on 1 or
maybe left click on this red one,

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so you can rotate around the
X. And the exact same thing.

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Over here in the properties, you
can just come to the rotation

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and do the same thing manually
here on these different vectors.

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And scale, I mean [inaudible]
explain the exact same principle,

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this time you're just dealing with scale.

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And you can also just click here on the tool.

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And by the way, the shortcuts here
are S for scale and also R for rotate.

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So very, very easy navigation
and also moving an object around.

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So I think we really have covered enough now
just to get you to understand the basics.

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We'll now jump into the tutorial and if
there's anything you haven't understood,

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we'll just cover it slowly.

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I'll go over it again if need be,
but you should be able to get it now

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that you're up to speed on Blender.

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So before we get into Blender, and we do a
little bit of modeling, you're probably going

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to need a model sheet and that's just
something to give you a little bit of reference.

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So you can actually see here on
the screen that's now recording,

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here is a picture of a screenshot
that I actually took of a model

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that I've already modeled to practice.

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So what you can do is you can just use
the print screen key on your keyboard

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or just use the snip tool
that comes with Windows.

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Just about every operating system
has some sort of built-in tool

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to allow you to do screenshots or snips.

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So just go ahead and you can also crop it
if you want, just so you have the picture.

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And once you have that, you should just hit,
like in this case, I just named mine Girl

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and here it is somewhere on my computer.

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What you're going to do is
you're going to open up Blender.

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So in this case, I am using Blender 3.2.

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So I'm using Blender 3.2.

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And it's now opened up.

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Now the thing that's going
to be different here for me,

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I'm just going to enable
something that's an add-on.

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You don't have to do this.

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That just enables you guys to see
over here the keys that I'm pressing.

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So that just should help you out a little bit.

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But you can see here we have the default scene

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as we've already kind of
covered in the previous part.

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But what you can do is you can press
1 on your front orthographic to go

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into your front orthographic view.

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So the number pad 1.

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You can also just go to view,
viewport and then go to front.

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And what you're going to do is
you're going to get that image

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that you should have taken a screenshot of.

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So in this case, I have it
somewhere on my computer.

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So I just named it girl and you're just
going to click on it and just drag it

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into the front orthographic view.

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Make sure not to drag it onto the cube, but
just drag it somewhere here in the empty space

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and you're going to see it adds it in.

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So now you can make it full screen again

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and you have this image here in
your front orthographic view.

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Now you can press G while you have it active
and if you're not sure if you have it active,

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what you can do, come up here
to your scene collection.

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You can see the different objects and by
default it's going to be named empty over here.

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See that object called empty?

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So if it's not active, just click on it
and you should be able to go G and move it.

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And you can just move it over here and then when
you have it roughly in place, just left click

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and what you can also do is while you
have it active, you can go over here

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to your properties panel that we talked
about earlier and you can go over here

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to object data properties down here
on this little image and you can come

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to this option here called
opacity and just click on it.

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And then just click here and drag that down a
little bit so it's almost see-through like that.

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Okay, so just a little bit is fine and what
you can now do is you can just hold your middle

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mouse button in and just
move to the side like that.

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You can see here it's now in a 3D space.

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What you can do is you can go G,
Y and move it back in your scene.

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So G and then Y to restrict it to the
Y axis just so it's not intersecting

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with the object we're going to be modeling.

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And if you go into your front orthographic
view again by pressing 1 on your number pad,

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you can see here that we want the
front pose to be in the middle.

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So in this case, if it's not quite in the
middle, all you can do is go G and then X

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to move it along the X. And just
make sure it's in the middle

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as it could possibly be here and also over here.

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In fact, let's just quickly go and enable

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up here this thing called X-ray
and now we can see through.

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We still have this empty active.

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We can now make sure we have the feet sitting
on the ground so you can see this red line here

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that kind of represents where the ground is.

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So we're going to go G, Z,
and just move it down until

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that feet there are sitting
right kind of on that red line.

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So now we have this front pose right
in the middle there and we can use

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that as a reference and how do we get the side?

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So the side is simple.

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All we have to do now is go
Shift D with this active.

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So Shift D, just right click to let go,
and then type in RZ90 and hit enter.

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So RZ90 and if you press N to open up
your properties panel and go to item,

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you should be able to see here
that on the Z, it's rotated 90.

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So if it's not, just type in 90.

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Now press 3 on your number pad to
go to the right orthographic view.

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You can see up here, right orthographic view.

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And now you can go G, Y and move it on the Y
till the side image is lined up here and kind

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of in the middle of where
this cube is over here.

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You can also look at this
blue line here as a reference.

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That's just the Z coordinate that you see
in the right orthographic view and make sure

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that she is roughly in the middle here.

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So G, Y to move it.

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And make sure you restrict it to the Y when you
do because we don't want to be moving it down

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or up now because those feet
as you can see here are still

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on that floor there which is really good.

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So also with this one now on
the side, we want to go G,

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X and just move it over to the side like this.

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So we're going to our right orthographic
view and we model with this cube here.

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That image is not intersecting
with the mesh here.

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So now we have our front reference and if we go
into our right orthographic view by hitting 3

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on the number pad, we have our side reference.

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Now before we lose anything, let's save this.

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We're going to go File, Save as -- I'm going
to choose my desktop and I'm just going

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to call it Girl, low poly, and I'm
going to go save as and now it's saved.

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So when it comes to actually modeling something,
we can use something called primitive objects.

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So you can see here, for example, we have one
already in Blender called the default cube.

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So if you left click on it,
you can see it becomes active.

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Also up here in the scene
collection, you can see the cube.

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And you could make this into any
shape once you start editing it.

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And it's just so you understand.

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I'm going to quickly delete this.

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You don't have to follow along,
but just so you understand.

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So for example, you didn't have an object.

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What you can do is you can go shift
A. Shift A brings up this add menu

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and you can just go to the meshes.

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Now the meshes are the actual things,
the topology that we'll model in 3D,

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and you have a whole bunch of objects here.

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Now all of these are just a bunch of points or
vertices that make up an object in 3D space.

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So here is a cube, the one we already had.

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Here's a circle.

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Here's a UV sphere.

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So if I add in a UV sphere, you can see same
thing, but just it's shaped like a UV sphere.

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So I'm just going to go ahead,
add back in a cube.

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And the reason it is actually in the center
of the world here when it's added in is

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because of this little thing
here called the 3D cursor.

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Now over here, you can see above
the move tool, there's a 3D cursor.

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If you click on that, you can click
anywhere and it moves that 3D cursor.

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That 3D cursor is where things get
placed by default in your scene.

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It's also a point you can use
to rotate around as a transform.

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Won't get into that at the moment.

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But if I now went shift A after
moving that cursor and added

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in maybe a sphere, it adds it in there.

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So it's important if that
thing isn't in the center.

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First of all, just click back on
the move tool if you've done that.

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If there's ever a situation where you need
to get your cursor back to the center,

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you can go shift S and you can see
cursor to world origin as option here.

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You can actually set the cursor to all sorts
of places, but to have it in the center

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of the world, go to world origin.

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It's important that you understand
that as a beginner kind of concept.

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Also, when an object is added in, all objects
in Blender have what you call an origin point.

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So you can see this little
orange, yellow dot in the middle.

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If you come over here to this overlays and you
go to the dropdown, origins may not be ticked.

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So if it isn't, just make sure to click
on it so you can see that origin point.

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And that is actually the point
where things rotate around.

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So if you go R, it rotates around it.

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If you go S, it scales from that point.

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And G, all of those transforms
look at that origin point.

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So in 3D, I've already shown you
guys previously how you can scale,

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move things around, rotate things.

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But how do you actually edit
a piece of geometry?

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To do that, you can come up here
and this is the object mode.

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And for now, don't worry
about all of these options.

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Just focus on the edit mode.

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If you go into edit mode with an object
selected, you're going to now actually see,

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instead of seeing not only the whole object,

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but you actually now see the
vertices that make up these objects.

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In this case, you can see, you can
actually left click on an individual point.

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And just like you can move things in the object
mode, you can also go G and R. At the moment,

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you can't really notice rotation.

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You'd have to select more than two to see that.

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But exact same thing.

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And this is how you can actually
edit the shapes.

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You can see the origin point
is still there in the middle.

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But if I were to actually just
left click and drag to select all

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of this, and then go G to move it off.

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If I now go back into object mode, you can see
the origin point is still there where it is.

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So if I now go R to rotate,
it's not going to look

00:19:15.766 --> 00:19:17.646
at the object, but actually the origin point.

00:19:17.646 --> 00:19:22.016
So it's important that you guys understand what
the origin point is and how that all works.

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You can almost look in object mode, an object in
object mode as being just a collection of verts

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that are connected to this group.

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And the vertex is the center of it.

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Just look at it almost like a
collection of points in 3D space.

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So now that you understand
that, let's actually model here.

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So currently we have the X-ray toggled on.

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You can also toggle it off
so you can see through.

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I'm completely up to you.

00:19:45.086 --> 00:19:47.496
But for now, I'm going to press 1 to
go into the front orthographic view.

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We have our image set up and we have
our cube, which we're going to be using.

00:19:51.336 --> 00:19:54.886
And let's go G and then Z to restrict

00:19:54.886 --> 00:19:58.146
to the Z. Let's just move it
roughly to where the body is here.

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In fact, I'm going to turn the
X-ray on for now so I can see.

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And let's go S and let's
scale this down to about here.

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So it's almost the width of the body like that.

00:20:09.266 --> 00:20:13.226
And as long as your cube is just roughly in
the middle, it can be down a little bit or up.

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It doesn't really matter.

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But what you're going to do is you're
going to press Tab to go into edit mode.

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Or you can just come up here
and go into edit mode that way.

00:20:20.226 --> 00:20:24.626
And inside of edit mode, you're going
to left-click and drag and just drag

00:20:24.626 --> 00:20:27.876
over these top vertices to
have them selected like that.

00:20:27.876 --> 00:20:32.496
And then you're going to go S,
X, and scale them on the X axes.

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You can even see up here that red is the X. And
you can actually see the numbers written here

00:20:37.846 --> 00:20:40.866
on the different colors or the
letters on the different colors.

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And then you're going to left-click
and drag and select the bottom ones.

00:20:43.426 --> 00:20:48.356
And you can go S, X, and scale them along
the X. So now from the front, it looks okay.

00:20:48.356 --> 00:20:49.906
But if we press free on the number pad,

00:20:49.906 --> 00:20:53.636
we can see on the right orthographic
view that it's not quite matching up.

00:20:53.636 --> 00:20:56.206
So we can select these at the top
by left clicking and dragging.

00:20:56.206 --> 00:21:01.996
And we can go S, Y, and flatten it on the
Y. You can also just left click and drag

00:21:01.996 --> 00:21:06.736
and just select just the front ones or the back
ones and go G and just move them like that.

00:21:07.436 --> 00:21:10.376
So we're currently in the right orthographic.

00:21:10.616 --> 00:21:13.486
And these ones here, they're
more or less in the right place.

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But you can also move them if you wanted to.

00:21:15.506 --> 00:21:18.126
So now we have that roughly in place.

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What we can do now is we can
extrude this bottom face.

00:21:22.166 --> 00:21:25.666
So one way to do that is just left click
and drag to select all of the bottom verts.

00:21:26.216 --> 00:21:29.416
But I'll quickly mention you also have these
options up here for different selections.

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You can also click on the face mode.

00:21:31.236 --> 00:21:34.036
And now instead of selecting
verts, you can select a face,

00:21:34.036 --> 00:21:35.876
which is a collection of verts and edges.

00:21:35.876 --> 00:21:37.966
So now you can just left click on that face.

00:21:38.076 --> 00:21:40.976
And then you can go back into your
right orthographic view by hitting free.

00:21:40.976 --> 00:21:44.096
And you can go E. So E is
the shortcut to extrude.

00:21:44.326 --> 00:21:45.936
And that'll extrude a face.

00:21:45.936 --> 00:21:49.186
You can also come here and click
on the extrude button here.

00:21:49.186 --> 00:21:50.506
And it'll bring up some options.

00:21:50.576 --> 00:21:52.646
But it's easier just to use the shortcut.

00:21:52.746 --> 00:21:54.726
So I've extruded it down
and then just left clicked.

00:21:54.726 --> 00:21:59.096
And then I'm going to just go R. And
I'm going to slightly rotate that face.

00:21:59.096 --> 00:22:01.196
And I'm going to go G. And I'm
just going to move it back.

00:22:01.376 --> 00:22:06.896
So one thing you'll notice is we're still using
a lot of the same G, S, and R to scale, rotate,

00:22:06.956 --> 00:22:08.306
and move things, which is really cool.

00:22:08.486 --> 00:22:11.776
So now let's go to our front view
by getting one on a number pad.

00:22:11.776 --> 00:22:14.596
And you can see here it's
kind of right at the bottom.

00:22:14.826 --> 00:22:19.386
But over here now it is lacking
the right dimension.

00:22:19.386 --> 00:22:24.486
So what we can do to add in an edge is we can
just come over here, hovering over an edge.

00:22:24.486 --> 00:22:28.076
And you can go Control R or
Command R if you're using a Mac.

00:22:28.076 --> 00:22:29.746
And you're going to see this yellow line appear.

00:22:30.066 --> 00:22:33.976
Once you see the yellow line, you can
just left click twice and it'll add it in.

00:22:34.876 --> 00:22:39.086
Then go back into your front orthographic
view by hitting one on the number pad.

00:22:39.086 --> 00:22:41.126
S, X with that edge selected.

00:22:41.606 --> 00:22:42.926
And you can scale it out like that.

00:22:42.926 --> 00:22:45.076
Now let's just say you accidentally
unselected that edge.

00:22:45.496 --> 00:22:46.256
How do you select it?

00:22:46.256 --> 00:22:47.616
By left clicking and dragging?

00:22:48.496 --> 00:22:49.596
No, not necessarily.

00:22:49.596 --> 00:22:53.746
Because now that it's an edge select, you
might select more edges than you wanted to.

00:22:53.746 --> 00:22:55.096
In some cases that would happen.

00:22:55.576 --> 00:23:00.156
So what you may want to do is you can
actually, when there's a loop like this,

00:23:00.496 --> 00:23:05.666
you can go Shift Alt and then just left click
on an edge and it'll select the whole loop.

00:23:06.056 --> 00:23:07.586
You can also just hold in Shift.

00:23:08.026 --> 00:23:12.306
And while you're holding in Shift and you're
moving around, you can select multiple faces.

00:23:12.306 --> 00:23:15.756
So that's one thing to keep in mind
if you guys struggle with that.

00:23:16.466 --> 00:23:17.676
That's how you select edges.

00:23:17.886 --> 00:23:19.096
So now we have that in there.

00:23:19.316 --> 00:23:23.706
If we now go to our right orthographic view by
hitting free, we can see it's not quite right.

00:23:23.706 --> 00:23:27.706
Let's go to our vertex select, left
click and drag to select these verts.

00:23:27.706 --> 00:23:31.966
And let's just move them by pressing G.
And you can see what we're doing here.

00:23:31.966 --> 00:23:33.306
It's not hard at all.

00:23:33.306 --> 00:23:36.426
We're just creating the rough
shape from the front and the side.

00:23:36.826 --> 00:23:38.116
And yes, it is boxy.

00:23:38.296 --> 00:23:42.986
But what we can do now is we can
progressively add more topology.

00:23:42.986 --> 00:23:44.146
So let's come here to the middle.

00:23:44.556 --> 00:23:47.876
Control R, just like we did
hovering over one of these edges.

00:23:47.876 --> 00:23:49.506
You should see the yellow line appear.

00:23:49.816 --> 00:23:50.896
And then left click twice.

00:23:51.376 --> 00:23:53.656
And now what we've done,
we've cut it in half here.

00:23:53.966 --> 00:23:55.576
It's perfectly symmetrical.

00:23:55.576 --> 00:23:56.856
But we can cheat a little bit.

00:23:56.856 --> 00:23:59.496
We can actually mirror so
we only work in one side.

00:23:59.496 --> 00:24:03.036
So let's now left click and drag and
just select these verts over here.

00:24:03.036 --> 00:24:05.856
And let's press X and then go delete.

00:24:05.856 --> 00:24:06.786
And what are we working with?

00:24:06.966 --> 00:24:09.056
Vertices. So let's click delete vertices.

00:24:09.356 --> 00:24:11.366
And now we only have half an object.

00:24:11.366 --> 00:24:13.406
We can now go to the properties panel here.

00:24:13.406 --> 00:24:15.346
And let's go to our modifiers.

00:24:15.346 --> 00:24:17.866
Modifiers are just these cool
things we can add to an object.

00:24:18.036 --> 00:24:19.726
I won't go into too much detail.

00:24:19.836 --> 00:24:21.756
But let's just go to the add modifier.

00:24:21.756 --> 00:24:24.176
And let's just go and give
this one under the generators.

00:24:24.356 --> 00:24:25.436
And that's a mirror.

00:24:25.436 --> 00:24:28.226
And all it's simply doing
here is mirroring this object.

00:24:28.326 --> 00:24:31.146
So now we can't actually come here
and select anything on this side.

00:24:31.266 --> 00:24:35.376
But if we select something on this side
and we press G to move it or rotate it,

00:24:35.376 --> 00:24:36.846
you can see it updates on this side.

00:24:36.886 --> 00:24:40.596
But one of the issues is if we start
moving things around, it pulls apart.

00:24:40.596 --> 00:24:42.196
So what we're going to do is
we're going to come over here.

00:24:42.196 --> 00:24:43.686
We're going to click on this
thing called clipping.

00:24:43.866 --> 00:24:46.716
And now if you move it, it all sticks
together, which is really cool.

00:24:46.716 --> 00:24:48.106
And it's going to help you a lot.

00:24:48.246 --> 00:24:51.666
Now going back into the front orthographic
by pressing 1 on the number pad,

00:24:52.146 --> 00:24:55.906
you can actually see that little origin point
that I talked about earlier is in the middle.

00:24:56.156 --> 00:25:00.576
And that's actually what our mirror
modifier is looking at as a reference point.

00:25:01.226 --> 00:25:04.956
So now that we have that mirrored, what we
can do is we can press 7 on our number pad

00:25:04.956 --> 00:25:06.106
to go to the top orthographic view.

00:25:06.106 --> 00:25:07.886
And this is looking boxy.

00:25:07.886 --> 00:25:12.936
So let's go Control R. And with Control R, we're
going to see the yellow line appear over here.

00:25:12.936 --> 00:25:15.446
Let's double click by left clicking.

00:25:15.876 --> 00:25:19.066
And now what we can do is from the
top, we can left click and drag

00:25:19.066 --> 00:25:22.306
and select the front verts
over here in the corner.

00:25:22.306 --> 00:25:24.976
And we can go G and move them in a little bit.

00:25:25.326 --> 00:25:25.996
And then left click.

00:25:26.376 --> 00:25:29.556
And let's left click and drag
over here, selecting these verts.

00:25:29.556 --> 00:25:32.696
And then let's go G. And
let's move them in like that.

00:25:32.696 --> 00:25:34.546
Now we simply rounded that out.

00:25:35.066 --> 00:25:37.416
So this is already starting
to look a lot better.

00:25:37.816 --> 00:25:40.346
And we've just used some very
simple modeling techniques.

00:25:40.836 --> 00:25:43.906
Let's also just select this vertex
down here by left clicking on it.

00:25:43.906 --> 00:25:46.276
Let's just go X and delete that vertex.

00:25:46.406 --> 00:25:48.356
So we now have this open like so.

00:25:48.356 --> 00:25:51.016
And let's also select this one at the top here.

00:25:51.226 --> 00:25:53.816
Let's go X and delete that vertex as well.

00:25:54.076 --> 00:25:56.926
okay, so we want to go back into
the front orthographic view.

00:25:57.296 --> 00:26:01.976
Let's continue extruding this topology
up and making the rest of the body.

00:26:01.976 --> 00:26:03.366
okay, so what we're going to do is we're going

00:26:03.366 --> 00:26:06.786
to make sure we have our
vertex select option enabled.

00:26:06.816 --> 00:26:07.586
We're still in edit mode.

00:26:07.586 --> 00:26:10.576
We're going to left-click and drag
in our front orthographic view.

00:26:10.576 --> 00:26:13.426
And we're going to select these verts over here.

00:26:13.426 --> 00:26:16.866
So once they are selected in
your front orthographic view,

00:26:16.866 --> 00:26:19.046
remember 1 to go into front orthographic view.

00:26:19.046 --> 00:26:23.886
You're going to go E to extrude and
then just move it up to about here

00:26:24.106 --> 00:26:26.046
on the reference or just under the neck.

00:26:26.046 --> 00:26:30.616
And then you're going to go R. So R to rotate
and rotate it this much and then left click.

00:26:30.746 --> 00:26:33.286
And then just G again and
just move it till it's lined

00:26:33.286 --> 00:26:35.716
up to the bottom of this V here, this delta.

00:26:35.876 --> 00:26:38.516
Then you're going to press 3 to go
into your right orthographic view.

00:26:38.516 --> 00:26:43.596
And then you're going to go SY
and flatten it on the Y like that.

00:26:43.596 --> 00:26:45.466
Okay, back into the front orthographic view.

00:26:45.466 --> 00:26:49.846
Let's go E to extrude and extrude it
up like so, and leave it about here.

00:26:50.346 --> 00:26:52.516
Let's go into our right orthographic view.

00:26:52.756 --> 00:26:57.036
And we're going to go SY and
scale it on the Y about that much.

00:26:57.216 --> 00:27:01.566
And then we're going to go Ctrl R or
Command R, hovering over one of these edges.

00:27:01.566 --> 00:27:02.676
You should see the yellow line.

00:27:02.746 --> 00:27:04.426
And then you're going to just left click once.

00:27:04.656 --> 00:27:06.476
And then if you move the mouse, you can slide.

00:27:06.476 --> 00:27:09.236
So you can slide it to about
here and then left click again.

00:27:09.236 --> 00:27:10.466
And that should put it in place.

00:27:11.016 --> 00:27:17.166
And while that is still active, you can go
Alt S. And what is different about this,

00:27:17.216 --> 00:27:21.046
and I won't really get into
normals at the moment too much,

00:27:21.086 --> 00:27:23.506
but you have these things
on the faces called normals.

00:27:23.546 --> 00:27:28.486
They're like these directional
points that the face is kind of --

00:27:28.486 --> 00:27:30.186
I'll quickly show you because
it's kind of hard to explain.

00:27:30.186 --> 00:27:31.236
I'm just going to enable something.

00:27:31.236 --> 00:27:35.396
You guys don't have to do this, but it's just
so you understand kind of what's going on here.

00:27:35.396 --> 00:27:36.276
I'll quickly show you.

00:27:36.276 --> 00:27:38.416
So these things here, right, the normals.

00:27:38.736 --> 00:27:42.206
Now, if you just press S by itself, it
just scales everything as like an average.

00:27:42.256 --> 00:27:47.526
But if you go Alt S, it looks at these
normals and it scales out along the normals.

00:27:47.526 --> 00:27:49.076
And it does it a little bit in a different way.

00:27:49.076 --> 00:27:52.836
So going Alt S will scale that
out like this, nice and evenly.

00:27:53.466 --> 00:27:55.376
So I'm just going to turn that off that I turned

00:27:55.376 --> 00:27:57.386
on because I don't need to
have that on right now.

00:27:58.116 --> 00:27:59.816
But you guys should understand
where I'm coming from.

00:27:59.816 --> 00:28:02.116
So I want to go back into
the front orthographic view.

00:28:02.116 --> 00:28:06.356
I'm going to come over here, Control R
over one of these edges, left click once

00:28:06.356 --> 00:28:07.916
and then move the mouse to bring it down.

00:28:07.986 --> 00:28:11.216
And then Alt S and scale it out like that.

00:28:11.216 --> 00:28:15.476
And then just like that, we have this
little thing forming here quite easily.

00:28:15.956 --> 00:28:18.716
And what we can do as well,
just Control R hovering

00:28:18.716 --> 00:28:22.446
over this edge here, double
click to add an edge.

00:28:22.446 --> 00:28:26.086
And over here as well, the back,
Control R and then double click.

00:28:26.496 --> 00:28:28.186
And now we have a bit more topology.

00:28:28.186 --> 00:28:32.046
I'm also just going to come in here,
Control R hovering over one of these edges

00:28:32.046 --> 00:28:35.136
and just double click once to add in an edge.

00:28:35.276 --> 00:28:36.896
And that's most of the body done now.

00:28:36.896 --> 00:28:38.846
So let's just quickly make the leg.

00:28:39.096 --> 00:28:42.006
So instead of using existing topology in
here, what we're going to do is we're going

00:28:42.006 --> 00:28:44.056
to go back into our object mode up here.

00:28:44.246 --> 00:28:46.576
And earlier I showed you
guys how to add in an object.

00:28:46.576 --> 00:28:49.296
So we're going to go Shift A. We're
going to go to our mesh options.

00:28:49.296 --> 00:28:51.396
We're going to add in something
called a cylinder.

00:28:51.396 --> 00:28:52.546
So go ahead and add that in.

00:28:52.756 --> 00:28:54.716
Now this has got way too much geometry.

00:28:54.716 --> 00:28:57.176
So let's go over here to this
add cylinder option down here.

00:28:57.176 --> 00:28:57.926
Just left click on it.

00:28:57.926 --> 00:28:58.696
It'll open it up.

00:28:58.846 --> 00:29:01.866
And currently this consists of 32 vertices.

00:29:01.866 --> 00:29:04.016
So let's click on here and type in five.

00:29:04.016 --> 00:29:06.346
So now you can see it's a lot less topology.

00:29:06.626 --> 00:29:07.606
That's more like we want.

00:29:07.606 --> 00:29:09.356
We're going for low poly workflow here.

00:29:09.556 --> 00:29:13.296
And you can also come here
to the type and change it

00:29:13.296 --> 00:29:15.576
from whatever it's at and change it to nothing.

00:29:15.576 --> 00:29:18.036
So it won't have the caps on here on the end.

00:29:18.036 --> 00:29:21.056
Okay, so if you quickly go to your
X-ray mode and just turn it off up here,

00:29:21.416 --> 00:29:22.576
you can kind of see it a little bit better.

00:29:22.576 --> 00:29:24.906
So for now I'm just turning off
the X-ray up here to toggle.

00:29:24.976 --> 00:29:26.556
And this is now a new object.

00:29:26.556 --> 00:29:28.926
So if we selected this, you can see up here,

00:29:28.926 --> 00:29:31.016
the cylinder is active up
here in the scene collection.

00:29:31.016 --> 00:29:35.136
And we press tab to go into edit mode or we
can also come up here and go into edit mode.

00:29:35.136 --> 00:29:38.026
You should now see that you
can't edit this object over here.

00:29:38.286 --> 00:29:41.166
You have to actually go back into object
mode and then click on this again.

00:29:41.516 --> 00:29:45.526
But what you can do is you can hold and shift
after you've selected one of the objects

00:29:45.526 --> 00:29:46.716
and then select the second object.

00:29:47.366 --> 00:29:49.966
Then when both were selected,
you can see they're both active.

00:29:49.966 --> 00:29:52.366
You can press tab or go into edit mode.

00:29:52.366 --> 00:29:54.456
And now both, you can work with both of them.

00:29:54.456 --> 00:29:57.886
And when you go back into object mode,
they're still both separate objects.

00:29:57.886 --> 00:30:00.206
Something interesting about objects
that you guys can keep in mind.

00:30:00.296 --> 00:30:02.606
So we're in object mode again,
just select this guy here.

00:30:02.606 --> 00:30:04.886
And remember that origin point,
see that little orange dot?

00:30:04.886 --> 00:30:05.746
Same thing as the cube.

00:30:05.746 --> 00:30:09.586
We're going to go S and just scale the whole
thing down in object mode to about this scale.

00:30:09.586 --> 00:30:13.586
And then left click once you're done and
then go G and move it over here roughly.

00:30:13.916 --> 00:30:17.556
Okay, then you're going to go
and press free on your number pad

00:30:17.556 --> 00:30:18.846
to go to your right orthographic.

00:30:18.846 --> 00:30:22.036
And you're just going to move it forward a
little bit like that, just roughly in place.

00:30:22.286 --> 00:30:24.716
And now we can tab into edit mode.

00:30:24.956 --> 00:30:29.236
And while we're in a right orthographic view,
let's just turn on our X-ray again up here.

00:30:29.236 --> 00:30:32.076
And this is left click and drag
and just select these bottom verts.

00:30:32.076 --> 00:30:35.936
And let's just go G, move them down to here and
then go R to rotate them and S to scale a bit.

00:30:36.056 --> 00:30:39.706
Then we're going to select these
ones up here, move them forward,

00:30:39.706 --> 00:30:42.196
S to scale them a bit, just like that.

00:30:42.196 --> 00:30:43.766
now we have a leg starting to form here.

00:30:43.946 --> 00:30:47.016
And let's just click and drag and
select these bottom verts again.

00:30:47.256 --> 00:30:50.746
And what we're going to do is we're going
to go E to extrude and then we're going

00:30:50.746 --> 00:30:53.586
to go S to scale to about this much.

00:30:53.586 --> 00:30:55.866
We're going to go G and move
all of that forward a bit.

00:30:55.866 --> 00:30:58.946
And then we're going to go E
to extrude, bring it to here.

00:30:58.946 --> 00:31:02.666
And then we're going to go E to
extrude, S to scale about that much.

00:31:02.856 --> 00:31:06.616
Back in your right orthographic view,
you can just move this whole thing back

00:31:06.616 --> 00:31:09.496
by pressing G, S to scale it just a little bit.

00:31:09.496 --> 00:31:13.516
And then we're going to go E to extrude
and extrude it down to here, R to rotate

00:31:13.596 --> 00:31:16.166
and then S to scale till it matches up.

00:31:16.166 --> 00:31:18.306
And then what we're going to do
is we're going to press 1 to go

00:31:18.306 --> 00:31:19.546
into our front orthographic view.

00:31:19.546 --> 00:31:22.006
And you can see over here, this
comes out a little bit too much.

00:31:22.006 --> 00:31:26.796
So let's just select these verts over here
and let's just go G, move them in, left click

00:31:26.796 --> 00:31:30.006
and drag, select these two
and then G to move them in.

00:31:30.146 --> 00:31:32.856
Now you can see it's all
starting to look pretty good.

00:31:32.856 --> 00:31:35.826
So how do we mirror this
leg onto the other side?

00:31:35.826 --> 00:31:38.116
So we can do the exact same thing
we did up here with the body.

00:31:38.116 --> 00:31:40.186
So we're going to go over
here and this time we're going

00:31:40.186 --> 00:31:42.366
to give it a mirror again under the modifiers.

00:31:42.796 --> 00:31:46.316
And we don't have to enable clipping

00:31:46.316 --> 00:31:49.516
because these two objects are not actually
touching like this one is over here.

00:31:49.516 --> 00:31:52.416
But you can notice there's
not anything appearing here

00:31:52.416 --> 00:31:53.506
on the other side and why is that?

00:31:53.506 --> 00:31:57.866
So if we tab back into object mode,
what we have to do in this case,

00:31:57.866 --> 00:32:02.246
because that origin point is not in the middle,
this one has its origin point in the middle,

00:32:02.246 --> 00:32:05.066
we have to actually select a
mirror object as a reference.

00:32:05.406 --> 00:32:08.496
So in this case, we're going to click on
this little eyedropper and we're going

00:32:08.496 --> 00:32:10.196
to click on the body as a reference.

00:32:10.196 --> 00:32:15.866
And now it'll put it right in the middle
or the point where it's mirroring is going

00:32:15.866 --> 00:32:17.236
to be right in the middle of that body.

00:32:18.106 --> 00:32:21.306
So it's almost using the origin point
of this one now, which is really good.

00:32:21.306 --> 00:32:23.776
So now it's nice and mirrored like that.

00:32:23.776 --> 00:32:25.036
And it's all starting to look really good.

00:32:25.036 --> 00:32:27.056
So let's just select these
legs again, tab into edit mode.

00:32:27.326 --> 00:32:30.306
This is press free to go into our right
orthographic view, click and drag,

00:32:30.306 --> 00:32:33.396
select these bottom verts and then
go E to extrude, bring them down.

00:32:33.576 --> 00:32:35.706
R to rotate them, to flatten them out a bit.

00:32:35.706 --> 00:32:36.826
And then this is really simple.

00:32:36.826 --> 00:32:39.136
Just click and drag and select
these verts over here.

00:32:39.476 --> 00:32:44.046
E to extrude and bring them forward and
then bring these two verts down like that.

00:32:44.286 --> 00:32:46.486
Click and drag, select these
bottom verts, bring them up.

00:32:46.516 --> 00:32:48.456
Then go into your front orthographic view.

00:32:48.786 --> 00:32:51.076
And in this case, you may
actually just have to come

00:32:51.076 --> 00:32:54.016
and select just these verts over here like that.

00:32:54.016 --> 00:32:57.886
So clicking, dragging over them,
go to your front view and then go G

00:32:57.886 --> 00:32:59.376
and just move them to the side a little bit.

00:32:59.376 --> 00:33:02.106
And you can do the same thing
over here just to widen that foot.

00:33:02.396 --> 00:33:04.246
So that's looking a lot better.

00:33:04.246 --> 00:33:06.066
And then you can come in
here, add in more topology.

00:33:06.066 --> 00:33:09.756
You can go control R and instead
of just leaving at one cut,

00:33:09.756 --> 00:33:11.896
you can just roll the middle
mouse button up once.

00:33:11.896 --> 00:33:15.036
That's going to add in two
segments and then click left twice.

00:33:15.156 --> 00:33:18.376
And then you can come in here,
control R over one of these edges

00:33:18.376 --> 00:33:19.596
and you should see a loop appearing.

00:33:19.766 --> 00:33:24.456
Just double click once and then go
alt S and scale it out a little bit

00:33:24.566 --> 00:33:26.346
on the normals, just to round things out.

00:33:26.346 --> 00:33:28.906
And there we have a simple foot forming.

00:33:28.996 --> 00:33:33.296
We can refine things a little bit later,
but the foot or leg area is now done mostly.

00:33:33.606 --> 00:33:36.586
And let's just toggle off the x-ray for
now, see what things are looking like.

00:33:36.586 --> 00:33:37.906
And you can see how simple this is.

00:33:37.906 --> 00:33:42.086
Even if you're a beginner, these are very, very
simple techniques and are very easy to follow.

00:33:42.546 --> 00:33:45.846
So the legs or the arms are going
to be very similar to the legs.

00:33:45.846 --> 00:33:50.686
In fact, to save a little bit of time, what you
can do is you can actually select the leg here

00:33:50.846 --> 00:33:54.746
and in your front orthographic view, you can
go shift D. That's going to make a duplication

00:33:54.746 --> 00:33:56.396
and you're going to move
this duplication up here.

00:33:56.596 --> 00:33:59.106
Left click and then you can go R and rotate.

00:33:59.106 --> 00:34:01.546
Remember, it's rotating around
this origin point.

00:34:01.756 --> 00:34:02.746
That's why we have it at the top.

00:34:02.746 --> 00:34:06.576
So we're going to go R to rotate and
just roughly line it up with the arms.

00:34:06.576 --> 00:34:07.616
It can be very rough.

00:34:07.676 --> 00:34:10.606
And if you need to enable the
x-ray, make sure to do that.

00:34:10.666 --> 00:34:14.846
Then you can go G and just move it so this
origin point is the top of the shoulder here.

00:34:15.106 --> 00:34:17.066
And these things can be roughly lined up.

00:34:17.066 --> 00:34:18.866
In fact, let's just quickly, while we have

00:34:18.866 --> 00:34:22.256
that cylinder 001 active,
let's just tab into edit mode.

00:34:23.006 --> 00:34:27.896
Left click and drag and just select all of these
bottom parts and then go G and just move it

00:34:27.896 --> 00:34:31.716
so this middle bit is kind of
where this sleeve is over here.

00:34:32.646 --> 00:34:35.626
And then what you can do is
while that's also active,

00:34:35.626 --> 00:34:38.596
you can press X and then go delete faces.

00:34:38.856 --> 00:34:42.196
Now we only have this cylinder
here roughly in place.

00:34:42.196 --> 00:34:44.876
And if you go 3 on your number
pad, you can see it from the side.

00:34:45.136 --> 00:34:48.616
And in the side here, you can just left
click and drag, select all of these top parts

00:34:48.616 --> 00:34:52.426
and go G. Just move them back a little
bit and then go S to scale and then click

00:34:52.426 --> 00:34:56.436
and drag these ones, G and move them a little
bit to the middle and then go S to scale up.

00:34:56.656 --> 00:34:59.956
And now that we have that roughly in place,
go back to our front orthographic view

00:35:00.066 --> 00:35:02.866
and we're now going to quickly
model our arm as well.

00:35:02.866 --> 00:35:06.396
So what we're going to do
in edit mode with our arm,

00:35:06.396 --> 00:35:08.116
let's just select these top verts over here.

00:35:08.116 --> 00:35:09.436
We're still in our X-ray mode.

00:35:09.436 --> 00:35:12.166
We're just going to select them and
we're going to go R to rotate them

00:35:12.286 --> 00:35:13.896
and G to move them here a little bit.

00:35:13.896 --> 00:35:15.516
And then we're going to select
this bottom vert here.

00:35:15.666 --> 00:35:18.436
And we're just going to come up to this
thing here called our proportional editing.

00:35:18.436 --> 00:35:22.426
I'm not going to get into these settings too
much, but if you select one vertex now down here

00:35:22.426 --> 00:35:25.746
and you press G to move it, you can see
the rest of them kind of drag along.

00:35:25.746 --> 00:35:28.366
Now if you roll down your
middle mouse button or up,

00:35:28.366 --> 00:35:31.776
you can see you have this influence
factor here and that controls more

00:35:31.776 --> 00:35:33.356
or less depending on how much you roll it.

00:35:33.356 --> 00:35:38.346
So this allows you to grab one point and
then kind of gradually over a gradient

00:35:38.846 --> 00:35:40.996
to the area affect the rest of the verts.

00:35:40.996 --> 00:35:45.516
So I'm going to drag that down like that and
then I'm going to disable it again up here

00:35:45.516 --> 00:35:48.106
and I'm just going to click and
drag to select these bottom verts.

00:35:48.376 --> 00:35:53.686
And then what I'm going to do is going to
double tap R, pressing R twice to rotate it

00:35:53.686 --> 00:35:56.876
and then just rotating it till
it's a little bit more flat.

00:35:57.296 --> 00:36:01.016
And then I'm going to go G and I'm going to
move it here and I'm going to go E to extrude

00:36:01.016 --> 00:36:02.546
to here and then S to scale down.

00:36:02.746 --> 00:36:04.746
And now let's go to our right orthographic view

00:36:04.746 --> 00:36:07.256
and make sure everything is
looking okay here from the side.

00:36:07.256 --> 00:36:08.916
At the moment, it kind of is.

00:36:08.916 --> 00:36:13.176
So maybe just move this out a little bit more
here, but just more or less trying to line

00:36:13.176 --> 00:36:14.826
that up to what we see here on the side.

00:36:15.136 --> 00:36:16.096
That's looking okay.

00:36:16.096 --> 00:36:18.566
So let's go back to the front
view and just click and drag

00:36:18.566 --> 00:36:20.326
to select just these verts down here.

00:36:20.326 --> 00:36:24.566
I'm going to go shift D to duplicate them,
right click to let go and then E to extrude,

00:36:24.926 --> 00:36:29.676
S to scale, and then G, let's move them down
a little bit and then R to rotate like that.

00:36:29.676 --> 00:36:35.076
And I'm going to go E to extrude them here,
S to scale and then E to extrude, S to scale.

00:36:35.076 --> 00:36:36.876
I'm going to scale them in like that.

00:36:36.876 --> 00:36:37.966
So S to scale.

00:36:38.586 --> 00:36:40.396
Now we have that simple little sleeve there.

00:36:40.556 --> 00:36:44.686
In fact, we can just select any vertex
on this part here and go control L

00:36:44.686 --> 00:36:49.256
or command L. It'll then just select anything
that is loose and connected to that vertex.

00:36:49.256 --> 00:36:53.136
I'm going to go G and just move it up in there
a little bit just so it's nicely embedded

00:36:53.136 --> 00:36:55.516
and then select these bottom
bits and move them down again.

00:36:55.516 --> 00:37:00.306
So now if you go to your right view, you should
see it more or less that that is also lining up.

00:37:00.556 --> 00:37:04.636
Go back to the front view and
let's make a simple hand over here.

00:37:04.636 --> 00:37:07.636
In fact, let's just tab back
out into object mode.

00:37:07.896 --> 00:37:10.826
and we're going to go shift
A and I'm going to go

00:37:10.826 --> 00:37:12.716
to my front orthographic view by pressing one.

00:37:12.756 --> 00:37:16.256
I'm going to go shift A and
I'm going to get a cube.

00:37:16.516 --> 00:37:18.846
The cube is down here and I'm
going to go G to move the cube.

00:37:19.086 --> 00:37:23.926
Over to where the hand is and then S to
scale it down quite a bit and then I'm going

00:37:23.926 --> 00:37:25.986
to go into my right orthographic view.

00:37:25.986 --> 00:37:27.466
Make sure it's in the middle of the hand.

00:37:27.626 --> 00:37:28.536
Okay, that's all good.

00:37:28.716 --> 00:37:32.246
So going back to the front orthographic
view and we're going to tab into edit mode

00:37:32.246 --> 00:37:35.506
and then just select all of this
and then R to rotate it like so.

00:37:35.726 --> 00:37:39.536
Then click and drag and just select
these verts over here like that.

00:37:39.536 --> 00:37:43.416
And then what you're going to do is you're going
to go G, move them to about here and then S

00:37:43.416 --> 00:37:46.466
to scale them a little bit and
then E to extrude and then click

00:37:46.466 --> 00:37:48.336
about here and then go G, move them here.

00:37:48.446 --> 00:37:50.736
R to rotate and then S to scale a little bit.

00:37:50.796 --> 00:37:53.976
Now if you go to your right orthographic
view by hitting 3 on the number pad,

00:37:53.976 --> 00:37:57.376
you're going to see things don't quite line up
so you're going to select these ones over here.

00:37:57.376 --> 00:37:58.226
You're going to move them back.

00:37:58.326 --> 00:38:02.906
Select this one over here, move it here and
then select these two and then bring these ones

00:38:02.906 --> 00:38:06.506
to the corner of the thumb intersection
there and then move these ones out a bit too.

00:38:06.886 --> 00:38:10.036
We're then going to come in here
and you can see we have a face here.

00:38:10.216 --> 00:38:11.756
In fact, let's just add an extra loop.

00:38:11.756 --> 00:38:15.496
We're going to go control R or
command R hovering over this edge.

00:38:15.496 --> 00:38:16.486
Add in an extra loop.

00:38:16.686 --> 00:38:18.526
Then we're going to go to
our face select option here.

00:38:18.746 --> 00:38:19.546
Click on this face.

00:38:19.806 --> 00:38:23.276
Go back to our right orthographic view and
then we're going to go G and move this one

00:38:23.276 --> 00:38:25.136
out to here and then R to rotate.

00:38:25.136 --> 00:38:31.366
And then we're going to go E to extrude that one
about this much and then S to scale, R to rotate

00:38:31.366 --> 00:38:34.076
and then G and we're going to
move that one back like that.

00:38:34.146 --> 00:38:38.916
And now we have a face over here and that face
in our front orthographic view we're just going

00:38:38.916 --> 00:38:42.776
to go E to extrude it, and then S
to scale it, and then G to move it,

00:38:42.916 --> 00:38:44.976
and that's going to be a simple thumb.

00:38:45.216 --> 00:38:48.056
And this hand here is about
as simple as you can get.

00:38:48.056 --> 00:38:54.486
You can come in here control R to add an extra
loop and control R in here to add an extra loop.

00:38:54.606 --> 00:38:57.746
Then if you press A to select
all of this geometry you can come

00:38:57.746 --> 00:39:01.816
to this tool here called the smooth tool
and then just drag in this little gizmo

00:39:01.816 --> 00:39:03.926
and it'll smooth it all out like that.

00:39:04.156 --> 00:39:06.066
And then just go back to the
move tool when you're done.

00:39:06.356 --> 00:39:08.406
So you can see that's looking pretty cool.

00:39:08.566 --> 00:39:11.006
So let's just tab back out into object mode.

00:39:11.466 --> 00:39:14.796
We've got a hand instead of adding a
mirror to that hand you can just hold

00:39:14.796 --> 00:39:20.496
in shift while you have that hand selected,
and select the arm, and then go control J

00:39:20.496 --> 00:39:23.326
and it'll join that mesh to that arm.

00:39:23.326 --> 00:39:24.666
So now that's all one object.

00:39:24.986 --> 00:39:28.876
Let's just quickly disable our x-ray so
we can see what it's all looking like.

00:39:29.206 --> 00:39:31.246
So pretty easy so far, isn't it?

00:39:31.596 --> 00:39:33.646
And it's looking really cool, very stylized.

00:39:33.936 --> 00:39:37.876
Let's quickly get into making the head which
is actually pretty simple despite the fact

00:39:37.876 --> 00:39:39.336
that it looks a little bit complicated.

00:39:39.486 --> 00:39:42.326
So let's go shift A, add in a cube.

00:39:42.326 --> 00:39:45.886
And with this cube we're going to go G,
Z and move it to the top of the head.

00:39:45.886 --> 00:39:49.246
I'm going to go S to scale that cube
down to about the size of the head.

00:39:49.386 --> 00:39:51.706
Let's enable our x-ray once again go

00:39:51.706 --> 00:39:55.006
into our right orthographic view
by pressing 3 on the number pad.

00:39:55.126 --> 00:39:58.756
And let's tab into edit mode
and go contol R over one

00:39:58.756 --> 00:40:02.046
of these edges to add in a loop, double click.

00:40:02.356 --> 00:40:06.946
And let's just with that still selected
go G and move it just down a little bit.

00:40:07.046 --> 00:40:10.676
And let's get to our vertex select option,
select this vertex over here, these two.

00:40:10.676 --> 00:40:13.456
And then go G and move that forward a bit

00:40:13.456 --> 00:40:16.946
and then select these two back ones
here or these four I should say.

00:40:16.946 --> 00:40:20.666
And then go G and move it like that and
then you're going to select these two

00:40:20.956 --> 00:40:24.026
or these four verts at the top by
clicking and dragging over them,

00:40:24.336 --> 00:40:25.606
and you're going to move them here.

00:40:25.606 --> 00:40:28.836
And you're going to go E to extrude
them up and then S to scale like that.

00:40:28.996 --> 00:40:32.966
It's still looking very boxy so now
if we go control R while hovering

00:40:32.966 --> 00:40:37.396
over this edge we can add in a loop, double
click go to your front view and what we're going

00:40:37.396 --> 00:40:40.076
to do is we're going to go control
R hovering over one of these edges.

00:40:40.206 --> 00:40:44.066
You can see the yellow line, double
click then select half of the verts

00:40:44.066 --> 00:40:45.846
over here and press X and delete.

00:40:45.846 --> 00:40:49.396
You can see that origin point is nice and,
in the middle, there so just like we did

00:40:49.396 --> 00:40:52.056
with our body originally if
we now go to our modifiers,

00:40:52.056 --> 00:40:57.926
we can give it a mirror modifier enable clipping
so it doesn't pull apart and now it's mirrored.

00:40:57.926 --> 00:41:03.106
So what we can do is come in here control
R to add in another edge here double click.

00:41:03.356 --> 00:41:06.776
And let's just select this
vertex down here let's go

00:41:06.776 --> 00:41:08.966
to our proportional editing by enabling it.

00:41:08.966 --> 00:41:12.706
And then we're going to go
G and if you have too little

00:41:12.706 --> 00:41:17.176
or too much influence you can roll the middle
mouse button while you move to control that.

00:41:17.176 --> 00:41:18.916
So we're just going to select
that vert and move it in.

00:41:19.166 --> 00:41:23.546
Then select these verts here and then
go G. And just move them in as well.

00:41:23.866 --> 00:41:26.306
Then just select these ones
bring them down a little bit.

00:41:26.306 --> 00:41:30.196
And you can figure this out yourself it's
actually pretty easy all you're doing now is

00:41:30.196 --> 00:41:36.586
going to the different views and you can select
verts, and you can go G and just move them

00:41:36.636 --> 00:41:40.586
and roll the middle mouse button while
you have that proportional editing just

00:41:40.586 --> 00:41:42.156
to select things and round them out.

00:41:42.156 --> 00:41:43.796
It's actually really simple.

00:41:44.316 --> 00:41:48.586
So I'm going to select this corner one here in
the right orthographic view and then this one

00:41:48.986 --> 00:41:51.326
so just rounding things out
and if you're not sure

00:41:51.326 --> 00:41:53.486
which one you're pressing
just go into the normal view.

00:41:54.046 --> 00:41:56.096
Left click then press free to go back

00:41:56.096 --> 00:41:59.146
into the right orthographic
view and just repeat like that.

00:41:59.626 --> 00:42:00.856
You can even select everything.

00:42:01.056 --> 00:42:04.066
Once again go to that smooth
tool and just slightly smooth it

00:42:04.066 --> 00:42:05.766
out then go back to the move tool.

00:42:05.766 --> 00:42:07.326
So you can see how we're making the head here.

00:42:07.326 --> 00:42:11.976
So what I'm going to do is I'm just going
to come in here ctrl R over this edge

00:42:11.976 --> 00:42:13.926
to add in another loop, click it in.

00:42:14.116 --> 00:42:17.856
Select these two here and just move them forward
to create a bit more dimension to the face,

00:42:18.106 --> 00:42:21.196
and then ctrl R over here to add double click.

00:42:21.506 --> 00:42:26.146
Select these ones at the front and then G and
move them in and down, then select this brow

00:42:26.146 --> 00:42:29.736
over here and move it forward and that
just creates a bit more of that area

00:42:29.736 --> 00:42:31.046
where the eyes would kind of sit.

00:42:31.046 --> 00:42:32.136
It just gives that feel of it.

00:42:32.136 --> 00:42:37.586
And then we're going to just move some of this
topology back a little bit by just selecting it,

00:42:38.276 --> 00:42:41.526
pressing G to move it, going
back to the front you can kind

00:42:41.526 --> 00:42:43.936
of see how this head is coming together.

00:42:44.296 --> 00:42:45.006
Pretty cool.

00:42:45.006 --> 00:42:51.596
So let's now tab back out into object mode
and let's just go shift A add in a cylinder.

00:42:52.006 --> 00:42:56.086
Once again, let's just come to the vertices
and let's just make it five then we're going

00:42:56.086 --> 00:42:59.926
to go G, Z, move it up, S to
scale, and there you have a neck.

00:43:00.006 --> 00:43:03.076
So go into your right orthographic
view if you wish in edit mode.

00:43:03.076 --> 00:43:06.446
You can just select the different
points, rotate them.

00:43:06.966 --> 00:43:09.376
And this is just like we've
done before at this point.

00:43:09.526 --> 00:43:12.326
You guys should be able to start
getting how this all works.

00:43:12.326 --> 00:43:16.216
So selecting the verts, scaling
them, moving them by pressing G,

00:43:16.526 --> 00:43:18.106
and just matching it up to that neck.

00:43:18.106 --> 00:43:19.956
So just a very simple cylinder like that.

00:43:20.016 --> 00:43:22.816
You can delete these caps
on the end by just dragging

00:43:22.816 --> 00:43:25.046
over them, and going X and delete faces.

00:43:25.266 --> 00:43:28.156
And there we have it that
neck is very, very easy.

00:43:28.486 --> 00:43:29.796
Let's go back into object mode.

00:43:30.116 --> 00:43:34.166
Let's un-enable the x-ray, we
don't need to see it at the moment.

00:43:34.346 --> 00:43:36.976
And you can see it's actually
coming together pretty well.

00:43:37.106 --> 00:43:40.226
Before we get into the hair let's
just quickly select the body here.

00:43:40.516 --> 00:43:44.266
Shift A, left click on this edge
to loop, select it over here.

00:43:44.266 --> 00:43:49.796
Let's just go E to extrude S to scale,
and then G just move it in a little bit,

00:43:49.796 --> 00:43:52.186
you can disable proportional
editing at this point.

00:43:52.436 --> 00:43:59.266
Move it down a bit and then E, Z, and extrude
that down, and then S to scale it, like that.

00:43:59.266 --> 00:44:01.626
So just bringing that in like that.

00:44:01.626 --> 00:44:03.496
Okay so we're pretty much
now done with most of this.

00:44:03.496 --> 00:44:06.146
You can add some ears as well like I did.

00:44:06.326 --> 00:44:12.436
A very simple way to do that is to go shift A,
just add in a cube G to move that cube forward.

00:44:12.606 --> 00:44:17.756
S to scale that cube, and of this cube
here, just get roughly the size of the ear.

00:44:17.976 --> 00:44:21.416
Then tab into edit mode, and if you
want to enable the x-ray just do

00:44:21.416 --> 00:44:25.826
that so you can select the top
face, G to move it, R to rotate.

00:44:26.026 --> 00:44:28.676
Then select these bottom
ones, G to move it down.

00:44:28.786 --> 00:44:31.346
R to rotate, then go to your
right orthographic view.

00:44:31.346 --> 00:44:34.516
Select the whole thing and
then go S, Y, to flatten it.

00:44:34.516 --> 00:44:37.016
And then R to rotate it just
at a bit of an angle.

00:44:37.306 --> 00:44:43.616
And at this point, you can do something where
you go control R, roll in two extra loops.

00:44:43.866 --> 00:44:47.236
Control R over this edge, roll your middle
mouse, button up, and then double click.

00:44:47.466 --> 00:44:50.246
Now you have a little bit more
topology and in your front view.

00:44:50.246 --> 00:44:53.116
You can kind of pull these
points around selecting them,

00:44:53.266 --> 00:44:55.736
and just evening things out just a little bit.

00:44:55.736 --> 00:44:59.576
And then to make that divot there, it's
actually really simple, you can go to your face,

00:44:59.576 --> 00:45:01.776
select option disable the mirror for now.

00:45:02.036 --> 00:45:06.126
And then holding and shift, you can just
click on all of these front faces like so.

00:45:06.586 --> 00:45:09.286
While you're holding shift, and
go E to extrude, S to scale.

00:45:09.566 --> 00:45:11.476
Left click, and then E to extrude in.

00:45:11.476 --> 00:45:16.266
And then S to scale, and then you can
just select the whole thing by pressing A.

00:45:16.506 --> 00:45:20.686
So you select all of the topology, go to your
little smooth tool again and then just drag

00:45:20.686 --> 00:45:23.286
that little gizmo and smooth
it out just slightly.

00:45:23.886 --> 00:45:28.426
And there you have a very simple ear to
which you can also add a mirror modifier.

00:45:29.006 --> 00:45:33.976
Make sure to click on the little eyedropper, and
select something like the head for a reference.

00:45:35.056 --> 00:45:36.036
And there we have it.

00:45:36.336 --> 00:45:41.656
Ears. You can scale them up a little
bit, go back into object mode.

00:45:41.836 --> 00:45:45.546
And with the head here, you can
always just go into edit mode again.

00:45:45.806 --> 00:45:48.806
Go to this edge, select option,
and then select an edge.

00:45:49.026 --> 00:45:53.696
And you can enable proportional editing, and
at this point, you can very simply select edges

00:45:53.806 --> 00:45:59.536
and just adjust accordingly to make that all
look a little bit better by bringing it all out.

00:45:59.806 --> 00:46:01.826
Maybe go to vertex select if it's easier.

00:46:02.036 --> 00:46:05.836
But at this point you guys see what we're
doing here just how simple all of this is.

00:46:06.386 --> 00:46:10.366
So an easier way to make the hair is to
kind of use an existing mesh like the head.

00:46:10.406 --> 00:46:11.646
So let's just select the head.

00:46:11.976 --> 00:46:12.986
Go into edit mode.

00:46:13.386 --> 00:46:16.666
And one thing that might make things
a little bit simpler here is maybe

00:46:16.666 --> 00:46:18.376
to round the head out just a bit.

00:46:18.376 --> 00:46:22.576
So I'm going to go into the x-ray again
by toggling it, selecting just these here.

00:46:22.576 --> 00:46:24.496
And then with proportional editing.

00:46:24.496 --> 00:46:28.416
I'm just going to press G, and move them in
a bit and the same here with the squareness

00:46:28.416 --> 00:46:29.656
of the head, just bringing it in.

00:46:29.986 --> 00:46:33.796
Optionally, maybe go CTRL R,
add in an extra loop here.

00:46:33.836 --> 00:46:39.216
CTRL R hovering over this edge, see the yellow
line and double click A to select everything.

00:46:39.216 --> 00:46:42.136
And then just with that smooth tool enabled,

00:46:42.316 --> 00:46:45.496
just drag the little gizmo and
smooth it out a little bit.

00:46:45.496 --> 00:46:50.056
So now we can select the scalp
and start turning into hair.

00:46:50.056 --> 00:46:52.616
So let's just go to the face select option here.

00:46:52.896 --> 00:46:55.676
And let's just double tap A to
deselect everything in edit mode.

00:46:55.676 --> 00:47:00.546
And if you now press C on your keyboard,
so C. And you roll your middle mouse button

00:47:00.546 --> 00:47:02.416
up you're going to have this
selection tool here.

00:47:02.606 --> 00:47:06.136
So you can make it whatever size you
want by rolling the middle mouse button.

00:47:06.596 --> 00:47:09.296
Then you can left click and
hold in the left click and drag,

00:47:09.896 --> 00:47:12.946
and then select all of these parts like this.

00:47:12.946 --> 00:47:14.666
Now remember this head isn't mirrored.

00:47:15.286 --> 00:47:19.686
Okay, this head is mirrored, so you should
still make sure you have the x-ray enabled just

00:47:19.686 --> 00:47:21.366
so you select all of the faces.

00:47:21.446 --> 00:47:22.646
You don't want to miss any faces.

00:47:23.276 --> 00:47:24.596
So I'm going to just do it again.

00:47:25.096 --> 00:47:28.246
So any ones like this, just select them roughly.

00:47:29.016 --> 00:47:32.786
And go Shift D to duplicate,
and then right click to let go.

00:47:33.546 --> 00:47:36.856
Then you can go Alt-S, and
scale it out along the normal.

00:47:36.856 --> 00:47:39.886
So Alt-S. Remember I talked
earlier about normals,

00:47:39.886 --> 00:47:42.906
and how they're different
from just normal scaling.

00:47:42.906 --> 00:47:46.016
So Alt-S instead of just S. And we want

00:47:46.016 --> 00:47:48.566
to make this its own geometry,
it's no longer part of this.

00:47:48.566 --> 00:47:51.816
And a simple way to do that is just while
that's still selected, you can press P.

00:47:51.816 --> 00:47:53.696
And you're going to get the separate option.

00:47:53.696 --> 00:47:55.336
You're going to go separate by selection.

00:47:55.476 --> 00:47:57.236
Now this is actually a different object.

00:47:57.236 --> 00:48:00.356
So we need to go back into object
mode, and now we get a click

00:48:00.356 --> 00:48:02.476
on this object, and it's its own new object.

00:48:02.656 --> 00:48:05.516
And we can tab into edit mode,
and now we only have this.

00:48:05.736 --> 00:48:08.086
So I'm going to just disable the x-ray for now.

00:48:08.086 --> 00:48:10.866
I'm going to go into my right orthographic
view, and what I'm going to do is I'm going

00:48:10.866 --> 00:48:13.246
to go Alt-S even more with all of that selected.

00:48:13.246 --> 00:48:16.606
Go to something like this, I'm going
to enable the proportional editing.

00:48:16.756 --> 00:48:19.556
I'm going to go to the vertex select
option, and then I'm just going

00:48:19.556 --> 00:48:21.226
to drag and select these verts here.

00:48:21.226 --> 00:48:24.696
I'm going to go G, and move
them up to follow the reference.

00:48:24.696 --> 00:48:27.856
So you can see what I'm doing
here, bringing this fringe forward.

00:48:28.136 --> 00:48:30.006
Same with these ones here, very simple.

00:48:30.056 --> 00:48:34.016
And then I'm going to select these
ones here, I'm going to go G,

00:48:34.016 --> 00:48:36.516
and just bring them down,
and bring these forward.

00:48:36.576 --> 00:48:38.226
So pretty simple stuff.

00:48:38.306 --> 00:48:41.406
Then go into the front orthographic
view, and then select these ones here.

00:48:41.406 --> 00:48:44.976
And then go G, and then just
move them out a little bit.

00:48:44.976 --> 00:48:46.846
Doesn't have to be perfect,
but just more or less.

00:48:47.096 --> 00:48:50.476
And then what we need to do is enable
the x-ray again, so we can see through.

00:48:50.706 --> 00:48:54.716
Let's just select this bottom vertex
here, just this one by itself.

00:48:54.986 --> 00:48:57.866
And then go G, Z. We still
have proportional editing,

00:48:58.076 --> 00:49:01.226
and you should just roll it just
slightly and bring it up like that.

00:49:01.226 --> 00:49:06.076
And then select this one down here, and
then G, and just move it down slightly.

00:49:06.366 --> 00:49:09.176
So now if we enable the x-ray, you can see here.

00:49:09.316 --> 00:49:11.656
That's what we have this
kind of cute looking fringe.

00:49:11.776 --> 00:49:13.236
We're now going to just take this.

00:49:13.296 --> 00:49:17.776
Just kind of roll it in like that towards
there, and while you have it selected hold

00:49:17.776 --> 00:49:19.636
in shift, and then click on this vertex.

00:49:19.826 --> 00:49:23.016
And then in this vertex, you have
three of them selected like a triangle.

00:49:23.016 --> 00:49:27.386
And then if you press F, it'll add in
a face between all of those like that.

00:49:27.386 --> 00:49:29.406
And then you're going to
select this vertex down here,

00:49:29.406 --> 00:49:31.816
and we're going to go G,
and just move it up here.

00:49:32.216 --> 00:49:36.056
Yours doesn't have to look exactly like that but
just something along those lines should be fine.

00:49:36.336 --> 00:49:39.736
And then what you can do, click and
drag and select these bottom vertices

00:49:39.736 --> 00:49:41.966
over here and go X, and delete vertices.

00:49:42.086 --> 00:49:44.486
And now what we can do is we're
going to go to our modifiers.

00:49:44.486 --> 00:49:46.796
We're going to give this
something called a solidify.

00:49:47.086 --> 00:49:49.856
And now if you come to the
solidify, and you drag this value.

00:49:50.096 --> 00:49:52.076
You can see we're adding a
bit of thickness to that.

00:49:52.076 --> 00:49:56.176
Now you can't actually edit that thickness,
it's not actually geometry you can grab.

00:49:56.176 --> 00:50:00.926
But you can still see the thickness even
if you edit the geometry here in edit mode.

00:50:01.046 --> 00:50:01.746
Which is really cool.

00:50:01.746 --> 00:50:02.906
So it's a modifier.

00:50:02.906 --> 00:50:06.116
It's modifying the mesh in real
time while you're working with it.

00:50:06.406 --> 00:50:08.136
So now let's go to our right orthographic view.

00:50:08.276 --> 00:50:09.466
Let's enable x-ray again.

00:50:09.746 --> 00:50:13.206
Let's just click and drag and select these
bottom verts over here, and let's just go G,

00:50:13.206 --> 00:50:15.186
and move them down a bit and rotate them.

00:50:15.186 --> 00:50:17.426
And I'm going to disable
proportional editing for now.

00:50:17.546 --> 00:50:19.506
Then I'm going to go E, and I'm
going to extrude them down a bit.

00:50:19.506 --> 00:50:21.086
Then I'm going to select this vertex here.

00:50:21.216 --> 00:50:23.866
G to move it in a bit, and
this one here like that.

00:50:23.896 --> 00:50:27.116
Select all of these again, and I'm
just going to continue E to extrude,

00:50:27.336 --> 00:50:30.406
S to scale, E to extrude, S to scale.

00:50:30.626 --> 00:50:36.136
Then I'm going to go into my back orthographic
view and instead of pressing 1 on a number pad.

00:50:36.296 --> 00:50:40.796
You can hold in Ctrl or command and then
press 1, and now you're seeing the back.

00:50:40.796 --> 00:50:43.226
Let's just try and model it from the back here.

00:50:43.226 --> 00:50:44.556
I'm just going to grab that vertex.

00:50:44.756 --> 00:50:48.636
And I'm just moving these out just to round
them out a little bit, moving this one in,

00:50:48.636 --> 00:50:50.526
you don't have to do this precise.

00:50:50.606 --> 00:50:51.556
But you get the idea here.

00:50:51.556 --> 00:50:55.246
All we're trying to do is just even
out the verts here at the back.

00:50:55.246 --> 00:50:57.286
So we kind of have the hair
just coming down like that.

00:50:57.286 --> 00:50:59.516
Something very simple but it works.

00:51:00.006 --> 00:51:03.006
And then if you wanted to, it's optional
you can add these little bits at the side.

00:51:03.076 --> 00:51:07.396
A very simple way to do that is to go to
your edge select option up here in edit mode.

00:51:07.456 --> 00:51:12.416
Select any edge up here go to your right
orthographic view, shift D to duplicate it,

00:51:12.606 --> 00:51:17.616
enable the x-ray, and then G, move it
somewhere above where that hair should start.

00:51:17.616 --> 00:51:21.056
And then E to extrude, S to scale, rotate.

00:51:21.366 --> 00:51:27.696
E to extrude, S to scale, and then R to rotate,
and then E to extrude down, and then S to scale.

00:51:27.696 --> 00:51:34.846
Go to your front view, and now you can select
these edges like that and you can move them

00:51:34.846 --> 00:51:38.656
in a little bit, and edit them to make
them look nicer from the front as well,

00:51:38.786 --> 00:51:41.566
and it still has that modifier on it now.

00:51:41.566 --> 00:51:44.996
You can notice that this one here, if I
go to face select, and I select this face.

00:51:45.486 --> 00:51:49.856
The solidify modifier here is
making this the effect come in.

00:51:49.946 --> 00:51:53.976
But this one here, if I select the face,
the effect is happening towards the outside,

00:51:53.976 --> 00:51:55.376
and that's got to do with the normals.

00:51:55.476 --> 00:51:58.056
So what we may have to do in
this case is correct the normals.

00:51:58.056 --> 00:52:01.576
I'm not going to get into why that happens,
it's a bit tricky to explain for beginners.

00:52:01.576 --> 00:52:04.236
So just for now all you have to do
is press A to select everything.

00:52:04.336 --> 00:52:08.496
Alt N, and then go recalculate outside or
inside depending on what the situation is.

00:52:08.496 --> 00:52:11.286
So I'm going to go outside, and
now all of these should be the same

00:52:11.286 --> 00:52:13.366
so I'm just going to select a face here.

00:52:13.366 --> 00:52:15.386
Go Ctrl L to select the whole thing.

00:52:15.386 --> 00:52:17.086
And then G and just move it out a bit.

00:52:17.086 --> 00:52:19.636
You guys can adjust this however you want.

00:52:19.636 --> 00:52:24.296
You don't have to do it exactly like me --
completely up to you how you want to do that.

00:52:24.466 --> 00:52:28.256
And once you're happy with that,
you can also just select any vertex

00:52:28.256 --> 00:52:33.416
of face Ctrl L. Select the whole thing and
then go shift D in the right orthographic view,

00:52:33.416 --> 00:52:36.056
move it back and then slightly
edit the second piece,

00:52:36.096 --> 00:52:38.966
and there you have these little hair
droopy things coming off the side,

00:52:39.176 --> 00:52:41.616
and you know very, very simple.

00:52:41.616 --> 00:52:45.936
So based on what I've just shown you guys,
you can make this however you want now

00:52:45.936 --> 00:52:47.466
that you know the basic techniques.

00:52:47.706 --> 00:52:50.846
But it's very boxy, very
stylized, very low poly.

00:52:50.846 --> 00:52:53.746
But that's a nice look, and that's actually
what we're deliberately going for here.

00:52:53.746 --> 00:52:54.486
So there we have it.

00:52:54.486 --> 00:52:57.386
The character is pretty much
done; add a nose if you want.

00:52:57.386 --> 00:53:00.316
But what we're going to do next is
we're going to add some nice colors

00:53:00.316 --> 00:53:03.886
or materials what we call shaders,
and then we'll add some nice lights,

00:53:03.886 --> 00:53:06.866
and I'll show you how you can render
this out as a nice looking result.

00:53:06.946 --> 00:53:08.636
And then we're pretty much done.

00:53:08.636 --> 00:53:12.736
So whenever we want to work with things,
remember our properties panel over here,

00:53:12.736 --> 00:53:16.426
so remember, we have this one here
called the materials property.

00:53:16.426 --> 00:53:18.286
I think I briefly mentioned
this in the very beginning.

00:53:18.476 --> 00:53:22.956
but over here if you click on it, says material
properties here is we can actually add materials

00:53:23.246 --> 00:53:24.586
and change their properties.

00:53:24.586 --> 00:53:25.686
So how do you add a material?

00:53:25.686 --> 00:53:26.936
It's actually very simple.

00:53:27.426 --> 00:53:29.966
Let's just say you want to add
a material to a certain object,

00:53:29.966 --> 00:53:32.096
you just simply left click on it in object mode.

00:53:32.716 --> 00:53:34.296
So let's start with the body, all right.

00:53:34.296 --> 00:53:37.106
And then you go over here and you
can see this button called new.

00:53:37.106 --> 00:53:38.216
Now there's a little drop down here,

00:53:38.216 --> 00:53:39.976
that's where pre-existing materials
are materials you already have.

00:53:41.236 --> 00:53:45.066
Let's just go new and now it's created
the materials, given it a default name.

00:53:45.066 --> 00:53:48.686
So you can actually double click here, or just
click on it the name, and call it something.

00:53:48.686 --> 00:53:51.496
So I'm going to call it Yellow,
because I want it to be a yellow color.

00:53:51.696 --> 00:53:54.386
And then over here you're going
to see something called a preview.

00:53:54.386 --> 00:53:56.796
This is where you can actually
see a preview of your material

00:53:57.106 --> 00:53:59.016
and under here is something you see the surface.

00:53:59.016 --> 00:54:00.676
This is where you change
a whole bunch of settings.

00:54:00.676 --> 00:54:04.786
Now I'm not actually going to get into all of
these settings here because that's a lot more

00:54:04.786 --> 00:54:07.816
in depth, and this is something
you'll learn as you grow as an artist.

00:54:07.816 --> 00:54:11.596
But for now, we're just going to look at nothing
more than the color, literally just the color.

00:54:11.596 --> 00:54:12.766
At the moment, the color is white.

00:54:12.886 --> 00:54:17.746
So we want yellow, so we click on this, and
we go and click on yellow or wherever we want.

00:54:17.746 --> 00:54:21.426
Not only can you change saturations
here and colors, but you can also come

00:54:21.426 --> 00:54:23.866
to the value slider and change the values.

00:54:23.896 --> 00:54:27.876
So pretty simple not much more to say
than that, and now you have that material.

00:54:27.876 --> 00:54:30.506
Now, obviously, you're not seeing it,
because you have to actually render,

00:54:30.506 --> 00:54:34.606
so rendering is when we press Z on a keyboard,
and we can click on this option called rendered.

00:54:34.606 --> 00:54:38.436
Now we're no longer seeing just
the shading viewport shading,

00:54:38.436 --> 00:54:39.836
but we're seeing the actual material.

00:54:39.946 --> 00:54:42.936
Now another thing to think about is
when you go up to your properties,

00:54:42.936 --> 00:54:44.156
go up here to this little camera.

00:54:44.526 --> 00:54:45.606
That's your render properties.

00:54:45.606 --> 00:54:48.816
Currently there's an engine, a render
engine being used called Eevee.

00:54:48.936 --> 00:54:50.836
That's more like a real-time rendering engine,

00:54:50.986 --> 00:54:53.146
and we're going to change it
to something called Cycles.

00:54:53.146 --> 00:54:57.146
Now I'm not going to really get into
the details here, Cycles does a lot more

00:54:57.146 --> 00:55:00.006
like bounce sliding, ray tracing,
a lot more advanced things.

00:55:00.266 --> 00:55:04.946
But if you have a GPU under
the device, you can enable it.

00:55:05.106 --> 00:55:07.456
If you don't just leave it
at CPU, it's not a big deal.

00:55:07.456 --> 00:55:11.226
This isn't really a render
processor intensive render anyway.

00:55:11.226 --> 00:55:13.406
It's very low poly so probably doesn't matter.

00:55:13.466 --> 00:55:14.886
So I'm changing mine to GPU.

00:55:14.886 --> 00:55:16.496
We'll add lights in a bit.

00:55:16.496 --> 00:55:20.456
But for now, I'm just going to go into the
material preview which is kind of like a mix

00:55:20.456 --> 00:55:25.226
between the just standard viewport
solid shading and the render.

00:55:25.326 --> 00:55:27.416
Co you can see here, we have the color.

00:55:27.416 --> 00:55:28.166
So what we're going to do now.

00:55:28.166 --> 00:55:30.166
Let's go back to our materials properties.

00:55:30.266 --> 00:55:32.906
We have that shirt still selected or the body.

00:55:33.136 --> 00:55:34.826
And remember we added that yellow material.

00:55:34.826 --> 00:55:36.126
What if we want to add more?

00:55:36.126 --> 00:55:40.976
So let's just tab into edit mode, and let's
just say, for example, let's just go Ctrl R,

00:55:41.426 --> 00:55:44.226
add in a loop here double
click, double G to slide,

00:55:44.646 --> 00:55:47.026
and then alt S to scale out along the normals.

00:55:47.296 --> 00:55:47.976
Maybe move it up a bit.

00:55:48.046 --> 00:55:50.026
Let's just say we want to
add a little border here.

00:55:50.026 --> 00:55:55.286
so what we can do, go to your face select, and
then going shift alt with face select enabled.

00:55:55.286 --> 00:55:59.226
You can just shift alt click on this edge over
here, and it'll loop select these faces here,

00:55:59.226 --> 00:56:02.326
and now what you can do is come
here under your materials property.

00:56:02.326 --> 00:56:05.506
Click on the plus again, and now you
have a new thing here, you can go new.

00:56:05.776 --> 00:56:07.556
And let's just call it red, for example.

00:56:07.696 --> 00:56:12.736
And now we can go assign while those
faces are selected, and has that material.

00:56:13.156 --> 00:56:17.806
Now, we called it red, but we still have to
come to the surface here, and just like we did

00:56:17.806 --> 00:56:20.556
with the yellow, come to the
base color and give it a color.

00:56:20.556 --> 00:56:22.026
I'm going to go with an orangey kind of red,

00:56:22.026 --> 00:56:24.526
so I'm going to quickly tab
back out into object mode.

00:56:24.626 --> 00:56:29.346
And now I'm going to select the shirt, and
instead of this time still on the materials tab,

00:56:29.346 --> 00:56:30.896
instead of coming creating a new material.

00:56:30.896 --> 00:56:35.496
Let's just go to this drop down and create get
the existing yellow, and then what we can do

00:56:35.496 --> 00:56:39.666
as well is tab into edit mode,
and then click on the plus here.

00:56:39.776 --> 00:56:41.546
And we can create a new one, and once again,

00:56:41.546 --> 00:56:44.046
we can just go down and select
a pre-existing color.

00:56:44.046 --> 00:56:44.846
So I'm going to go through red.

00:56:45.366 --> 00:56:49.146
And this time if I wanted to be assigned
to something, I have to actually select it.

00:56:49.146 --> 00:56:52.026
So I'm going to click on
a face here on the sleeve,

00:56:52.026 --> 00:56:54.726
I'm going to go control L
to select the whole thing.

00:56:54.816 --> 00:56:56.846
And then click on the red and then assign.

00:56:57.396 --> 00:56:58.436
How simple is that.

00:56:58.736 --> 00:57:01.336
Now let's create a new thing,
which is going to be the skin.

00:57:01.336 --> 00:57:04.576
So let's just left click on the
hand, or on any face on the hand.

00:57:04.576 --> 00:57:06.286
Go control L to select the whole thing.

00:57:06.406 --> 00:57:09.426
Then let's click plus over here, and this
time we're going to create a new material.

00:57:09.876 --> 00:57:10.806
Let's just call it skin.

00:57:10.806 --> 00:57:15.376
And now we can go to the surface, and let's
just give it something like a brownish blush.

00:57:15.376 --> 00:57:18.986
I want to go for almost like
a brown olive kind of color.

00:57:18.986 --> 00:57:22.686
And then I'm going to go assign, you can make
your skin whatever you want, perfectly fine.

00:57:22.846 --> 00:57:24.086
So now we have that there.

00:57:24.086 --> 00:57:25.256
I'm going to tab out.

00:57:25.256 --> 00:57:28.406
And now we can actually select
the head, and go to the drop down.

00:57:28.406 --> 00:57:30.076
And we already now have that skin.

00:57:30.076 --> 00:57:30.816
So let's select it.

00:57:31.006 --> 00:57:34.686
Let's just also select the ear, go to
the drop down, give it that same skin.

00:57:34.856 --> 00:57:38.286
Select the neck, go to that
drop down, give it the skin.

00:57:38.386 --> 00:57:39.836
And let's select the hair.

00:57:39.836 --> 00:57:42.546
Now the hair we haven't created a
material for, so let's click on the hair,

00:57:42.686 --> 00:57:44.996
create a new material, and call it hair.

00:57:45.236 --> 00:57:46.836
And let's just come to the base color.

00:57:46.836 --> 00:57:50.446
I'm going to go with a brownish kind
of red like that, and there I have it.

00:57:50.806 --> 00:57:51.886
And that's now the hair.

00:57:52.156 --> 00:57:54.146
So let's go to the legs.

00:57:54.146 --> 00:57:54.876
Let's click on the legs.

00:57:55.246 --> 00:57:58.516
Let's go new I'm going to call this blue.

00:57:58.516 --> 00:58:03.066
And I'm going to make it kind of like a
robin's egg kind of blue, like cyan almost.

00:58:03.166 --> 00:58:08.916
Then I'm going to click on the plus again, go
new, and I'm going to call this one darker blue.

00:58:09.216 --> 00:58:13.336
And if I want to assign it to any specific
part, we have to go into edit mode.

00:58:13.486 --> 00:58:17.266
In this case, I'm going to make
sure face select is enabled.

00:58:17.266 --> 00:58:18.656
I'm going to go shift alt.

00:58:19.226 --> 00:58:22.106
Click on this edge over here
to loop select these faces.

00:58:22.816 --> 00:58:26.246
Ctrl plus or command plus to
grow the selection just once.

00:58:26.366 --> 00:58:27.836
So we have this part here selected.

00:58:27.956 --> 00:58:30.146
I'm going to click on the
dark blue and go assign,

00:58:30.856 --> 00:58:35.366
and then under the base color let's make it
something that fits the description, like that.

00:58:35.366 --> 00:58:37.086
And the exact same thing for the rest.

00:58:37.086 --> 00:58:40.716
In fact, I'm going to turn on my x-ray
here and I'm just going to click and drag,

00:58:40.716 --> 00:58:42.526
and just select these bottom faces.

00:58:42.556 --> 00:58:43.346
They're all selected.

00:58:43.516 --> 00:58:47.086
And I'm going to do the same thing, I'm going
to come here plus, I'm going to go assign,

00:58:47.086 --> 00:58:51.576
I'm going to click new, and I'm going to make
this like a leathery kind of brown color,

00:58:51.696 --> 00:58:54.306
bring that value down and there you have it.

00:58:54.586 --> 00:58:55.506
Pretty cool.

00:58:55.506 --> 00:58:57.906
And you can even click on
here and name it something.

00:58:57.906 --> 00:59:00.806
I'm going to call it leather,
and there we have it.

00:59:00.926 --> 00:59:02.406
How simple is that.

00:59:02.406 --> 00:59:05.206
I'm going to go back into object
mode, and now we've added all

00:59:05.206 --> 00:59:06.926
of these materials as you can see.

00:59:06.966 --> 00:59:09.436
Once again, if you want to see
this, you actually have to press Z

00:59:09.436 --> 00:59:12.166
and go into material preview like I said.

00:59:12.166 --> 00:59:13.676
So there you have it.

00:59:13.676 --> 00:59:17.106
So press Z and go into either
rendered or material preview.

00:59:17.106 --> 00:59:19.586
So now all we have to do
is just render this out.

00:59:19.716 --> 00:59:22.926
We've already gone to our render
engine and given it the cycles engine.

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But we do need to add some lights.

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So let's go shift A and we've
been adding meshes before.

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But let's go down to our lights.

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Add in this thing called an area
light, and we're going to go G Z

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and move it just like we've moved anything else.

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I'm going to move it up to here.

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So we've moved it up on the Z axis.

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And then we're going to go R,
and we're going to rotate it.

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Like this.

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And then G to move it.

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Now you can pick whatever lighting
direction you want once you have a position

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where you want your light to come
from, go over to your properties.

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And you're going to see this little light
bulb, and that's your light settings.

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And why is this our properties
like I've mentioned before,

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because we edit our properties here.

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So you can go to the power and just as you
might assume that's got to do with the strength.

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So the more you put this level up here, the
watts, the more power you're going to get.

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Pretty common sense.

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And then also the size that's going
to make it a bit of a softer light.

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The smaller you have that, the point of
the light, just like you do in real life,

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you're going to have a sharper light.

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And the broader the light is
and closer to the subject here,

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it's going to be a bit more scattered.

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So I like to increase the size a
little bit bigger than the default.

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Something like that, and if we now go Z and
we go rendered, we can see we have this light.

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So it's up to you how much you want to
tweak the power amount here for your light.

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You can drag it up as much as you want.

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You can even change the color of
your light to give it some mood.

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Very simple stuff.

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But once you're happy with it you can
also go shift D with that light selected

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to duplicate it like anything else.

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And then rotate it, and you can duplicate
and make as many of these lights as you want.

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So I'm happy with that I'm going to go shift
A, I'm going to add in one more object.

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And that's just a plane on the floor here.

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I'm going to go S to scale that plane up
like that, and then tab into edit mode.

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And I'm just going to go into my solid
work press a Z and then go solid.

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And you can go to your edge select.

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Select this back edge, and then go E,
Z and extrude it up on a Z like that.

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Select this edge here, and then you can go
Ctrl B and Ctrl B allows you to make a bevel

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on an edge you can move it as big
as you want by moving your mouse,

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and then roll your middle mouse
button to add in more segments.

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And then just double click and it's added in.

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Now you can go back into object mode,
and you have this nice fancy backdrop,

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and you can see here in our scene is a camera.

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So you can literally click on that camera.

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And with a camera active you can press zero on
your number pad, and it goes into camera view.

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And then with that camera selected you can
double tap R and as you move your mouse,

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you can actually rotate the camera.

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If you press R by itself, you
can rotate just like this.

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And then you can press G
and G allows you to move it.

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So you just press G and move the camera to
where you want it, and then you can just

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like anything else, you can
come to your move tool,

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and you can just move these little sliders,
or you can just press G like we've been doing.

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So G, and then Y to move along
the Y or Z, whatever you want.

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And if you want to go change the
dimensions, just go to your output here.

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And you can change your resolution.

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So these are the pixels.

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So 1020 by 1080 by 1920 here.

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I'm just going to drag this value here down a
bit, just to make it a bit of a different ratio.

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Just like that.

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And then I'm going to just move my camera
in a little bit, something like that.

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You can also come here to your camera settings.

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I'm not going to get into all the advanced
things here there's a lot that can be said.

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But just as a beginner here, let's just
go to the focal length and change that.

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So if so those of you who are
familiar with photography,

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a lot of this would make more sense to you.

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But once again it's not what we're
focusing on here as this is more just

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about a very beginner's tutorial for
the modeling and things like that.

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So here we have our camera set up, we
have our scene, we're pretty much done.

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So let's just select these two reference images.

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I'm holding in shift.

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And remember these collections I told you about.

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If we now go M and we go new collection
after we selected those two reference images,

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we can go ref type whatever you
want in here, and then go okay.

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And under your collections here now, if
you just drop down this main collection,

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you can now see a collection called ref.

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And now two references in there.

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We can just untick it and
they're out of the way.

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So they're not deleted, but
they're just out of the way

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so if we want to ever bring them back, we can.

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But that just organizes our scene
a little bit and there you have it.

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We now have this, if we press
Z and we go rendered,

01:03:22.396 --> 01:03:25.656
we have our subject in the
view here of the camera.

01:03:25.786 --> 01:03:30.156
And another cool thing you can do in camera
view you can go Ctrl b and then click and drag,

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and drag over the camera with Ctrl b. And it's
just going to limit that render to the camera,

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and that's going to free up a little
bit of your processing as well.

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So there we have it.

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A fantastic looking low poly model
that you guys can be proud of.

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I hope you've enjoyed this.

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And what you can do now is
press z go back into solid mode.

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And all you have to do is
go to render, render image,

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and it's going to render this image for you.

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And in fact, I'll quickly just press escape
to cancel this because I forgot to mention.

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Under your render settings, just click
on that and go down to the render,

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and take the sample amount down to
something like 80, because if you have it

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at 4000 whatever, it's going
to take forever to render.

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So the more samples, the higher the quality is,

01:04:09.616 --> 01:04:12.176
but if you have this little
thing the denoiser enabled,

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Blender's algorithm does a pretty good job at
getting the noise out after you've rendered.

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So just make sure you do that
and then go render, render image,

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and we'll see what that looks like.

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So you can see here, this little sample
count, it's 48 samples out of 80.

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Okay, it's just finished,
it's out of the denoising.

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And there it is.

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Now what you can do is you
can go to image, save as,

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and then save it wherever
you want on your computer.

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And that's it, that's how simple this is.

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I hope you guys have learned something here.

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I know I didn't go into detail on
everything like I said in the beginning.

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But this is just absolutely to whet your
appetite and get you started as a beginner.

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I hope you guys have enjoyed this.

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I will be putting this Blender
file on my Patreon,

01:04:50.176 --> 01:04:52.806
and I'll probably do some more
videos following up on this one.

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We're going to do a little
bit of rigging, animation,

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so you guys can learn more about this.

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And definitely leave your comments below
and I hope you guys have a good time.